100%. Weekends have always been busy, but nothing like these days

Feb 4, 2023
10:37:05am

Peter Venkman All-American

Even weekdays are bad in the Cottonwood resorts. As little as 10 years ago I could go on a weekday to Brighton and the parking lot was maybe half full. I'd rarely ride up with an out of stater, now it's well over 50%

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Peter Venkman

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Vail and Icon have ruined skiing in Utah. There are thousands of people in line

CougarTailDevourer

2/4/23 10:26am

Which resort so I can avoid it?

Art Director

2/4/23 10:27am

Park City

CougarTailDevourer

2/4/23 10:27am

Icon doesn't work at Park City.

Tesla Coug

2/4/23 11:21am

Epic Pass ruined Park City. IKON ruined all the rest.

Jesse Pinkman

2/4/23 1:42pm

Vail= Park City

CougarTailDevourer

2/4/23 1:49pm

My joke aside, PC/Vail uses Epic.

Tesla Coug

2/4/23 2:03pm

I know. I have an Epic pass. I was referring to Skiing in general in Utah.

CougarTailDevourer

2/4/23 4:33pm

there’s the problem. ParkC is crowded rich socialite skiing. Go to a SKI resort!

RossoNeri

2/4/23 11:25am

It’s insane the amount of tourists I saw at the airport this week with skis.

Chefcurry

2/4/23 10:30am

That's the issue. The Epic and Icon passes mean that the amount of tourists at

CougarTailDevourer

2/4/23 10:33am

Brighton and Solitude FTW.... Also my wife did the 2 hour thing at Sundance on Thursday and she never waited in line...

Adrielle

2/4/23 10:40am

How was the snow at Sundance? We are going to brighton on Saturday but Friday

kotacoug

2/4/23 12:24pm

She said it was good. She just went from 2:30 to 4:30 in the afternoon and she said conditions were good.

Adrielle

2/4/23 1:05pm

Brighton and Solitude are probably the worst options now.

Jesse Pinkman

2/4/23 1:43pm

Last time I flew from OC to SLC, the whole plane was packed with CA skiers

Run-DMT

2/4/23 10:34am

If you will build it they will come

Mr. Rumsfield

2/4/23 10:38am

Skiing has always been a rather low value activity to me when you factor in cost, time,

CSoul

2/4/23 10:35am

Ski on low volume days during week if you can. Much more enjoyable.

SierraCoug

2/4/23 10:46am

100%. Weekends have always been busy, but nothing like these days

Peter Venkman

2/4/23 10:37am

even the years when i did get an icon pass i never went from fri to sun

ds7

2/4/23 12:42pm

Guys at Whistler last week were saying same thing about Vail

BYUfan92

2/4/23 11:09am

SnowBasin is the worst. Definitely never come here.

Loafer

2/4/23 11:12am

This is why I have a midweek pass to Solitude

shakarocks

2/4/23 11:19am

went there yesterday...

ds7

2/4/23 12:45pm

Go to Sundance, More skiing, less in line, not part of either program. There

travelcoug

2/4/23 11:29am

How are parking/traffic/lines at Sundance on Saturdays?

Travelling Coug

2/4/23 11:47am

sundance has started charging for parking and the last 2 years

ds7

2/4/23 12:50pm

That was steamboat last Saturday. Filled the 2 main parking lots and 3 overflow

volleyjiver

2/4/23 11:36am

Is Steamboat part of Icon pass?

COACHdrn

2/4/23 11:58am

Yes

volleyjiver

2/4/23 12:55pm

I was at Steamboat last Friday, it started out busy, but the afternoon was

Wizbang

2/4/23 1:34pm

He lives right there. Can see the steamboat runs out his back window.

COACHdrn

2/4/23 1:38pm

Friday was probably awesome. Some friends were skiing knee deep powder Thursday

volleyjiver

2/4/23 1:59pm

The nice thing is skiing sucks so you can save your money and do something else

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