Ride Park City

Inaugurating Jonesy's , King of the Wasatch and World Cup action

Yesterday was a big day at Park City Mountain Resort!  Upper Jonesy's opened to the public with 17 jib and jump features.  Our terrain parks are now completely open for the season!  This season Jim and the rest of the park crew have done an awesome job getting tons of features open for all ability levels.  If you haven't checked out the parks yet this season now is a great time to get jibby. 

Here's JP from our park crew making sure the features are working correctly!   Thanks for your hard work JP.

Now that the crew has opened all the parks it's time to kick off our event scheudule.  This Friday and Saturday (1/23 and 1/24) we'll be hosting the King of the Wasatch with the Park City Snowboard Team and the Intermountain Snowboard Series.  The King of the Wasatch is a pipe and slopestyle competition open to USASA members.  Check out our events calendar (www.pcride.com)  for details on the competition and how to sign up!  There is a cash prize for winners of the open divisions! 

Immediately following the King of the Wasatch we kick into Visa Freestyle International World Cup gear.  Skier halfpipe World Cup that is!  We are hosting this event in partnership with Deer Valley Resort and the Visa Freestyle International World Cup that also includes Moguls, Dual Moguls and Aerials.  This is the first skier halfpipe World Cup in the states!  The confirmed (subject to change) athlete list that we've received at this point includes some of the top name skiers out there including Simon Dumont, Colby West, JP Solberg, Jen Hudak, etc!  The halfpipe competition takes place on Saturday, 1/31 beginning at 9:30 a.m. More details are available at pcride.com including info on the Free Michael Franti and Spearhead concert on Lower Main Street Thursday evening.

The weekend following the World Cup weekend we will be hosting the Burton Super Demo Tour and Am Series.  I'll get more details on that in the coming weeks.  Seeing as how I'm the events manager here, I think I need a nap....and this hasn't even started!

What is up!!!

Today's bluebird day reminded me more of March than January, the temperatures were pretty mild.  It was one of those perfect park days, the ones you usually dream about until March or early April.  As you know, King's Crown opened last week.  I know all of you read Matt's post on how to Smart Style it, if you didn't read it yet, do it now.  The only thing left at this point is upper Jonesy's.  Thanks park crew for all of your hard work so far!  Now that the mountain and parks are open it's time to get your shred on!  Well, your shred on and of course checking out of the events we have planned for the next few weeks.

In Sundance fashion, we are very excited for our own film, "I Ride Park City" to be one of 30 films chosen to be a part of the X-Dance Film Festival.  There will be an "I Ride Park City" screening Friday, January 16 at 6:00 p.m.  The screening will be at Off Broadway Theatre in SLC (272 S. Main St).  Tickets can be purchased at www.x-dance.com and are between $5 and $7.  Athletes from the film will be in attendance.  If you haven't seen "I Ride Park City" yet, here is your chance.  You can also purchase the film at www.pcride.com or at the resort.

Lucky 13 - Jonsing to ski or ride PC, but short on the $$$.  $13 Lift Ticket, $13 Equipment Rental, 13 Days - Night Ski or Snowboard at Park City Mountain Resort for only $13, January 19–31, 2009. Enjoy great terrain located off of the PayDay and First Time chairlifts from 3:30 to 7:30 pm. Plus, rent the latest in equipment from Park City Mountain Rentals for only $13 (good for night rentals after 3:30 pm). Utah residents only: Proof of Utah residency to be shown at time of purchase. Tickets may be purchased at any ticket window located in the Resort's Base Area or in Park City Mountain Rentals.  This great offer is only available for the last 13 days in January!  Bring your friends.

Are you an awesome photographer or a rad rider looking for your chance to show the world your skillz?  Send me some photos and I'll post them here (and even give you photo/rider credit)!  I reserve the right to deny your shots based on radness, skillness and just plain smartness.  meishal@pcmr.com

I'm thinking this is enough for this blog post, but I haven't even gotten to the events we're hosting at the resort in the next few weeks....I guess you'll have to stay tuned!  If you absolutely can't wait and must know more RIGHT NOW check out our events calendar at www.pcride.com. 

BYE!