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Spent many days of my childhood there. Winter and Summer. Great, great memories.

Just golfed there last weekend

Ski Toured up there when I moved here. Finished my 4 million feet of climbing project under 4 seasons. Bike/ski.

Hey @skier72 and @beneminger3666‬ I worked at Iron Mountain as a ski instructor (From New Zealand - John McKenzie) for 2 winters; 91/92 and 92/93, so can say it was open and NOT closed as you suggest. We weren't aware of the challenges and struggles, and I enjoyed 2 winters teaching at the resort. I had options to teach at other larger, better known resorts - in fact I did teach at Kirkwood in 93 as well... but the resort paid for my accom and airfares in 92/93 so it was a good option. I employed a number of other ski instructors and lift operators for the 92/93 season, all from NZ, who enjoyed living in Buckhorn and working on the mountain. It was a small resort, but had some good intermediate teaching terrain with ok numbers visiting the mountain from Sacramento and surrounding areas. It's really sad to see these images and hear the story about the struggles. Yes, it suffered from being so close to Kirkwood and South Lake Tahoe, but I felt it had a family, schools and budget market. Bottom line, some good memories and times there - first winter we all stayed in the lodge! We also made the most of skiing at other resorts in the region and visiting South Lake often. One story.. New years 92/93.... with a storm on the radar... we chose to go into South Lake, against advice with the storm due... result, a fair number of the mountain team - lit ops, ski school.. were left trapped in South Lake unable to get to the mountain the next morning... due to the snow and closed passes.. a couple of us went the VERY long way round... back through Pioneer, highway 50... north of Lake tahoe... and got there.. the mountain opened with a very small team! Good times

With lost resorts, don't forget about Ski Rio in New Mexico. It had 2 Poma triples and a used Riblet double. The 1959 Riblet double from Stowe still stands as of 2024. The 2 triples now run at Mohawk Mountain and Berkshire East www.google.com/maps/@36.8539791,-105.4506162,13313m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkyMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Awful Awful was the most famous ski hill name on Michigan, maybe even the whole USA. You could stand at the top and you ski tips would hang off the edge. Many of my childhood ski memories were here a Sugar Loaf. Back when ski jumps were destroyed by the resort and now they make them bigger than ever for us to jump. Too bad my knees just can’t take it anymore LOL

2:38 - I now know where 80s iconic adult film star Christy Canyon got her name.

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'Waffle' always made me smile, set between the Wall and Awful Awful, the name made sense And since it was covered in moguls, it looked like a waffle as well.

Loved (hated) this! We have lost so many of the smaller (cheaper) ski hills in Michigan, (Thunder Mt., Walloon Hills, Skyline, ect.) through consolidation from the big resorts or just the economics of less snowy winters and higher insurance rates. The trouble is, beginner skiers no longer have the local, cheaper ski hills to hone their skills, so they are pushed to the bigger and more expensive resorts. When you fall 2-5 times per run, who wants to pay $100+ per day for that privilege?!😮 And the ski industry is wondering why the participation rate has been dropping. Oh well, at least it’s fun to explore the old abandon places via motorcycle! 😊

This was awesome. Thank you. Our 2 boys were USSA and FIS racers throughout the 90s and into the 2000s. As J5 and J6ers in the mid 90s we raced at Sugerloaf so many times. They took such good care of the racers. It was such a shock when they closed. Such awesome memories. Our oldest went on to become a 4 time Jr Olympian and the recipient of a college scholarship for skiing. Sugarloaf certainly played a role in all of that.

I hadn't realized that when I went there with my girlfriend at the time in 2011 it was the last season they were open. Maybe it was an omen for our relationship 😂

shout out to people who used to stop and tube "the hill" in Mineral on the way to Lassen back in the 80s-90s

The worst ski accident of my life occurred at Sugar Loaf a few years before it closed. I couldn't walk normally for a year. Luckily, my leg completely healed and I can ski today, although I never ski out of control any longer. And I never ski at Sugar Loaf, obviously.

One of Michigan mountians that started my addictions.

I grew up a block away from Woodlea. You can almost see my house in the google maps shot of the hill. Skied there a lot.

The other issue with Geneva besides its remoteness is the very fickle and unreliable snowpack there. Some years we could make the long drive around to the Grant side from Georgetown, stay in the hut at the top and get some good backcountry skiing in, and other years there just wasn't enough snow to do that. I used to live in Georgetown and Clear Creek County wouldn't plow Guanella pass all the way through to the summit and beyond which made it really hard to get up there in the winter. If you lived in Clear Creek, or even Denver there was really no reason to go to Geneva when Berthoud, Loveland, Abasin, WP, and the summit county resorts were so much easier to access. It's a cool little spot, and if the winter is right you can definitely have some fun backcountry skiing there on the cut runs and stay in the old ski patrol shack at the top. We always heard that that chair on the far northern end of the property never got installed because one of the owner's sons was decapitated by the haul cable during installation. Maybe that was just rumor around the county to keep people away from the property. The story went that "Headless Ed's" ghost could be seen wandering the property as an apparition at times....either way, I have fond memories of hiking Geneva in the summer and getting some fun earned turns there in the winter when the stars aligned for us to do so. Thanks for sharing!

I started skiing in 1981 but only in Tahoe because my father lived up there. Although I had spent summers is Chester growing up, I never did ski Lassen.

Learned to ski at Lassen as a kid in the mid 80s. Lots of great memories! Looks like we moved away just as it began it's decline.

Fantastic video and super helpful, thank you!

Very informative video. My family started visiting Lassen in the mid-60s both Summer and Winter. In fact I lived in the 1st Aid station in the Chalet when I was a seasonal ranger at the Southwest Entrance Station in the summer of 1980. While I never downhill skied at Lassen I have snowshoed at cross/country skied there. Great memories!

What the heck, I had no idea there was another Sugarloaf. cool content.

We were there on the day Jake Hammer said his goodbyes... it was never the same ever since he sold it.

Vertical?

Gosh, they sure missed a phenom opportunity to become a premier mountain biking destination in Michigan. Smaller ski resorts have found great financial success by opening up MTB trails. Thereby, making them a complete year round facility. Anywho, this was the first video of your's I've stumbled upon and I will say great job.

From the title, I thought you were talking about Sugar Loaf in Maine. Thank goodness that still exists.

The triple chair was installed in the 90s and was bought used from St Jerome Quebec was modified by BM Lifts out of Barrie ON and was installed by the staff of Talisman resort under supervision by BMLift company

Great video and brought back many good memories there

Although the word "traverse" is typically pronounced with emphasis on the second syllable, the city and nearby bays are pronounced "TRA-verse" by locals.

Would have loved to ski here and try out the Wall and Awful Awful along with riding their fleet of Hall ski lifts. Just asking, but is an episode on Cedar Highlands (near Hockley Valley & Valley Schuss, which you already covered) or another lost ski area in Ontario in the pipeline?

I found the runs to become too flat. Better options are available.

Great job as usual. $15 for a lift ticket! I wish 😂

Great video Skier 72, I remember taking the family there and staying in the Hotel during the 90's. Sugarloaf had a lot of varied terrain for all levels of skier. And the views of Lake Michigan from the top were beautiful.

Sugar Loaf Recipe: used old pastries dried out. Crumble them, add eggs, flour and milk. Roll into plastic wrap in log shape. Roll into tin foil. Then steam for 1 hour. Cool and slice. Warm slices with sugar in pan. ❤

Skiied many days at Sugarloaf for decades. The front face (The Walls and Awful Awful) were always the place to be on big lake-effect powder days. It wasn't always as moguled-up as the photos suggest, as by the 80's they were doing a great job of grooming after storm-snow got skiied out. Its protracted demise is still a major sore spot for locals. Folks still climb and ski or ride it after big snows. It's quite strange to see the property these days after so many past years of bustling activity.

A friend of mine was in conversations to buy it at some point. He wanted to hire me to do marketing for it. I had zero interest in doing that but would have probably taken the job had he pulled the trigger. It would have been the challenge of a lifetime. I don't pretend to know the secret to restore that place to prominence. Many tried but failed. And now the winters are just so lame every year.