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Sugar Bowl Resort


Powder Alliance
6" to 9" POWDER ALERT - POWDER FORECAST BELOW!
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Sugar Bowl Snow Totals
Upcoming Snow Potential
3-Day
16"
5-Day
28"
10-Day
32"
This is About Average for Sugar Bowl
Sugar Bowl skiing by month:
Sugar Bowl
By Month

Core Strengths

Sugar Bowl
Travel Ease
73.6
Snow Volume
73.2
Snow Quality
70.3
Overall
Overall PAF Score

Overall
Rank

54

Rank in
Region

7

Rank in
State

7

This resort is often compared with:

Palisades Tahoe
Boreal
Northstar
Sugar Bowl Snow Quality Across Full Winter
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Sugar Bowl Snowfall Last 10 Days (inches)

Powder
Forecast

Powder Forecast
ZRANKINGS EXCLUSIVE
Thursday
Day
0"
Night
0"
Friday
Day
1"
Night
9"
Saturday
Day
5"
Night
5"
Sunday
Day
2"
Night
6"
Monday
Day
0"
Night
0"
True Snow: 453" per year
Snow Quality Rank

33

Accounts for resorts' snow quantity, moisture content, latitude, elevation, and slope aspects.

Dump Potential Rank

19

Sugar Bowl Resort is ranked No. 19 in North America for its total snowfall during an average season.

Historical Powder Odds
Daily Lottery

% of days with more than 6" of snow

18.8%

Extended Stay

% of months with more than 90" of snow

39.5%

Drought Threat

% of months with less than 30" of snow

21.4%

*Special thanks to Tony Crocker and Bestsnow.net.

Dump Potential Rank

19

Sugar Bowl Resort is ranked No. 19 in North America for its total snowfall during an average season.

Snow
Quality
Rank

33

Accounts for resorts' snow quantity, moisture content, latitude, elevation, and slope aspects.

Total Snow Score

This score accounts for total snow quantity, its moisture content, the resort's latitude, elevation, and its slope aspects, which affect total snow preservation.

Comparables

Sugar Bowl Resort

Trail Breakdown

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Vertical Drop

1500 ft

8383 ft
Base Elevation: 6883 ft

Slope Aspects

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A few words on the Snow at Sugar Bowl Resort

At Sugar Bowl 20.3% of winter days see 6 inches or more of snow and 41% of winter months see 90 inches or more. This is elite, blue-chip style snow frequency, rivaled only by a handful of areas in North America. However, Sierra snowfall is notoriously volatile, so 20% of winter months see less than 30 inches of snow. Sugar Bowl's base of 6,900 feet is low enough for it to see occasional winter rain. Sierra average snow density of 12% is not the blower of the Rockies but easily managed on modern fat rockered skis.

Accumulation and Preservation

With its ample snowfall Sugar Bowl averages about 3/4 open at Christmas, as good as anywhere in California. However, Sierra droughts can be extreme, so even the snowiest California areas are less than ΒΌ open at Christmas in the worst 15% of seasons. Sugar Bowl is predominantly north-facing but tops out at 8,400 feet, so overall snow preservation is about average for the Sierra.