Court Upholds Snowboarding Ban At Utah Ski Resort"

Alta, Mad River Glen and Deer Valley all limit their guests to two planks.   

Each of these businesses has identified their key client base as retro-grouch skiers.

Taos started allowing snowboarders in 2007 -- one of the reasons for the change in policy was that multi-generational families -- including the family of the owners, included snowboarders.

The opposition to one-plankers is pretty irrational -- but don't try to tell them that:



I think the next user group that will start lobbying for access to groomed XC and lift served areas will be "snow-bike" or "fat-tire" bike riders.



In Anchorage they have separate trails for XC skiiers and "snow-bike" riders.

I've wondered about how Alta would treat the ski bike community since we are on 2 planks?  So far the only resorts I'm aware of that don't allow us locally in the NW is Mt Baker and Bachelor.  This shot is from White Pass last weekend. The upper mountain was dead during the pond skim.

"Bikes" with two skiis are yet another category,  this is what I referred to by the term "snow-bike"

I wonder what Alta would say if this guy tried to ski there:

Jim Martinson, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Famer

Back in the old days in the Alps you could be a penniless bum with no visible means of support except what you could manage from giving ski lessons, and yet when walking down the street the fact that you carried a pair of skis over your shoulder meant that you were involved in something that was intrinsically good and worthy of the smallest bit of respect. The authorities would never bother you because you were obviously a skier, someone who skied and to them that was OK, and I think that is what the rationale behind the policy at Alta is. They feel that there is something worthwhile, possibly even special about skiing and being a skier. I know it is 2016 and not 1960, but time does nothing to something that is close to an art form when mastered and the respect that Alta shows to those who ski is something they consider important in the recognition of an endeavor that has been at the heart their history. It must be looked at in their perspective. You must ski to experience Alta, that is all; just ski. How hard could it be?

Lowell, spend some time living outside of the PNW. Ski culture is different in other places...

... Martinson apparently skis and would not encounter any issues, aside from the multitude of traverse lines to the goods.