AltaBird Pass prices

[Admin]

If it's untracked 1.5 hours away vs. tracked out half an hour away I would make the drive. This scenario probably sets up no more than 5% of ski days.

Yep, AltaBird is always completely tracked out by 10 a.m. There are no freshies left anywhere. Local knowledge offers no advantage whatsoever. Go somewhere else. Please.

 

[Marc_C]

If it's untracked 1.5 hours away vs. tracked out half an hour away I would make the drive. This scenario probably sets up no more than 5% of ski days.

Can I ask an uninformed question....??? Why?

Are you asking about making the drive or the assertion that the "...scenario probably sets up no more than 5% of ski days"?

 

[Marc_C]

If it's untracked 1.5 hours away vs. tracked out half an hour away I would make the drive. This scenario probably sets up no more than 5% of ski days. There's probably at least another 5% I'd drive the 1 hour to Snowbasin.

when you are doing it twice a week all season

Lifetime 84% of my ski days in Utah have been in LCC, and I would expect that proportion to be similar if I lived in SLC. Making a longer drive 5-10 days a year is not that big a deal. BobbyD seems to hold up OK under the strain of doing that. :-({|=

1. Where did I indicate anywhere in my post that I would never make the drive, as you are implying?

2. Recall also that I never mentioned Snowbasin days. I actually love the place, still don't know it well enough such that provides a discovery or three each time I go, and I really wish it was 30 minutes closer.

If we're really talking about 5% of ski days in a given season, I've exceeded that at Snowbasin in at least 70% of my seasons here. Hell, last season, a light one for me with only around 40+ish days or so for a variety of reasons, still yielded 5 days at Snowbasin.

Tony, you've really got to get over this severe misconception of yours that based on what's written in this forum, you know exactly who skied what, where, and when. Fact of the matter is that a lot of us don't track or write up our days anywhere near the detail that you do, if at all.

 

[jamesdeluxe]

Mammoth 18 423.7 32
Snowbird 7.5 164.5 22
Alta 2.5 38.3 11
Sun Valley 1 31.8 0
Fernie 1 21.3 2
Whitewater 1 18.3 5
Red Mt. 1 9.4 0
Big Sky 1.5 27 1
Kicking Horse 1 17.2 0
Whitefish 1 18.4 1
Bridger Bowl 1 16.7 3
Moonlight Basin 1.5 20.5 5
Revelstoke 1 17.3 3
Mustang Powder Snowcat 3 34.7 33
*Lech/Zurs, Austria 1.5 30.8 3
*St. Anton, Austria 3 60.1 5
*Stuben, Austria 1.5 17.9 2
*Klosters Madrisa, Switz. 0.5 5.3 0
*Davos/Klosters Parsenn, Switz. 1.5 42.8 9
*Davos Jakobshorn, Switz. 1 13.3 2
*Flims/Laax, Switz. 2 43.1 1
*Andermatt, Switz. 1 12.3 2
*Purcell Heliski 1 11.6 11
*Wild Horse Snowcat 1 7.9 7
*Beartooth Pass 2 9.1 0

Everyone should stop attacking Tony -- I found this ^^ chart to be very helpful!

 

[Marc_C]

Shhhh!
That table is Tony's other role......supplying info to those mysterious CIA/NSA "numbers stations".

http://lifehacker.com/5961035/how-to-listen-to-real-spy-broadcasts-right-now

 

[Tony Crocker]

Are you asking about making the drive or the assertion that the "...scenario probably sets up no more than 5% of ski days"?

I assume the latter.
1) Many storms drop powder-worthy quantity in LCC but just a few inches at Snowbasin/Powder Mt.
2) Storm needs to be middle of the week. If it's on Friday or on the weekend I would take my chances with LCC or prefer Snowbasin to Powder Mt. for better terrain. If it's early in the week and the snow has been sitting there for 4 days it might not be that great powder any more.
3) If it's early season, not that much of Powder Mt. may be open yet, while the Cottonwoods with a deeper snowpack may have much more open.
4) In late season Powder Mt. with low elevation and lots of east/west exposure the new snow 2 days later isn't going to be powder.

I was not commenting on the minutia of MarcC's ski schedule, other than his saying it wasn't worth driving an hour and a half. I think we're both giving jojo-obrien the same advice.