Park City’s game-changing shortcut

Skiing at Park City Mountain (PCM) is generally a fine experience, except for one huge trouble-spot, especially during the holidays or most weekends. It happens at Silverlode, a six people detachable chairlift that gets terribly crowed because

1) it’s like the “Mid-Vail” of Park City with its huge and modern restaurant,

2) it serves a bunch of highly popular runs,

3) also because people see people, are attracted by them, stay “glued” to them and the whole spot seems hopeless to most.

To me it’s not, because there is an easy solution. PCM needs to cut a wide enough cat-track going from between the SilverQueen Gondola and the Mine Camp restaurant, arcing to the left and returning towards the Motherlode chairlift base station.

Of course, the slope between the two lifts is virtually zero (same 7,980’ altitude), but Motherlode base station could be moved further down, into the ditch and be anchored on the opposite side of the drainage and it would work just fine.

Just my two-cent...