Treilly Looks like the owner had until May 1st to get the resort up to code and he has done so. http://upnorthlive.com/news/local/sugar-loaf-ski-resort-officially-up-to-code
ciscokid “Opening next year”, we’ll see Lots of work to do, even if he has the cash to get working lifts, snowmaking, he should be hard on it now A fence around the joint, not going to open for quite some time But as Mapnut says “ it has the rarest of Mich attributes, a hill” https://www.snowjournal.com/discussion/910/ciscokid-10-29-16-sugar-loaf-michigan#latest
Treilly A fence around it is still better than being torn down. I am still very optimistic about the hill ever opening. But not bulldozing the whole place is a start
ciscokid I know they were asking $6 million for this place. Do you know how much he actually spent ? Hope to ski it again some day
ciscokid <blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“mapnut”>It has a 300-foot hill which will no doubt yield a 500-foot vertical.</blockquote> Map is that what it is showing 300 foot ?I thought it was at least as tall as Caberfae and darn near if not the same , but if it shows 300 I trust you .
mapnut <p>Maybe 380 feet on the long flat lift going down the west side.</p><p>I was too stingy; it’s hard to tell from the topo map. Using Google Earth I get 440 for the west side lift and 400 for the north side.</p><p></p>
Treilly <blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“ciscokid”> I know that you were asking $6 million for this place. Do you know how much she actually spent either way if he spent Exemouth 1 million then he will probably spend Exemouth more to get a back up in eventually looking forward to that day I can ski at one more time </blockquote> An article in the Detroit Free Press said he got it for $3 million. Also said 3-4 years before it would open.http://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2016/11/16/sugar-loaf-ski-resort-katofsky-michigan/93963244/
ciscokid I think the place is beyond repair as well as lifts I guess see what happens in a few years A little more info http://glenarborsun.com/despite-new-ownership-sugar-loaf-shrouded-in-mystery/
ciscokid Cant believe it held a FIS race in ’95 https://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/event-details.html?event_id=830<img src=“https://www.snowjournal.com/uploads/Uploader/5b/bad2ca6501ecd71cc55aba76569988.jpg” /> Like this oldy
ciscokid Race was held on Manitou trail , due north. Just squeezed it in for fis regulation length , vertical Stupid question, mid America series, kind of like a “minor league”? One of the two guys on this old picture supposedly went on to start Snowmass
ciscokid If I recall correctly that we watched mid America series at snow basin back in 2000 on the same course as the Olympics downhill so just curious
ciscokid I don’t know why they considered Manitou and chair 4 on the back side, I consider it the front Like the aerial of the back side and Manitou Passage( Kings Challenge)GC<img src="https://www.snowjournal.com/uploads
Treilly I had a person I used to work with who loved to ski at Sugar Loaf. He thought it was the best in the lower peninsula. It sounds like the owner tried to expand a little to fast and ran the resort with too much debt and it caught up with him.
ciscokid I was fortunate to ski Sugarloaf only once less than a month after I moved to Michigan from out east so in my opinion quite a letdown but in retrospect now it was pretty decent and have fantastic views with a little bit of challenge was never able to ski all the trails so I don’t believe they were all open the day I was there but anyway yeah soon as posseli took over it went down the tubes
ciscokid Did a little wine tasting yesterday in Glen arbor and Cedar Two different wine pourer s said the same thing which is bad news, the new owner does NOT intend to rehab or build new lifts and run it as a ski area! Just a hotel after knocking down old one
Treilly The report I saw said it’s not in the plan right now to rebuild the Ski area, but it will be 3 years or so before he breaks ground and in that time he is going to look into rebuilding the Ski hill if it makes finical sense.
