Thanks, great info. Wow, not the DV that I knew in years gone by.

Hey, anybody have a handle on when DV lot starts filling up on weekends? I'm hoping to find some remaining snow using the free Wasatch Benefit day from SB pass. Seems like DV gets tracked out in...

Snowbird's constant, haranguing info mssgs are useful but every one of them keeps pimping Fast Track. I hate the idea of FT, but to me it looks like a bust anyway. I'm up there a lot and very...

Walking down the steps from ticket office to lift at Snowbird Creekside with a buddy. We notice odd chunks of blue plastic all over the steps. We then notice that these chunks are falling off a...

Lift lines at the bird have been surprisingly small considering it's a holiday week. Somebody told me that they blacked out the icon base pass for the holidays. If true that would explain it. ...

I recently hinted at this at a party. I was nearly incinerated by the kryptonite-beam hate rays from my fellows.

This^^^^ along with the post above it. I've also been boggled. WTF?? What is about UT, UDOT, local culture or whatever the fuck that makes this so hard?

Sympathies to everybody. Jesus, this stuff is very difficult, even just seeing the immediate aftermath. I know, I watched my wife take a 40 foot climbing ground 4 feet in front of me. You can...

SB pricing is most definitely 2012-2022. Correct, Alta is last year, 20201-2022 "to be announced late April." So they'd have to lower pass prices substantially to be in line with SB's announced...

And yet it looks like Alta is less and less in sync with SB. Alta's passes are already substantially more expensive. Most baffling is '21-'22 AltaBird pass from Alta is $2099 while from SB it's...

Maybe apples and oranges comparison. Historically pass prices have gone up between April and season opening. I'm almost certain that the $1049 is significantly less than the late season price for...

So the bird just doubled the price of their prefered parking pass for 21-22. Yet season passes reduced. Response to Epic pass reduction? WTF.

Goggles! Goggles! I never thought of that!

So it looks like this season UDOT is making a more serious attempt at managing canyon traffic. For starters they've announced what look like more stringent inspections of cars & tires. Secondly,...

This whole covid thing is gradually making me crazy. My will and reason are being eroded. But we're all in the same boat so whining is futile.

Anyway, anybody got any beta on Snowbird's parking...

A bit off topic but an interesting point. Same idea as climbing gyms blaming pesky rules on insurance. Nobody ever challenges it.

Snowbird seems poised to cancel preferred parking and refund those who already got it. Jeez, parking is rarely an issue during the week except powder days and the preferred spaces are a tiny...

that happened to me once.

Last season at Snowbird did anybody notice all the small signs that appeared on the gates indicating the name of the traverse/trail? I also noticed a number of new gates that hadn't been there in...

The son of a friend proposes to do just that this weekend: drive from Aspen after skiing all day to SLC. This which would be mostly at night in the middle of projected storm. In my youthful...

More gaper fun is just around the corner! In the meantime there's this:

A fee weeks ago I was riding the tram up Snowbird. The only other passengers were a family of Texans staying up at Snowbird...

Volkl kindly sent me new ones after the old ones self-destructed last spring. Went from fine to massive delam on both edges on both skis in the space of 10 days. Bizarre. Anyway, anybody have...

You're not the only one, same happened to me. My 100eights literally fell apart after about 80 days. It was a tough 80 days, but still. Volkl had some kind of major delam problem with them. ...

That's good news. I bet if you kept skiing them they'd get much worse very fast, same as me. Love the skis but durability seems to be, uhh... dubious.

Not related to the Confessions, but FYI I had a pair of 2017 100Eights that brutally delaminated after about just 1 full season. This happened along 3 or 4 sections of edge, each about 4 or 5 inches...

Big opportunity here! I've got a couple snowbird 'friends and family' passes with 2 or 3 days on each. I'd like To get $40/day for them, would confirm exact number at ticket booth. I can meet up...

It's my understanding that the Forest Service land that Alta now occupies was originally private and turned over to the forest svc when Alta was established. AND, that transfer process stipulated...

You've obviously never used the mountain train systems in Switzerland. I'd give my left nut for a serious, Swiss-grade train up there.

^^^^THIS. I got a 4' wide painting bench that lives in the back of my truck. It never, and I mean NEVER, fails to impress. Seems so obvious after you see it.

Hmmmm . . . . That would make everybody at Snowbird a flatlander.

Everything. You're confusing holiday crowds concentrating in a few places cause of low snow with the ability to get someplace that was previously harder to get to, and that the least experienced...

Sometimes no words are involved, only action. Here's my holiday skiiing contribution.

On the lift a Snowbird Mtn host told me that they sent a couple boarders back down the tram yesterday. These...

After a lot more time up there this week I've concluded that it really, realy is a step backwards. What they've done is take a beginner area out of play (Cecret) and substituted a way to take those...

Haha, I do it too, SOP on lifts.

This time of year is supposed to be about stoke, not anti-stoke. Still, I can't believe the suckiness of the new Superior lift. The runout was bad enough before, now it's just ridiculous. This...

My concern too. But by then I ought to have 20+ ski days logged and my gear is dialed.

[Sidebar comment on conditioning: For the last 6 or 7 years my primary ski partner has been a guy that was...

Great info, thanks to all! Now I'm 1000% psyched, gonna shred.

So I signed up for their famous course and now I'm nervous. I'm pretty good but could always use improvement but I'm not about testosterone-poisoned, crazy shit. And I couldn't care less about...

Bump, cause this problem will surely afflict somebody every season. This year it afflicted me. I'm gonna try this stuff, seems perfect for the purpose.
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The tortoise has been infallible. Last year got a slow start too and that's the tortoise's benchmark, so we have no reason to doubt that it will retain it's infallibility. Incidentally, it does...

74 last season. Was cut short by cancer diagnosis or it would have been 100+. After a pretty fucked up summer/fall cancer problems are now fixed up, so goal for this season is 100+ again. No...

will try to get name of tortoise. it will take a while, several degrees of seperation....

So, here's the story.

A friend of a friend of my son lives in SLC someplace. He's a BLM employee and has, as a ward, a desert tortoise whose care he is charged with. He's been doing this for...

Told to me by a liftie working at Park City: "So this guy asks me 'What do they do with all the moguls in the summer?' "
Assuming that you know what moguls are, it's difficult for me to even...

There IS a shit ton of Eastern migration (and I'm one of them). I meet new transplants on a daily basis. Californians too. The locals live in fear of the deluge when word really gets out.

Where these folks went down is far from flat. But true, it's south-facing. But it got no sun for days cause of a prolonged storm cycle dumping 50+ inches of snow. See Wasatch thread. But why...

That's right. My buddy and are waiting for the rope to drop on Mineral. The rope had about 10x as many Snow Safety people as usual and so we get to talking. This is what we were told:

About 30...

Thats great news. will try it. thanks!

Did a bit of searching and couldn't find much.... I've got about 80 days on my zipfits. Recently I've noticed that I'm having to clamp tighter and tighter on the cuff, enough so that I might have...

^^^ I see. That certainly clears things up.