Sugarbush has a lot of snow and groomed to the end of the Onion River Road section. Classic track is good; skate deck is soft; re-groomed this afternoon and should improve overnight.

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(Russ Ludeke)

Conditions: Soft slow sinking skis.
About what you would expect for 50 degrees in March. The downhills were not to be trusted as you never knew when you'd ski into a trap door and the bottom would fall out. Nice views and some big Pileated Woodpeckers escorted us along.

(Dan Murphy)

Conditions: Slow but looking great!
Did an out and back classic ski on part of the picnic loop with fresh grooming. Much of the trail was sticky and slow, with the classic tracks glazed over in several places. It is likely that the warmer temps this afternoon will have sped up the trails. Working with an 18'base, snow should be around for a while!

(Karl Holub)

Made the trip up to the Northshore from the TC to ski the epic Sugarbush system. Unfortunately, after 3 or 4 inches of fresh snow on Friday night only a portion of the system was groomed. We started skiing about 10am and ran into the groomer. The groomer hoped that people stayed off the trails for a while so it could firm. Given the areas economy is driven by tourism, it is beyond me why the trail wasn't groomed. The reason for my visit was to ski the picnic loop which wasn't groomed. I was very disappointed given the fantastic weather.

(Scott Kirby)

Grooming since a recent light snowfall made for excellent skating this afternoon on the Onion River Road trail. Very nice classic track as well.

(Russ Ludeke)

Conditions: Recently groomed and fun.
We only had time for the Maple loop. A little icy in a few spots but overall very good.

(Jan Axelson)

Conditions: Very good. Nice cord on skate lane all around. Skied in track on most portions of the picnic loop since the end of last snowfall, with some new machine track.
Lovely day, great ski. Able to make wax last for the full 4 hour ski. Our group of 4 thought we had the Picnic Loop to ourselves, but we met another skier.

(Joel Rosen)

Conditions: Good classic tracks after light snow thi morning. Nicely groomed.
Skied Homestead loop last evening and it was slow because of temperatures in 40s. This morning did Hogback loop and a nice 1/2 inch dusting covered the ice. Temperature about 20 this morning.Another great ski here.

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(Wayne Nelson)

Conditions: Excellent grooming, but the snow was fading. The groomers laid down the best classic track that I have seen all season and adapted the tracking for the conditions that were coming.
As I set out in the low- to mid-40s, things were quite good. A half hour or hour in, as the sun was heating things up, the going got slower. Downhills that were getting direct sun had some slush spots that stopped my skis (which made for some interesting runs as the shaded areas gave way to sunny spots). Better than any photo, a recording would indicate conditions: some sections of that grippy scraping from a hard/fast track suddenly followed by a more muted slurping. The car thermometer read 55 (in the sun) on returning and between 48 and 50 once the sun wasn't so direct on it. Expect the track to refirm/freeze overnight and possibly some new snow overnight to make tomorrow a rather different experience.

(Erik Larson)

Conditions: Freshly-groomed cord and tracks on the Oberg loop. Soft snow, with some ice tilled-in, but otherwise clean.
They received about 3" of wet snow the night before, so things were quite soft. Very pretty with lots of snow in the trees.

(Tim Collins)