Sugarloaf's New Bucksaw Lift/Trails 2024

Описание: This expansion has brought exactly what Sugarloaf needed - a new lift to service family friendly cruisers. Hopefully this will be end of the days of the weekend line at the super quad going all the way up to the slow skiing sign. No longer will you have to slalom around 200 people picking their way down chicken pitch one turn at a time. The beginners and leisurely intermediates now have their own safe haven, Bucksaw!
The terrain here is very similar in feel to the whiffletree area, with a slightly steeper upper section gradually easing to wide open flats to scoot along on. There are some mildly steep portions of each trail, particularly in the upper sections, but they all dump out into tame cruisers. "Cutter" looks to be a nice little challenge to intermediates, but that was not open for me to sample today. The lift line looks as though it would be a fun run similar to Sheer Boom, but from what I can tell they are not using it as a trail. Bummer! In any case, I found the trails to be lovely and necessary additions to Sugarloaf's catalog of terrain. If you are an advanced/expert skier, you may enjoy carving some big turns down these new trails when they have low traffic, but otherwise there is not much exciting and challenging here. That is okay though, if you are looking for steeps you can find them in plenty of other places here.
Overall, I am super excited about skiing this area with my friends/family who are beginner/intermediate level, and I am equally excited about the shorter lift lines everywhere else on the mountain! 10/10 expansion