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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Deer Valley and Snowbird are still fine? [/quote]

Deer Valley is very crowded because the rich folks are skiing there while PC is fubar'd.

Snowbird has a lot of terrain closed because of poor snowpack. Alta seems to be faring better. Issue with Snowbird is that all the trails funnel down to the same two lifts....long lines.

Reddit reporting that things are great at Snowbasin. I'd target that if you're in SLC. [/quote]

DV is the same as it always is this week. They always sell out and hit capacity during holiday weeks.

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I go to Utah almost every year and have only done deer valley once. The lifts and runs are super short, and it’s pretty crowded. It’s “posh” but the skiing is better at almost any other mountain in the area. It also has the lowest elevation so it gets the least snow.[/quote]

No. It gets more snow than PC usually because of how it is situated on the mountain. [/quote]

DV is great if you’re an expert skier because all of the rich old people stay on the (admittedly spectacularly groomed) groomers so you get all the fun steep and deep stuff to yourself. I’ve never found it to be crowded, and really enjoyed taking my kid there when she was tiny because there was no reckless blindside snowboarder drama to worry about. [/quote]

Absolutely true about lack of snowboarders. That is one terrible aspect of park city/the canyons - super crowded and overrun with reckless snowboarders. Skiing only is one of the main reasons I like Alta (second only to their snow totals.)

Maybe we just had bad conditions the time we tried DV (it was a terrible winter in park city and the conditions were not good, particularly near the bottom of the mountain.) My husband also had his rental skis swiped at the lodge during lunch by someone who had a similar name, and weather staff told us it happened a lot there. That never happened to us anywhere else, and we lost half a day of our 250 dollar lift tickets because the ski rental at our hotel (stein Erickson) wouldn’t give DH a loaner pair of skis while the others were unaccounted for. For a luxury resort, the overall experience was just meh. Maybe in great conditions it’s better. The 20 dollar bowl of turkey chili was excellent though![/quote]

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