If you skied at Sugarbush this past winter, in all likelihood you checked the snow report. What’s open, what’s groomed, how much snow fell overnight, what’s the current uphill policy; all pieces of the puzzle that make up our daily reporting. And if you checked the report out anytime from Saturday-Tuesday, you would have reading Benny Jerome’s reports.
All of our snow reporters have their own unique style, and as a great cup of coffee into the industry, there’s also typically a lot of turnover with our snow reporters as they move up into other roles at Sugarbush or around the industry. They’re remembered in various ways among the brain trust here, but there was one thing specifically Benny did every single day that will remain one of the most memorable snow reporter quirks of all time. It was simple. It was also amazing. Every day in his snow report email, Benny would sign off with a different nickname. Every single day. Names like Benny “Mogul Man” Jerome or Benny “Harry Potter and the Camber of Secrets” Jerome.
The problem for you, our esteemed guest, is that he only did these in our internal Sugarbush emails, so you didn’t see them all year long. Well, until now. I’ve compiled a full list of Benny’s signatures for you to peruse at your behest.
If you have a general understanding of the season, weather events, and various hot topics around the resort or in the industry, some of these names are all the more funny. Benny “Staying Positive” Jerome on New Year’s Day is great both from a conditions standpoint at the time and likely his current mood snow reporting after a late night. He went through a presidential phase with George Way-Backington, Thomas Jester-son, and Barack O-Bravo. He often strung together various trail references like The Notorious F.I.S. and Coffee, Stills, Nash, & Run.
My favorites, however, are just the really good names not necessarily tied a theme. The aforementioned Harry Potter reference, Ice Cassidy & The Corduroy Kid, Granular Godfather, Snow Stake Centurion, Off-Piste Paladin, Hell or Hi Road. All kept us chuckling through the mornings. Every single nickname was used as his middle name, except for his very first day. I’ll never forget training him at 6:00 AM in Valley House and him sending his first internal email with the signature Bluebird Benny. Amused, I figured that was how he’d want to be called all year. Turns out it was just one of 78 different signatures. Whatever, Bluebird Benny is still how he’s saved in my phone.
Benny is moving out west next winter on a migration route many a ski industry alum has traversed, and we wish him all the best. You can check out the full list of his names below.
| Date | First Name | Middle Name | Last Name |
| 12/3/2022 | Bluebird | Benny | |
| 12/4/2022 | Benny | Snowball | Jerome |
| 12/5/2022 | Benny | Spring Chicken | Jerome |
| 12/6/2022 | Benny | Mogul Man | Jerome |
| 12/10/2022 | Benny | Ski Pole | Jerome |
| 12/11/2022 | Benny | Cabin Cat | Jerome |
| 12/12/2022 | Benny | Snow Stake | Jerome |
| 12/13/2022 | Benny | Double Blue Square | Jerome |
| 12/18/2022 | Benny | No Edge Necessary | Jerome |
| 12/19/2022 | Benny | Lift Lines | Jerome |
| 12/20/2022 | Benny | Iceman | Jerome |
| 12/24/2022 | Benny | Bomb Cyclone | Jerome |
| 12/25/2022 | Benny | Mercury Mediator | Jerome |
| 12/26/2022 | Benny | Snow Stake Centurion | Jerome |
| 12/27/2022 | Benny | Snowzilla | Jerome |
| 12/31/2022 | Benny | Polar Vortex | Jerome |
| 1/1/2023 | Benny | Staying Positive | Jerome |
| 1/2/2023 | Benny | Cloud Connoisseur | Jerome |
| 1/3/2023 | Benny | Granular Godfather | Jerome |
| 1/7/2023 | Benny | Ice Cassidy & The Corduroy Kid | Jerome |
| 1/8/2023 | Benny | The Dusting Delegate | Jerome |
| 1/9/2023 | Benny | The Biff Baron | Jerome |
| 1/10/2023 | Benny | Cold Smoke Court Martial | Jerome |
| 1/14/2023 | Benny | La Nina’s Nephew | Jerome |
| 1/15/2023 | Benny | Harry Potter and the Camber of Secrets | Jerome |
| 1/16/2023 | Benny | Ziggy Stein-dust | Jerome |
| 1/17/2023 | Benny | Sleet Home Alabama | Jerome |
| 1/21/2023 | Benny | Snopocalypse Now | Jerome |
| 1/22/2023 | Benny | Derek & The Domino Chutes | Jerome |
| 1/23/2023 | Benny | Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Gate | Jerome |
| 1/24/2023 | Benny | Of Mice and Mainstream | Jerome |
| 1/28/2023 | Benny | Rumbles in the Jungles | Jerome |
| 1/29/2023 | Benny | Wasting Away Again in Spillsville | Jerome |
| 1/30/2023 | Benny | Coffee, Stills, Nash, & Run | Jerome |
| 1/31/2023 | Benny | The Poma to Momma | Jerome |
| 2/4/2023 | Benny | I Can’t Feel My Face | Jerome |
| 2/5/2023 | Benny | Full Metal Jester | Jerome |
| 2/6/2023 | Benny | Shawshank Riemergasse | Jerome |
| 2/7/2023 | Benny | Gone With The Waterfall | Jerome |
| 2/11/2023 | Benny | Dear Mr. F.I.S. Play Us A Tune | Jerome |
| 2/12/2023 | Benny | Hell or Hi Road | Jerome |
| 2/13/2023 | Benny | 2001: A Ski Odyssey | Jerome |
| 2/14/2023 | Benny | Do You Have a Trail Map, Cuz You Got Me Lost In Paradise | Jerome |
| 2/18/2023 | Benny | George Way-Backington | Jerome |
| 2/19/2023 | Benny | Thomas Jester-son | Jerome |
| 2/20/2023 | Benny | Barack O-Bravo | Jerome |
| 2/21/2023 | Benny | Snow Wars: A New Hope | Jerome |
| 2/25/2023 | Benny | El Nino’s Nightmare | Jerome |
| 2/26/2023 | Benny | Second Thoughts | Jerome |
| 2/27/2023 | Benny | 2 Tickets to Paradise | Jerome |
| 2/28/2023 | Benny | Free Refills | Jerome |
| 3/4/2023 | Benny | Snow Rapture | Jerome |
| 3/5/2023 | Benny | Snow Wars: The Powder Menace | Jerome |
| 3/6/2023 | Benny | Going To The Mall | Jerome |
| 3/7/2023 | Benny | F.I.S., Frozen in Snow | Jerome |
| 3/11/2023 | Benny | Off-Piste Paladin | Jerome |
| 3/12/2023 | Benny | The Solar Specter | Jerome |
| 3/13/2023 | Benny | Rider of the Storm | Jerome |
| 3/14/2023 | Benny | Sierra Cement | Jerome |
| 3/18/2023 | Benny | Shorter Than The Snowpack | Jerome |
| 3/19/2023 | Benny | Rumspringa Renegade | Jerome |
| 3/20/2023 | Benny | Ostara | Jerome |
| 3/21/2023 | Benny | Cornice Collateral | Jerome |
| 3/22/2023 | Benny | Phantom of Spring Fling | Jerome |
| 3/25/2023 | Benny | Sleet Caroline | Jerome |
| 3/26/2023 | Benny | Powdered Concrete | Jerome |
| 3/27/2023 | Benny | The Notorious F.I.S. | Jerome |
| 4/4/2023 | Benny | Spring Chicken | Jerome |
| 4/8/2023 | Benny | Spring Flinger | Jerome |
| 4/9/2023 | Benny | House of the Rising Sun | Jerome |
| 4/10/2023 | Benny | Summer’s Breeze | Jerome |
| 4/11/2023 | Benny | Mr. Blue Sky | Jerome |
| 4/15/2023 | Benny | Sunshine On Your Love | Jerome |
| 4/16/2023 | Benny | Easy (Like Sunday Morning) | Jerome |
| 4/17/2023 | Benny | Have You Ever Seen The Rain | Jerome |
| 4/18/2023 | Benny | Island In The Sun | Jerome |
| 4/22/2023 | Benny | The Last Waltz | Jerome |
| 4/23/2023 | Benny | Mary Jane’s Last Dance | Jerome |