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Why Univ. of Utah is the best school in the country if you ski.

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DRPSET
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Everyone knows about the proximity and quality of skiing in Utah. One thing I think that is overlooked is the quality of education available at the U. This article http://www.economist.com/node/18284013 explains why Mormon culture breads success and I'm of the opinion that this attitude of "self improvement" can be gleamed by non-mormon at the school. On the other hand as long as you have a pulse, they'll let you in, so there's something for everybody. Also tuition is pretty cheep.
Mar 15 2011 12:58AM
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skiingute
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Factory you're retarded. Bitching about the Liquor Laws? Who really cares. Yeah it can suck running out of alcohol at 12am and not having anywhere to go. Overall though it really doesnt effect you that much if you're a resident. The state could cater to tourists but then we would end up like some shitty Colorado resort town.

I liked your comment about Mexicans taking over. You must be watching the news too much. West Valley and the whole west side has been theirs for awhile now and I'm not complaining. I never go to the western side of I-15 no real reason to.

There will never be a lift to the top of Superior, I doubt you could even ski it anyway.

Mar 16 2011 3:49PM
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factory81
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jim bridger discovered the great salt lake
Mar 16 2011 4:19PM
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gr4
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Silvestre Vélez de Escalante discovered the GSL in 1776. Another one of those "mexicans" ruining the city
Mar 16 2011 4:40PM
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factory81
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even the billboards in town are a lie
Mar 16 2011 5:10PM
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skiingute
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Glad you care about those shitty billboards
Mar 16 2011 5:33PM
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Big5hifty
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rather than make my own thread i'll just ask his here.
so i've decided on U of U for next year. i'm from Ohio so i can't come out again and check tham out, but what dorms should i try to get into?
Mar 31 2011 1:21PM
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ImNotARacist
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Aren't they though! I commend the LDS religion for producing beautiful, women on a very consistent basis.
Mar 31 2011 1:34PM
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DADDYlongLEGS
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You're playing right into their hand
Mar 31 2011 1:56PM
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123ski
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I did my undergrad at the U. I skied 90-100 days a season and got a 3.6

I am currently doing a joint Masters and Doctorate degree at the U and skiing 50-60 days a season..
Mar 31 2011 1:58PM
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Alex=God
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trax is about to start going to the airport when they are done building the track
Mar 31 2011 2:03PM
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ImNotARacist
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Props!
Mar 31 2011 2:14PM
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Idahoskier420
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i spent the last four days in Salt lake skiing and partying. i thought about trying to find A house instead of leaving
Apr 5 2011 10:03PM
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Johnnnnayy
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million dollar question:
are you allowed to have sex there??
cuz at BYU you arent, and you never kno with those crazyass mormons
Apr 5 2011 10:15PM
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ectreeskier11
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utah sucksssssssssssssss.
Apr 5 2011 10:18PM
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shocker611
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yeah im from ohio too and just moved out here last year.. If youre looking to be more social/party then stay in chapel glen, 803 preferably.. if youre looking for a little quiter with much nicer rooms then go sage point and get some of the delux rooms with the living rooms. you will have a blast next year just gear up for it (noone else come though this place blows, and the skiing sucks) and if you have any other questions pm me
Apr 5 2011 10:22PM
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shocker611
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tell that to my biomed degree that will get me into any grad/med school in the country
Apr 5 2011 10:24PM
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yellav
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really could not state my opinion any better. factory81 youre a pretty big dweeb man.
Apr 5 2011 10:36PM
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jreilly
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you sound like a huge ass pussey
Apr 5 2011 10:39PM
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JWoods
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Or gateway heights if you want to be close to food like me
Apr 5 2011 11:32PM
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Mt_P0wDerJuNkIe
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Utah is what ev
Montana is badass
Apr 5 2011 11:56PM
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b-ladd
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No sex allowed anywhere in the state of Utah! Just figured I'd make that PSA.
Apr 6 2011 2:49AM
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factory81
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Because I criticize WELL KNOWN problems in your city I am a pussy.

Traffic jams for miles on Wasatch BLVD, smog so bad you can't even see the mountains, shit smell from the brine shrimp.

Someone else said it best, there is no reason to be west of i-15


Come on fuck wads, just TRY and defend that pathetic air you guys breath. You only have digital signs placed on your highways giving you the daily air quality report for fucks sake.


I like to put it in perspective. Not everything is perfect. No one talks about the downsides of this readily accessible skiing in SLC.

Frankly I am concerned you guys are not more concerned about these problems. Specifically traffic congestion in your watershed and just......pathetic air quality. In Michigan I can at least see the SUN. Hell in Utah I recall in the valley it wasn't really yellow due to the smog.

THERES A LOT OF CONCERN GOING ON HERE.
Apr 6 2011 10:21AM
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123ski
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the problem is is that you are describing the worst days in SLC and pretending they are commonplace.
Apr 6 2011 10:43AM
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andrewmeehan
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prepare for a shit-storm from everyone from utah on ns.

I'm guessing you are bitching about the traffic going up Wasatch blvd because you came to utah during christmas or presidents just like every gaper on the planet. (yes, i am now referring to you as a gaper)

Our pollution is called Short-Term Particle Pollution and is caused mostly by the geography of where salt lake sits. Salt lake is still ranked higher than some cities in Michigan.

you make absolutely no sense when you say that there is traffic congestion in our watershed. (searching "traffic congestion in watershed" turned me to water quality, so if thats what you mean) Utah's water quality is ranked one of the highest in the country. I have yet to find Michigan on any list yet.

I really like how concerned you are about salt lake when there are places with much worse problems then us. For instance, the problems you have there in Michigan. You have cities that are completely falling apart like Detroit.

Apr 6 2011 11:05AM
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factory81
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anytime there is any worthwhile snowfall and good snow conditions there are lines up LCC.

March 5/6 2010 if I recall were total shit shows on LCC Road. Seriously line for miles.....I don't even wanna comment on the obviously busy times of the year.


I am from the West side of Michigan. No offense to the east side and the problems in Detroit. Things are different over here. We have big companies that are not failing (Stryker, Perrigo, Herman Miller, Steelcase, Pfizer, Post Cereal (they actually nickname the city cereal city har har har).

Anyways. Water...don't even talk about fresh water man. I only live next to one of the largest sources of freshwater anywhere in the world. I can take a stroll on the beach. You ain't swimming in the great salt lake thats for sure. And your beaches....you don't even have beaches. I mean you just don't. The jordanelle's shoreline is full of stones and if you find sand its mud that your feet sink in to.


I've never been to that utah lake down in provo.



But yeah I am talking about the constant line of engines idling in front of the canyon forever and for miles on end going up the canyon at 8 A.M and down the canyon at 4 PM. Then you arrive in smog city unless a storm has just rolled through.

Once again, sorry I ever expressed a concern for your air quality. I suppose I would be fucking up mountains too if I had all these natural resources to tap ya know.....

Once you take the drive from like Ogden to Provo and you see just the vast amount of industry...sure its great, but you can't help but also think that you are inhaling everything being put up in the air.

Michigan has spoiled us with visibility for miles upon miles when looking to the horizon and a regular wind pattern I guess.....


Apr 6 2011 11:36AM
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factory81
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HOW CAN YOU GUYS NOT BE FUCKING SERIOUSLY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS SHIT?


Like I am honestly baffled you guys are not like yea yea we know the air sucks and we should do something about it.


Apr 6 2011 11:39AM
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andrewmeehan
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you realize that your link is referring to UTAH VALLEY where 2% of the skiers in utah live. is is also lower down the valley and in elevation where the pollution usually ends up going. Anybody from Salt Lake can vouch that they try to stay as far away from Utah Valley as possible.
Apr 6 2011 11:47AM
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andrewmeehan
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you truly are fighting a fucking uphill battle here.
Apr 6 2011 11:48AM
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yellav
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its called inversion. when theres a lake at the base of a mountain range pressure systems make the air get trapped in valley.

while i don't see myself living here all my life, the 2-3 days a season its bad are worth the year round access to beautiful mountains and close desert. if you don't like it here keep your gaper self back in the fuckin utopia of the midwest no ones forcing you to come here dweeb.
Apr 6 2011 11:51AM
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yellav
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nah thats coming down little cottonwood
Apr 6 2011 11:54AM
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factory81
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ive read all about the inversion and so on. its so well publicized and known it just makes you wonder why people don't do more about the air quality out in SLC if this is all just common knowledge.

I've thought about buying a house in Sandy and looked at a few but I just can't commit when I sit and look at all the downsides (there are other downsides keeping me out of SLC).

I guess I sit back and realize that Utah kicks ass in basically one way and one way only (outdoor recreation). Beyond outdoor recreation, some decent restaurants, and good economy there are few other reasons to live in Utah.

I mean put it this way, you are not going to live in Utah for the progressive forward thinking politics of the 21st century.

Im not even touching the mormon shit. That in itself is an argument that I like to just sit and watch the locals yap about. When you guys aren't on the internet you sure have a different stance on a lot of these issues.

Everyone here just fails to have any respect for me since I reside from the midwest and fly in multiple times a year and spend literally thousands of dollars in your local economy. And at the same time I am having a hard time giving any respect to a group of people on the internet who just don't give a fuck about the air quality it seems.


Apr 6 2011 12:03PM
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yellav
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no one gives you respect because you have zero idea what you are talking about.
Apr 6 2011 12:08PM
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hawaiiansteeze
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hahahhahahaha. fucking gayper. stay in michigan, or visit colorado for fucks sake. its funny we've had maybe 5 days of bad inversion all year and it looks like you've been here for all of them, but thats funny because they were in different months.

traffic jams? have you been to colorado and tried to get back from the mountains?

obviously theres no reason to west of i-15. what the fuck would you do there, buy meth?


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wheres the smog in that picture? from the way it your making it sound, the inversion starts from november-april and doesnt stop that whole time...
Apr 6 2011 12:10PM
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123ski
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here are some more inversion shots for you:

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You sound like the guy that decided to take a trip here and decided to come on President's day weekend. Of course it was crowded that time of year. Of course there was an inversion in early February. Of course 40% of the state is Mormon (not sure why that matters). The way you overgeneralize based on limited experience is going to get you into trouble some day.
Apr 6 2011 12:29PM
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123ski
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here is a live webcam of SLC...OMG! That Inversion is SOOOO BAD right now.

***SARCASM***

Apr 6 2011 12:32PM
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BrownBomber
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MSU is sick. Bozeman is such a legit town.

Probably Going to Westminster, which neibors The U. Skiing there is just too ill.

Apr 6 2011 12:40PM
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intifada
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i dont know what you kids are talking about the inversion fucking sucks, granted it's mostly in the first half of the ski season but it lasts a hell of a lot more days than 5 days. I hate coming down from the mountains and seeing dirty ass smog surrounding a dirty ass city. All the people are the same, all the houses are the same, you have zero diversity, zero culture. SLC has pretty much nothing going for it besides some amazing mountains that are unfortunately next to some sorry excuse for a city.
Apr 6 2011 1:18PM
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shocker611
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i dont know why you guys are trying to convince people on salt lake, those of us that live here pretty well know its the shit, and those that dont, well hell I sure hope they hate our city! Less gapers clogging up the mountain and taking all of my fresh, stay in michigan man, where there is NOTHING to do, midwest blows man, lets face it.. but seriously, stay the fuck outta utah please an thank you
Apr 6 2011 1:22PM
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Broseph_Stalin
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but im not even Mormon
Apr 6 2011 1:28PM
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eheath
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Because it's only bad for about 10 days of our the year. You seriously should just never come back to utah if it sucks so bad, yeah utah is a desert and has alot of good recreation (not sure what else you want, bumpin clubs?) and some weird laws but they're easy to get around and saying that the liquor laws and the somewhat fucked politics is just stupid. We can only hope in the next decade all of the old fucks retire and a new more progressive congress will take over.
Apr 6 2011 1:54PM
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factory81
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eheath,

My timing with inversions must be damn near perfect. Because it's been bad probably 2 out of every 3 days I have been out. The storm comes through and cleans it out and then in a few days it settles back in again,

and you know when im out here from all my threads. last year was dec 25th - jan 3rd and feb 26th I think till march 7th and this year dec 28th - jan 5th and feb 28th to march 6th.

During those time periods I have experienced the inversion of smog prior to a storm, and a few days after the storm leaves.

So what you guys are all trying to say is the smog is not really around that often and its really just during certain times of the year? Or it is more prevalent in certain times of the year?


Apr 6 2011 3:30PM
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eheath
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Inversion in march? I don't remember that....


It happens in jan and feb and you happened to come when it was the worst.
Apr 6 2011 3:34PM
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spliff.Life
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way to go, tell everyone, lets get an entire college of ns'ers

hahaha i can just imagine all the tall tees, skullcandys, and stylin hoodies, jah could be rad, or a lame ass fad
Apr 6 2011 3:38PM
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eheath
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Good luck taking over a college of 30,000
Apr 6 2011 3:39PM
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monkatizer
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threads, i wanna go there!
Apr 6 2011 4:16PM
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Mt_P0wDerJuNkIe
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Actually factory the air quality has gotten much better over the past couple of years.  Stricter government guidelines and recent advances in industry to try and help the city's problem. The air pollution problem in slc has been here since the beggining of time. The indians called the salt lake valley valley of smoke. Salt lake is in a terrible geographic location and is subject to many inversions in the winter.  Mostly due to low sun angle and snow covering the ground.
All of this is coming from the utah environmental agency which has had a booth set up at SLCC all week to educate the public
Apr 6 2011 5:56PM
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marley-skis
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WESTMINSTER FTW... smaller population and i got a sick 5 person apartment on campus. Stokkkked for this next year. any girls out there going to the W?
Apr 7 2011 12:44AM
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Alex_G
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great place to gleam the cube.
Apr 7 2011 12:51AM
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