What’d they actually co-found?
A kinda new way to market screen entertainments?
At least Vail’s top dog figured commercials for nutritious caffeine-sugar rushes.
Powder Mountain new business model riles locals
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A kinda new way to market screen entertainments?
At least Vail’s top dog figured commercials for nutritious caffeine-sugar rushes.
This article was posted somewhere on nyskiblog at some point:
fortune.com
The young creators of a 'TED meets Burning Man' conference bought a $40-million mountain in Utah to build a Davos for hipsters. What could go wrong?
The Summit Series conferences are wildly popular extravaganzas. But building an eco-friendly ski resort for the rich and famous is quite a different undertaking.
Peter Minde
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I didn't see any positive comments there.
Powder Mountain dropped the cap on its season passes. People aren’t happy.
Powder Mountain will no longer limit the number of season passes it sells, the resort announced this week. Some people had been on the waitlist since 2020. Rather than excitement, though, the resort has faced harsh backlash.www.sltrib.com
MSN Article
Click through and read the comments.
Benny Profane
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This is interesting: "Starting in 2024-25, two lifts previously accessible to all ticket holders, Village and Mary’s, will be off-limits to anyone but Powder Mountain property owners and their guests."
I was there just pre pandemic and experienced those two lifts a lot because that's the only place on the mountain the sun had a chance to soften things up. Real mellow cruisers and rolling humps. Two brand new chairs at the time (basically, whole new area) that were triples, not quads. They had built and we're planning to build million dollar "eco friendly" homes up there that were not like most ski homes in design. Very contemporary architecture. I thought, huh, but, had a decent time. Now I guess it's the first class section. Betcha ten bucks Reed Hastings has a home there.
The pass pricing and non connection to Ikon or Epic should keep crowds down, I guess. Stay away from Saturdays, as always. Problem with the SLC/Ogden corridor is that it's growing like a weed. Mormons make a lot of babies, and lots of immigrants. They need a few more mountains.
The people who should really be pissed are the seniors who were skiing free and now have to spend a thousand.
It's a hell of a mountain, but, at this point, almost radically different than the one I skied in 93, with one snowcat as a lift and the best was a snowmobile with a rope on Lightning Ridge as a lift. That was fun. I'll bet that a lot of people who moved to Ogden, the Newark of SLC, and up in the Eden valley to get away from it all and ski Utah powder twenty five years ago are just sad about what happened to Snowbasin and Powder. I'll never forget encountering two grizzled old guys on that trip in 93, one a patroller at Snowbasin and one in the cart behind the snowcat at Powder, looking me in the eyes and saying, don't tell anybody about this, and they were dead serious. Sorry dudes. The rich people always win.
I was there just pre pandemic and experienced those two lifts a lot because that's the only place on the mountain the sun had a chance to soften things up. Real mellow cruisers and rolling humps. Two brand new chairs at the time (basically, whole new area) that were triples, not quads. They had built and we're planning to build million dollar "eco friendly" homes up there that were not like most ski homes in design. Very contemporary architecture. I thought, huh, but, had a decent time. Now I guess it's the first class section. Betcha ten bucks Reed Hastings has a home there.
The pass pricing and non connection to Ikon or Epic should keep crowds down, I guess. Stay away from Saturdays, as always. Problem with the SLC/Ogden corridor is that it's growing like a weed. Mormons make a lot of babies, and lots of immigrants. They need a few more mountains.
The people who should really be pissed are the seniors who were skiing free and now have to spend a thousand.
It's a hell of a mountain, but, at this point, almost radically different than the one I skied in 93, with one snowcat as a lift and the best was a snowmobile with a rope on Lightning Ridge as a lift. That was fun. I'll bet that a lot of people who moved to Ogden, the Newark of SLC, and up in the Eden valley to get away from it all and ski Utah powder twenty five years ago are just sad about what happened to Snowbasin and Powder. I'll never forget encountering two grizzled old guys on that trip in 93, one a patroller at Snowbasin and one in the cart behind the snowcat at Powder, looking me in the eyes and saying, don't tell anybody about this, and they were dead serious. Sorry dudes. The rich people always win.
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raisingarizona
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Beaver is Utahs blue collar powder skiing hold out. It's gotta be incredible after a storm.
Thoughts on Brighton?
Benny Profane
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Brighton is just another over run SLC hill mobbed with Ikon pass holders. Ikon and Epic have ruined SLC.
raisingarizona
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Yup, it's a busy place with short steep pitches and long flatter sections but if you like hucking off big rocks, it's rad AF. The granite in that area is amazing.
raisingarizona
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I'm 150% serious about Elk Meadows ski area in Beaver. If you guys want to pow chase a storm cycle go there for uncompetitive fresh lines all day long. Sure you gotta drive a little further than Snowbird but I promise you, it's worth it.
