Featured Picture: Courtesy of Pit Viper
The site visitors in Utah’s Cottonwood Canyons may be the stuff of nightmares. Fortunately for you, there are methods of minimizing your frustrations and maximizing your ski day when the storm rolls in and the automobiles line up. A type of options is the Ski Bus from the Utah Transit Authority, and the LCC bus simply bought a large improve.
The advertising gurus at Pit Viper have cooked up a winner of their newest stunt, wrapping the Little Cottonwood Canyon Ski Bus in signature model and declaring it the official tempo automobile of the notorious site visitors crimson snake.
“Canyon site visitors is a nightmare. Hell, it’s the Utah state mascot at this level,” Pit Viper’s Head of Advertising Troy Haas instructed FREESKIER. “Single occupancy autos are in every single place, which has by no means made sense to me. I imply, why wouldn’t you need to be chauffeured in a stretch limo with 39 of your closest buddies?”
With an optimistic method of it, Haas makes an important level. Taking the Ski Bus, or Crimson Snake Tempo Automobile, whichever you favor, does have apparent benefits. You’ll be able to catch the bus at quite a few stops round Salt Lake Metropolis, with UTA providing free parking at a number of of the Park & Experience tons close to main Ski Bus stops.
A one-way fare for the Ski Bus will value you $5.00, and when you think about the profit you’re doing for your self and the planet, it’s a fairly screamin’ deal. The Transit App is a superb useful resource to make the most of, because it permits you pay, plan your journey, discover bus routes, examine on crowds, view canyon alerts, highway closures and extra multi function place. In case you are paying in money, remember to deliver the precise quantity you want as bus drivers don’t carry change.
As if you happen to wanted extra incentives, winter 23/24 marked the third 12 months of the Ski Bus Precedence Entry Program. When LCC is pressured to shut as a result of avalanche mitigation or different causes within the winter, automobiles should wait on northbound shoulder of Wasatch Boulevard south of Little Cottonwood Canyon Highway.
“Along with retaining commuter and native site visitors transferring as regular alongside Wasatch Boulevard,” the official description reads, “this service eliminates site visitors congestion on Little Cottonwood Canyon Highway and permits the 994 bus to journey freely alongside this highway from the UTA Park and Experience lot at 2000 East and 9400 South to the mouth of the canyon, the place they’re granted precedence entry into the canyon by Sandy PD.”
Backed-up roads and lengthy wait instances have gotten a norm for a lot of skiers round North America, but it surely doesn’t need to be this fashion. Take a web page out of the handbook of our European buddies and make the most of public transportation! Whether or not you’re heading up for a mid-season lake-effect-fueled pow day or closing out the season on the legendary Frank Day, collect your folks and luxuriate in having another person shepherd your crew as much as the hill.
When you do make it as much as Alta on Frank Day, preserve a watch out for the Pit Viper workforce. You’ll discover them on the hill and subsequent to the grill. “The Pit Viper Worker private report for warm canine eaten [at Frank] was 42 final 12 months,” Haas talked about proudly. “However in whole, we cooked round 200 + 10lbs of chili. Checkmate, Coney Island.
