It snowed a foot overnight, the road opened before 830am, we nailed our sneak attack route, the lot was surprisingly empty and we walked right onto the Collins chair as…
Continue ReadingAlta got hit with a foot of snow overnight and more was in the forecast for today. We got a late start because of work not hitting the Sandy roads…
Continue ReadingThis week has been relentless. The storm won’t give us a break. Ya know, to do useless things like not go skiing. It’s gotten so deep in places. And Backside…
Continue ReadingAfter last week’s super busy Big Cottonwood opening, we were expecting similar crowds today in LCC. But when we hit the canyon around 8:15am there were no cars in front…
Continue ReadingOur yesterday storm continued to trickle out a few more inches and we ended up with almost a foot of fresh. Devil’s Castle was the last big terrain opening left…
Continue ReadingAlta had a lot of work to do to cover up the icy moguls that had formed over the past few days. With up to 20 inches forecast, we figured…
Continue ReadingThis week at Alta has been nothing short of stellar. It was supposed to clear up today but it just kept snowing. The lifts were delayed about an hour and…
Continue ReadingIt’s been awhile since we’ve seen fresh snow fall on Alta’s slopes so it came as no surprise that skiers were hooting and hollering all over the mountain today. We…
Continue ReadingThis has been the season of weekend powder. It’s great timing since our availability has been reduced to weekends for the time being. This storm was a bit of a…
Continue Reading2020 has been the strangest year in recent history. So why would a powder day be normal? It wasn’t. We hit the canyon road about 8:15am and the traffic was…
Continue ReadingIt snowed a whole bunch last night. The kind of snow that was super surfy and fast. Everything off the High Traverse was skiing fast and shredable. We even found…
Continue ReadingAs the storm approached it seemed more and more likely that LCC was going to receive the brunt. By Wednesday afternoon Alta’s totals were closing in on 20 inches and…
Continue ReadingThe two previous days at Alta were the storm day and post storm day. Today many gates opened including some rarities. The White Cliffs gate and the East Castle gate…
Continue ReadingAlta saw a sleeper foot of powder Saturday night into Sunday and then another foot came swinging through Sunday night. By Monday morning the skies had cleared and we were…
Continue ReadingAlta received about a foot of fluff overnight. But because Evan Thayer of famed Wasatch Snow Forecast did not predict this would happen, the parking lot was relatively empty and…
Continue ReadingThe 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…
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