Lincoln Peak

Lincoln Peak

    This post is about the Peak, Lincoln on the main mountain at Sugarbush. This peak is the highest peak, and you get to this peak via, heavens gate chair, which is a triple chair. There is a total of 9 trails on this peak, and from the top of this peak, you can access all the other trails, except for the ones on Castlerock, and North Lynx Peak. There are two double blacks, five blacks and two blues.


      There are no marked woods on this peak, but there are many unmarked glades. One of the biggest and well known glades that is unmarked, is the glade in Paradise. The Paradise trail is the secluded trail off the top of the peak, right after you get off the chairlift. It is one of the double blacks on the peak, and only daring souls go on this trail. There is no snow making on it, tons of rocks, trees in the middle of the trail, a "paradise" for experienced skiers. When there are powder days though, it is a real paradise. It is very steep, as well and on the days where it has just snowed 1 foot, and there is a nice cover underneath, no ice, and the temperature is in the mid 20s, its heaven to ski down.

     The woods though, are even better. These woods are in the top 5 on the mountain of unmarked woods. Since, at a lot of points, the woods integrate into the trail, and this makes tons of open spots in the woods, that not a lot of people know about. Even so, you have to get to these woods early if you want to ski the good stuff. Adjacent to these woods, across the Paradise trail, there is Ripdice woods. These woods are skied a lot less, than Paradise woods, but are worse than Paradise woods. It is nice to ski on those days where the trails are not that good, because you can get to spots of powder and many other places.

     On the other side of these woods, is Ripcord. Ripcord is the other double black, and is a lot easier to ski. It is groomed, and has snow making regularly which Paradise does not have. One the left side of the trail, if you are looking down it, it is a nice flat trail that is fun to bullet straight down. On the left side, there are moguls, which very icy, and not that fun to go down so people stick to the flat groomed part the most of the time. Farther down this trail is Lower Ripcord, which is a black and Lower Paradise which is also a black. Lower Paradise is also accessible from Paradise. If you turn right though from here, you can go into Paradise extension which is a flat trail, that is really easy to go down, but it is a black as well.

     The other two ways to get down from the top of the chair are, Jester, which is a windy blue that leads to Lower Jester, and Organgrinder which can be groomed, or it can have moguls. It is icy a lot of the time, so this trail is not that good most of the time. This trail leads to Lower Organgrinder as well. This is all of the trails on Lincoln Peak, but there are two more things you should know. At the top of the chair, you can choose to hike up to a wooden platform, well above where the chair lift ends. It overlooks all of Vermont, and has a great view on nice days.

     Also, if you go down Paradise, only the beginning though, you can hike to Castlerock Peak which is by far my favorite place on the mountain, and almost every experienced skier's favorite too.