In this nasty and divisive political season, with vitriolic messages bombarding us from all media sources, this video right here contains one message I can actually get behind. And it comes from 98-year-old George Jedenoff, aka “Skier George.” He has been a mainstay at Alta and Snowbird for 56 years, and plans to keep skiing past…
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Demo powder skis for FREE during Monster Dumps in Utah
Utah has been getting hammered with snow this season (finally) which means just about every day is a powder day. Well, to celebrate, Ski Utah, along with Ski’N See, Monster Energy and Rossignol have teamed up to get people riding on powder skis whenever a Utah ski resort reports 12 inches of new snow or…
Ski Utah invites you to first ever POW Day
POW Day is coming to Little Cottonwood Canyon in January. Of course, there’s a pow day at Alta and Snowbird every time it snows, but this POW day is a bit different. Back in September, 2015, Ski Utah announced a partnership with Protect Our Winters (POW) to help raise awareness about climate change and the…
Video: Brighton Resort first to open for 2015/16 season
It’s official! Ski and snowboard season has begun in Utah, and Brighton Resort is the first to open. The lifts started spinning on the morning of Wednesday, November 18th. Utah is having a good start to the snow year, as Brighton opened with a 22 inch base. Three lifts are running including Crest Express, Explorer,…
Ski Utah and Protect Our Winters form partnership
When your entire business model relies on snow, then you better damn well protect that resource. So it makes perfect sense that Ski Utah has formed a partnership with Protect Our Winters, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting climate change in order to save our snow. Because if there is no snow, you can’t ski…
Utah skier visits drop during 2014/2015 ski season
Go ahead, blame the weather. According to Ski Utah, skier visits to the Beehive State’s ski resorts in 2014/15 dropped 4.9 percent from the previous season. In total, this past winter’s total visits of 3,946,762 is the second worst in the last 10 years – the dubious honor of worst season belonging to 2007-2008. In…
Ski Utah upgrades to “Version 3.0” for the 2014/15 ski season
Ski Utah held its annual pre-season press conference on Tuesday at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City. The typical stats were tossed around about skier visits and resort upgrades. But the big news is that huge changes are coming to the Utah ski scene, so much so that Ski Utah Director, Nathan Rafferty,…
Utah ski resort improvements for 2014/15 ski season
The Utah ski industry has seen a lot of shakeups this year. From Vail’s purchase of Park City Mountain resort, to Solitude being sold to Deer Valley, and the Cummings buying Snowbird – the face of Utah skiing is forever altered. But for the 2014/15 ski season, there won’t be a whole lot of physical…
Ski Utah reveals ONE Wasatch lift connector locations
The very contentious ONE Wasatch plan to connect all seven ski resorts from Park City to Little Cottonwood Canyon seems to be moving forward, as Ski Utah revealed the possible lift alignments that will turn the Central Wasatch into a giant, interconnected ski resort. This mega resort would have 100 lifts, serving 18,000 acres. 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…