So after a pretty good day at Brighton, we decided to take a visit to Park City to check out that area. Â 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. Â 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! Â Okay, we’re here, we’ve gotta check it out. Â Yeah, this one “groomer” is made of concrete-hard icy stuff. Â 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. Â At least these guys are having fun
After pounding the “groomers” a few times, its about time for lunch. Â I gotta say the rice with this chicken quesadilla was really really good. Â But the Draft Beer guy didnt get setup with beer yet! Â 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. Â 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. Â Lunch was generally good, but kind of spendy, but not having the beer really puts a dent into whatever value was there. Â 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. Â 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.