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Timeline

Sugar Mountain Resort Timeline

1969 Fall – Sugar Mountain Company opens with four lifts and eleven
slopes
1978 Sugar Mountain Resort, Inc. purchases Sugar Mountain Company
1982 The Red Slope and Red lift are built – now Oma’s Meadow slope and the Oma’s Meadow lift
1984 The Gray/Summit #2 lift is built
1991 The Annual Oktoberfest begins
1993 Hiking and mountain biking trails open
1994-2007 The Showdown at Sugar Mountain Bike Competition is hosted
1994 New Ski /Snowboard School and Ski Patrol buildings are built
1996 Sugar Mountain Resort receives the National Ski Patrol distinguished service award
1997 Summer lift rides begin
1998 Sugar’s double Black Diamond slope, Whoopdedoo opens
1999 The Tubing Park opens
1999 The Terrain Park is added
2000 Snowshoeing becomes another activity at Sugar Mountain
2003 Annual Sugarfest Celebration begins
2003 Sugar Mountain Resort and local meteorologist, Ray Russell team
up to provide customized local weather forecasting using on-site weather stations.
2004 Sugar Mountain Resort receives the Employer of the Year award by
The Employment Security Commission of North Carolina.
2004 Improving the snowmaking infrastructure begins its five-year
overhaul plan of replacing and enlarging all air and water pipes
2004 A Magic Carpet conveyor lift replaced the thirty-year old rope tow in
the beginners’ area
2006 & 2007 Sugar Mountain Resort brings North Carolina its first National
Mountain Bike Competition hosting 900-1,200 competitors from
eight countries and forty-three states and territories.
2005 Yellow/Summit #1 and Green chairlifts receive new chairs and drive-
stations
2005 Sugar debuts one of the industry’s first live-streaming webcams
2006 Sugar Mountain Resort’s Ski/Snowboard Patrol is awarded the
outstanding patrol in the Southern Division for the 2005-06 season
2006 Sugar Mountain Resort receives the Alfred Adams Leadership
Employer of the Year Award from the Boone Area Chamber of
Commerce
2006 Brown Lift receives new chairs and drive station
2007 Sugar Mountain Resort and the Village of Sugar Mountain Tourism
Development Authority build the Dave Nixon Pro Shop which
houses tennis, golf, ice skating and tubing
2007 Ice skating opens
2008 Sugar records a record one hundred forty consecutive skier days
2009 Sugar celebrates forty years!
2010 Gunther Jochl purchases Sugar Mountain Resort, Inc.
2011 Gunther Jochl purchases the Sugar Mountain Trust
2012 Sugar hosts weddings
2014 Sugar’s game changing $1,000,000 slope Gunther’s Way opens
2014 Ten new SMI snow-making machines are purchased for Gunther’s
Way Slope.
The pump house is redesigned and rebuilt to accommodate an additional 1,000 gallon per minute vertical water pump.
2014 Big Red Slope is renamed Oma’s Meadow after Gunther’s mother,
Marianne Jochl. She is eighty-eight years old, was an avid downhill
and cross-country skier until around the age of eighty. Oma is a term of endearment in German speaking countries and means grandmother in English.
2015 The new Summit Express, a six-seater, detachable, high-speed
chairlift/chondola manufactured by the Austrian based company,
Doppelmayr is installed.The new Little Gray chairlift, formerly known as the Summit #2 chairlift, is shortened and ferries skiers and snowboarders to the top of the Easy Street Extension slope. The Little Gray provides access to the lower and north sides of the mountain. The new GW chairlift is installed. It transports passengers from the base of Gunther’s Way slope to the mountain’s peak. The new lift configuration increases the uphill transportation capacity from 8,800 people to 10,520 people.
2018 Built a lift-serviced bike park which includes Sugar’s signature expert terrain and newly built beginner and intermediate trails.
2019 Sugar records a record one hundred forty-one consecutive skier days
2019 A four-seater, detachable, high-speed chairlift manufactured by the Austrian based company, Doppelmayr, replaces the fifty-year-old, two-passenger, fixed grip Easy Street chairlift, increasing the Resort’s overall uphill capacity from 10,518 passengers per hour to 11,270 passengers per hour
2019  Fall – Sugar celebrates 50 years!
2019 Gunther Jochl receives the Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award granted by the State of North Carolina.
2020 Rental equipment shop expansion. Addition of clothing rentals.
2021 A four-passenger, fixed-grip chairlift manufactured by the Austrian based company, Doppelmayr, replaces the three-passenger, fixed grip Green chairlift, increasing the Resort’s overall uphill capacity from 11,270 passengers per hour to 11,660 passengers per hour and renaming the chairlift the Big Birch Chairlift.
2022 A four-passenger, detachable, high-speed chairlift manufactured by the Austrian based company, Doppelmayr, replaces the two-passenger, fixed grip Oma’s Meadow chairlift, increasing the Resort’s overall uphill capacity from 11,660 passengers per hour to 13,435 passengers per hour

 

revised August 2022

BASE
71.9°the temperature is consistent
HI: 72.9°
LO: 53.0°

3/24/23 4:58pm
SUMMIT
67.0°the temperature is consistent
HI: 68.7°
LO: 50.8°

3/24/23 5:05pm
AveryWeather.com • Weather.com

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