Wax those boards and duct-tape those torn jackets! A late-summer cold front dropped inches of rain in Utah’s valleys and over a foot of snow in the mountains. The two day storm from September 22-24 gave Utah three tornadoes, flooding, and yes, powder in the high country. It’s the first major snowstorm of the 2016/17 ski season, and it heralds the imminent arrival of winter.
Ski Utah took a trip to the upper reaches of Salt Lake’s Cottonwood Canyons to snap some photos, and these shots are only half-way through the storm. As of this writing, there is still more precipitation on the way.
Of course this snow won’t stay on the ground for long, as summer returns next week. Hopefully, it will all melt so backcountry skiers won’t have to contend with a deep, ground-level instability of rotten snow all winter long.
To keep up to date with snowfall totals and expected ski resort openings in Utah, head over to skiutah.com