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Powder Mountain's Change in Ownership

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FigNewton
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For those of you who do not know Powder Mountain changed ownership. Change is going to come. For those of you who have ridden Pow Mow you know that the Ogden Valley(where I proudly live) is small, but fun and Pow Mow never has lift lines and always a great vibe. Summit Group(A group of 40 millionaire) have bought the place. As you can see in this article things will change. They already started to. Pow Mow probably is putting in a new lift and the lodges are now a lot better, but a new town, is that really necessary? Thoughts...




May 7 2013 10:57PM
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nagger
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regionals
May 7 2013 11:03PM
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d00d
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bang bang
May 7 2013 11:05PM
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FigNewton
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so if breck changed ownership, you would put it in regionals
May 7 2013 11:10PM
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ndye
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powder mountain was one of skiings last powerful stands against mega corporations turning badass real world mountains into mega resorts.

Anyone who has been to powmow knows this is a special place, and i feel sorry for anyone who couldnt make it there before this happened.
May 7 2013 11:14PM
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smuggs
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you've forgotten alta, and well alta isnt flat as fuck
May 7 2013 11:45PM
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max...
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skiing pow mow is an art. if you ski the wrong spots, you end up pushing flat a mile back to the lift; but if you know the right spots, you are getting deep turns on steep terrain, 3 days after a storm. i feel like a lot of visitors don't give it enough of a chance, but the mountain (probably better described as a series of ridges) really needs to be skied 4 days straight before know how to navigate it without having to push. and if that keeps the general public away, I'm okay with it.

And to OP- I made a thread about this a bit back when I first heard about it. sad news, but I really hope they don't do much to change it. I know there has been opposition to "powder mountain town" for some years now, and it could be possible that the new owners use it more as a retreat location for the entrepreneurship summits they hope. There really isn't much room to build until you go down the canyon to eden or huntsville; unfortunately, if they are determined to build up near the mountain they'll find a way.
May 8 2013 12:11AM
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FigNewton
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they are building a small private town on the other side of hidden lake. There is a Picture in the article that shows there plan and what it looks like now.
May 8 2013 9:32AM
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fortyvalve
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my first time there was this past Feb and i found fresh more than a week after a storm. it's honestly my favorite mountain i've ever been to. the combination of powder country, hiking cobabe, lightning ridge cat, and skiing the paradise lift line gives you sooo many great runs it's unreal
May 8 2013 9:59AM
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fortyvalve
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regarding the new ownership though, obviously the more people that get to the mountain the better it is for them and they make more money, which is ultimately what it's all about. personally, i think this plan is pretty solid and it will bring powmow a lot more publicity, sadly at the cost of more traffic and most likely longer lift lines, but powmow barely has any as it is. for a mountain that boasts the most acreage in north america i don't think this should be that surprising.
May 8 2013 10:05AM
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max...
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that sucks. i thought if they built up in eden, at least a portion of the new traffic would likely go to snowbasin. as for building on the other side of hidden lake, does that mean you have to ski through a town to access powder country? or is it more between hidden lake and sunrise?
May 8 2013 10:15AM
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nagger
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well I've never heard of this place, and I don't give a fuck about this or breck, so yeah.
May 8 2013 10:20AM
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Auzy
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That's unfortunate man pow mow is amazing and I'm so happy I grew up in Huntsville and I was able to ski it
May 8 2013 11:18AM
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smuggs
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Dont get me wrong I like to ski powder mountain, usually on hallucinigenics but it is too flat, one of the reasons you ski powder days after a storm is because if it snows 2 feet you cant ski 80% of the mountain or you will be wallowing in snow not going anywhere, you have to let it settle out to ski most of the mountain.

I love where the snowcat goes.... there should be a lift there. The rest of the mountain is MEH. From the top you see snowbasin and it makes you jealous because its an actual mountain, pow mow just seems to be meadows.

If pow mow was in any state other than utah it would be epic. Thats its problem, its in utah. There are resorts with better towns, better parks, better steeps, better snow, better events, closer to the airport, closer to other resorts. People dont come to utah to record an album at a ski resort and they probably never will......

Eden and Huntsville are truly amazing places though but the few new tourists this venture brings to utah will soon be skiing park city or the cottonwoods or snowbasin. Why do you think he brought his investors to ALTA instead of pow mow......

Like most people have said hopefully they just keep the ticket prices low.
May 8 2013 11:52AM
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Gr0mo
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PowMow is awesome, i hope they don't change it. One of the last hidden gems in the ski resort world.
May 8 2013 12:12PM
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ski_ENDUB
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I've seen this movie before
May 8 2013 12:43PM
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suup
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they have a few of these billboards up around ogden
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May 8 2013 1:33PM
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brotherdad
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their ad campaign is just classic.
May 8 2013 3:18PM
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FigNewton
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Past Sunrise. Not sure how familiar you are to the area, but there is a mountain known as "flat-top". You can see it from the valley floor, but they want to build it out there. Still there picture has a lift at the new town so that may mean a lift that goes out there.
May 8 2013 5:46PM
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GayWolf420
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This bums me out. Though I've never skied there, It's probably going to be another weak-ass, yuppie deer valley-esque resort now even though they say they are gonna "keep it natural". They say that shit all the time.
May 8 2013 5:53PM
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