Sugar w/ a bonus TR

[davidski]

Since I could not make it to WV I opted for a day trip to Sugar today -- first I took a detour up the parkway... it was snowing hard and I put on chains by the flashing sign otherwise I never would have made it here











Of course the logs in the van loaded the night before for added weight helped. I used to use buckets of rocks, then I got to thinking that in a wreck I would be in an enclosed space w/ 500# of rocks flying around











It was pretty quiet, surprising lack of crowds













The skin-up took me about 40 min, I was able to stay on thin cover on top of ice so I was rarely breaking trail. I love my set up, if I were in good shape I could really fly up. My camera ran out of battery (oh the irony, hoisted on my own petard) on my first ascent so I have no in-between pics just at the top, I warmed it up to milk these three pictures out of it before it completely died -- visibility actually deteriorated after this anyway















Patrol, I left a couple of mini refreshments (not the sort that can freeze) on your threshold for when one of you gets up there next



General impression -- I was a little spooked, it was so deserted and white-out windy (although bizarrelly a groomer went by next run over at one point, I swear he waved to me before I got swallowed up in a windstorm) It was long patches of ice with huge heavily compacted drift dunes between and along the sides, I navigated around the ice for the most part but the transitions were abrupt -- it was worth it



Leaving and heading out for Sugar













So got to Sugar at 1:00 and had a good half day, it was was crowded enough to be thoroughly tracked but no real lift lines.







Speaking of liftlines, it makes me feel old, I don't expect to do that again







The top three were good, Whoop being the funnest but the stuff right of Tom Terrific is always a cool duck in and I found a fun but short pocket of trees I didn't know about. Random mix of that side:

























It was a good day -- I'm still hoping not my last of the season.



Hit it tomorrow early if you can I bet it will be a spectacular morning

[dreamnofpow]

Nice TR and way to get at it. With as much storm chasing you do... you should consider buying a 4wd yota or Subi would save you a lot of time and prep.

[theKENDOG]

Nice dude. The lift line up top was so tempting but I saw it late last week when it was bare, so I knew there was crap lurking not far below.

[FleurDeSki]

Dude, you call that a TR?



Actually,,that was awesome... Will it be deleted? That's the question...

[Ski Bunny]

Looks like you had fun. Ironic that they are closed with so much snow. Great pics.

[swamphox]

looks like a great day....hope it's not your last either.

[2slikstix]

meh Nice late March snow

[skiatlanta]

that looks awesome. wish i had the opportunity to come up. worst semester ever...

[swamphox]

wonder why the groomer was out...

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@swamphox 289290 wrote:wonder why the groomer was out...



A gift to the locals.