Topic: Resorts

Monday, January 10, 2011 - 12:00 PM

Snowbird, UT - Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort is hosting the first-ever 12 Hours of Snowbird, an overnight full moon skiing event from Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. until Feb. 19 at 7 a.m., with proceeds to benefit the Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center (FUAC).

Friday, January 07, 2011 - 02:00 PM

Park City, UT - Park City Mountain Resort's Eagle Superpipe opened today after extensive man hours prepping the former Utah Olympic venue.

Wednesday, January 05, 2011 - 09:00 AM

Salt Lake City, UT - The Westminster College campus in Salt Lake City will look a little different come Thursday morning. What once was just the college's Jewett parking lot will be filled with snow, and rails of all shapes and sizes- long, arched, kinked, straight, skinny and wide, transforming the area into a small terrain park. It's all so Westminster students can show off some of their talents outside the four walls of the classroom at the Utah college's second annual Hart Rail Jam.

Monday, January 03, 2011 - 01:00 PM

Beaver, UT - A magnitude 4.6 earthquake Monday morning centered near Circleville, Utah has left central Utah's two ski resorts undamaged.

Thursday, December 30, 2010 - 10:09 PM

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 - No two snowflakes are the same, yadda yadda yadda. That's fantastic and all, but my primary concern is not rooting through billions of snowflakes to find two that are alike. Instead, my primary concern is skiing light, fluffy, delightful powder. When I think about snow crystals, my primary objective is to find flakes that contribute to perfect powder skiing.

Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 09:00 AM

Alta, UT - Utah's Alta Ski Area is showing its support for those in need via a food drive on New Year's Eve.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 05:00 PM

Snowbird, UT - Wasatch Powderbird Guides, a heli-skiing and snowboarding operation based at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Utah, opened its 2010-2011 season on Dec. 15 to record pre-season reservations and over 200 inches of accumulated snow this season to date.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 12:00 PM

Denver, CO - For the third consecutive month, actual lodging occupancy was up among participating western ski resort communities. November 2010 was up 14.4 percent from last November at the 265 property management companies in 15 mountain destination communities sampled by the Mountain Travel Research Program (MTRiP), representing 24,000 rooms across Colorado, Utah, California, and Oregon. At the same time room rates were up 2.2 percent. The results are consistent with the trend of the past six months where June to November 2010 was up 8.4 percent from the same period last year.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 09:00 AM

Salt Lake City, UT - Perhaps no one dreams more of a white Christmas than ski resort operators. But in Utah, some got more than they bargained for on Monday.

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 11:01 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 - The two main ingredients for snow are moisture and a mechanism to lift the air, where the latter effectively "wrings out" the moisture in the form of snow. While mountains that are near an ocean rarely have a problem finding adequate moisture, the same can’t be said for those land-locked areas of the Intermountain West including Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. Individual storms can often bring enough moisture with them as they come off the Pacific Ocean to create plenty of snow for these inland areas, but moisture is still often a limiting factor.