I see Sugar Bowl is cooling on the idea of interconnecting with the proposed Royal Gorge lifts in the Lola’s Lookout/Ice Lakes Lodge area, which would have made them de facto Sugar Bowl lifts. The SLPOA membership really dodged a bullet — for the time being their properties won’t be hit with that dreaded walk-to-Sugar-Bowl-ski-lift designation and the associated property value impacts. Heck, Serene Lakes property values might have started to approach those in Sugar Bowl. The horror, the horror.
Nonetheless, I have my own little interconnect scheme I practice in years when I have a Sugar Bowl pass. I take my heavy-duty backcountry touring gear (Garmont Excursions and Fischer E99 Crowns) over to the Van Norden trailhead, buy a day pass, slog over on the official interconnect, telemark Sugar Bowl’s groomed intermediate runs, eat lunch, take the Disney chair, traverse across Strawberry Fields and Crows Nest along the ridge to Lola’s Lookout and then return to Van Norden. I call the concept “lift-served ski-touring”.
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