The curse of a large ski area?

Yesterday was my first chance to experience the merged Park City and The Canyons ski areas to their full extent, appreciate in the process the work achieved during the summer and the sense of enormous size this connection was adding to what used to be a regular ski outing.

One of my findings was that it takes a lot of time to get from point A to point B, and as a result a skier like me will ski far less in a full ski day than if he stuck to one mountain, like the old Park City, Canyons or Deer Valley on his own.

It's not out of reason to say that an interconnected ski experience will cut one-third into someone's skiing, but it may double up the sense of adventure and scenery that a skier might experience otherwise. Interconnected ski mountains are more for contemplation than for sheer skiing, but the former is more likely to hit home with most visitors and that's what counts.