Word: sugarbush
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some mountain resorts have been wary of snowboards, fearing that hotdogging teenagers would intimidate regular skiers. Snow Summit, near Los Angeles, Vail in Colorado, and Sugarbush in Vermont are a few places that ban the board, but more than 100 ski areas nationwide allow it. Because rentals are cheaper and paraphernalia not as grand, many resort owners think snow surfing may attract a whole new crowd to try out the slopes. The sport has already achieved the organized trappings of respectability. Next month Breckenridge will play host to the World Snowboard Classic, with more than 200 competitors from ten countries...
Arriving only a half-hour before the lifts closed, we quickly got on Sugarbush North's Mountain double chair and then descended the "Cliffs," a reasonably steep trail with the only real powder we'd seen all day. It was a run that doesn't happen every day; surrounded by the few other skiers who had gotten one of the last chairs up, we took our time, appreciating the scenery, the powder and how tired our legs were getting...
...Sugarbush, too, has implemented a college ski week program. Sponsored by Orangina and Merrill Lynch, the activities are pretty much the same as at the other mountains. Additionally, Sugarbush attracts many students from nearby colleges such as the University of Vermont...
Finishing our run at Sugarbush North we headed to the base lodge's bar where a group of college students was awaiting the snow volleyball award ceremonies. To the strains of Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead and other blasts from the past, the fairly mellow students were sipping $1.50 beers and preparing for the parties that evening...
...Sugarbush (802 583-2381) is just outside of Waitsfield, Vermont. Take Interstate 93 to Interstate 89, just south of Concord. Get off at Vermont Exit 9, and follow Route 100B South through Moretown, where it joins Route 100, to Waitsfied. From there you take Route 17 one mile to the German Flats Road. Sugarbush North is there, and the main Sugarbush resort lies just a little further on the Sugarbush Access Road...