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Last April at the annual pass holders’ spring barbecue, the general manager of Sugarloaf presented achievement awards. The Lifetime Achievement award went to my friend Henry, who had even brought along his wife for the event.



90 years old, Henry had been skiing at Sugarloaf for *FIFTY* years, having learned how to ski at the “tender” age of 40.



He was a legend – everyone there knew him, in his blue jacket. Everyone greeted him, at the base, on the lift, at the mid-mountain… Continue

Sliding into November, the skiers and riders get restless in the east, like race horses at the gate. Happens every year, like clock work. Then some resort opens up 600+- feet of vertical on half a run and calls it an opening --- and the madness begins. It's different in the west: the one "white ribbon of death" is usually more than 600 ft of vertical.



Then Mother Nature throws and connects with a hook and delivers rain and several days in the 60's.

And we're back to The Waiting… Continue

Never mind! Got snow last Friday-Friday night, 4" at the house, even. 8-10 at mountain - salvation! Snowed all day Saturday, most of Sunday. Didn't amount to a blizzard - and nothing like crazy 07 (95" in 17 days), but....we'll take it, it was great, weekend was very nice skiing. Still good coverage on 57 runs, especially above 2000 ft. Could well make it to May 2 now! (Hey-this is the east.) Sugarloaf rocks it.

Okay, so it's limping to a close in the east. At least we have the distinct advantage of calling one of the few resorts in the New England region our home mountain!



After Easter weekend's absurd 80+ degree temps (which was actually a hoot!), temps have cooled down, and yesterday's 1.25" of rain here translated to 4-5" at the mountain. As a result: off to do approx. day #40 tomorrow, possibly the season's "swan song?"



The meteorological predictors were… Continue

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