Monday, April 11, 2011 - 10:46 PM

Salt Lake City, UT - While some forsythia plants are already blooming in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah ski resorts are blanketed with their deepest snow bases of the season. Some are already planning to keep the lifts turning into May and beyond.

Monday, April 11, 2011 - 01:41 PM

Salt Lake City, UT - On April 3, the Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) announced that it had reached the end of its funding and it would be closing for the season. The problem is, with deep late-season snowpack, the backcountry itself is still open for business. Without their expert information on current avalanche and weather conditions, thousands of backcountry users in Utah face a higher risk of accident, injury or even death due to unstable snow conditions and avalanche. To Park City-based online outdoor retailer Backcountry.com that fact was hard to swallow, so the company stepped in with a solution.

Monday, April 11, 2011 - 11:53 AM

Editor's Note: This is a weekly column written by Meteorologist Joel Gratz that will take you "behind the scenes" of the typical weather forecast. Joel is the founder of ColoradoPowderForecast.com, where you can sign up for his email alerts.

by Joel Gratz

Boulder, CO - Computer model weather forecasts are often wrong. They give a great "guess" about how the weather patterns behave, but like people they can sometimes have a bias.

Tuesday, April 05, 2011 - 02:15 PM

Alta, UT - To raise funds to help support their community efforts, three of Alta, Utah's non-profit organizations -- Alta Community Enrichment (ACE), the Friends of Alta (FOA) and the Alta Historical Society (AHS) -- will host the 5th annual Alta Gala on Saturday, April 9th at La Caille Restaurant in Cottonwood Heights, starting at 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 05, 2011 - 01:15 PM

Park City, UT - Park City Mountain Resort has extended its 2010-11 ski and snowboard season by an additional week until Sunday, April 17. Resort officials have now announced pricing and lift operations for the final week of the winter season.

Saturday, April 02, 2011 - 09:00 AM

Alta, UT - Alta Ski Area has scheduled its annual Spring Demo Day for Saturday, April 9. Guests will have the opportunity to try 2012 skis for free. All they need to do is bring a pair of boots and a credit card to try any ski or product they'd like from the following manufacturers:

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 12:00 PM

Salt Lake City, UT - SheJumps, a 501c3 nonprofit based in Salt Lake City, is in the midst of its third season of (S)heJumps Into the Canyon: Empowering SLC Teens in the Wasatch (SJIC). SJIC brings inner city teens from Salt Lake into the mountains to experience skiing with help from passionate professional and recreational female athletes for four sessions in March, plus one in April. The goal of SJIC is to introduce these teens to an otherwise out-of-reach, affluent sport and to share the stories of local skiers who have chosen to make skiing an everyday part of their lives.

Monday, March 28, 2011 - 08:30 PM

Ephraim, Utah - Despite a substantial rescue effort, an avalanche in central Utah on Saturday has claimed the life of a backcountry skier.

Monday, March 28, 2011 - 02:00 PM

Park City, UT - The Park City ski resorts of the Wasatch Back, including Park City Mountain Resort, Canyons Resort and Deer Valley Resort, have announced the 3rd annual Wasatch Backside Lifty Invitational (WBLI), running today through Friday.

Monday, March 28, 2011 - 12:00 PM

Park City, UT - Park City Mountain Resort has announced that it is extending its 2010-11 ski and snowboard season by a week to April 17.