Sugar bowl and alpine

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fssnivek

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Hey everyone
I've been trying to decide for the past week or so on which pass to buy, I'm in school right now and we get hookups to alpine and sugarbowl, but through two different clubs.
Anyways the alpine pass only has i believe 2 restriction dates for us, at $250orSugarbowl pass no blackout dates for $400, but since it's with a club, they'll have free cabin stay hookups anyday of the year we choose and coaches(park/racing/etc), and parts of sugarbowl will be blocked off for just the member pass holders and the like..
I've been leaning towards alpine, but in the back of my head I kind of want to get a sugarbowl pass because of the "extras" that come with it.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
 
Sugar is sick, I love it. But they lost their park manager(JP) to Squaw this year. So what their park is like is up in the air. If your at all the jibber type, hit Alpine. Their new jibs look so sick. You can bet Sugar wont touch that, even if they tried.

However when it come to out of the park terrain both are equal IMO. So it kinda comes down to what you want.

If it was me I would get a Sugar pass(All mtn and pow riding) and a Boreal Night pass(for park).
 
oh, btw. If its what I'm thinking of, the only area Sugar will block off for you guys is the Christmas tree race course. Other then that nothing has ever been exclusive for club members....
 
I guess I may end up choosing Alpine, it's cheaper, but it's also farther away..But I like to hit the park every now and then.
I don't know if I'll even have enough time with school and all to go up that often to use sugarbowl that much..so I guess Alpine it is? Doesn't Alpine also have some nice pow riding as well? Unless somebody has more to say?
 
idk what youre talking about, nothing is blocked off at sugar bowl for passholders. im on the team and the only thing we got is a private jump (team only, not passholders). alpines park is sicker by a lot, at sugar bowl the biggest jump we had last season was like 40ft (not including the private one). i havent been to alpine in a while but its probably a better buy, and its cheaper. the only downside is that its farther.
 
Understatement of the year.

I won't go into detail, but if you end up getting an Alpine pass you will not be disappointed by the pow skiing. Sugar bowl will not disappoint either for pow— both resorts are insanely fun. Sugar has the small trees and cool terrain between Lincoln and Disney, but Alpine has more vertical and some awesome steep lines. Alpine also has open boundaries and awesome "Slackcountry" terrain, which in my opinion makes it far, far better than Sugarbowl. The terrain park at Alpine is also infinitely better.

For me, it's a no-brainer for alpine, but Sugarbowl is 40 minutes closer and those 40 minutes can turn into 3 hours if it's snowing on a sunday night.
 
sugar bowl has sidecountry too (especially with the new lift we got last season!!!!)... probably not as good as alpines but i wouldnt know.
 
from my experience though, most of the sugar bowl sidecountry is either down to Donner Lake, or in the woods past strawberry fields— very little of it actually lets you take laps on the lifts without much hiking, skinning, or hitchhiking. Alpine offers slackcountry that you can make laps on, and stuff that takes more-- it just seems to have more of it, which is good after a pow day since there's more to go around
 
A lot of people who I know who ride Sugar Bowl boycott the lift and bitch about it all the time because it puts people on the terrain they used to hike for pow turns WAY too easily.

Some of the ski patrollers also boycott the lift, as far as I know. I talked to at least one on a lift last year.

Not to mention that it just makes it easier to access the part of the boundary that lets you ski down to donner lake most easily, which is a danger to the stupid people of society.
 
yeah, i already knew about it being a popular hike to terrain, and had assumed that the avid sugar bowl skiers would have beef with the new lift, but i never got a chance to actually ski mt judah when i skied there. i was too young and never had anyone to hike it with. i was more wondering about how the terrain is up there cuz all i've seen are the powder tracks on the open faces from people who used to hike it. like i said, only time i've been up there was in the summer and it looked like there were some epic cliffs.
 
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