Category Archive For "Skiing"
Another Year Without Winter?
We’ve written before about Professor Jim Steenburgh, a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah. He’s a backcountry skiier that also happens to have a PHD in Atmospheric Sciences. However, this morning we came across a term he coined… “A Steenburgh Winter.” A Steenburgh Winter is a different way of looking at skiing in …
PCMR Opens in 12 Days? Time to Find Your Über Rock Skis
We love the optimism. We question the reality…
Epic Ripoff… Don’t Get Taken When Buying Your Pass
Many of us in Park City are rushing to buy our Epic Passes. Unfortunately, many people are paying more than they have to — and yes you can blame this on Vail. An Epic Local pass is $569. As you can see below, we’ve added two passes to our shopping cart. Can you spot the …
Stealing “Ski City USA”
You may have started seeing the “Ski City, USA” commercials Salt Lake is using to attract skiers. Great idea? Oops, looks like Steamboat Springs, Colorado had already trademarked “Ski Town, USA” and is suing them. Great work Salt Lake. We hope Mountain Accord isn’t already trademarked.
More Info On Skiing Industry Since 2010
Yesterday we took a look at visitor nights in Park City. It showed that since 2010, visitor nights were down in December, February, March, and April. Today, we look at skier days in Park City since 2010. Again, skier days are down about 4.5% since 2010. We are not exactly sure how this jibes with …
Deer Valley You Better Up Your Game Because Vail is Good
I am doing research on how taxes are handled by Vail for the Epic Pass, so I start the checkout process but didn’t complete it. 20 minutes later this email comes in. Man are they good at marketing…
Vail May Give You a Cheap Epic Pass But What Are You Going to Pay for Parking?
A friend of the Park Rag sent a message about Vail that said… “yeah, cheap pass to get you in the door but then charge you for breathing on the mountain”. Our minds naturally went to the low hanging fruit of additional charges… parking. That led us to research what is charged for parking at or near a Vail resort: …
More good news… if you had already bought a PCMR pass. Looks like you’ll be taken care of
Many of our friends who had bought PCMR passes were worried that they would be in trouble with the Vail buyout of PCMR. According to the buyout press release, “All PCMR passes for the 2014-2015 ski season will continue to be honored and can be exchanged or upgraded for a season pass that will also be …
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