neednsnow

I'll put a question on the Resort Reviews board for some suggestions. I am going to assume that the crowds won't be that bad. Considering, even at Breck for Easter, once I got past the first lift (which sucked dack......though I hit the mountain at busy time 10am.....would be crowded) once I got above the greens into the higher/difficult terrain, there were no lines at all.

So many options in SLC. Lets see what the boards here and sb.com have to say about it.

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cifex

When I was in Park City, the only 3 mountains that were easy to get to (by the bus system that runs every 10 min or so) were park city, brighton,and alta. they weren't too crowded and I imagine the others solitude/ bluebird, powder would be much less crowded

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mpdsnowman

Thats generally been my experiences. And of course hitting any resort on a saturday one should expect longer waits...

When I was in Utah, snowbasin had a real long line at thier gondola, too long actually..But even with that there were other lifts with hardly anyone on them.

There are certain things that are beyond your control. Weather, people...everything has a factor. But one thing you can control on a meet is the epic you have with members and regardless where this meet ends up, I am certain that what you can control, will be the only thing that matters.

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Mr. Right

I understand where you are coming from but we do seem to be forming this "west coast" meet mainly around the needs of people from the east coast because the travel is a bitch for you all which I understand. I'm not trying to smash anyones ideas but I need more than a couple people to convince me that Utah is not a busy place because all the main resorts in Colorado suck ass as well when it comes to crowds. I cant control weather or crowds this I know, but I do know mountains where we have a better chance of good weather and small crowds. I know that personally if I lived on the East Coast and was already flying across the country a few more hours in a car for a high likeliness of powder, cheaper lift tickets, inexpensive lodging, and low crowds would be well worth it to me. Thats just me and what I like, not to mention my opinion and just that. Take it how you want.

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cifex

Whatever you guys want to do is great. Just saying I'm not going to go if its Wolf Creek.

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killclimbz

Snobasin and Powder Mountain are not crowded resorts by any stretch of the imagination. On weekends probably about the same as Wolf Creek. There are more people at those resorts but there is also a lot more terrain. Most of the Utards are going to the cottonwoods, Snowbird, Brighton, yadda, yadda, yadda. Also, as an added bonus, Sundays are almost like a mid week day as a good portion of the Utarded population are Mormon and go worship their goddess on Sundays.

Lift tickets are not as cheap though. Deals a couple of years ago were $59 for Snobasin and $49 for Pow Mow. Not bad, but WC tickets were $40 at their highest last year I believe. I'll have to check I could be wrong on the WC ticket prices.

On a whole Utah resorts are less crowded than Colorado resorts.

mpdsnowman

Thats pretty funny.. I never heard that before. I will say this however...the utard chicks are pretty hot lookin

U know ur right on that Sunday thing....They dont do much do they....

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killclimbz

Well, that is what they call themselves. At least on TGR.

neednsnow

needs of people from the east coast because the travel is a bitch for you all....so far there are only about 8 people showing interest in this trip....5-6 would be flying-in. Inexpensive lodging/lift tickets become a non-issue if we need pay the extra price to fly into Durango (250 differeince) or even to cover the gas and car rental to drive from Co Springs

Here is what I got from a Utah guy on SB.com....

Powder is the best place to avoid crowds and has an old school atmosphere, and Snowbasin is only like 15 miles away as well, but Basin can get crowded.

Problem with this area is your still going to have to drive back to Ogden somewhere to drink beer and shoot pool, and the Ogden places aren't as nice as SLC.

I guess thats why I just go back to my place and drink Tequila after riding at Powder!

But I digress, there are places in the Ogden area to get your drink on, just scope them out first. Ogden isn't Compton Cali, but there are areas best to avoid at night due to gang influence.

There is a big club in Clearfield Ut called Bogeys, only about 5 min south of Ogden that has a double decker club. Bar and pool upstairs, with a lounge. Its actually not a bad place with a shuttle service to boot.
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I can't justify a 6 hour drive added to my flight on a 4-day weekend to go to WC. I'm all SLC. He'll I'll do 2 days in Powder and 2 in Park City.....and still drive less.

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killclimbz

6 hours? It's a 5 hour drive tops from DIA. Much less from the other area airports. Durango being about 90 minutes probably less.

A member from TOS just stated that they saved over $200 by flying into Colorado Springs for their trip to Breckenridge. That would be about 3 hours from Wolf Creek. So you are talking about 3 tanks of gas for a rental tops. So maybe a tank more than you would from SLC. I think a $200 flight savings more than makes up for that part. Lift tickets and lodging are also much cheaper at Wolf Creek. On whole for a 4 day trip you could save something north of $200 on that part alone. I think people are seriously over thinking the travel part. The drive from Colorado Springs is through an area known as the "banana belt". It does not get a lot of moisture. It can be dumping just 10 miles west along the divide and dry as a bone on the east side. If we had a place in South Fork, there is a good chance there wouldn't be any driving in the snow to get there. At least until you drove up the pass to the resort. Just sayin'.

As far as Ogden goes. Yeah it seemed pretty beat. No big deal, we wouldn't want a place there anyway. I thought the house we had in Eden was just fine and it was reasonable enough. I didn't go out once while I was there anyway. Sorry but Utah night life is the big suck unless you are in Park Shitty. Snobasin and Powder Mountain are quality resorts. The hike to backcountry in the area is empty. I went out with a local and we were the only people out that day, with dumping snow. I would guess we had at least a Snobasin terrain wise to choose from. So yeah, the place is special.

As far as snow goes, both areas get dumped on. Weather gods permitting either should have plenty of snow and hopefully a good snow cycle. Of course any place can get skunked.