So after a pretty good day at Brighton, we decided to take a visit to Park City to check out that area. We arrive to find that the Window price is $50, thats 30% off the regular price, what a bargain!
Well, maybe.
I guess this sign should have been a sign. But we came all this way, might as well check it out right?
There are only 2 lifts open, so we pick the highspeed 6-pack and take stock of the conditions
Hmm, this isnt looking so good, but we’re still optimistic, right up until we hit the top of this lift.
OMG! Okay, we’re here, we’ve gotta check it out. Yeah, this one “groomer” is made of concrete-hard icy stuff. No off-piste opportunity to be found.
I dont think we even needed the map at this point, there was really only one way down.
Bits of a terrain park are open too, but its fairly big stuff. At least these guys are having fun
After pounding the “groomers” a few times, its about time for lunch. I gotta say the rice with this chicken quesadilla was really really good. But the Draft Beer guy didnt get setup with beer yet! I had my hopes up after seeing his sign!
After lunch, Root decides his spine needs a rest, so goes off to look for a locker. I feel a disturbance in the force, and he appears shortly later exclaiming, “How much for a pack of double-a batteries?!” (as quoted from Falling Down) Apparently it cost $7 to rent a day locker!
The value for my $50 lift ticket was poor. Lunch was generally good, but kind of spendy, but not having the beer really puts a dent into whatever value was there. The $7 lockers was really over the top!
I might give Park City another chance during the prime season since the gelande seems pretty big, but the early season gets 2 out of 5 fist raising, power fighting monkeys. And it gets the 2 because the rice was that good.
After riding Japan for so long, I really don’t know why the rest of the world doesn’t install coin lockers. After catching the bus to the resort, I can jam my ruck with all my street clothes and my padded boardbag with my street shoes into a 300-yen locker. Granted the resort would make more money per user off te $7 fee, but more people are likely to use a $3 or $4 coin locker than being ripped off for day storage, so the total profits should go up. Of course it would help if there was a widespread $1 USD coin to use in said lockers…
$50 USD! Well, it’s still cheaper than WB. I feel spoiled here having to pay only 4000-yen for round-trip bus and one day lift ticket. I can’t recall offhand what window price for a one-day ticket was. They should make the lift ticket price the same percentage of what part of the gelande is open – if 30% is open, then ticket is 30% the full price. 30% off for only a couple of runs open is a rip! FTP!
“Couple” of runs was a misnomer, the second open run and lift was the beginner lift that after a short, maybe 75 yard run rejoined the one main run at it’s lower section. We’re pretty sure PC is pretty nice in prime season, but this early season rip-off had us really upset. If they had made it even $10 less to bring it in line with what some of the other resorts was charging we wouldn’t felt as ripped off.