I agree with you about the vibe, snowbird definitely tries it's best to appeal to out of towners, many of whom are complete dumbshits and clog the slopes, but hey, ski the hard stuff, and you don't have to deal with them. If you had skied into any other zone on the mountain, I might have a little more sympathy for you, but if you saw how much of a total boneyard it was just under the snow there, no way you'd have dropped in, not to mention the group mentality of, oh someone else skied that so it must be okay, which might cause a total gaper to get stuck or seriously hurt themselves in there. Being frank, you're damn lucky you weren't that person. Honestly I'm just glad you're okay. I seriously doubt you read any kind of avalanche report before you dropped in, and you got lucky this time. But let's say you drop into that with more significant avy danger present, gotten caught in an avalanche and been disemboweled on the sharp rocks waiting under the slope in a gruesome bloody smear in full view of the gad lift. Guess who's gonna have to clean that up? From a patrollers point of view, there's no way you aren't getting your pass pulled. Try again next year, be a little smarter about the rules. At a place like snowbird, they usually aren't meant to be broken.
