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Sugar Bowl Ski Resort
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Sugar Bowl was founded by Hannès Schroll and a group of individual investors and is one of the few remaining privately owned resorts in the Lake Tahoe area. Sugar Bowl was the first ski area in California to install a chairlift and the first on the west coast to install a gondola lift.
The Mountain
4 Peaks
102 Trails
1500 Skiable Acres
1500 Vertical Feet
500 Inches Average Annual Snowfall
13 Lifts
5 High-Speed Express Quads
3 Fixed Grip Quads
2 Fixed Grip Doubles
1 Gondola
2 Surface Lift
Trail Rating
17% beg.,
45% int.,
38% adv.
Terrain Park
The Switching Yard off Mt Judah Express
Terrain Park Features may be encountered on all Judah runs
Progression Terrain/Learners Area(Judah)
Grooming: 500 acres (33%)
Snowmaking: 375 acres (25%)
Base Elevation: 6883'
Summit Elevation: 8383'
Uphill Capacity: 21,740
Vertical Transport: 12,921,080 VTF/ hour
Longest Run: Crowley's off of Mt. Lincoln is over 3 miles long
Family Park: Nob Hill
Steepest Run: The Palisades
Longest Groomer: Crowleys to Ridge Run (Mt. Lincoln) over 3 miles long
Best Kept Secret: Strawberry Fields
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