Parking at the Park City local areas has become very difficult and frustrating if one doesn’t decide to leave early in the morning to go Skiing. Then, by leaving before the masses, there’s plenty of waiting time inside the car or at the nearby coffee shop until lines begin forming around the base ski lifts. 

All this amounts to a royal waste of time no one wants, particularly on weekends. This new reality has prompted me to ride our local Shuttle more frequently this season. To start, I don’t want to risk an accident with my car as I circle forever around the gigantic parking lot to locate an empty spot left by a departing automobile, not to mention the risk of hitting one of the many pot-holes that pop up everyday on that large expanse of asphalt. Right, that’s both added risk and time wasted!

The shuttle bus isn’t a convenient option either where my house is located, but I can make it work and by texting the passage time of the next shuttle at a given spot, I can get a good estimated time of pick-up and work my departure from home accordingly. 

Returning isn’t as simple as time riding the lift, more so than the duration of descent, affects the return to the bus-stop for the travel home. In addition, after all that skiing, who wants to wait 10, 20 or even more minutes? This is even truer as the day wears on, shuttle schedules slip and traffic congestion creeps up. 

What can I say? I guess: “Shut up and enjoy the ride!”