Benefit Day sells out and more openings

Wow, a Benefit Day sell-out!
Thank you to everyone who bought Benefit Day tickets and made this yearly fund raising event a rousing success. With all available tickets sold (sorry if you missed out, but the number of tickets is limited), Park City Mountain Resort is delighted to donate $50,000 to the People's Health Clinic to help them provide high-quality medical services to uninsured individuals and families in the area around Park City. An important reminder: if you have purchased a Benefit Day ticket and are planning on using it on one of the extra days (Dec 8-25), you will need to bring the ticket to a ticket window prior to using it on the mountain.
In other news, we are planning on opening the Town Lift (not the runs quite yet) for the season this Saturday with downloading available to allow access to our open runs from and to the Main Street area. We are hopeful that we will be able to open additional terrain soon and we'll keep everyone posted as things develop, in the meantime, here's the latest from the National Weather Service (keep your fingers crossed, I know I am):

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A HEAVY SNOW WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM MST SATURDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
THIS WARNING IS FOR THE WASATCH MOUNTAINS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80. ..THE WESTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS...THE WASATCH PLATEAU AND BOOK CLIFFS...AND THE WASATCH MOUNTAIN VALLEYS. TOTAL SNOWFALL OF 1 TO 2 FEET IS EXPECTED ACROSS ELEVATIONS ABOVE 7000 FEET. LOCATIONS ACROSS THE WASATCH MOUNTAIN VALLEYS CAN EXPECT 6 TO 12 INCHES OF SNOW BY LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE
POSSIBLE.
SNOW WILL SPREAD NORTH INTO THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON...BECOMING HEAVY AT TIMES TONIGHT THROUGHOUT THE DAY FRIDAY. PERIODS OF SNOW...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE FRIDAY NIGHT AND INTO SATURDAY...BEFORE TAPERING OFF LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
A HEAVY SNOW WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE FORECAST THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS. ONLY TRAVEL IN AN EMERGENCY. IF YOU MUST...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.

Comments

[Mike]

I'm supposed to be flying out to SLC to come riding this weekend... is my trip going to be totally ruined, or totally made awesome by this snow?

Eric replies:
Mike, hopefully made awesome by tons of snow!