Ever since it purchased Park City Mountain, Vail Resorts has showed very little interest, if no inkling at all, in managing the vegetation near or on its ski runs whether they were fallen or dangerously leaning trees or bush of all kinds, including saplings, aspen shoots or elderberry bushes. 

These obstacles are incredibly dangerous to skiers and so are the “whippers” that inhibit early skiing when the snow cover is still thin… 

Big change might be on its way, as this past summer the Resort began cutting vegetation under the Crescent chairlift towers and more recently I was incredibly surprised to see a male and female patrol personnel sawing a fallen tree in pieces on iron mountain, not with a regular chain saw (they're green!), but with a rudimentary hand tool. 

As in Bob Dylan’s song, “the times they are a-changin’” at Park City Mountain… Perhaps!