Upper FIS
Lifts and Trails
Our current weather forecast calls for today’s warm temperatures to begin falling this evening to near or slightly below freezing by 8 am Saturday. Temps will warm into the mid to upper 30s during the day. Today’s wet snow will likely become rather firm tomorrow. In order for us to provide the best skiing and riding surfaces possible, we will be delaying our upper mountain lift openings to allow for some last minute grooming. There is also the possibility of some early morning snow showers that will help improve conditions.
Coming up with a plan
Our anticipated lift opening schedule on Saturday will be as follows:
Village Lift – 8:00 am
Sterling, Mogul Mouse, Morse Highlands, and Sir Henry’s lifts – 9:00 am
Madonna I & II lifts – 10:00 am
All lift opening times assume we are not experiencing any wind delays, which does not look likely at this time. Lift crews will be in place to open upper mountain lifts earlier if conditions allow.
The George Tormey race will be held on the Practice Slope with first run starting at 9:30 am. T-bar will commence operating at 7:30 am for race crew and coaches and for athletes at 8:15 am.
Tomorrow we plan to have top to bottom skiing and riding on all 3 mountains with all 8 lifts operating. We have 65 out of 78 trails open with terrain for all ability levels. Surface conditions are machine groomed and variable with average base depths of 20 t0 50 inches. We plan to groom 40 trails, including Goat Path, Ruthie’s, Snow Snake, Dixie’s Knoll, Black Snake, and Treasure Run for a grand total of 149 acres of freshly groomed terrain.
Sterling Mountain seen from the Madonna I Lift
Weather
Currently it is partly cloudy and 44 degrees at the summit of Sterling with winds of 15 to 25 mph. Tomorrow’s forecast is cloudy skies with a chance of scattered snow showers and an inch of accumulation possible with temperatures between 18 and 35 degrees.
Events
We have too many events this weekend to list! For all the details just go to our events page.
