Park City Mountain Resort Blog

Opening Day Brings Lots of Cheers and Snow

Mother Nature helped us welcome the start of the 2010-2011 winter season today with energetic skiers and snowboarders, diverse terrain and natural snowfall! Guests camped out overnight at PayDay, First Time and Three Kings lifts to receive the coveted "First Chair" t-shirts, as well as the bragging rights that go along with riding the first chair. The three lifts serviced five runs, including the early season terrain park with 16 jib features and a 25-foot jump. According to the National Weather Service, a winter storm warning is in effect until Wednesday, November 24, with up to three feet of snow expected.

Check out what the crowd had to say about Opening Day.

Welcome to the 2010-2011 Winter Season!

Park City All Stars Put on a Show in Kings Crown

Some of Park City's finest getting ready for a sunny day in King's Crown.

Our own Park City All Stars were on hand to shoot next year's ad campaign. Talk about some hot laps. When this group gathers in one spot, you know a heavy session is about to go down. Stevie Bell and Sage Kotsenburg were going hit for hit in King's Crown.

Click here to read the full story. 

Hone your skills with our new January Ski and Snowboard Camps and Academies

We're introducing three brand new ski and snowboard programs during the month of January that I think are really cool for those of us that need some help to learn some new skills or just to get through the mid-season slump. Check them out:

Our NEW 3-Day Ski Academy gives you all the benefits of our 5-Day Ski College, but in a shorter time frame. You still get the repetition of skiing multiple days with the same coach, but during this time, you’ll also make permanent changes in your technique and have fun in the process. Space is limited, so make your reservations early. This program is for level 5 skiers and up (parallel turns on gentle blue terrain) and adults ages 21 and up. Participants will be placed in groups to match your ability level. The 3-Day Ski Academy is offered January 8-10 and January 29-31, 2010, reserve now by calling 800-227-7254.

Want to learn the basics of snowboard freestyle and how to ride our Terrain Parks? Our Adult Learn to Freestyle Camp was created for adults wanting to learn basic freestyle, and will give you the confidence to safely ride in and around our park areas. Our Coaches have the skills and experience to safely guide you in your expansion of skills and terrain. Space is limited, so make your reservations early. These camps are for riders that are strong blue terrain riders level 4 and up (linked turns on all blue terrain) and adults ages 21 and up. Participants will be placed in groups to match your ability level. The Learn to Freestyle Camp is offered January 29-31, 2010, reserve now by calling 800-227-7254.

Looking to learn from someone who understands women’s specific differences? Come ride with one of our female coaches in a group of all women in our Women's Snowboard Camp. Our coaches have the skills and experience to help you reach your full potential, in a comfortable setting. You can be an experienced rider or one just getting started. Space is limited, so make your reservations early. Our Women’s Snowboard Camp starts with green terrain riders level 3 and up (linking turns on green terrain) and adults ages 21 and up. Participants will be placed in groups to match your ability level. The Women’s Snowboard Camp is offered January 29-31, 2010, reserve now by calling 800-227-7254.

All of the camps are $495 and include lift tickets ($315 without lift tickets). Call us today at 800-227-7254 to reserve your spot as space is limited!

Shaun White Wins the First Ever Intelligent Design at Park City Mountain Resort!

With spectacular blue skies overhead, Shaun White rode a dominating 2nd run to clinch the first ever Intelligent Design at Park City Mountain Resort. Shaun started off with a Frontside 10 off the first 60 foot hit,  followed by a Backside 7 on the hip, a Frontside 270 onto the rail leading into the Eagle Superpipe, in the pipe he spun a Backside 9, a Frontside 3 and Cab 10 in the pipe and ended, to raucous applause, with a slow Alleyoop backside rodeo on the huge quarter pipe at the bottom of the pipe.

Shaun wound up the top overall rider, but there were lots of great runs down the Intelligent Design course yesterday, here are the top results:

Top 5:
Shaun White            95.75    $20,000
Charles Reid            90.00    $10,000
Luke Mitrani             82.25    $6,000
Gjermund Braaten   74.00    $5,000
Wyatt Caldwell         71.25    $3,000

Full Results (in PDF format)

I was busy helping out with the event, so I didn't get to watch a lot of, it but I was able to snap the pix in the gallery below, it you want to add some pix to our IDPC group on Flickr, visit http://www.flickr.com/groups/idpc/:

Since this was our first year ever for this event, we'd love to hear any suggestions you might have for next year as well as what you liked or didn't like about this year. Please leave your feedback and ideas as a comment!

I Ride Park City video!

Here's a peak at the new Park City Mountain Resort snowboard video, "I Ride Park City" It will go on sale this August on pcride.com!

2007-2008 Season Approaches

The 2007-2008 winter season must be getting near as I've recently received a number of gear guides from Ski, Skiing, Transworld Snowboarding and Powder. To me this is the first sign that winter is just a few short months away and, as a matter of fact, last week SkiUtah celebrated 90 days until the 2007-2008 Ski Season by giving away snow cones down in Salt Lake City.
At Park City Mountain Resort we are selling our 2007-2008 winter season passes along with reservations for our Kids Signature Programs (our kids ski and snowboard school) and Ski and Snowboard Rentals.
I suppose what this really means is that we need to start getting ourselves into shape for another great winter season. I'm pretending to do this by playing in Park City's weekly Kick Ball league, but I would suggest activities more along the lines recommended here.
In the meantime, I look forward to seeing everyone up on the slopes in about 80-something days!

One month until scheduled opening day!

It's snowing again today, so I guess it really must be just one month away from our scheduled opening day for our upcoming Winter season! The forecast is predicting that we'll get a bit of a break from storms, but more are on the way and with temperatures starting to dip into the high 20s we hope to get our snow guns cranked up and start to give mother nature a bit of a helping hand. Keep posted as we're also planning a bunch of updates to our blog in the upcoming days and weeks as well.