Park City Mountain Canyons Park West Wolf Resort announced!

[socal]

Okay, two can play that game:
Snowbasin is Wasatch Front -- really???

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I'll play a little. I took your map and drew on it. Isn't the dividing line basically the ridge that runs north south? Isn't everthing east of basically Brighton the back?

So down south:

And up north, where the range is narrower (east to west)

I really don't know, and candidly never thought of Snowbasin as the back but it kinda makes senses when you look at the ridge line, it just happens that there isn't nearly as much on the front or back of it as there is down by the Cottonwoods

 

[Evren]

socal, just don't tell admin. He runs the whole thing, you see, and we need him. And he is an alright guy, except when challenged. Not materially, but challenged nevertheless.

PS your images didn't show, but I get the gist of it.

 

[Evren]

On an even lighter note, I am glad Marc_C changed his avatar. Gawd, I was pissed at that stick-man for not making it to the top, and would keep watching, hoping he'd make it.

 

[socal]

socal, just don't tell admin. He runs the whole thing, you see, and we need him. And he is an alright guy, except when challenged. Not materially, but challenged nevertheless.

PS your images didn't show, but I get the gist of it.

Strange, I could see them at my office but not at home. I fixed it regardless.

 

[EMSC]

Well Socal's Snowbasin map does work for ski resorts. Eldora Front vs Eldora Back; Vail's Back bowls :-D

But then where is BSB at Vail since it's already behind the 'Back'. Is that the Super Duper Back part of the Vail Ski Area 'Range'?

No way anyone can call it a "Range" if it is a single thin ridge-line. That's getting beyond silly.

Maybe they just have so few mountains in Utah that they MUST argue over each and every rock and stump's precise location and name too (and don't go tryin to make me look up the threads where you already have made those arguments).

 

[Evren]

Yes, the map images are visible now. And my Wikipedia edit actually stuck, so far. Yey.

>they MUST argue over each and every rock and stump
It's not that I must... but only 15% open at my mountain (boo) so I am free to argue. And you know that is not the good 15%.
Yes, yes, Alta... I know. Dammit.

 

[Tony Crocker]

No way anyone can call it a "Range" if it is a single thin ridge-line. That's getting beyond silly.

Sure they can. And when that "range" runs on an axis perpendicular to the prevailing airflow during winter storms, you get more snow. :stir:

Colorado's "ranges" are complex, run in varied directions, and are a headache to forecast. Sometimes simpler is better.

Yes, the map images are visible now. And my Wikipedia edit actually stuck, so far. Yey.
>they MUST argue over each and every rock and stump
It's not that I must... but only 15% open at my mountain (boo) so I am free to argue. And you know that is not the good 15%.
Yes, yes, Alta... I know. Dammit.

This is nothing new in early season, but it's more extreme this year. If you live in Utah and your season pass is not in the Cottonwoods, you're consistently looking at maybe 2/3 the length of season for quality skiing. I just don't get the logic of this. Maybe if one of the other places is at your doorstep, the convenience factor overrides.

I'll refrain from piling on the Front/Back argument because others already did the job so well (finished off with socal's maps) while I was off the grid. In virtually every mountain range of the West the "Front" gets more snow than the "Back."

 

[berkshireskier]

Forbes magazine article on the merger:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmste ... g-to-utah/

 

[Admin]

Forbes magazine article on the merger:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmste ... g-to-utah/

PCMR has "nine open bowls"? I've never found 'em, nor have I ever found the Canyons terrain that will "challenge any expert," at least in-bounds. That article has a few inaccuracies but thanks for sharing nonetheless.

 

[Evren]

>PCMR has "nine open bowls"?

Yeah, I was puzzled by that, too. I checked the map and see 4 named bowls, and calling McConkey's an open bowl is really pushing it.

> ever found the Canyons terrain that will "challenge any expert,"

Well, that's a bit of hyperbole but I've seen that term repeated so many times in so many resort reviews in skimags that it can't really be taken literally and only as a cliche used to mean "it has some expert-challenging terrain"

 

[Marc_C]

Something to clear up about this whole front/back thing - regarding skiing it's pretty much a pointless argument; the origin of the terms referred to where the towns and settlements were relative to "the mountains". Those on the west side of the mountains became the Wasatch Front and those on the east the Wasatch Back. It's really no more complex than that. Ski areas didn't impact at all since none existed then.