It’s only mid-November, and Utah has already experienced its first avalanche fatality of the ski season. Jamie Pierre, a pro skier who was well known in the Snowbird community and the ski world, was killed after being swept away in a slide that took him over a band of cliffs. According to the Salt Lake…
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Enter Snowbird’s Local Hero POV Video Contest
Got any badass POV footage of yourself skiing or snowboarding? Then you have a chance to win Snowbird’s Local Hero POV Video Contest. If you don’t, then charge up those camera batteries and wipe off the lens because as soon and the snow flies, you’ll want to start shooting footage to edit together and send…
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…
Treat dad to beers and BBQ at Snowbird Brewfest
There’s nothing many fathers like more than a beer and barbeque. So for Father’s Day Weekend, Snowbird is hosting its third annual Brewfest on June 18 and 19, with a barbeque on Sunday. Over a dozen Utah breweries will be present slinging cold ones on draft to dads who are lucky to have children and/or wives who…
Video: Spring Shreddin
It’s June 1st, the unofficial beginning of summer. But here in Utah, especially in the Wasatch, winter still grips the mountains as record breaking rainfall drenches the valleys. So to say hello to the summer months that are very unsummer-like this year, here’s some spring ski-stoke to celebrate. Spring Shreddin comes from our friend, Mike…
Snowbird to stay open until Fourth of July
As if the 2010/11 ski season wasn’t record breaking and awesome already, but Snowbird has made it even more incredible by announcing that they will probably be able to stay open through the Fourth of July. If you haven’t heard already, Snowbird (and all of Utah) is enjoying a record breaking snowfall year, which will…
Salt Lake County says “no” to Snowbird coaster
Snowbird’s plan to build a roller coaster on Mount Superior has come off the tracks. Salt Lake County’s Board of Adjustment on Wednesday, May 11, overturned the Planning Commission’s decision to allow a roller coaster on the south side of Mount Superior across from Snowbird. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the county took this…
Snowbird seeks Master Development Plan feedback
Snowbird has huge expansion plans, and they’ve recently come a step closer to making their pie-in-the-ski wishlist a reality. The Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest recently accepted their updated Master Development Plan, so Snowbird is now reaching out to the public to seek your feedback. Snowbird will host a forum where you can learn and discuss the Master Development…
Snowbird breaks season snowfall record
If you’ve had any doubt that Utah is having an epic winter this season, then all the proof you need is on the ground at Snowbird, where the Little Cottonwood Canyon ski and snowboard resort set their all-time single season snowfall record. On Tuesday, April 26th, Snowbird recorded their 690th inch of snowfall, which eclipses…