Well it's been an interesting discovery of how to handle ski pants tailoring. RP and SO really, really, really only want to do ski pants hemming by cutting them at the knee and taking up the hem there. I finally convinced Penny at SO to consider doing it the way I really wanted, but the price was $200+ (plus shipping costs to and from). RP hasn't even gotten back to me on doing it my preferred way. I ended up visiting my local tailor and it probably shouldn't have surprised me that she's hemmed hundreds of ski pants over the years (considering she's in the Denver metro). So she was just fine with doing it the way I preferred and the cost wasn't too insane ($125 and no shipping costs). Even better, they'll be done by next Thursday.
For those interested, I really didn't want a new seam added in the knee area of these pants. They have no seams cutting across the legs anywhere and I wasn't thrilled with the idea of adding them. RP and SO will seam seal them, so there really wasn't a concern regarding the waterproof membrane, but I just couldn't come to grips with the idea of the new seam and what it would look like. I just wanted the pants hemmed like normal from the bottom. My tailor was willing to do that and simply shorten the side zippers, shorten the internal gaiters, and move the cuff guards higher.
Keeping my fingers crossed...