Best stashes, bowls, lines in park city, utah?

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starrdog7

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friends have been ranting about utah being the best pow in the states, so i am selling my soul and taking the cash for a trip to park city this winter. Any locals or mountain regulars want to let me know of some of the better places, hidden stashes, secret runs to ski over there that the other couple of thousand weekend warriors won´t know about??? Really like to find some fun bowls to shred and ledges or cliffs to huck off for the few weeks i am there, so when i get back to Colorado I can compare to our best!! thanks
 
not much for cliffs / great bowls at PC. Go to anywhere else in Utah if you want that. Brighton, solitude, alta, snowbird, powder, snowbasin all have much better terrain.
 
I'm just posting to re-iterate what has been said.

PC isn't worth going to if you are spending a bunch of money out here. Lift tickets are too expensive, food and lodging are expensive. If you want to ski Utah mountains, snow and terrain, go to Alta or Snowbird. Solitude, Snowbasin, and Brighton (in that order) are decent too, but again if you are spending money to come out here to ride Utah, do it big.

PC does not have very much terrain compared to other mountains.
 
Park City the mountain doesn't have much, but head 4 minutes down the road to The Canyons and you have more back country access than anywhere else in Utah. I spent a month at the Canyons last winter and spend nearly 90% of the time off mountain and in the back country. Cliffs from 10-50 feet, deep bowls, great tree runs! Just make sure you have your avy gear and go with a local, there's PLENTY of good stuff to be shredded just out of bounds. You can even ski off the backside and get into Alta territory!

 
drive from park city towards salt lake on i80. get onto i215. get off at the 4500s exit. go right. take your first right. pillow lines for YEARS.
 
well how am i supposed to know, im not from slc. i followed the directions and it took me to a park in town where pillow lines would probably not be found
 
Brighton is not quintessential Utah mountain skiing. Brighton is fun, but it's really small.
 
PC can certainly be fun on a pow day, my deepest most fun day ever was there this past spring, but generally they get less snow and don't have as much steep, challenging terrain or cliffs as you can find at the resorts in Big and Little Cottonwood. If you do happen to wind at PC on a pow day I'll be happy to show you the goods, if you can keep up.
 
haha dude, if this person thinks that PC is where you go for big mountain, i don't think you should be encouraging him to go into the BC.
 
I thought this was going to be a thread about drugs when i first read it.

Go to PC for park, any Alta, Solitude, Snowbird, or Brighton for pow. If you're confined to the PC area, The Canyons will likely be your best bet.
 
Why do people plan trips to Utah and assume there will be pow? It doesn't snow every single day of every winter.
 
I agree with everyone else. Alta, Bird, Solitude, Brighton, Canyons are all better for this type things.

However, this doesn't mean there isn't good terrain at PC. There definitely is, just gotta go search it out. Mckonkeys is pretty fun. So is jupiter. Just my $.02 from an EC rider who loves whatever he can get.
 
My first year in Utah I skied 99% PC and had a blast. Found plenty of fun shit to ski and jump off when storms rolled in. I wouldn't trade that year for a year at another mountain personally.
 
well...jeff was referring to the rail gardens which is at olympus hills park...so yeah, he thought correctly that jeff was referring to a park. no need to call it out
 
ooh, all i can afford is PC and i've had the best pow days there than anywhere else in the past years (except one storming week at snowbird a few years back). stuff stays untracked and yeah there's plenty of fun stuff if you know where to go. but for a first timer, it'd probably be better for the person to go to snowbird or alta just because there is more stuff that's easier to find at those resorts.
 
righto righto, plenty of good pointers here. thanks for the heads up. Will be crashing with friends in PC so can go anywhere from there but not missing the free bed. Looks like I might be there for a month or so, if it is as good as I hear I might stay longer.
 
Park City definitely has more in common with Colorado resorts than with Utah resorts. It doesn't get as much snow, and it doesn't really have mind blowing terrain. Park City is a lot of fun, but that's because of the park. If you want a significantly different experience from Colorado, you should hit up the cottonwood canyons. It's not really far from PC, and it's cheaper as well.
 
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