Wasatch Equality- Share the Shred Alta

That was a great piece clearly highlighting the ongoing absurd discrimination by Alta. I applauded Burton back in the day when they launched their “Power to the Poachers” campaign. More of this needs to happen. I’m generalising here, but the skiers at Alta are seriously a bunch of backward assholes. As much as I would love to see snowboarding allowed on the mountain, I don’t think I would ever want to go there. And if I did, I wouldn’t be able to help myself; I would be spraying skiers the whole way down.

I remember snowboarding further north in Utah at a resort in the early 90s. It was dumping snow and hardly anyone was at the resort that day, maybe 20 cars. We were getting on the lift, when I heard the owner say to a liftee ‘snowboarders are trouble makers’ always bouncing the lift chairs and so on. The bouncers were actually skiers. I couldn’t believe he said something like that, obviously because we were right there. They used to have a policy that snowboarding wasn’t allowed on any of the beginner runs. I didn’t care because it thrust me right out there and forced me to learn on blues and blacks. But I always thought it was the dumbest thing. Why would you want beginner boarders to risk getting in the way of more advanced skiers? Skiers can be out of control as well and they also have to go through a beginner phase where they may accidentally get in someones way. Luckily they opened the entire mountain to snowboarders a couple years later. Now I would estimate that resort receives 60% of its revenue from snowboarders. It is crazy that all of Utah, but 2 resorts have embraced snowboarding. I have great conversations with skiers all the time on the lifts. But I also remember coming out to the highway after a backcountry run. I would then hitchhike back to the resort as most of the traffic was to there. After being passed up by several cars with skis on top and hiking about a mile, one stopped and gave me a lift the rest of the way. The driver said he was reluctant to stop because I was a snowboarder. He was nice enough, but its clear there are some close minded jerks out there, who clearly have no understanding of the sport.

they can have it as far as im concerned