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Ski Diva Extraordinaire
It seems that those of us who ski there and have passes there and live here get it. Those who don't just think we're whiners. The changes are a money grab, and that's it. The skiing experience has been degraded X100.I started to ski in 2018. The changes at Snowbasin between then and now are crazy. In 2018, a midweek pass was under $500 and I could get parking on the weekends. Kids under six were free.
By 2022-2023, free only for 4 and under (bc we have to be like Ikon!) Impossible to take the kids for a half day afternoon on weekends because of the parking and crowds. I think what a lot of us locals are reacting to is the speed of the change. If IKON required reservations it would be one thing, but they don't, so we wind up as SLC overflow on canyon closure days. My kids adore skiing but if we'd been thinking of starting this year instead of 2020, we probably wouldn't have learned to ski at all, and it's a shame.
It's also that Snowbasin is really a bad mountain for beginners due to the funnel into the one green route down. It's not bad if you can ski blues and know the mountain well enough to skirt those runs, but when there's low coverage? It's basically practice in emergency stops and dodging others.
I get that I'm not making them money when I ski 50 times a season and only spring for cheesy fries now and then but it's just a fast change.
This season, we are getting the overflow from Deer Valley IKON skiers who can't get reservations. Can't wait until we start getting storms and the LCC skiers swarm us like you said and chew up the powder in an hour. 4 years ago, I could go up at 2 after work and find fresh powder under the gondola on Pork Barrel. Not any more.