Skiers and snowboarders at Utah resorts are enjoying early season snow conditions that haven’t been seen in years. The start of the 2010/2011 ski season will go down in history as over 100 inches of natural snowfall has covered the Big and Little Cottonwood Canyon resorts before December, and there’s even more on the way….
Tag: Skiing
Vote favorite Ski Utah Snowflake Commercial and win gear
Three new television commercials were unveiled by the Utah Office of Tourism at the State Capitol this week, featuring the Ski Utah snowflakes as part of a media campaign to promote Utah’s awesome skiing to the masses around the country. We all know that Utah has the “greatest snow on earth,” (trademark, copyright, blah blah…
Deadline approaches for The Canyons Ultimate Mountain Gig
Imagine a job that lasts only four months, pays $40,000 a year, allows you to live in a posh hotel, and all you have to do is ski and/or snowboard every day and blog about it. In case you haven’t heard, this job opening actually exists at The Canyons and it’s appropriately called, “The Ultimate…
Sign up for 2nd annual Freeride Avalanche Summit
It’s time to start thinking about avalanches again. You can read Bruce Tremper’s book, Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain, practice with your beacon wherever you can find snow, and take a level 1 avalanche course. Even if you do all of these things every year, it never hurts to take a refresher course, and Snowbird, alomng with…
Brighton first Utah ski resort open for 2010/2011 season
A ton of autumn snow and cold temperatures started off ski season right in Utah, allowing ski resorts to open their doors earlier than anticipated. Brighton was the first resort to fire up the lifts this year when they officially opened today at 9am. Skiers and snowboarders at Brighton can enjoy day-one by doing laps…
Utah screening of “Cheap Ski Movie”
“Cheap Ski Movie” looks unlike any ski porn ever made. Although most ski movies are usually pretty dumb, at least the skiers in them seem to be aware of this, and are able to make fun of themselves. Maybe that’s the point of “Cheap Ski Movie,” which is described by the filmmakers as, “the Wayne’s…
3rd Annual Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop at The Depot
It’s the time of year to start thinking about avalanches again, especially if you spend any time in the backcountry. To help educate the skiing/snowboarding/sledding/snowshoeing public, the Utah Avalanche Center holds a workshop every first Saturday in November. Dubbed, the Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop, the event strives to bring avalanche awareness to the masses…
Five outdoor ideas to get through Utah’s shoulder season
Utah is one of those states that has what’s known as “shoulder season.” It’s that time between summer and fall, when it’s too cold and snowy to mountain bike, climb or hike, but there’s not enough snow to ski. So what can the outdoor junkie do during this dead zone of time? Plenty if you…
October at Alta – a powder skiing photo essay
Winter has arrived in Utah, and it slammed the Wasatch Mountain full bore. Over the course of three days, a late October storm dumped around 45 inches of snow at Alta. Of course the expected result is a mad rush of backcountry skiers in Little Cottonwood Canyon to make early season turns on blissfully deep…
Utah ski resort 2010 opening dates
Winter is here in Utah, and hopefully for good. Alta is getting slammed with snow and people are already hiking and skinning up for those first season turns. Looking at the Wasatch from the Salt Lake Valley reveals snow, snow, and more snow that has been falling for days straight, and the cold air has…