Outdoors

The Bowl
1/25/10, 4:44 pm, By John Monson

Someone else has a big birthday this year...

By John Monson - 

 

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Since 1939, Sugar Bowl Resort has offered some of the finest skiing and riding in the Tahoe region. To celebrate 70 years atop Donner Summit, the resort will host a weekend of festivities January 29 – 31 — including special lift ticket rates, prize giveaways, après ski music, on-mountain trivia challenges and an official opening ceremony for the new Summit Chair.

Truckee Tribe will play the Judah Lodge on Saturday afternoon, and Sugar Bowl’s own Daron Rahlves will race toward SkierX Gold at the X Games in Aspen with special send-off parties at the Judah Lodge.

Opening for business on Dec. 15, 1939 with a light layer of snow and the first chairlift in California, Sugar Bowl’s founders were true pioneers of Tahoe skiing.

Lift tickets that first season were 25 cents to ride up and down, or $2 if you were skiing Mount Disney. Founder Hannes Schroll envisioned a European-style ski resort filled with family and friends, great food and drink, and of course exceptional skiing.

Schroll’s vision is now a reality, with 13 lifts servicing four distinct peaks, 95 trails across 1,500 acres, three progressive terrain parks, a historic base-area Lodge, and a staff dedicated to the guest’s experience. Sugar Bowl still boasts the highest annual snowfall in North Lake Tahoe with 500” on average.

Sugar Bowl’s Season 70 Celebration Weekend:

Friday, Jan. 29

To kick things off, Friday January 29th is a CORE Appreciation day with $39 lift tickets. for Daily CORE members.

Anyone can join the CORE by visiting www.sugarbowl.com.

XGames Skier X qualifying runs will be showing in the Judah Lodge from 11 am to 12:30 pm with special prizes tied to Daron’s results.

Saturday, Jan. 30

Sugar Bowl officially recognizes the opening of the new Summit Chair, a fixed grip quad accessing the frontside Judah Bowl and ample sidecountry terrain off the backside of the resort. An official ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Summit Chair will occur at 10 a.m.

Sunday, Jan. 31

With ample history, legend and lore at the ready, Sugar Bowl presents an on-mountain trivia challenge on Sunday Jan. 31. Skiers and riders will receive trivia challenge sheets at both base areas, needing to tap into their expertise on all things Sugar Bowl in order to answer the vast and varied trivia questions, with answers ultimately pointing them to secret stash areas of the mountain where prizes await.

 

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