Vacationers at the largest ski resort in the United States were outraged over the three hour long waits for lifts caused by a worker strike.
The week after Christmas is usually the busiest time of the year for skiing, and that is no exception for Utah's Park City Resort, the biggest ski area in the US by slope length.
On December 27 the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association went on strike against Vail Resorts, the owner of Park City ski mountain, and demanded a living wage.
Despite a January 4 message from Vail claiming the mountain was 'open and operating safely despite the patrol union strike,' skiers have noticed huge delays in using the facilities.
In his post, he included a picture of the obscenely long line he had been stuck in for the chairlift. It costs $288 for a single-day lift ticket at Park City Resort, while for children aged 5 to 12, parents will need to fork over $187.
A video posted to a local news outlet's Instagram showed a line for a lift winding through a huge section of the resort. People carrying all their gear were seen waiting with no end in sight.
'You have less than 20 percent of the mountain available to ski, but they’re not limiting the amount of guests or consumers they’re allowing on the ski mountain, which made it very unsafe and very challenging for, I think, everyone,' Nystrom later told ABC4.com in an interview.
As of Monday morning, nearly 30 percent of the mountain's trails are open, while about 60 percent of the lifts are operational.
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