@snowmold 203717 wrote:I'm so sorry ***tom, didn't mean to step on your precious toes. I'll take my inferior post count and run away as you wish.
See, mold, many of us have been coming here for a large number of years providing information and providing the resources that are these message boards. You've come here just to defend sugar. I mean really, mold, point to JUST ONE contribution you've made.
I'd druther you stay here and contribute but so far you are pathetically transparent.
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@snowmold 203717 wrote:I'm so sorry ***tom, didn't mean to step on your precious toes. I'll take my inferior post count and run away as you wish. This thread has not nor will not bankrupt Sugar or any other resort. And call an owner of another resort a "jackass" and the post will be deleted instantly by the almighty moderators. Pardon me for interjecting my opinion. To all other posters with tiny post counts, leave this board for the high and mighty all knowing resort operator wannabe's. I believe admin posted something along the same lines a while back about letting this thread die. But my tiny wittle post count gets me the shaft. Bye byeJust remember,young tadpoll,the bigger the post count,the bigger your p#nis!
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I go to Sugar,because of it's terrain.I know what they did earlier this year was pretty sh#tty,wonder if you could sue them over something like that!But yeah,I'm lame,I'll continue to go to Sugar during the week if I don't have to work M-F!Somebody was complaining about Sugars diamond slopes,yeah they are too short,but which area in NC has tougher terrain,it's not Beech,don't get me started on App?
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@TannerP 203576 wrote:Sugar sucks so bad. They don't even have good terrain.
What does that mean? There's nothing else in North Carolina with sporatic 45 degree pitch and 1200 vert and 115 acres. Nothing else is even close. I mean, Beech has 90+ acres with Oz, but the place is as flat as Kansas.
Last 2 times I skied Sugar, it was somewhat crowded at the base area. But I skied alone ALL DAY. Straight to Tom->midload->Whoopdedoo>cut through 3/4 unload station to the bottom of Tom->midload. Repeat. All day long. No more than a 1-2 minute wait for an open single chair at the midload.
I avoid switchback and flying mile at all costs.
What does that mean? There's nothing else in North Carolina with sporatic 45 degree pitch and 1200 vert and 115 acres. Nothing else is even close. I mean, Beech has 90+ acres with Oz, but the place is as flat as Kansas.
Last 2 times I skied Sugar, it was somewhat crowded at the base area. But I skied alone ALL DAY. Straight to Tom->midload->Whoopdedoo>cut through 3/4 unload station to the bottom of Tom->midload. Repeat. All day long. No more than a 1-2 minute wait for an open single chair at the midload.
I avoid switchback and flying mile at all costs.
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@poohlvhun 203482 wrote:so.... u r for it? 
Absolutely not. I don't ENJOY paying more for Sugar. But they have the best product. I go into the deal knowing that I'm going to pay $62.
No I don't like it. I'm accostomed to $350 season passes and 30+ days on snow in the Rockies. But I have to get my fix down here, and I know it simply costs $62 in the Southeast to "scrape the bottom of the barrell". I'm a ski junky. I will pay it.
Sugar management, along with all North Carolina ski areas, need to wake up and take some lessons from the Rockies. They could be making so much more money by selling discounted 4-packs with black-out dates (eg - black out Christmas and MLK). They should partner up together to get transferable lift tickets with black out dates. They should stop this bait-and-switch crap. They should tell you the price, and live by it.
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Another thing mentioned earlier: Skiing in the Southeast should NOT be possible. It's not natural. In other words, it's expensive as hell to maintain a viable ski area in this climate. In other words, I accept the reality that these mountains can't provide traditional discounts in earnest. If they did, "Whoopdedoo" wouldn't have been cut, and the "yellow lift" would still be the dangerous old ricketty "yellow lift" proper. So, it's painful, but progress is expensive. And this is fun. It's a priveledge. You know? It's going to cost money to open more terrain.
Absolutely not. I don't ENJOY paying more for Sugar. But they have the best product. I go into the deal knowing that I'm going to pay $62.
No I don't like it. I'm accostomed to $350 season passes and 30+ days on snow in the Rockies. But I have to get my fix down here, and I know it simply costs $62 in the Southeast to "scrape the bottom of the barrell". I'm a ski junky. I will pay it.
Sugar management, along with all North Carolina ski areas, need to wake up and take some lessons from the Rockies. They could be making so much more money by selling discounted 4-packs with black-out dates (eg - black out Christmas and MLK). They should partner up together to get transferable lift tickets with black out dates. They should stop this bait-and-switch crap. They should tell you the price, and live by it.
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Another thing mentioned earlier: Skiing in the Southeast should NOT be possible. It's not natural. In other words, it's expensive as hell to maintain a viable ski area in this climate. In other words, I accept the reality that these mountains can't provide traditional discounts in earnest. If they did, "Whoopdedoo" wouldn't have been cut, and the "yellow lift" would still be the dangerous old ricketty "yellow lift" proper. So, it's painful, but progress is expensive. And this is fun. It's a priveledge. You know? It's going to cost money to open more terrain.
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@Colorado Widespread Panic 203969 wrote:What does that mean? There's nothing else in North Carolina with sporatic 45 degree pitch and 1200 vert and 115 acres. Nothing else is even close. I mean, Beech has 90+ acres with Oz, but the place is as flat as Kansas.
Last 2 times I skied Sugar, it was somewhat crowded at the base area. But I skied alone ALL DAY. Straight to Tom->midload->Whoopdedoo>cut through 3/4 unload station to the bottom of Tom->midload. Repeat. All day long. No more than a 1-2 minute wait for an open single chair at the midload.
I avoid switchback and flying mile at all costs.
wolf ridge is better if the bowl is open.
Nothing at sugar is close to 45 degrees. The closest is 39 on boulderdash and thats for 2 turns. whoop is something like 33-35 deg.
Last 2 times I skied Sugar, it was somewhat crowded at the base area. But I skied alone ALL DAY. Straight to Tom->midload->Whoopdedoo>cut through 3/4 unload station to the bottom of Tom->midload. Repeat. All day long. No more than a 1-2 minute wait for an open single chair at the midload.
I avoid switchback and flying mile at all costs.
wolf ridge is better if the bowl is open.
Nothing at sugar is close to 45 degrees. The closest is 39 on boulderdash and thats for 2 turns. whoop is something like 33-35 deg.