Anonymous wrote:To be more clear - We are not expecting "heavy snows over the next 2 weeks", in fact the opposite; our Utah slump is expected to continue until 2018 at the earliest. There are lots of weather sites that make all sorts of predictions out there, and you can look them up easily, instead of relying on "I expect..." predictions. Seriously, y'all should go to Vail. There's lots of young Australian ski instructors there for you to have fun with on and off the mountain. And my snark comes from 17 years of living in the hell hole known as the DC metro area.

Anonymous wrote:I live in SLC and a friend showed me this, and I figure y'all need a little better guidance than the shitty job you're giving each other.

a) Definitely, definitely, reschedule your trip now. For god sakes, it's 3.5 weeks until your trip, how will Utah ever get good enough for YOU to ski there!!

b) Utah averages 500" of snow, and yes, we're off to the worse start in history, but that only means we'll get more later.

c) Because we get 500" average, we are likely to get more snow right before or during your trip, than anywhere else in the rockies. Things turn around quickly here.

d) If you think Snowbird has more to do besides skiing in the winter than PC because you were here during the summer, you're an idiot and should not be allowed to participate in this discussion anymore. PC is a town, with food, and grocery stores, and a mall, and bowling alley, and a movie theater, and an ice rink, or 3. Snowbird has 1 bar, that's it. All that shit you saw in the summer, like hiking trails, they are under 15 feet of snow by January and only backcountry touring skiers go there. Please don't go boot packing in the skin track, it's extremely rude.

e) Stay and ski in PC, most people from the east can't handle Alta/Snowbird and get pissy when it's not groomed over. Yes, there are rocks everywhere, because it's a mountain, not Disneyland.

f) And whatever you do, do not go ski up BCC at Brighton or Solitude. Brighton is full of snowboarders who love nothing more than to knock east coast skiers into the hospital. And Solitude is tiny and rinky-dink and no self-respecting east coast person would ever ski there.

g) In conclusion, you should really consider switching your trip and going to ski Vail. They man-make more snow than the entire east coast and have enough groomers that you'll never ski the same one twice. Plus, I bet you've heard from millions, literally, millions of others how amazing Vail is. It is, it really is, you should definitely reschedule there and tell everyone else you know to do so as well.

Sincerely,

Every local skier who won't bother to ski because the conditions are so bad here, so bad here, so bad here, why would anyone ski here ever.

Anonymous wrote:We generally ski Colorado but we're going out to Big Sky Montana this year in a few weeks. I checked the big sky website and it says none of the lifts are closed - 42" mid-mountain base, 61" upper mountain base. I don't even know if this is good or bad. Any thoughts? We're not going to cancel, just want to be prepared.

Anonymous wrote:We generally ski Colorado but we're going out to Big Sky Montana this year in a few weeks. I checked the big sky website and it says none of the lifts are closed - 42" mid-mountain base, 61" upper mountain base. I don't even know if this is good or bad. Any thoughts? We're not going to cancel, just want to be prepared.

Anonymous wrote:We generally ski Colorado but we're going out to Big Sky Montana this year in a few weeks. I checked the big sky website and it says none of the lifts are closed - 42" mid-mountain base, 61" upper mountain base. I don't even know if this is good or bad. Any thoughts? We're not going to cancel, just want to be prepared.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in SLC and a friend showed me this, and I figure y'all need a little better guidance than the shitty job you're giving each other.

a) Definitely, definitely, reschedule your trip now. For god sakes, it's 3.5 weeks until your trip, how will Utah ever get good enough for YOU to ski there!!

b) Utah averages 500" of snow, and yes, we're off to the worse start in history, but that only means we'll get more later.

c) Because we get 500" average, we are likely to get more snow right before or during your trip, than anywhere else in the rockies. Things turn around quickly here.

d) If you think Snowbird has more to do besides skiing in the winter than PC because you were here during the summer, you're an idiot and should not be allowed to participate in this discussion anymore. PC is a town, with food, and grocery stores, and a mall, and bowling alley, and a movie theater, and an ice rink, or 3. Snowbird has 1 bar, that's it. All that shit you saw in the summer, like hiking trails, they are under 15 feet of snow by January and only backcountry touring skiers go there. Please don't go boot packing in the skin track, it's extremely rude.

e) Stay and ski in PC, most people from the east can't handle Alta/Snowbird and get pissy when it's not groomed over. Yes, there are rocks everywhere, because it's a mountain, not Disneyland.

f) And whatever you do, do not go ski up BCC at Brighton or Solitude. Brighton is full of snowboarders who love nothing more than to knock east coast skiers into the hospital. And Solitude is tiny and rinky-dink and no self-respecting east coast person would ever ski there.

g) In conclusion, you should really consider switching your trip and going to ski Vail. They man-make more snow than the entire east coast and have enough groomers that you'll never ski the same one twice. Plus, I bet you've heard from millions, literally, millions of others how amazing Vail is. It is, it really is, you should definitely reschedule there and tell everyone else you know to do so as well.

Sincerely,

Every local skier who won't bother to ski because the conditions are so bad here, so bad here, so bad here, why would anyone ski here ever.

I can't tell if this was snark or not, but we LOVE Solitude because it's a lot less crowded and low key. Often, you ski down a trail, wait for 6 people in front of you, and get right on a lift. On Christmas Week!

Anonymous wrote:I live in SLC and a friend showed me this, and I figure y'all need a little better guidance than the shitty job you're giving each other.

a) Definitely, definitely, reschedule your trip now. For god sakes, it's 3.5 weeks until your trip, how will Utah ever get good enough for YOU to ski there!!

b) Utah averages 500" of snow, and yes, we're off to the worse start in history, but that only means we'll get more later.

c) Because we get 500" average, we are likely to get more snow right before or during your trip, than anywhere else in the rockies. Things turn around quickly here.

d) If you think Snowbird has more to do besides skiing in the winter than PC because you were here during the summer, you're an idiot and should not be allowed to participate in this discussion anymore. PC is a town, with food, and grocery stores, and a mall, and bowling alley, and a movie theater, and an ice rink, or 3. Snowbird has 1 bar, that's it. All that shit you saw in the summer, like hiking trails, they are under 15 feet of snow by January and only backcountry touring skiers go there. Please don't go boot packing in the skin track, it's extremely rude.

e) Stay and ski in PC, most people from the east can't handle Alta/Snowbird and get pissy when it's not groomed over. Yes, there are rocks everywhere, because it's a mountain, not Disneyland.

f) And whatever you do, do not go ski up BCC at Brighton or Solitude. Brighton is full of snowboarders who love nothing more than to knock east coast skiers into the hospital. And Solitude is tiny and rinky-dink and no self-respecting east coast person would ever ski there.

g) In conclusion, you should really consider switching your trip and going to ski Vail. They man-make more snow than the entire east coast and have enough groomers that you'll never ski the same one twice. Plus, I bet you've heard from millions, literally, millions of others how amazing Vail is. It is, it really is, you should definitely reschedule there and tell everyone else you know to do so as well.

Sincerely,

Every local skier who won't bother to ski because the conditions are so bad here, so bad here, so bad here, why would anyone ski here ever.