Is skiing quality going downhill?

For years, skiing quality was excellent in what is today Park City Mountain. Ski visitations were well within the size and the infrastructure available on the mountain, parking was easy, and we never suffered from lines at the lifts and congestion on the slopes. 

Then following Vail Resorts’ acquisition of the resort, the upheaval caused by Covid and the sudden realization that the place was so easy to get to as Epic passholders began to sample the cornucopia of resorts available to them, everything began to unravel and go downhill.

Parking became impossible, then skiers had to start paying for it, popular runs got too crowded and danger began lurking from all angles, uphill, right, left and even downhill. We do realize that life is an evolving adventure with one inescapable rule: adapt or perish. 

For my part, I have decided to embrace skiing’s downhill path and do my very best to adapt…