Summer is a sad time of year for skiers. But what we lose in snow, powder turns and cold air, we gain in having a brief window to ski a place we can’t otherwise access. The Uinta Mountains is one such place. The Mirror Lake Highway, the main artery through the Unitas that goes from…
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Backcountry skiing Lake Peak and Red Baldy
Spring backcountry skiing often means that approach routes are bare dirt, mud or even green grass. But one place that still hold snow from the car to the peaks is White Pine in Little Cottonwood Canyon. This high-elevation canyon is a corn-mecca with mountains like Red Stack, Lake Peak, Red Baldy and White Baldy all…
Backcountry skiing Lewiston Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains
The road ahead is rocky, rutted, steep, muddy, snowy and treacherous. Taking a deep breath, I put my older-model Nissan Pathfinder into 4×4 low, and slowly crawl up the mountainside. I’m nervous, but Adam’s enthusiasm about the Pathfinder’s off-road capability convinces me to drive a mile beyond the trailhead parking lot on a route that…
Alta in April Days are here!
Spring is probably my favorite time of year to ski. The snowpack is deep, the spring storms come in big and heavy, the days are warm, the sun shines bright, corn snow is massively fun to ski on, and every day feels like a party. The beer flows on lodge decks, heavy jackets come off…
Oquirrh spring skiing on Lowe Peak
The Oquirrh Mountains, Salt Lake City’s “other” range on the west side of the city, is like the redheaded stepchild that gets no love compared to the Wasatch. But despite the range’s confusing access because of an obscene amount of private property, and very little in the way of developed trail heads and general information,…
Backcountry skiing Lone Peak
Lone Peak is one of those iconic, Wasatch mountains that just begs to be skied. If you look at her from the south as she rises high above the town of Alpine, gigantic ramps of south-facing slopes call out. Every time I drove north from Utah County in the winter, I would promise myself to…
Alta Radio “on the air” in Little Cottonwood Canyon
A new radio station is “on the air,” well, more like on the Internet, and for you Alta skiers around the world, this is good news. Alta Radio fired up the microphones and song playlists this season, spinning tunes and serving the Little Cottonwood Canyon community with news, weather reports, and road conditions, 24/7. It’s…
Atomic 2015 Bent Chetler ski review
The Atomic Bent Chetler has been around for a few years. So why write a review about it now? Because the new, 2015 model is basically an entirely different ski. This will be the 6th version of the iconic pro-model ski from Atomic athlete Chris Bentchetler. So what makes the new Bent Chetler so different?…
Critical response to One Wasatch interconnect plan
After Ski Utah’s big announcement of the One Wasatch interconnect plan that would make it possible to ski from Deer Valley to Snowbird on one lift ticket drew praise on the one hand, and critical ire on the other. Among the organizations that came out in opposition to the plan are Save Our Canyons and…
One Wasatch to connect 7 Utah ski resorts
Ski Utah and all seven Wasatch ski resorts dropped a big announcement that may well push the long-talked about Interconnect into reality. One Wasatch is a new idea that will connect all the Central Wasatch resorts from Deer Valley in Park City to Snowbird in Little Cottonwood Canyon. The combination of joining these resorts means…