Some Not-So-Great Ink For Ogden

Snow Basin -- simply another Salt Lake City ski resort?
NYT reporters appear to have missed the Mayor's memo on the Ogden City "high adventure recreation" meme

By Curmudgeon

Some not-so-great-ink for Ogden in the New York Times this morning. There's a long and very appreciative article about Snow Basin, touting the food, the skiing --- think Vail, minus the crowds the article says --- and the magnificent lift systems, and the fact that you can still find untracked powder days after a storm while it's all gone by noon at the more crowded SLC Cottonwood Canyon and Park City resorts. Really an up-beat favorable article, telling serious skiers that Snow Basin is not to be missed.

What then is the problem? This: here is how Snow Basin's location is described --- "The ski area, 33 miles north of Salt Lake City...." Travel time to the resort is given in terms of minutes [45] from Salt Lake City. In the entire long article, Ogden is mentioned only once. The reporter rode the John Paul lift and the Mt. Allen tram to the top. And then: "After taking in the expansive vista off the ski area's back side --- the town of Ogden spread out below, and Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada in the distance...." That's it. Nary another word. Snow Basin is treated in the article as simply another SLC resort, just a little further off than the rest, and with no hotels. And there's this little town [not city] you can see if you take the Mt. Allen tram all the way to the top.