Wednesday, December 02, 2009 - 11:00 AM

Salt Lake City, UT - Solitude Mountain Resort will host the annual Ski and Shred Red Day on Friday, Dec. 18. The University of Utah and Solitude have teamed up this year for this annual end-of-the-semester escape where powder-hungry students, faculty and staff from the U can take to the slopes at a big discount.

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 12:00 PM

Park City, UT - Skiers in Park City for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend will be treated to the inaugural Orion Independent Music Festival, taking place the week leading up the famed Sundance Film Festival. The Festival will provide exposure to unsigned music acts in a similar way Sundance does for filmmakers. Artists will perform in several venues throughout the town's historic Main Street. Music genres will include rock, pop, jazz, R&B, lounge, country, and hip hop.

Monday, November 30, 2009 - 09:00 AM

Sandy, UT - Now that his stint on television's "Dancing With The Stars" is over, Sandy, Utah's Louie Vito, twice champion of the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix tour, has high aspirations for his halfpipe riding, which includes a trip to the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. With the first stop of the Grand Prix just around the corner, which serves as Olympic qualifications for halfpipe, Vito is ready to reach that dream.

Sunday, November 29, 2009 - 02:00 PM

Calgary, Canada - U.S. Ski Team racer TJ Lanning of Park City, Utah, who was injured Saturday during a crash in the opening downhill of the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup season, is recovering in a Calgary hospital. According to U.S. Ski Team Medical Director Richard Quincy, Lanning suffered a dislocated left knee and non-displaced fracture of a vertebrae in his neck.

Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 03:00 PM

Salt Lake City, UT - A pair of free avalanche awareness classes have been scheduled along the Wasatch Front to fill a critical need for basic avalanche education for all backcountry and sidecountry skiers and snowboarders in Utah.

Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 03:00 PM

Lake Louise (AB), Canada - The U.S. Ski Team's T.J. Lanning, a native of Park City, Utah was injured Saturday when he crashed during the opening downhill ski race of the Audi FIS World Cup season in Lake Louise.

Friday, November 27, 2009 - 09:00 AM

Park City, UT - For Deer Valley guests, locals and visitors alike, the Utah ski resort's annual holiday events have become traditions for the entire Park City community.

Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 09:00 AM

Parley's Summit, UT - Gorgoza Park, the snow tubing hill operated by Park City Mountain Resort beside I-80 at Parley's Summit, has announced that it will open its tubing lanes early for the 2009-10 winter season Friday through Sunday this week for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 01:00 PM

Park City, UT - This year Stein Eriksen Lodge at Deer Valley Resort is celebrating the holiday season with the creation and display of a nine-foot long, four-foot wide and five-foot tall gingerbread Thomas the Train. The edible confection is the eighth such masterpiece of executive pastry chef Raymond Lammers, who oversees the design and construction of a different gingerbread structure for the Lodge each year.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 08:00 AM

Huntsville, UT - Snowbasin has announced that they will open as planned this Thursday. Needles Express Gondola and Littlecat Express Quad will be in operation beginning at 9 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day. Mountain Manager, Chris Westover, reports a base of 19 inches of man-made and natural snow on top to bottom runs.