SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The stairway to heaven may actually be a bootpack.
Just a 15-minute hike in ski boots up through the snow from the Ninety-Nine 90 lift on The Canyons side of Park City Mountain Resort delivers skiers and snowboarders a view from the clouds, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Cobalt blue peaks blanketed in brilliant white snow and shaded with crystalized conifers huddle around the ridge line. Below, wide open aprons of nearly untouched powder unfurl, ushering riders into their own semi-private Shangri-la.
But those who accept the invitation into the unmaintained backcountry terrain may be making a deal with the devil. A stark black-and-white sign at the resort exit point cautions as much. It is not inappropriately marked with a skull and crossbones and the words “YOU CAN DIE.”
Backcountry ski entry from resorts reconsidered after deaths
JULIE JAG, The Salt Lake Tribune
March 14, 2021
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1of3Park City Mountain Resort ski patrollers hike the boot-pack path toward the ski area exit gate on the ridge above the Ninety-Nine 90 lift, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, in Park City, Utah. Access to the gate has been closed since two men died in January in avalanches in the adjacent unmaintained backcountry areas after leaving the resort through that point. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)Rick Egan/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3The exit gate on the ridge above the Ninety-Nine 90 lift at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah, seen here Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, has been closed since two men died in January in avalanches in the adjacent unmaintained backcountry areas after leaving the resort through that point. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)Rick Egan/APShow MoreShow Less
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2020 fatal crash at same location as Sunday s fatal crash
STATELINE, Nev. - Sunday s fatal collision on U.S. 50 between Zephyr Cove and Marla Bay is another statistic for a dangerous stretch of road, one that has approximately 63 percent more fatal crashes than similar rural principal arterial highways across Nevada.
The curve of the roadway near the entrance to the Presbyterian Conference Center has seen other recent fatal crashes, including one in November, 2020 that claimed the life of South Lake Tahoe man.
In five years of data, from Jan. 1, 2014 and Jan. 1, 2019, the road from milepost 2.5 to milepost 3.5 had 62 total crashes, including 1 fatality, 20 injury and 41 property-damage-only crashes. Sunday s fatal crash was near milepost 3.
STATELINE, Nev. - Sunday s fatal collision on U.S. 50 between Zephyr Cove and Marla Bay is another statistic for a dangerous stretch of road, one that has approximately 63 percent more fatal crashes than similar rural principal arterial highways across Nevada.