VAIL SUCKS

[kingslug]

3 hours to get out of there...

 

[BenedictGomez]

3 hours to get out of there...

Huh?

 

[kingslug]

Traffic backed up to alta lot.
Took us 1 hour to go 1/4 mile...another hour to get to snowbird area...then 1 more to get to draper.
Looks like they stopped alta traffic to let snowbird empty out. Total shitshow...cars buried everywhere along the road.
Snowbird has become a fucking zoo.

 

[kingslug]

And now the next round..

 

[ThatGuy]

Traffic backed up to alta lot.
Took us 1 hour to go 1/4 mile...another hour to get to snowbird area...then 1 more to get to draper.
Looks like they stopped alta traffic to let snowbird empty out. Total shitshow...cars buried everywhere along the road.
Snowbird has become a fucking zoo.

Yeah….fuck that…Ill pass

They do need to fix the egress from Alta, everyone at snowbird just cuts out at the merge. Youre better off parking at Snowbird, taking the bus to Alta then skiing back to your car at this point

 

[BenedictGomez]

Traffic backed up to alta lot.
Took us 1 hour to go 1/4 mile...another hour to get to snowbird area...then 1 more to get to draper.
Looks like they stopped alta traffic to let snowbird empty out. Total shitshow...cars buried everywhere along the road.
Snowbird has become a fucking zoo.

Zero desire for any of this. Less than zero were it mathematically possible.

And sadly I think it's why I'm "meeting" so many people who live on the Front. Today alone rode lifts with 2 groups from SLC, 1 from Draper, and 1 from Bluffdale. This should not be.

 

[thetrailboss]

Yeah….fuck that…Ill pass

They do need to fix the egress from Alta, everyone at snowbird just cuts out at the merge. Youre better off parking at Snowbird, taking the bus to Alta then skiing back to your car at this point

It’s worse when they allow roadside parking at Snowbird. People just cut off traffic to turn around.

 

[snoseek]

Yeah….fuck that…Ill pass

They do need to fix the egress from Alta, everyone at snowbird just cuts out at the merge. Youre better off parking at Snowbird, taking the bus to Alta then skiing back to your car at this point

This is the way sadly.

I.dont miss that commute one bit.

 

[deadheadskier]

Damn, that sounds like Franconia Notch during the eclipse last year.....a once in a lifetime event.

Basically what I'm hearing is that if you want to go to Utah to ski Alta/Bird, don't bother unless you're in slopeside lodging

 

[kingslug]

It was the best skiing ive done all year...heli quality!

 

[kingslug]

It’s worse when they allow roadside parking at Snowbird. People just cut off traffic to turn around.

They need paid parking on weekends...and not allow roadside parking. Its creating a mess..a dangerous mess.
But..they just dont care.

 

[snoseek]

Damn, that sounds like Franconia Notch during the eclipse last year.....a once in a lifetime event.

Basically what I'm hearing is that if you want to go to Utah to ski Alta/Bird, don't bother unless you're in slopeside lodging

Its fine midweek.

70 out of Denver is awful.

A Sunday afternoon heading west on 50 out of tahoe is bullshit too.

 

[kingslug]

Sitting in the alta lot now..maybe 80 cars.
Snowbird area..maybe 1000.
Something to be said for paid parking and reservations.
It worked for Stowe...like it or not.
And with an alta pass..you get 2 free a week.
The bird could do the same.

 

[snoseek]

Sitting in the alta lot now..maybe 80 cars.
Snowbird area..maybe 1000.
Something to be said for paid parking and reservations.
It worked for Stowe...like it or not.
And with an alta pass..you get 2 free a week.
The bird could do the same.

You know what worked even better? When you had to enter a lottery to even buy an Alta pass

 

[kingslug]

Must have been many moons ago..

 

[snoseek]

Must have been many moons ago..
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When I rolled into town in the 90s it was still lottery. It made working there a good incentive.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Local guy says maybe Park City government should force Vail to divest PCMR.

Time to say bye? - Park Record

From an attempt to usurp the Park City’s name and our brand, to withholding skier/rider numbers and capacity (that would enable the city to make informed decisions about new lifts, parking, and safety restrictions), to long lift lines, to reasonable wages for ski patrollers, Vail Resorts has...

www.parkrecord.com

 

[machski]

Snow report says snowmaking is taking a break. Pond is dry. Pond is dry for 5 fucking trails?!

Small pond, high elevation streams refilling that were bone dry this fall and while some liquid precip brought stream levels up for a while, this extended cold snap has likely brought flows to a trickle if that. So yeah, Cat is water starved this year. As much as we want to dump on Vail, not sure anyone would have had much better luck this season operationally there.

 

[thetrailboss]

Local guy says maybe Park City government should force Vail to divest PCMR.

Time to say bye? - Park Record

From an attempt to usurp the Park City’s name and our brand, to withholding skier/rider numbers and capacity (that would enable the city to make informed decisions about new lifts, parking, and safety restrictions), to long lift lines, to reasonable wages for ski patrollers, Vail Resorts has...

www.parkrecord.com

They won’t even consider selling Wildcat. No way in HELL would they sell PCMR! Who wrote the letter? A J. Cumming?

 

[thetrailboss]

Sitting in the alta lot now..maybe 80 cars.
Snowbird area..maybe 1000.
Something to be said for paid parking and reservations.
It worked for Stowe...like it or not.
And with an alta pass..you get 2 free a week.
The bird could do the same.

But it won’t. That’s because they want a free gondola and are basking in the light as being the only non-reservation resort in the Cottonwoods.