Alta Successfully Defends Right to Keep Snowboarders Out

[marzNC]

Alta wins yet another round. None of the 12 federal appeals court judges want to consider the case again. The last ruling involved three judges. Maybe the last time?

https://www.ksl.com/?sid=40326612&n...nt-reconsider-ruling-in-alta-snowboarding-ban

 

[DeweySki]

I am just reading this thread for the first time and a few things pop out to me:

S.O. is a snowboarder and, despite the many traverses, I know he would love Alta because if its natural terrain. There is a thread somewhere on this forum that mentioned Alta taking out its terrain parks because of all the natural terrain, and I can totally see that. I've only skied there two days in different years, but noticed that there are lots of fun kickers and lips and stuff that are unique to a lot of resorts, so I totally get the appeal. Also it's like a forbidden fruit thing...

The class of persons thing is interesting. I think the general population conflates "classes of people" and "protected classes," so I guess I am not surprised that a group of people are trying to use this confusion to their advantage.

 

[marzNC]

I am just reading this thread for the first time and a few things pop out to me:

S.O. is a snowboarder and, despite the many traverses, I know he would love Alta because if its natural terrain. There is a thread somewhere on this forum that mentioned Alta taking out its terrain parks because of all the natural terrain, and I can totally see that. I've only skied there two days in different years, but noticed that there are lots of fun kickers and lips and stuff that are unique to a lot of resorts, so I totally get the appeal. Also it's like a forbidden fruit thing...

I'm guessing, but the terrain park built on the Albion side over ten years ago was probably a late season experiment in a bad snow year. I found a TGR archive from 2004. As noted in a Newschoolers thread from April 2016, there is usually a few pretty big jumps over on Wildcat in the expert terrain. Not a natural kicker, a full jump built with a shovel or two. Always fun to watch people take the traditional jump during late season when riding up Collins.

 

[altagirl]

I think it was an interesting experiment, but no one used it. I ran through it a few times - I mean hey, when else are you going to have a terrain park to yourself? And then was like meh. It's just not my thing.

 

[marzNC]

My impression is that the folks who are jumping off kickers and the big late season jumps are mostly locals. A traveler who likes park would be much more likely to go to Park City after flying to SLC.

Got to watch a bunch of tweens one Saturday at Alta. They were behind us on the Wildcat lift making lots of noise. We stopped to watch them take a jump. There was one girl. When she took off, a young boy was sure she wouldn't make it. I think the other boys knew better. They didn't seem surprised when she landed her jump just fine. The young boy, perhaps 9 or 10, was impressed.

Locals who like park go to Brighton. Cheaper season pass and lights for night skiing. Alta isn't losing any business by not having a formal terrain park.