Rickety ski lifts

Yesterday, as I was skiing at Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR), I was mesmerized by the fact that the two lifts serving the best terrain or that ski area are fixed-grip, two seaters made by Yan Lifts in the early 1970s.

That's more than 40 years old, when most modern resorts have long shed their museum pieces for fast high-speed quad, six or even eight seaters, PCMR still doesn't think that better skiers could use a faster lift.

That goes a long a way in saying how disconnected with modern times and market reality the largest and most notorious resort in Utah is. Thaynes and Jupiter lifts are to Park City what Alta is to rest of the American ski resorts. An evolutionary anomaly and more certainly on the way of becoming a living dinosaur.