Few of us have the chance to know & work with people who are game-changers, yet super humble, serious about their work, but never taking themselves too seriously.
Stub faced any & every challenge with grit & determination, yet a softness that was of such comfort to the injured skiers whose aide he came to, in the harshest of conditions, sometimes in places others feared to go. Stub’s presence shaped not only our mountain from its inception as a ski hill, but the character of all of us who live here & make our living here. No words can say how sad we are to hear he’s left this world. Our gratitude for having the privilege to be in ‘his world’, this Mountain in the decades before he retired, will never diminish. Love you, Stub. Condolences to all his family & thanks for sharing him with us all those years!!

Brud Folger’s film “Sugarloaf: The Experience” is one of several gems in our archives that we are privileged to share, which he produced with various people in the ’60s. Brud, we can’t thank you enough for capturing, editing, creating & spreading the same message so long ago, before there was a Marketing Department, that people continue to discover anew to this day. People & Mtn. ownership come & go; the Mountain & the love people have for it, unchanging … FOREVER, thanks to all those who went before to make it so!

This footage from about fifty years ago shows the high spirits of the various characters that Sugarloaf has attracted for six+ decades, at about the time that Carrabassett Valley was becoming incorporated as a Town! Taken at the legendary Dump Party up the Carriage Rd. from the Red Stallion, a few of these faces can still be found around the Valley or on the Mtn.! [Read more…]