Road to Provo rope drop at Snowbird

Rope a dope?

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Can someone explain if this is really just a powder day rope drop, cuz all those kooks are wearing racer bibs with numbers LOL. My bet is somebody at the Special Olympics decided there were so many entries they had to do a Chinese Downhill...