Do you dream of being a sponsored skier or snowboarder? Do you have the chops to ski or snowboard Utah’s 14 resorts while being followed by photographers and look damn good while doing it? Then check this out: Ski Utah is assembling an athlete team for the 2016-17 season. This is the first time they…
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Solitude to be venue for 2019 FIS World Championships
Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah’s Big Cottonwood Canyon, will join the venue lineup for the 2019 FIS Freestyle and Snowboard World Championships. The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) announced this week that “The ‘Tude” will host snowboardcross and ski cross events. But you won’t have to wait until 2019 to see the action at…
Powder Mountain proposes two new lifts
Powder Mountain is looking to expand their lift accessed terrain this season with two proposed lifts. Mary’s Bowl and Lefty’s Canyon are the targets – areas that are already within the ski area boundary, but is currently only used for the mountain’s guided backcountry tours and the popular snowcat skiing operation. According to the Standard…
DryGuy Force Dry DX review
Call it funk, stank, or plain old odor. It’s that nasty smell coming from your outdoor gear after you rode it hard and put it away wet. Not drying your gear out properly is bad on two levels: 1) it won’t be ready for you to use the next day, and 2) it can stink…
A ride on the new Solitude Summit Express
I’ll admit, I was saddened to hear that Solitude was replacing the classic Summit double chairlift with a high speed quad called the Solitude Summit Express. That old Summit lift was among my favorites for powder skiing in Utah along with Alta’s Wildcat, Snowbird’s Gad 2 and Brighton’s Millicent (of those three, only Alta’s Wildcat…
Edit your ski footage for the 2nd Annual Alta Peruvian Video Challenge
For the second year, the Alta Peruvian Lodge is hosting a ski video contest. The Alta Peruvian Video Challenge is now accepting entries from all skiers across the country, amateur pro and otherwise. Forget Sundance, because the P-Dog is like a ski film festival on steroids. Every other Thursday starting on January 21st, the best…
Update: Snowbird asks to put ski lifts and zip line in Mary Ellen Gulch
Snowbird has long eyed an expansion into Mary Ellen Gulch, and on January 7, 2016, they announced a filing for a conditional use permit application with the Utah County Board of Adjustments. The application was filed on December 8, 2015. The resort calls this a major step toward resort improvement. Snowbird’s plan is to install…
5 favorite backcountry ski routes in Little Cottonwood Canyon
Utah’s Central Wasatch is often referred to as “Wasangeles.” Traffic jams in skin tracks, fighting for freshies, and even competing against guided skiers shuttled up to mountaintops by helicopter are all par-for-the-course here. This is especially true in Little Cottonwood Canyon. LCC is arguably the hub of ski touring in Utah, thanks to easy access…
Utah hit with biggest snowstorm in five years
It’s the storm that Utah skiers and snowboarders have been dreaming about… for years. After several below-average seasons, the biggest snowstorm to hit Utah in five years arrived Christmas week, 2015. According to Ski Utah, some ski areas reported snow totals of over five feet, and even more is on the way. The event was…
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…