Hey all,
The Wasatch Trenchin’ Convention is approaching fast and so we thought an update was in order. Park City Mountain resort is a go for the 24th and 28th of January. Snowbird is in place for Friday the 25th and it seems as though Saturday the 26th might happen at Snowbasin. I spoke with Lee Yoder, the events coordinator, on Thursday and he gave an Idea of where we might be best to set up on the mountain. He also gave me contact info on the Risk Manager who would square away insurance and any other Risk management logistics with Bomber and Hardbooter alike which is a real positive sign that we may have a day at the Basin. We are trying to schedule a Saturday at Snowbasin because a crowd at this place on a Saturday is much like a midweek crowd at any other Salt Lake Valley resort destination. Cross your fingers. It would be really nice to mix it up this year more than ever.
The Wasatch Trenchin’ Convention will be occurring during the last weekend of Sundance Film Festival once again. We don’t really have any formal information on specific places to stay. We believe that there are always plenty of spots around the Salt Lake Valley that have great access, especially for this year’s WTC, to all World Class Utah Resorts. In fact we believe that staying in the Valley might be optimal with central admission to all 9 resorts within 1 hour and small change with the closest within ½ an hour between the Bird, Solitude and Brighton and or Park City Mountain Resort and the Canyons, depending on your N/S proximity to those resorts’ respective Canyons!!
As a heads up, we’ll be charging $20 dollars for all day demo regardless of boots, binders and or board rental. Fees will be the same whether you borrow just binders or a full on setup switched out several times throughout the day. For the record, this demo fee helps pay our insurance for the season to be able to put on an event like this and also to be able to rent gear out to customers throughout the season. We have never evers come into town and we’re the only demo outlet. We have people like you come into town and want to ride some new gear. We’re firm believers in try before you buy and the fees help to provide the only demo center in the state. We’re just telling you this because we, as much as anyone, wish we could do all this for nothing to you.
As always, we’ll have discount lift tickets available under the tent for all attendees whether you show up to demo or just show up to say hello before you take your runs.
We just got the 2nd of 3 parts of what the weathermen are calling the Tropical Punch. The Sierra Nevada’s just got around 10 feet? As rumor has it and we got the tail end of the storm giving us an unofficial Brighton reporting of 3 feet. We’ll take as much as there is until about Tuesday the 22nd and then we’ll be glad for it to clear out for some High Pressure over the weekend. Hope along with us so we can have some sunny afternoon BBq’ing with our friends.
See you soon!!