Posted by RobAlday on Nov 17th, 2011 | 0 comments
Before the buildup for the Olympics 10 years ago, Snowbasin in Utah was little more than a mom-and-pop operation, with aging lifts and amenities and offices in a single-wide trailer.
Now even its bathrooms are turning heads, with the Italian marble day lodge restrooms recently voted top five in the U.S.
Plenty has changed since the 2002 Winter Games put Utah’s ski industry on the map.
The...
Posted by RobAlday on Oct 28th, 2011 | 0 comments
A limited number of specially priced $25 lift tickets are on sale at Park City Mountain Resort with proceeds benefiting the Summit Land Conservancy. The discounted lift tickets are valid from opening day to Dec. 16. Additionally, the Utah ski resort will sell extra tickets to raise money for its newly created Park City Mountain Resort Legacy Fund, which will be used to continue the Resort’s...
Posted by RobAlday on Oct 24th, 2011 | 0 comments
PARK CITY, Utah — Deer Valley Resort has been named the #1 ski resort in North America by the readers of SKI Magazine for the fifth year in a row. No other ski resort has earned this ranking more than three times in a row in the past.
In the past eleven years, Deer Valley’s rating hasn’t dipped lower than third, with a #2 ranking in 2001/2002; a #1 ranking in 2002/2003; a #3 rating in...
Posted by RobAlday on Oct 19th, 2011 | 0 comments
Predicting what the weather will do over the course of a winter season is about as easy as figuring out when a Las Vegas slot machine is going to pay off big.
This is especially true in a state such as Utah, which is on the fringe of being affected by La Niña and El Niño weather patterns.
As a rule, a La Niña pattern generally favors northern Utah ski areas with massive amounts of snow, as was...
Posted by RobAlday on Sep 23rd, 2011 | 0 comments
Here are some news articles that might interest you:
Park City City Council to consider millions in Main Street upgrades: http://www.parkrecord.com/ci_18912402
Mayor: “the Shoe Tree stays”: http://www.parkrecord.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?articleId=18912404&siteId=122
Earth-moving operation underway at PCMR superpipe site: ...