Park City’s horrendous ranking

Since I began writing this blog, I’ve been a constant critic of Ski Magazine’s annual North American ski resorts ranking. Well, there a lot to be criticized about standings that are reflecting its dwindling readership. 

For one thing, our Ski Magazine, now owned by Outside magazine, is on the verge of disappearing and the way the weight various components that make their rankings is highly objectionable. Well to make a long story short, our namesake ski resort, Park City Mountain, came in 30th, thus dead last, on that 2022 ranking (it still ranked 13th last year). 

Why was this? Because it’s been mismanaged ever since Vail Resorts took it over in 2015, and that state of affairs culminated last winter under the horrible management of Mike Goar, who like a misbehaving priest has been transferred by Vail Resorts to run (should I write ruin?) Andermatt-Sedrun in Switzerland, and give the locals there a sampling of his "talents". 

This said, Park City Mountain remains the largest resort in the US, has great skiing, mediocre lifts yet a slim chance from raisin from its ashes, assuming that Vail Resorts has learned anything from last season’s debacle.