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The nearly two-week strike hobbled the largest U.S. ski resort during a busy holiday period and sparked online fury about deepening economic inequality in rural mountain areas.

The Park City, Utah, Professional Ski Patrol Association went on strike Dec. 27 at Vail Resorts Inc.'s largest U.S. ski area vying for higher wages.

Colorado mountains penned a letter to Vail Resorts CEO Kristen Lynch, objecting to the company using their colleagues to backfill striking workers in Utah.

Ski patrollers at the biggest U.S. ski resort reached a tentative deal with the corporate owner of Utah's Park City Mountain Resort to end a strike and resume normal operations after almost two weeks of closed terrain and long lift lines at the busiest time of year.

Two hundred Utah ski patrollers have ended a nearly two-week strike and returned to work at the biggest ski resort in the U.S. The union representing Park City Mountain Resort ski patrollers is claiming victory after voting Wednesday to accept a deal negotiated with Vail Resorts,

Skiers have filed a class action lawsuit against Vail Resorts, saying they spent thousands of dollars to visit Park City Mountain and Vail Resorts didn’t disclose an ongoing strike or its impacts.

After 10 months of negotiations and nearly two weeks of ski patrollers going on strike against Vail Resorts, the two parties have reached a new agreement.