Just noticed that Park City has made a number of changes to their trail ratings at Park City. There is no longer a double blue trail rating designation. Most of the previous double blues are now designated as black diamond. Meanwhile, all of the previous single black diamond rated trails on the 9990 lift have now been increased to double black.
Talk about trail rating inflation. The changes are absurd in my view and now makes a mockery of the entire trail rating system at Park City. Runs like Sidewinder and Tycoon are now black diamonds? Please! Meanwhile, trails like Moraine, 94 Turns, and Aspen Grove rated as double black is just absurd. The only benefit I can see is to keep more people off of Sidewinder which could get pretty crazy with the mixture of advanced skiers trying to get past the less advanced skiers clogging up what is a narrower ski run.
I am concerned some skiers not familiar with the area might go down one of these recently inflated black or double black runs and then head on over to terrain with the same rating designation that is much more difficult and potentially get in over their head. Park City/Vail made a huge mistake with the changes to the trail rating designation, in my view.
Any others agree with me that the changes are idiotic? Has anyone noticed Vail making similar changes at their other resorts?
Talk about trail rating inflation. The changes are absurd in my view and now makes a mockery of the entire trail rating system at Park City. Runs like Sidewinder and Tycoon are now black diamonds? Please! Meanwhile, trails like Moraine, 94 Turns, and Aspen Grove rated as double black is just absurd. The only benefit I can see is to keep more people off of Sidewinder which could get pretty crazy with the mixture of advanced skiers trying to get past the less advanced skiers clogging up what is a narrower ski run.
I am concerned some skiers not familiar with the area might go down one of these recently inflated black or double black runs and then head on over to terrain with the same rating designation that is much more difficult and potentially get in over their head. Park City/Vail made a huge mistake with the changes to the trail rating designation, in my view.
Any others agree with me that the changes are idiotic? Has anyone noticed Vail making similar changes at their other resorts?