{"id":604,"date":"2026-04-14T13:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefuzzybutts.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:33:23","slug":"snowbrains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefuzzybutts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/snowbrains\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowbrains"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>#4 Smugglers\u2019 Notch, VT<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Smugglers\u2019 Notch packs some of Vermont\u2019s steepest, most technical terrain into three interconnected mountains, with glades and black diamonds that rival anything in New England.<\/strong> It flies under the radar because it\u2019s not on Epic or Ikon, so you won\u2019t fight mega-pass crowds or pay $200 lift tickets, keeping the vibe local and the lift lines manageable. The resort also doubles down on families with award-winning kids\u2019 programs and ski-in\/ski-out lodging, which means it gets labeled a \u201cfamily hill\u201d while hiding 1,000+ acres of legit expert skiing that hardcore riders overlook.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smuggs.com\/views-from-the-notch\/snowbrains-4\/\">Snowbrains<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smuggs.com\">Smugglers\u2019 Notch Resort Vermont<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#4 Smugglers\u2019 Notch, VT Smugglers\u2019 Notch packs some of Vermont\u2019s steepest, most technical terrain into three interconnected mountains, with glades and black diamonds that rival anything in New England. It flies under the radar because it\u2019s not on Epic or Ikon, so you won\u2019t fight mega-pass crowds or pay $200 lift tickets, keeping the vibe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefuzzybutts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefuzzybutts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefuzzybutts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefuzzybutts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefuzzybutts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thefuzzybutts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"http:\/\/thefuzzybutts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefuzzybutts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefuzzybutts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefuzzybutts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefuzzybutts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}