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Passes next year..

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East.
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Since I'm going to the U, and I haven't had the a full season experience out there, I wanna know what the best pass(s) would be for my first year..

I'm from the east so I've obviously spent a majority of my time in the park.. but I'd like to actually do some real skiing for once. I love trees as well, and I plan on getting two passes.

thoughts? I'm not looking to spend over 1500..
Mar 28 2009 8:14PM
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eheath
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PC passes are 425 and i think canyons is 350 or 375 and alta is 650 snowbird is like 470 for chairs and like 500 for tram. I took this class at alta that got me a 99 dollar pass so i did alta and pc for 525 total.
Mar 28 2009 10:00PM
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East.
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Word, but I heard Alta gets rat packed with tourists and whatnot.. but I heard the skiing is unreal. Is the trade off worth it?

 
Mar 28 2009 10:55PM
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Alex_thedroog
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Get a job at a resort like one or two days a week. If you want a different experience, go shred the brighton, or alta. They both have phenomenal backcountry access.
Mar 28 2009 11:38PM
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eheath
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Yeah not really with tourists, tourists go to park city and snowbird, alta is just where all the powder hounds go and you just gotta get up their early. Weekday pow days aren't bad at all most of the time pretty uncrowded, but weekends are always packed.
Mar 29 2009 4:23AM
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stormtrooper
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as said befor me alta and pc is where its at,
Mar 29 2009 12:25PM
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East.
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aight... so right now its PC for sure, and then either Alta vs Brighton.

whats your take on that? If I can get that 99$ pass, Alta def seems more likely, but I'm still not sure..
Mar 29 2009 12:48PM
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Tbrody
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I used to ski PC/Alta and now have PC/Brighton. Although I liked the steepness and deepness of Alta (and still do) I get more out of my brighton pass then I did Alta. Brighton is consistently not crowded, opens first, has park features early in the year, and doesn't get tracked out. There's alot of hate towards Brighton but that just means less people go there. I can get there at noon and still have powder the rest of the day (last wednesday).

Hard call though.
Mar 29 2009 1:44PM
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fuckyocouch
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alta
Mar 29 2009 2:14PM
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InfernoHits
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alta and brighton are two completely different mountains so it kind of depends what you like.

Brighton is more of a powder jib mountain. By that I mean there are lots of awesome cliffs and drops but not too many super steep openfaced bowls. They also have good tree skiing, but the main mountain area is pretty flat, but then milicent is argueably the best lift in all of utah.

If you like steep open bowls and deep deep snow with still a bunch of cliffs I'd say alta, but its a different atmosphere, its more of a powder whore TGR kind of atmosphere there. Which is also fun. I dont know, kind of depends on what youd rather have. But you can not go wrong with either mountain.

Ive had pc and snowbird the last 2 years, next year Im really considering PC/Brighton like taylor said above.
Mar 29 2009 3:30PM
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East.
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coming from the east, I'm more apt to ski trees than open bowls.. and since I wont have a car (unless I sell mine at the end of the summer and buy one out there) I think im gonna do brighton since I'd be getting there at variable times.

thanks for the help, my combo is gonna be PC/Brighton. +k
Mar 29 2009 4:07PM
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heFF
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do they do any kind of deals like they have the summit county pass i think in co?
Mar 29 2009 4:08PM
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eheath
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Not at all, since they are all owned by different people. You can get alta/bird passes but its like 1200 and a ski utah gold pass is about 3-4gs and its for every resort in utah. Thats about it.
Mar 29 2009 4:55PM
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titsLOL
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alta doesn't get as many tourists as snowbird, but in my experience that makes snowbird much better because the tighter/steeper/harder to get to places don't get tracked out as much because tourists don't do that. Alta is loaded with old men who live their lives for the sole purpose of getting to the fresh snow before you do. I'd say snowbird and pc for passes. Snowbird also has tons of fun cliffs with nice landings.
Mar 29 2009 6:04PM
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