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Clemson13 said:
Park city :flipoff2:
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Have you been recently?
it's been a while since i was there but as I recall Park City area was great steep and deep terrain but I don't remember a ton of fun intermediate-ish stuff for day 3/4 after you've cooked your knees and back, and when I was there 10 yrs ago, the lodging & lift ticket prices were pretty steep along with the food & bev prices in town, so I can only imaging the Utah real estate boom has further eroded any remaining charm the town once possessed and combine that with bidenomics has undoubtedly made it an eye-wateringly expensive trip at present day to get OP's wishlist ski in/out accomodations.
And even 10 yrs ago it was pretty crowded and if you weren't at one of the remote shuttle lots by 8am, you weren't getting in on a saturday.
 
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WTF? said:
Have you been recently?
it's been a while since i was there but as I recall Park City area was great steep and deep terrian but I don't remember a ton of fun intermediate-ish stuff for day 43/4 after you've cooked your knees and back, and when I was there 10 yrs ago, the lodging & lift ticket prices were pretty steep along with the food & bev prices in town, so I can only imaging the Utah real estate boom has further eroded any remaining charm the town once possessed and combine that with bidenomics has undoubtedly made it an eye wateringly expensive trip at present
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I would agree.
 
Mammoth Mountain midweek if you can. If you’re not trying to ski hard you’re going to have the greens and blues to yourself.The place EMPTIES out when everyone heads back to LA on Sundays at noon.
High elevation and lots of above tree line bowl terrain for when the weather is good, and great trees and groomers for the low visibility days. The town is great, ski in ski out opportunities with even more accommodations that are a free shuttle ride away from a chairlift. Head out across 395 in the evenings and find the natural hot springs.

It’s also a real town. By real I mean it isn’t some Disney version of a mountain town like Vail. Weather also isn’t as harsh as the Rockies or Utah.

Only downside is it’s tough to get to. United will fly you to Bishop after a connection in Colorado or fly to Reno and drive the 2 hours or so south to Mammoth.

If I didn’t have to drive through Tahoe just to get to Mammoth I’d spend much more time there.

No matter where you end up, if it’s on an ikon or epic pass you might as well get one even if it’s just for a week long trip. Secure that by Nov/Dec.

Check mountain collective pass and Indy Pass as well. A lot of independent resorts are on those passes as well.
 
How expensive is Whistler in the winter?

In my opinion it blows Northstar out of the water. I've been to Northstar a ton in the winter and a handful of times in the summer, only been to Whistler to ride bikes in the summer twice.

A buddy goes to St. Anton am Arlberg in Austria to ski every year with his wife's family, he had good things to say about it.
 
WTF? said:
Have you been recently?
it's been a while since i was there but as I recall Park City area was great steep and deep terrain but I don't remember a ton of fun intermediate-ish stuff for day 3/4 after you've cooked your knees and back, and when I was there 10 yrs ago, the lodging & lift ticket prices were pretty steep along with the food & bev prices in town, so I can only imaging the Utah real estate boom has further eroded any remaining charm the town once possessed and combine that with bidenomics has undoubtedly made it an eye-wateringly expensive trip at present day to get OP's wishlist ski in/out accomodations.
And even 10 yrs ago it was pretty crowded and if you weren't at one of the remote shuttle lots by 8am, you weren't getting in on a saturday.
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PC has a ton of intermediate runs that are groomed and fairly mellow. I think it's a great beginner/intermediate resort. ..

At a $250/day price tag.
 
proskier101 said:
PC has a ton of intermediate runs that are groomed and fairly mellow. I think it's a great beginner/intermediate resort. ..

At a $250/day price tag.
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$250/day lift ticket and lunch? i don't think you're realistically touching ski in/ski out for that

Edit: looks like 250/day wont get you a lift ticket at park City:eek::

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WTF? said:
$250/day lift ticket and lunch? i don't think you're realistically touching ski in/ski out for that

Edit: looks like 250/day wont get you a lift ticket at park City:eek::

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Damn
 
These day ticket prices help subsidize my season pass I guess. Crazy that a 3 day ticket is roughly the same as an epic pass purchased in the spring
 
WTF? said:
Epic pass is $760 til next week.
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I renewed my Ikon in April for about that price. Epic needs to keep with the price cuts to pull more people away from ikon. I wouldn’t mind having both passes but I don’t go near vail resorts enough.
 
proskier101 said:
My epic local was like $700 this year. If you're retired military...epic is $172.
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Palisades really wants to keep the hood border types out.

Multi-Resort Unlimited Ski/Snowboard Season Pass | Ikon Pass

The Ikon Pass is your ski & snowboard pass with access to the most iconic mountains in the world. Unique terrain with a real community feel. Learn more
www.ikonpass.com www.ikonpass.com

$289 for two days and they'll let you make payments. A 4 day pass for $44/month for 12 months. :lmao:
 
RunningProblem said:
Palisades really wants to keep the hood border types out.

Multi-Resort Unlimited Ski/Snowboard Season Pass | Ikon Pass

The Ikon Pass is your ski & snowboard pass with access to the most iconic mountains in the world. Unique terrain with a real community feel. Learn more
www.ikonpass.com www.ikonpass.com

$289 for two days and they'll let you make payments. A 4 day pass for $44/month for 12 months. :lmao:
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They’ve kept the hood boarders out but now it’s loaded with the Crazy Rich Asians with stuffed turtles on their ass skidding all over the place.

On a side note about Palisades, did anybody see the Alterra exec at the placer county meeting talking about their development plan? Said “we don’t want guests skiing more, we want them to spend more. It’s about getting more wallet capture” Someone finally said the quiet part out loud
 
WTF? said:
$250/day lift ticket and lunch? i don't think you're realistically touching ski in/ski out for that

Edit: looks like 250/day wont get you a lift ticket at park City:eek::

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That's fucking robbery.

Vail came in and fucked up a lot of local places around here, then fired a ton of locals who depended on the mountains employment.
 
559Fj40 said:
They’ve kept the hood boarders out but now it’s loaded with the Crazy Rich Asians with stuffed turtles on their ass skidding all over the place.

On a side note about Palisades, did anybody see the Alterra exec at the placer county meeting talking about their development plan? Said “we don’t want guests skiing more, we want them to spend more. It’s about getting more wallet capture” Someone finally said the quiet part out loud
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The Koreans and Japs love those stuffed turtle butt and knee pads.:laughing: They crack me up.
 
proskier101 said:
The Koreans and Japs love those stuffed turtle butt and knee pads.:laughing: They crack me up.
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They tend to congregate in certain areas and stay out of the way. But every so often one will venture out and I'll be thinking to myself "now how did you get over here...."
 
559Fj40 said:
They tend to congregate in certain areas and stay out of the way. But every so often one will venture out and I'll be thinking to myself "now how did you get over here...."
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That's how I got fucked up in '94. I was racing a buddy down bittersweet at Killington, the conditions were shite and I should have known better. A group of beginners somehow go lost and decided a steep black diamond should be where they hang out. My buddy is winning and goes off a drop-off I think where it turns into lower bittersweet, I'm WOT trying to catch up and hit the same drop except when I get there there is a group standing there licking windows and breathing through their mouths. I had just enough time to hit the e-brake and then the yard sail happened. Cracked my spleen open, broke a few ribs, cut up my face, hit my heard hard enough to black out. That shit sucked. Same day the buddy I was racing blew up my '82 Regal on his way back home from the hospital. Oh and I got a phone call from work laying in the hospital bed, the ski mountain, saying since it was the end of the season they were letting me go. Thanks dick.:grinpimp:
 
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