Jupiter revisited...

Yesterday, I skied Park City Mountain Resort and had a great time skiing Jupiter. For years, I thought Jupiter was the best, but my recent and extensive skiing experience in both Deer Valley and The Canyon had showed me the limitations of that little ski bowl. First, the steep runs are very short. Sure their incline is at the top, but that doesn't last long.

The run-off portions are quite significant and accessing West Face and Scott's Bowl requires long traverses (I'm not talking about any hiking.) This said, the place is great to visit on a few occasions for a few runs and there's nothing like Portugese Gap! Park City Mountain Resort would be well advised to upgrade its rickety fixed-grip twin chair into at least a triple; just doing this would increase uphill capacity by 50%! In addition they ought to install a lift serving West Face and Pioneer Ridge as well as one serving Pinecone Ridge; this would bring Park City out of the snow-stone age and into the 21st century and usher the long needed connection to The Canyons!