As winter draws near, Utah ski resorts start touting all the new improvements they’ve made in the off season to try and lure skiers and snowboarders to the mountains. If the list recently put out by Ski Utah this week is any indication, construction crews have been busy in Utah upgrading facilities both on and…
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One week left to become Ski Utah Park Rat
Want to write a blog about skiing and snowboarding in Utah and get a Ski Utah Silver Pass in return? Think you got the writing chops and motivation to shred your heart out at all 14 Utah ski resorts? Then you may be the guy or gal who deserves to be the new Ski Utah Park…
Photos and video: 4th of July skiing at Snowbird
Skiing the 4th of July has only happened three times in Snowbird’s history. 2011 was year #3, but the season will also go down in the books as the longest season at 202 days, and for record-breaking snowfall with a total 783 inches. To celebrate these amazing stats, but to mostly experience the novelty of…
Summer skiing at Snowbird
2011 will go down as the one of the greatest Utah ski seasons in anyone’s memory. Surely the over 700 inches of snow our Wasatch Mountain ski resorts were buried under, as well as the incredible wet spring that followed, will be talked about in bars and skier gathering places for decades to come. And…
Salomon BBR tour to wrap up with party at Alta
Salomon has been showing off their new-and-unusual BBR ski on a cross-country road trip this season called the “Shape Your Adventure Tour.” As a grand finale, the BBR trailer will roll into Alta for the last day. Of course, skiers will do what skiers do, and that means find any excuse to throw a bitchin’…
Celebrate Mardi Gras at Brian Head Resort
Get out your mask and beads along with your skis, because Mardi Gras is coming to Brian Head Resort. Spring skiing will take on New Orleans style in southern Utah, and it looks like it’s going to be a party. Here are a few things going on throughout the day: Ski/Board Poker Run: 9:30 a.m….
Utah ski resort closing dates for 2011
It’s March, and the days are already getting longer and warmer. It won’t be long before we’re greasing up our mountain bike chains and organizing the rock climbing gear racks. That means ski season is on the death walk toward summer, and now’s the time to plan ahead for corn skiing and barbecues in the…
Ski Utah iPhone App to feed powder addiction
Did you ever wake up late one winter morning and casually check the snow report, only to realize in despair that it snowed an unexpected foot of powder in the Wasatch? It’s a painful event that has happened to us all. But thanks to Ski Utah and their new app for the iPhone, involuntary snowfall…
Grand opening of Utah’s 14th ski resort Eagle Point
Eagle Point, Utah’s newest ski resort (bringing the total to 14,) had their grand opening on Wednesday, December 15th. Skiers and snowboarders from around the state made the trip to the Tushar Mountains above Beaver to be a part of Utah ski history and be among the first to ride the lifts and make turns…
Canyons fires up the Orange Bubble Express on opening day
Canyons opened for the 2010/11 on Friday, December 10th to much fanfare over the new, first-of-its-kind in North America, Orange Bubble Express with heated seats. According to Canyons, the seats are set at a toasty 56 degrees, and judging from people’s reactions on the first day, the Orange Bubble is a hit. The first 100…