We just got back from Utah after a four day jaunt. The skiing was great. Wed - Sat inclusive. PC-Solitude-PC-DV. We have friends in PC who work at PC Mountain which was one of the reasons why we were there twice. They had a decent snow that Sunday and Monday and conditions were excellent I thought. Any time I mention bumps, they aren't the hard Volkswagon size bumps. They weren't that developed.
PC hadn't groomed everything by Wednesday, but by Friday they had gotten ready for the weekend and knocked down some of the bumps. It was kinda cool because the mountain skiied differently the two days. Friday was busy, but Motherlode and Thaynes weren't as busy as some of the other lifts.
Solitude was awesome. Nobody was there, nearly literally. Never a wait. Solitude has some great wide open steep groomed blues with powder and bumps on the sides. It's a great place to play and practice in the bumps and have an easy escape route if they get to be too much. Got up into Honeycomb but didn't venture too far in before bailing down to Honeycomb return. Powder was a bit much for me. The mountain was so unskiied and unspoiled. Favorite run there was probably Challenger. It was at the far right of the mountain. A reasonably long black run that no one but us was skiing
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Sad to say that on this trip, I liked DV the best. I had been there before, but not skiing at the level I'm at now so I missed much of the mountain that this time I experienced. Even though the visibility sucked due to fog, and even though there was a wet snow the night before, I still had the best time there. I like the fact there are long runs that challenge an advanced intermediate without killing em. They're even marked double blue. Steins way to the first chance over to Perseverance is nice run. Any run off Empire was pretty good and challenging, but my favorite on the mountain was Tycoon. It was the run that didn't end. Fairly steep at the top and moderately bumped out and good and long. At the end of the day, even the green runs were getting bumped up because a light snow kept falling.
I'd rate in the order of difficulty based on runs as marked.
DV
Solitude
PC
I stayed off most of the black runs at DV and found the double blue runs there at least as or more difficult than the blacks at PC. Solitude was closer to DV, but I skiied all their groomed or recently groomed blacks. Their bumpy blacks were tough for me but usually you had a way to bail mid run that you didn't always have at other places. Like I said, a great place to test yourself and learn but have an escape route if needed that isn't full of trees. All in all, I enjoyed all three mountains as each offers a little something different. Best groomed runs were at Solitude. Beautiful corduoroy, probably due to the light traffic.
If anyone cares, lockers at PC were $6.00, as was the bag check. DV lockers were $2.00, bag check $4.00. Solitude lockers were $0.75.........
PC hadn't groomed everything by Wednesday, but by Friday they had gotten ready for the weekend and knocked down some of the bumps. It was kinda cool because the mountain skiied differently the two days. Friday was busy, but Motherlode and Thaynes weren't as busy as some of the other lifts.
Solitude was awesome. Nobody was there, nearly literally. Never a wait. Solitude has some great wide open steep groomed blues with powder and bumps on the sides. It's a great place to play and practice in the bumps and have an easy escape route if they get to be too much. Got up into Honeycomb but didn't venture too far in before bailing down to Honeycomb return. Powder was a bit much for me. The mountain was so unskiied and unspoiled. Favorite run there was probably Challenger. It was at the far right of the mountain. A reasonably long black run that no one but us was skiing
.Sad to say that on this trip, I liked DV the best. I had been there before, but not skiing at the level I'm at now so I missed much of the mountain that this time I experienced. Even though the visibility sucked due to fog, and even though there was a wet snow the night before, I still had the best time there. I like the fact there are long runs that challenge an advanced intermediate without killing em. They're even marked double blue. Steins way to the first chance over to Perseverance is nice run. Any run off Empire was pretty good and challenging, but my favorite on the mountain was Tycoon. It was the run that didn't end. Fairly steep at the top and moderately bumped out and good and long. At the end of the day, even the green runs were getting bumped up because a light snow kept falling.
I'd rate in the order of difficulty based on runs as marked.
DV
Solitude
PC
I stayed off most of the black runs at DV and found the double blue runs there at least as or more difficult than the blacks at PC. Solitude was closer to DV, but I skiied all their groomed or recently groomed blacks. Their bumpy blacks were tough for me but usually you had a way to bail mid run that you didn't always have at other places. Like I said, a great place to test yourself and learn but have an escape route if needed that isn't full of trees. All in all, I enjoyed all three mountains as each offers a little something different. Best groomed runs were at Solitude. Beautiful corduoroy, probably due to the light traffic.
If anyone cares, lockers at PC were $6.00, as was the bag check. DV lockers were $2.00, bag check $4.00. Solitude lockers were $0.75.........
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