Comrade
January 31st, 2004, 08:51 PM
My family is planning on switching resorts in the Utah area next year from Park City to Snowbasin. We are doing this largely because the drive to Snowbasin is about 20 minutes from my driveway.
Anyway, I was just wondering what the carving was like at Snowbasin. I have only skied there once in my life. It was a few years ago when I was on soft-boots and largely ignorant to what carving was. Anyway, I really can't remember the resort in terms of carving. Where is the best area? How does it compare to the King Con area of Park City? How is grooming? I would like to add an emphasis on the last question because I hate to see the ridges that the Park City groomers create in the middle of the run.
Now it seems to me like when I went to Snowbasin last, there were a million snowmakers down the middle of the runs. Am I just delusional or is this commonplace? I don't think that would make for the best carving.
To the second part of my post: Beaver Mountain. This is probably Utah's least known resort (sparing Nordic Valley) and I have never skied there. Is there anybody here who does or has skied there recently? Anyway, I am planning on attending USU in a couple of years (unless I can get into somewhere Ivy, even if I could I still couldn't afford it) and I heard they have killer student pass rates. What's carving like there? It’s too bad I am planning on going into engineering because I don’t think I’ll have much time on my hands to spend on the mountain anyway.
Thanks for the help.
->Eric Gibbons
Anyway, I was just wondering what the carving was like at Snowbasin. I have only skied there once in my life. It was a few years ago when I was on soft-boots and largely ignorant to what carving was. Anyway, I really can't remember the resort in terms of carving. Where is the best area? How does it compare to the King Con area of Park City? How is grooming? I would like to add an emphasis on the last question because I hate to see the ridges that the Park City groomers create in the middle of the run.
Now it seems to me like when I went to Snowbasin last, there were a million snowmakers down the middle of the runs. Am I just delusional or is this commonplace? I don't think that would make for the best carving.
To the second part of my post: Beaver Mountain. This is probably Utah's least known resort (sparing Nordic Valley) and I have never skied there. Is there anybody here who does or has skied there recently? Anyway, I am planning on attending USU in a couple of years (unless I can get into somewhere Ivy, even if I could I still couldn't afford it) and I heard they have killer student pass rates. What's carving like there? It’s too bad I am planning on going into engineering because I don’t think I’ll have much time on my hands to spend on the mountain anyway.
Thanks for the help.
->Eric Gibbons