The recent storm dropped about a foot on Alta Ski area. Most of the terrain saw skier traffic yesterday and Baldy Shoulder opened this morning with what looked like some…
Continue ReadingThis weeks storm dropped 12″ of snow on Alta. Yesterday was basically a country club day with free refills every run. The storm was intense but the conditions kept you…
Continue ReadingMonday at Alta was a bit of a sleeper pow day, in the sense that only 8 inches were reported after a long weekend of snowy conditions so a lot…
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Continue Reading25″ of snow was the total to this weekend’s storm. By Sunday morning the skies had cleared and the hopes were some new terrain would open. Bombs were going off…
Continue ReadingOpening day at Alta was actually better than expected. With nine fresh inches on top of a meager snow base hidden obstacles were a concern. But for the most part…
Continue ReadingWe condensed 20 years of Alta and LCC skiing into 4 minutes for your viewing pleasure. Most of the shots are from more recent and you can tell the older…
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Continue ReadingWe’ve seen little brush by storms over the past week that have added small amounts of snow to our base. It’s still really thin up there but things are slowly…
Continue ReadingWe 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…
Continue ReadingThe 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…
Continue ReadingThe 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…
Continue ReadingThere 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…
Continue ReadingAfter 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…
Continue ReadingThis 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…
Continue ReadingYesterday 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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