Super Bowl Weekend

The skiing and riding is very good in New England. Honest, Serious, for Real. We currently are experiencing the best conditions so far this season! Percentages of open terrain have been on a steady climb as the mountains up north have had over two weeks of consistently good snowmaking weather. Check this LINK to find out how your favorite resort is doing.

The mountains have been picking up an inch of two day to day form lake effect snows. It all counts. The steady small shots of snow are the best way for bases to become and remain Packed Powder. We have not had any rain events to speak of. All we need is one big storm and things will go bananas. Big = a foot plus for most resorts. That is not being too greedy is it? I mean, come on. It is February first today.

Sugarloaf has opened the Superpipe – pic from the resort

There is snow in the forecast for Friday. Different reports are bringing contradicting outcomes, but most agree that something is going to happen and that it will most likely bring more than a few inches to Southern New England.
Jim Roemer of Best Ski Weather is not saying anything with 100% confidence on this disorganized system. But he does believe the mountains of southern VT will make out the best from tonight and tomorrows precipitation event. On the extremely good side would be 5 to 8 inches. Lake effect snows are taking care of things further north. He is also calling for some wind and the artic chill to return on Monday. So bring your warm clothes this weekend and get out there to enjoy.
What is going on this weekend? The Super Bowl certainly is not quiet as exciting without the Patriots. But, as I do every year, I have taken Monday off from work and plan on skiing. I will watch the game. Not really sure who to route for yet, but thinking Chicago. We’ll see…
Here is the breakdown from the mountains themselves of the Super Bowl Weekend Events! Go for it, the SKIING IS GRAND!
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Burke, VT
The Tamarack Grill at Burke Mountain will be having a Super Bowl party on Feb. 4th starting at 4pm. Guests can watch the game on our big 61″ flat screen TV.
Cannon,NH
Cannon Mountain offers 2-for-$54 on Super Bowl Sunday. We have Football themed après party on Saturday and football themed on-hill kids events on Saturday as well.
Cranmore, NH
Cranapalooza at Cranmore has a beach party, maybe to help you feel like you’re in Miami, along with fireworks. Special activities include a t-shirt toss, s’mores, face painting, a storyteller, dj Kristen with beach party classics, and fireworks.
Gunstock, NH
Get out the night before at Gunstock Rocks Saturday night for some football on the snow and Mother/Daughter & Father/Son races.
Gunstock Rocks Saturday Night is a different party every Saturday night, with skiing, riding, rentals, quick tips, bonfires, tubing, entertainment & more for just $28. This week there is special pricing of $40 for 2 for mothers & daughters, fathers & sons, and parent & child.
King Pine, NH
At King Pine, show your pride in your favorite team and you could win the #1 Fan Contest.
Super Bowl Sunday #1 Fan Contest & Season Pass Drawing
#1 Fan Contest Judging at 1:30 PM, Drawing at 2:30 PM
Show your pride in your favorite team (like the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, for instance), and you could win great prizes… including a 2006-07 King Pine season pass!
Jiminy Peak, MA
Jiminy Peak has lift and lodging specials this weekend. Buy online, a two- day, 8 hour pass for only $89 (valid on sat. and Sunday)! Plus, if you stay over Sunday night- after watching the Super Bowl in John Harvard’s Brewery and Restaurant or at Christiansens’ Tavern- we have an e-coupon day on Monday. Ski for only $19 for an 8 hour pass!
To go along with that – The Country Inn is having a lodging special – stay two nights, get the third night free (Friday, Saturday, Sunday nights)!! You really can’t beat it. We plan on having 35 trails open and 8 lifts running during the day. 18 trails and 4 lifts run nightly until 10:30pm.
For the kids- we’ll have kids club and a magician in the country Inn. There’s always great children’s ski and boarding programs – voted 4th in the Nation for our family programs!
Killington, VT
Ski FREE Super Bowl Weekend Package!
Still trying to decide whether to ski or watch the Super Bowl? Go to Killington and do both! PLUS, get one day’s skiing for FREE!
Every 3day lift ticket purchased with this package includes one day for FREE.
Package Details: Package requires a minimum 3 nights lodging and 3-day lift ticket, with arrival Friday Feb. 2 for 3 nights. At least half the party must purchase a lift ticket. Package must be booked at least 1 day prior to arrival.
If you are planning to fly or take the train to Killington, you can book your transportation online in one step with your package, or call us at 1-800-888-3359.
Mount Tremblant, Quebec
Even in Quebec, we are big fans of the Super Bowl! So here’s what happening this weekend at Tremblant.
At the Shack, the resto/bar in front of the slopes, in the pedestrian village of Mont Tremblant Resort, there will be the Super Bowl on the 11 Plasma Screens and many prizes will be given away during the game.
If you want to come spend the weekend with us at Tremblant, we have 85 trails open on excellent snow conditions! We still have few rooms left for the weekend and rates in the pedestrian village start at US$90 per person per night. Moreover, on Saturday, we have a Junior Jib contest going on all day, right at the base of the mountain, in front of the Shack and La Forge.
Okemo, VT
Football fans can get in a full weekend of skiing and riding with super savings at Okemo Mountain Resort and still make it home in time for Super Bowl kickoff.
A two-day lift ticket is just $99 when skiers and riders visit Okemo on Friday, February 2 and Saturday, February 3 or Saturday, February 3 and Sunday, February 4 or Sunday, February 4 and Monday, February 5. Young Adults (13-18) and Seniors (65-69) pay just $89 and a two-day ticket is just $69 for Juniors (7-12) and Super Seniors (70+).
When it comes to Game Day, Sunday, February 4, Okemo is sweetening its Sunday Solution half-day deal with an extra $10 off the already special rate. That means skiing and riding from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for only $50 for Adults, $41 for Young Adults and Seniors, and $29 for Juniors and Super Seniors.
Also, on Saturday, February 3 and Super Bowl Sunday, Okemo hosts Nevado Mountain Adventures Demo Days. Skiers and boarders can demo tons of new snowsports products for free. A credit card imprint and waiver must be signed for use of the equipment. The Demo will be set up in the Jackson Gore Base Area on Saturday and in the Okemo Clocktower Base Area on Sunday.
Pats Peak, NH
Come and watch the Super Bowl Game with us in the Sled Pub (very cool spot) and enjoy a complimentary halftime buffet!
Smugglers’ Notch, VT
Heard you’re looking for Super Bowl specials…
At Smugglers’ Notch Resort, guests booking on our popular Club Smugglers’ Advantage Package are invited to our Super Bowl Big Game Football party with seats in front of a 22 x 14-foot TV screen and a free half time snack buffet with favorite munchies.
Kids get free mini footballs!
We’re also offering the seventh night free when guests arrive between Jan 28 and February 4 and stay six nights on the Club Smugglers’ package. Lodging/lift/lesson package rates for this time period are $125 per night for adults and $109 per night for children 17 and under. The seventh night free therefore offers a significant savings.
The package also includes the full gamut of the usual Club Smugglers’ goodies: lodging in a mountainside fully furnished condominium; daily lift tickets for all three mountains for everyone in the party; daily ski camp for 3-5 year olds, snowboard camp for 4-5 year olds and group lessons for 6-17 year olds; unlimited use of the FunZone family entertainment center with arcade games, climbing inflatables and indoor mini golf; access to two teen centers, indoor pool and hot tubs; participation in the daily Winter Walking program, and daily adult beginner lessons in skiing or snowboarding.
Also, family and adult après ski activities, use of 58 km of cross country ski and snowshoe trails, a 2006-2007 lift pass valid until December 16, 2007, and 50 percent off adult ski or snowboard lessons for intermediates or advanced levels.
Reservations and information line is 1-800-451-8752.
Stowe, VT
This is the S.G. pick for the weekend! Stowe is always a great place to watch the game with friends. With this ticket special Friday and the resort having some of the best conditions in the country (yes – you read that right) why not make a long weekend out of this?
Stowe Mountain Resort dares to ask the question: How much woods could a woodchuck ski, if a woodchuck could ski woods? Find out in Stowe on Friday, February 2nd.
In most places people will call this Friday, February 2nd ‘Groundhog’s Day,’ but in Vermont it’s definitely ‘Woodchuck Day.’ Each year on this day, people around the country watch to see if winter might end early. In Stowe, everyone knows this winter just got a big boost, with over 3 Feet of new snow since January 13th.
Skiers and riders in Stowe also know that the best winter has to offer still lays ahead. So, Stowe invites all snow lovers to celebrate the beginning of the rest of winter, and experience the best conditions and terrain in the east.
Full-day lift tickets will be only $35, and the first 500 people to show up also get a free Stowe Points Card, that’s over a hundred bucks worth of free fun. This February 2nd, don’t focus on Punxsutawney, obsess about winter in Stowe. You can’t afford not too!
Sugarbush, VT
Taking a skiers approach to the game…
Warren, VT (January 31, 2007)- The Life-Link Ski Mountaineering Race Series is coming back to Vermont’s Mad River Valley. A national race series sanctioned by the United States Ski Mountaineering Association (USSMA), the Life-Link races are held at some of the premier resorts in North America including such backcountry havens as Crested Butte, CO and Jackson Hole, WY. Last year marked the first time a race was held east of the Rockies when Sugarbush and Mad River Glen in central Vermont hosted an event. This year’s race will be held Sunday, February 4th.
The race series test competitors’ endurance, equipment and skiing skills while skinning up and skiing down some of the toughest terrain around the country. And the Sugarbush/MRG event will prove to be one of the burliest.
Competitors will begin at the base of Mad River Glen and skin up the Antelope Slope. Once to the summit, they will traverse the Long Trail to Sugarbush’s Mt. Ellen where they will descend into the Slide Brook Basin via Rim Run, Lower Rim Run, and Lower F.I.S.
After traversing through the Slide Brook area, competitors will take one of two routes—the recreational division ascending Village Run to the base of the North Lynx chair while the race division ascends up work roads to the summit of North Lynx chair and then down to the base of that chair via Birch Run.
The rest of the course is downhill with racers in both divisions continuing on Castlerock Connection, through Header, and down to the finish at the Valley House by way of the Lower Jester and Coffee Run trails.
“We’re really psyched to again be the only eastern venue to host this event,” remarked adventure skier and head of Sugarbush’s Adventure Learning Center John Egan. “The terrain that lies between Sugarbush Resort and Mad River Glen is extremely challenging, it ranks up there with some of the most technical descents I’ve done around the world.”
The event is open to skiers, telemarkers, and split-board snowboarders, and will feature some of the fastest ski mountaineering racers in the U.S. Registration information can be found at sugarbush.com or by calling or emailing Sugarbush’s Laura Worthen at 583_6849 [email protected].
Sugarloaf, ME
Big weekend here at Sugarloaf. We opened the Superpipe on Wednesday and we’re going to open our new park on Saturday. We’ve been running a contest to name the new park and the winner is The Yard. We’re going to have a grand opening and award presentation Saturday at 9:30 and let the winner, Josh Tauses of Kingfield, take the first run through the park. The new park is going to have 3 sets of jumps up to 50 feet and an assortment of rails including that will be swapped out regularly. Some of the new rails haven’t even been built yet.
Snow is in the forecast for Friday so the skiing and riding will be sweet this weekend.
As for deals, Ski and Stay this weekend for $99/person/night for Friday and Saturday. Add Sunday night and ski Monday for $69. Call 1 800 THE LOAF.
Also All for One Passholders can bring a friend for $39 now through Feb. 16. This is a one time offer meaning a pass holder can get the $39 guest ticket once.
The Widowmaker Lounge and the Shipyard Brewhaus have tons of TVs and have beer and food specials so you can catch the game after enjoying a full day on the slopes.
pic from Sugarloaf

Sunday River, ME
This looks like some serious FUN!
Singles Weekend
February 3, 2007
Join the Boston Phoenix and Sunday River for the ‘Singles on the Double’ dating event, an apres ski party full of prizes in the Foggy Goggle and more. The Singles on the Double dating service will run from 1-3pm at South Ridge on lift #7.
Be sure to catch the apres ski party at the new Foggy Goggle at 4pm.
Bud Light Super Sunday Party
February 4, 2007
Takes place at the All New Foggy Goggle! Come watch the Big game
on 7 flat screen TV, grab some appetizers, drinks, and of course specials deals with $99 ski and stay packages!
Wachusett, MA
SUPERBOWL PARTY in the Coppertop Lounge!!!
Waterville Valley, NH
If you’re planning a girls day out while the guys stay home in front of the big screen, Waterville Valley is hosting the Oakley Boarding for Breast Cancer Slopestyle Events. (Not to say that guys don’t care about breast cancer … or that women don’t care about football)
Oakley/USASA Boarding for Breast Cancer Slopestyle
Join us for a great cause with Oakley and USASA. You can earn USASA slopestyle points as well as raise money for B4BC. Click on the heading for a list of raffle prizes and all the info.
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That is all for now. Looking forward to hitting the slopes. Go Ski this weekend!
Think Snow,
S.G.