This most recent storm really brought the goods. Yesterday we saw friends’ reports of storm skiing over-the-head blower pow so we couldn’t resist yet another preseason powder day. The skies…
Continue ReadingA small storm blew through leaving a couple of inches right before a colder and larger storm dropped a perfectly dense 14+ inches on Alta last night. The density of…
Continue ReadingIt’s not every year that you can ski Alta’s Little Chute in mid June. Being that it was my 40th birthday we figured what better way to celebrate than with…
Continue ReadingHere’s our final edit for the 2018-2019 Alta season. Alta received almost 620 inches of snow this year making it one of the best in recent memory. We were able…
Continue ReadingThe 69th Frank World Classic went off this year with skiers Franking so franking hard. Crashes were aplenty. And so were daffies this year. Music was blasting drinks were flowing…
Continue ReadingAlta saw around a foot of fresh recently that just managed to cover up all of the hardened snow beneath. This made for a ripping fast day as you would…
Continue ReadingWe’ve had some moist spring storms rolling in the past few days at Alta. About 10 inches of cream fell overnight. Alta Ski Patrol were fully on top of things…
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 ReadingThe snow today was phenomenal. It wasn’t bottomless but that did not matter because there was just so much cream that you could ski fast top to bottom in many…
Continue ReadingAlta has been getting consistent snowfall recently and everything seems to be filling in nicely. We reached the 100 inch base mark with these storms. Skiers were getting after it on…
Continue ReadingThe snow was flying up at Alta today. We did a quick afternoon ski to try to time the snow ramping up late day. West Rustler was skiing the best,…
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 ReadingIt’s been a few days since Alta has seen any snowfall, but we figured it’s Alta we’ll still be able to find good snow. So we spent the day skiing…
Continue ReadingWind buffed pow was the best part about Alta today. That’s saying a whole lot because the pow that wasn’t buffed was pretty amazing too. The skiing all over the…
Continue ReadingIt’s been a couple of days since Alta has seen any fresh snow, and today was bright and blue and thus perfect conditions to open Baldy Chutes for the first…
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