Deer Valley

The leaves are beautiful.

And I stayed up in Deer Valley, which typically is fucking outrageous during ski season.

And I can never afford to stay there because it's off season.

We actually got a pretty good price at a hotel up there.

Matt and I both said it was the best dessert we have ever had.

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it was incredible like i would go all the way back up to deer valley to that hotel to have that dessert anytime i'm in park city

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If you go on a week-long trip, they pay off with just one mountain.

So for a lot of people, if you don't care whether you're going to Vail or Deer Valley or Park City or Alta, like...

if you're just going to one of those, then it doesn't really matter.

Um, and you, you don't have a strong preference as to which one you want to go to.

Yeah, it's, that stuff just gets me fired up.

I find it a lot easier to ride the chairlifts at Deer Valley.

For sure.

For sure.

So at that point, Dennis, you're going to have Cindy's will be a 37-year-old fixed-rip quad, right? This chair you take out.

And Holiday Valley, more than almost any other ski area that I'm aware of in the country, the only other one that's... done this nearly as much as deer Valley has been really, really good about either repurposing your lifts on your own slopes or selling them to other ski areas.

And, and I, you did an inventory for me last year and it was eight skis, lifts that had gone on to other ski areas and you said they were in in chile and you and that's the uh corralco lift the the old mardi gras one new york mass that's catamount's catamount quad and that was the old yodler that 20 year old yodler cindy's double went up to ragged and is now retired And then the Schoolhouse Double went to Four Seasons.

That's unfortunately now a closed ski area.

Yeah.

I guess in the, in the women, were there any other stories? I guess we had, I mean, Valley took it for them.

Gracie's second.

It was cool.

But, uh, I mean, second place is sweet too.

Like at least she put down a solid result.

By a really tight margin considering how dominant Valley's been.

Like that's a, a really, really respectable position to be in.

So I don't know what's driving all of this because these are really the only lifts that Vail has announced yet for next year.

And I don't know why... park city is getting so much money i it could be because deer valley right next door has essentially tripled in size and has put up a dozen high-speed lifts or whatever it is in the past three years so they may be trying to make sure they're keeping up with park city i think they already or i'm sorry deer valley i think park city already has a really big lead on deer valley because a the terrain is better and b they get more snow and c they allow snowboarders And they have all that cool mining stuff, those relics sitting around the thing.

And you can ski to downtown, which is great.

So I think Park City already is advantageous.

That's why you move to Vail is to ski Vail.

So given the population pressures in mountain towns, the fact that more people, not fewer, are moving there, I think that you will continue to see – where I think that Vail has found their floor as far as the locals go, because in most cases, there's not really a handy alternative.

I mean, I guess in Park City, but Deer Valley's season pass is $4,000.

All the Cottonwood season passes are $1,000, right? So Park City, you get the biggest ski resort in America for the price of an Epic Pass, which started at a little over $1,000.

I'll keep you posted if he gets roped in.

My wife and I have some friends that have a timeshare in Utah, in Deer Valley.

And they love it.

They do? They actually use it?