r/ParkCity • u/alopz • 3d ago
Ski patrol strike in Park City shuts down most of the biggest US ski area | CNN Business PCPSPA Strike 💪🪧
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/business/park-city-ski-patrol-strike/index.htmlY'all made it to CNN
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u/FieryAutoCrashes LOCAL 3d ago
Powder Mountain technically has more skiable acres
(Scurries away to a corner to hide from the comments)
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u/NjScumFuck 3d ago
Park city has the most skiable flat areas lmao traverse central
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u/racedownhill 3d ago
that’s what they have open…
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u/hid3myemail 3d ago
That’s just the mtn open or not
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u/racedownhill 3d ago
9990 and McConkeys have good terrain. Jupiter too when it’s open. Some decent hiking off of Condor. That terrain is the reason to come to PC.
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u/hid3myemail 3d ago
Yeah that’s true, peak 5 and motherlode . It’s not hard to find good stuff once you’ve skied it a few times. I don’t think a lot of the casuals and tourists find it though, and I can see how they get funneled into some days of mediocre skiing
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u/worstpilotinthegalxy 3d ago edited 3d ago
Nah as a Powmow fan myself, they lost that title when they took away Village, Mary's, and Raintree from the general public. With that being said Powmow >PC any day still
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u/lukesaskier 3d ago
actually I don't think so anymore because you have to own a house to use 3 lifts and now those don't count towards skiable acres...
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u/StoragePositive4416 2d ago
Just curious if they can’t afford to live on the pay that’s offered wouldn’t they just, you know, quit? Wouldn’t the offered pay have to rise until people apply for jobs again? Or else they wouldn’t have patrol and the effect would be the same?
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u/SmegmaDreamcast 2d ago
I’m not involved with Park City but have worked at a few ski areas- it seems to be that people can live on the pay for a few years IF they’re young, no kids, live with roommates, spend all their pay on rent… etc. So you get people that do the jobs for a few years and move on to greener pastures. The patrollers are professionals that would like to build a career doing it, and like most people would probably like to afford to live, save for retirement, maybe have kids, whatever. The pay probably isn’t enough for that so the ski areas churn through employees and don’t develop their talent because they can’t keep it for long.
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u/Diligent_Ad651 3d ago
I hope if you get injured, you can get your own way down the skifield without requiring assistance from these entitled people
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u/sleeplessinreno 3d ago
Womp womp. Keep it up patrol. Make it hurt.