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30-495: The Wii version of the game is titled Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip . There are six mountains in Shaun White Snowboarding , including Alaska, Park City , Europe, and Japan. Each mountain features up to three different sections: peak , back country, and park (or resort ). There is also a " Target Limited Edition" of the game that is exclusive to Target; this version gives the player access to Target Mountain ,

60-474: A combined capacity of 16,500 persons. Almost all available tickets for events at the resort were sold — 99.8 percent — to a total of 95,991 spectators. During the games, 96 percent of the resort was open for normal seasonal operations, making it the only venue to allow spectators to leave and reenter. In March 2012, Powdr Corporation (POWDR), owners of Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR), announced that it had filed

90-564: A harness. The resort offers lift-served access for hiking and mountain biking on Crescent, Payday, and Town lifts from the Park City Mountain Village base. Canyons Village provides hiking and biking access via the Red Pine Gondola and Short Cut. Most trails in the area are family-friendly and not very strenuous. The majority of mountain bike trails are intermediate, with a small percentage designated as expert trails. Park City

120-640: A high speed quad to replace the High Meadow lift at Red Pine Lodge. For the 2019 season, Skytrac built a new fixed grip quad chairlift called "Over and Out" that goes from the bottom of Tombstone to a point just above the top of Sunrise, providing quick egress from the Tombstone and Iron Mountain pods to the Canyons Village base area by alleviating the need to take Tombstone back to Red Pine Lodge. The lift takes about five minutes and thirty seconds to ride. For

150-505: A lawsuit against Talisker Land Holdings, LLC (Talisker), which owned the adjacent Canyons Resort , as well as United Park City Mines Company, both partial land owners of the resort. The lawsuit filed by POWDR was in response to an eviction notice issued by Talisker, the entity that owns most of the land the PCMR ski runs are on, who had been leasing it to POWDR (a continuation of the existing lease between Park City Mines and POWDR when Talisker bought

180-405: A mountain with Target branding all over it. It has been described in-game as extremely difficult to find, and contains additional jibs , character models, and a sponsored version of the standard game's best snowboard which can be unlocked before the player's final challenge against Shaun White . The last mountain, called B.C. , is only available in the "Mile-High Pack" paid downloadable content. It

210-800: A sequel, Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage and a spin-off , Shaun White Skateboarding . The former was released exclusively for the Wii and supported the Wii Balance Board and Wii Motion Plus. An iOS game titled Shaun White Snowboarding: Origins was released in December 2009. Park City Mountain Resort Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) is a ski resort in the western United States in Park City , Utah , located 32 miles (51 km) east of Salt Lake City . Park City , as

240-454: Is one of the featured mountains in the 2008 video game Shaun White Snowboarding . [REDACTED] Media related to Park City Mountain Resort at Wikimedia Commons Quicksilver Gondola 40°38′28″N 111°31′42″W  /  40.64117482868444°N 111.52830351284183°W  / 40.64117482868444; -111.52830351284183 Quicksilver Gondola is a gondola located in Park City, Utah . Constructed by Doppelmayr in 2015,

270-526: Is set in British Columbia . As players progress through the game, they will earn abilities that will help them. Some of the abilities consist of gaining high speeds or the ability to break through obstacles to progress further. The Wii version of the game received more positive reception than any of the other versions. Eurogamer gave the Wii version 7/10, praising it as "the best looking version", singling out

300-601: The 2022 season, Doppelmayr had been contracted to construct two new detachable chairlifts on the Park City side of the resort. However, after the Park City Planning Commission revoked the permit to replace these lifts in Park City, Vail Resorts announced that these lifts will now be installed at Whistler Blackcomb in 2023 and replace the Jersey Cream and Fitzsimmons lifts there. As of the 2015–16 season, after

330-566: The Balance Board, and Game of the Year. The Xbox 360 version was nominated for "Worst Game Everyone Played" by GameSpot in their 2008 video game awards, and was awarded the title of "Most Dubious Use of In-Game Advertising" for excluding 20% of its content from editions not sold from the Target Stores editions. In the many months that followed Snowboarding' s release, Ubisoft Montreal developed

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360-473: The franchise." The Wii version of Shaun White Snowboarding was the 20th best-selling game of December 2008 in the United States, and it was the best selling version. Over 3 million copies of the game had been sold as of May 2009. The Wii version was a nominee for several Wii-specific awards from IGN in its 2008 video game awards, including Best New IP, Best Sports Game, Best Graphics Technology, Best Use of

390-498: The gondola carries eight people per cabin and has a length of roughly 1.5 miles. It was part of a $ 50 million expansion program that merged the once-separate Park City Mountain and Canyons Resorts under Vail Resorts. The merger made Park City the largest lift-service ski resort in the United States. Before 2015, Park City Mountain Resort and the Canyons Resort were separate, with Powdr Corporation and Vail Resorts owning

420-484: The land from Park City Mines). POWDR claimed that they had initiated talks with Talisker to extend their lease to 2051, and that Talisker had refused to agree to the terms and threatened to close the resort. In response, Talisker claimed that POWDR had failed to agree to the new terms set down by Talisker, and that they had never threatened to close the resort. POWDR sued Talisker for $ 7 million (equivalent to $ 9.3 million in 2023) for compensatory and punitive damages for

450-499: The leased land and its improvements to Talisker. In 2013, Talisker leased its 4,000 acre Canyons Resort to Vail Resorts (Vail), for $ 25 million per year plus a percentage of the Canyons Resort revenue, plus a condition that Vail also take over the legal action. Near the end of May 2013, an eviction notice was served on POWDR to vacate the leased land of PCMR, including all infrastructure on said land, which would leave POWDR with just

480-435: The merger with Canyons Resort . During the summer, Payday provides lift service to an alpine slide and an alpine coaster . Restaurants are also open during the summer, and will often have live bands and other activities. The resort creates and maintains its own trails and trail connections to the rest of the Park City area trail system. Activities at the resort include miniature golf, a climbing wall , and trampolines with

510-529: The presentation, soundtrack, implementation of the Wii Balance Board controls and multiplayer , while criticizing the Wii Remote controls, half-pipe sections, difficulty level , and short duration of the single-player mode. Daemon Hatfield of IGN said that "A kid-friendly, motion-controlled version of Shaun White Snowboarding could have been a disaster, but this turns out to be a truly slick edition of

540-451: The private land and infrastructure (accommodations, shops, parking, etc.) at the base of the ski runs. ( Greater City Co. v. United Park City Mines , 120500157 (Summit County Utah 20140521).) On September 11, 2014, Vail announced that it had purchased the base of PCMR, including its name and recognition of ski runs improvements, from POWDR for $ 182.5 million (equivalent to $ 234.9 million in 2023) and that it would combine

570-407: The resort was opened with funds from a federal government program to revive the economically depressed town. When it originally opened, it boasted the longest gondola in the United States, as well as, a double chairlift , a J-bar lift , base and summit lodges, and a nine-hole golf course. The gondola was a four-passenger Polig-Heckel-Bleichert (PHB, a German aerial ropeway company). Its sister lift

600-399: The resort with neighboring Canyons Resort over the summer of 2015 for the 2015–16 season. When the purchase was finalized, Vail added Park City Mountain Resort to its EPIC season pass program for the 2014–15 season. In 2015, the merger of PCMR with Canyons was undertaken by Doppelmayr USA as part of a project that built two new lifts and relocated a third. A new gondola called Quicksilver

630-488: The site of the former Snow Park (1946–69). During the 2002 games, the resort hosted the men's and women's giant slalom, men's and women's snowboarding parallel giant slalom, and both men's and women's snowboarding halfpipe events. The resort's Eagle Race Arena and Eagle Superpipe were used as the Olympics runs. Temporary stadiums were erected at the end of each run with spectator standing areas on each side, creating

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660-428: The ski resort and area is known, contains several training courses for the U.S. Ski Team , including slalom and giant slalom runs. During the 2002 Winter Olympics , it hosted the snowboarding and alpine giant slalom events. Opened 61 years ago in 1963, the resort has been a major tourist attraction for skiers from all over the United States, as well as a main employer for many of Park City's citizens. The resort

690-579: The surface at the foot of the Thaynes Canyon chair, and from there they had access to the entire mountain. Aerial trams once used for hauling ore were converted into chairlifts. To this day, more than one thousand miles (1,600 km) of old silver-mine workings and tunnels remain beneath the slopes of Park City and neighboring Deer Valley . Treasure Mountain's name was changed to the Park City Ski Area for its fourth season of 1966–67; in 1996, it

720-435: The threat of the closure of the resort. PCMR had leased the land on which its ski runs are located for $ 155,000 per year, with an option to renew the lease for 20 years. In March 2011, when this option came due, POWDR failed to renew the lease in a timely manner and sent a letter two days after the lease had expired. Eight months later, POWDR received a letter from Talisker that their lease had expired and they were to turn over

750-437: The two resorts respectively. However, after Powdr failing to renew its lease on Park City Mountain and a legal battle with Vail and Talisker Corporation (The entity that owned the land that Park City Mountain was operating on), Vail acquired Park City Mountain for $ 182.5 million. The company then developed plans for a $ 50 million renovation project of Park City Mountain, that, among other upgrades would merge Park City Mountain and

780-493: Was built at Sugarloaf in Carrabassett Valley , Maine , after top members of Sugarloaf's management visited Park City's lift. When the slopes first opened to the public, a special Skier's Subway was used to transport skiers nearly 2.5 miles (4.0 km) into the mountain through the pitch-black Spiro Tunnel on a mine train, where skiers then boarded a mining elevator ("hoist") that lifted them 1,750 feet (530 m) to

810-482: Was built between the bottom of Silverlode at PCMR and a point below the top of Iron Mountain at Canyons. King Con was upgraded to a high speed six pack, while the original King Con high speed quad was relocated to replace the Motherlode triple chairlift. The upgrades on the PCMR side were done to alleviate expected congestion at Silverlode and King Con from the added interconnect gondola. The former Canyons Resort base area

840-442: Was purchased by Vail Resorts in 2014 and combined the resort with neighboring Canyons Resort via an interconnect gondola to create the largest lift-served ski resort in the United States. During the ski season, most slopes and lifts are open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The resort was opened on December 21, 1963, as Treasure Mountain by United Park City Mines, the last surviving mining corporation in Park City, and

870-488: Was renamed Park City Mountain Resort . The resort had grown to include eight peaks and nine bowls, with 3,300 acres (5.2 sq mi; 13.4 km ) of skiing and sixteen chairlifts. The resort has also developed summer activities including an alpine slide , alpine coaster, zip-lines , and several hiking and biking trails. A sister ski area, originally known as Park City West and later as Canyons Resort , opened in 1968. Deer Valley Resort opened in December 1981, at

900-545: Was renamed the Canyons Village at Park City and the entire combined resort now operates under the Park City Mountain Resort name. Park City mountain resort is home to many ski schools run by the mountain, but is also home to privately owned ski schools. In 2017, the various individual clubs came together to form one organization - Park City Ski & Snowboard Club. For the 2018 season, Doppelmayr constructed

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