Alta’s average first snowfall doesn’t usually occur until the first week of October so I’m taking today’s storm as a sign of things to come. 1,000 inch winter here we…
Continue ReadingWe didn’t have huge expectations for today considering we don’t know the terrain at Brighton very well. And there’s only one lift open. But when we noticed at the top…
Continue ReadingWinter has arrived in Utah and the storm total at Alta was 9 inches from this recent storm but it definitely felt deeper up towards the top of Gunsight. Most…
Continue ReadingWe thought we were going to get blue skies today. But this winter that’s not really happening. And we’re not going to complain. Bus laps were the hot spot for…
Continue ReadingThis storm was cold and potent, dumping about 4 feet of snow on Alta. This put us over the 748″ all-time record of ’81-82′. The wind and snow continued all…
Continue ReadingThis winter has been a persistent stream of moisture, so much so that we’ve rarely caught a bluebird pow day. Today, we finally made some sunny runs! Backside and the…
Continue ReadingThis was a much anticipated storm after the dry spell we’ve had. And with dumpage in the city, we figured the junk show into and up canyon would be epic.…
Continue ReadingWe had a late start and traffic was oddly still really bad at 11am, so afternoon it was and we figured inbounds would be tracked so to Rocky and Patsy…
Continue ReadingIt 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 ReadingUtah has been getting pounded with the snow the past couple of weeks. There was lots of anticipation going into this past weekend with up to 72″ in the forecast.…
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 ReadingIt snowed 8 inches overnight. Those 8 inches happened to be super light and dry fluff. And it seemed a lot deeper than 8. We skied Lone Pine, Thirds, Eagle’s…
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 ReadingThe storm underproduced but still left almost a foot of snow in the upper canyon. Alta closed the mountain to uphill traffic in preparation for the much anticipated opening day…
Continue ReadingOur plans changed several times. Alta closed the parking lots at 6pm and uphill traffic at 6pm so our plans settled on parking up at the Summer Road and circling…
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