Park City Mountain could do much better!

After Vail's “big bang”, when it purchased our local resort, two or three years ago, it now feels as if Park City Mountain (PCM) were savoring its own mediocrity and appeared quite happy with its own status quo.

Here a few random observations from this early season: Granted, Mother Nature has been less than generous, but PCM has not jumped the gun early enough in the season to make tons of snow when it could have.

Instead, they have given us the impression of playing chicken with the weather, hoping for some significant natural snow falls to plug the holes. Is PCM's infrastructure and snow making capacity up to snuff? I doubt it very much; at least it doesn't compare advantageously with Deer Valley's.

At the same time and quite recently, PCM announced its capital investments for 2018 and besides a new high-speed quad at Canyons to replace an old fixed grip for beginners, as well as as some restaurant improvements, nothing appears on the radar to beef up snow-making and replace Park City's third-world chairs like Thaynes, Jupiter, Pioneer and Town Lift. Not impressive at all.

Finally, there are the lines and Vail's terrible corral system. Instead of having three employees chewing the fat at the base of Silverlode (or Payday, Bonanza, etc.), have one of the them make sure chairs are filled to capacity.

For a change, let's start 2018 as if there was some semblance of intelligence within PCM and Vail Resorts!