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Alta Daily / Buy Gear and Make a Utah Avalanche Center Donation

February 8, 2021February 8, 2021 / The Daily Pow /

This is a sponsored post. We may periodically receive payment or other considerations from media partnerships. Gear up and make your Utah Avalanche Center donation at the same time. Oh…

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Alta Daily / Early Season Turns

November 8, 2020November 8, 2020 / Nate /

As of Saturday noontime Alta had nothing but a dusting of snow on the highest peaks. Things were looking grim. Unless you were privy to the forecast. Winter arrived with…

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Alta Daily / Suicide Chute Still Goes

June 14, 2020June 14, 2020 / Nate /

Last week the snow almost reached the road at the base of Mt. Superior. When we arrived this morning that was no longer the case. About 300 vertical feet up…

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Alta Daily / Alta Season Recap 2020

April 4, 2020April 4, 2020 / Nate /

This year at Alta was another stellar one, with snow starting in October and then really picking up late November and never stopping. Lots of deep days for Utah in…

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Alta Daily / Alta Cream On Crust

March 1, 2020March 1, 2020 / Nate /

The storm scheduled for today was potentially up to 16 inches of thick snow so expectations were moderate to high. This morning, when we saw there was more snow in…

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Alta Daily / President’s Day Pow

February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 / Nate /

This recent storm dropped about a foot and a half of snow. Not Utah blower but not any coastal cement this time either. It was super fast velvet right from…

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Alta Daily / Post Storm Goods

February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 / Nate /

The fierce storm that slammed Alta a few days ago really left a path of destruction. There are places in the road down canyon side that still have broken tree…

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Alta Daily / Roctober High Boy Lap

October 11, 2018 / Nate / 4

We didn’t bother to check the final storm total but we were estimating around 20 inches on top of the previous storm’s base. This made us fairly confident we could…

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Alta Daily / Shallow Cream on Rocky Bush

October 8, 2018October 14, 2018 / Nate / 3

The first significant snow of the 2018-2019 season was a meager storm.  I estimated about 6 inches at the base and maybe 10 up to 15 where it drifted high…

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Alta Daily / The 88th Annual Frank Powder-Eight Ski World Classic

April 19, 2018 / Nate /

The skies were gray and the snow less than ideal but you wouldn’t have known it watching the hot doggin’ dong floppin’ Frankensteiners absolutely Franking the hell out of that…

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Alta Daily / Cream On Crust

April 12, 2018 / Nate /

There is a lot of hard snow and ice at Alta right now but today’s snow is helping cover it up.  Around 2pm it was officially nuke town.  Runs from Gunsight through…

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Alta Daily / 1″ is Better Than 0″

April 5, 2018 / Nate /

After valley temps soared into the 70’s this past weekend a cold front mixed with little precipitation didn’t seem like it would bow well for skiing conditions.  Much to our…

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Alta Daily / Alta 2017-2018 Highlight Reel

March 29, 2018 / Nate /

This year we haven’t exactly had the deepest of winter’s but after the miracle March month memories of the dismal snow pack days seem to be dwindling away.  Even on…

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Alta Daily / Whisper Ridge

March 27, 2018 / Nate /

Yesterday we were treated to one of Utah’s newest resorts, Whisper Ridge.  A heli and cat skiing operation, Whisper Ridge operates just 90 minutes north of Salt Lake City.  With…

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Alta Daily / Bluebird Velvet

March 16, 2018 / Nate /

It snowed a very surprising 10 inches overnight bringing the grand total for this storm to 23 inches.  Minimal snow was forecast overnight so it was a bit of a…

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Alta Daily / The Deepness Continues

March 5, 2018 / Nate /

Thirty inches storm total and the snow kept trying to come back in this morning which made it a bit tricky to open up terrain, so Baldy Shoulder remained unopened,…

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