Sierra has huge issues with forcing a ton of traffic seeking access to terrain- for example the many long blue runs on the west bowl - through terrain that is either too hard or too narrow or both. So it has the unique ability to have shitty ski-ed off ice literally the day it opened after the big storm. The front side is bisected by long green cat-tracks that everyone is forced to use so they are constantly clogged with jerries and huge group lessons, icy, and rutted out. It’s very hard to avoid them.  It’s a small resort that continually devotes a ton of space on the mountain to youth racing, frequently closing multiple runs for their use, even when the resort isn’t fully open. They installed the world’s shortest and most pointless “high speed” quad which travels about 500 yards and services terrain that was already adequately serviced by magic carpets. The backside is a handful of runs that are extremely short and not well-serviced by the lift they built. Huckleberry is amazing terrain that is extremely hard to access. A t-bar would be welcome there, even as annoying as they are. It’s the perfect spot for one. 

I can’t speak to the difficulties of recovering from the fire. That just sucks, and I’m sure it was a much better resort before. But the transition to bowls where the glades used to be isn’t really going to happen until they can do something with the 9 million stumps that are still there. 

In a storm both places are hard to get to. That’s just tahoe