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Snowmakers’ Ball is Sugarloaf’s chance to Thank the People who Make It Happen!

April 13, 2022 by WSKI

 The first one was in 1983 after a season that was slim on help from Mother Nature much like this year; the next one is coming right up on April 6, with extra kudos due snowmakers & groomers without whom we’d be mowing the grass early this spring like our neighbors down south!

Irreverance is our specialty! Not for those easily offended by questionable behavior, hahaha…

1984 was the year this video was part of the fun at the Snowmakers’ Ball……………….. remember shooting & editing this video like it was yesterday, finishing it as the Party had already begun……

Work hard; play hard, too, is how we do it at Sugarloaf!
Thanks to all the Mtn Ops crews; we DO love you!!!!!!

Filed Under: Events, Featured, From The Archives, News Tagged With: carrabassett valley, Maine High Peaks, ski history, skiing, sugarloaf

More from the Archives….”Won’t you become a familiar face here with us?”

November 10, 2018 by WSKI Leave a Comment

Another Saturday for memories… rain down country, snow here, Snowmaking starts up tonight for the duration w/ Opening next weekend! Many thanks to Brud Folger for the footage from late sixties? Old Valley Crossing look familiar?? Parker’s narration is still spot on. From the stretch pants, to Harry & Martha Baxter & John Christie’s skiing prowess, there is so much to love about this…. Our Mountain. Easy to visualize how many people have felt the same way for the past 60+ years….

Filed Under: Featured, From The Archives, News, Sugarloaf Tagged With: ski history, sugarloaf

Sugarloaf… late ’60s-early ’70s? Anyone pin point the year?

October 26, 2018 by WSKI Leave a Comment

We finally got the 16 mm projector set up to have a look at the footage ChipChop had stored in his barn in Kingfield. We are happy to share with our viewers both Channel 17 & world wide. Love the comment about John Christie, who was indeed one of the best/prettiest skiers this mountain has seen over the years… back when there was no such thing as Ego Snow….even Chicken Pitch could be challenging!
Here’s to those who have gone before to make this mountain the skier/rider’s mecca it is. Forever grateful.

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Upper Winter’s Way in the early 1980s……

October 5, 2018 by WSKI Leave a Comment

Homecoming means catching up with friends, tall tales of old are told, memories shared of past snow adventures with hopes for the ones to come to be as Epic as ever! Here’s some fairly old footage from Spillway cross-cut & summit to 5-side.. I think most of these guys still ski here, I know one still works for the Mtn, tho not in the same position he held back when I shot this 35 years ago…!

Filed Under: Featured, From The Archives, News, Sugarloaf Tagged With: ski history, sugarloaf

Stub spoke with WSKI a few years back

April 27, 2018 by WSKI Leave a Comment

Stub Taylor cut trails on Sugarloaf Mtn. as a teenager under the direction of Amos Winter, & went on to be the head of the Ski Patrol for the better part of a half century. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured, From The Archives, News, People, Sugarloaf Tagged With: carrabassett valley, kingfield, Maine High Peaks, maine tourism, New England mountains, ski history, skiing, sugarloaf

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