The end of a Park City privilege

At the beginning of the 2002-2003 ski season, Park City Mountain Resort introduced its “Fast Tracks” option that allowed users to take a priority express line in the lift mazes, greatly reducing the amount of waiting time to board a lift.

Folks with the “Fast Track” feature could sneer at the crowd lining up at the busiest lifts, while breezing through them. This questionable privilege will be history beginning next winter season, as Vail Resorts may have a more democratic view of how ski line priorities should be handled.

This special deal has always smelled elitist to me and unfair to visitors who were asked to pay a hefty $115 per day to ride the resort lifts, while a bunch of people could still sneak past them in line. I bet a lot of hard-liners and supporter of the “old way” will be furious, but this is called a good change and is always hard to swallow by those who feel entitled...