Utah: The Greatest Snow on Earth
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Moisture coming off of the Great Salt Lake forms into ice crystals as it moves up and over the Wasatch Mountains. This combination of "lake effect" snow and altitude results in deep drifts of the best powder on the planet.
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Lake effect snow
The western Wasatch front resorts
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Skiing in Utah
Lake Effect Snow
Lake-effect snow is produced in the winter when cold winds move across long expanses of warmer lake water, providing energy and picking up water vapor which freezes and is deposited on the windward shores. The same effect over bodies of salt water is called ocean effect snow, sea effect snow, or even bay effect snow. The effect is enhanced when the moving air mass is uplifted by the orographic effect of higher elevations on the downwind shores. This uplifting can produce narrow, but very intense bands of precipitation, which deposit at a rate of many inches of snow each hour and often bringing...
Lake Effect Snow in Parish, NY
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Ski Resorts
Although there are other resorts in Utah. The ones on the western side of the Wasatch Front get the most lake effect snow. They are Alta, Brighton, Snowbird, and Solitude.Scroll down to learn more about each resort.
Alta
Alta is a ski area located in the Wasatch Mountains just east of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. with a skiable area of 2200 acres (8.9 km²), beginning at a base elevation of 8,530 ft (2,600 m) and rising to 10,550 ft (3,216 m) for a vertical gain of 2,020 ft (616 m). Alta is one of the oldest ski resorts in the country, opening its first lift in 1939. It has an average annual snowfall of 514 inches (1,306 cm).ALTA, UTAH - Climate Summary Alta is one of three remaining ski resorts in America that prohibits snowboarders, along with nearby competitor Deer Valley and Vermont's Mad River G...
Brighton
Brighton Ski Resort is a ski area located in Big Cottonwood Canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah. Brighton Ski Resort was the first ski resort in Utah, and one of the first in the United States. Brighton was started in 1936 when members of the Alpine Ski Club built a rope tow from wire and an old elevator motor.
Brighton is on public land; all of the resort's land is actually part of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, meaning the whole resort is open to the public year-round, though tickets must be purchased to use the lifts.
Snowbird
Snowbird is an unincorporated area based in Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is perhaps most famous for the Snowbird ski resort, an alpine skiing and snowboarding area, which opened in December 1971.
Solitude
Solitude Mountain Resort is a ski resort located in the Big Cottonwood Canyon of the Wasatch Mountains, thirty miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah. With 64 trails, and vertical, Solitude is smaller than other all of the other six Salt Lake City resorts except its neighbor Brighton. It is a family-oriented mountain, with a wider range of beginner and intermediate slopes than other Utah ski resorts; 70% of its slopes are graded "beginner" or "intermediate," the highest such ratio in the Salt Lake City area. Solitude was one of the first major US resorts to adopt an RFID lift ticket system...
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Shopping in Salt Lake
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SemperFidelis wrote...
My husband is on the National Ski Patrol and patrols at White Pass Washington. I think he would beg to differ on where the best snow is! 5* :o)
Posted November 30, 2007
flowski wrote...
I just love Alta, Utah! Although now I'm in Tahoe, I had a season pass there for 4 seasons back in the day. Some of the best moments of my life have been on epic powderdays in the Wasatch Mountains. I spent a season at Brighton before I got my Alta pass in a drawing. Brighton is also wonderful.
Posted November 02, 2007
Susan52 wrote...
Pretty, pretty snow! I prefer it without skis, but it sure is beautiful.
Posted October 31, 2007
Barkely wrote...
I've only been skiing, or I should say attempted skiing a couple times. I spent more time on my bottom than I did on the skis. I've only been to Utah in the summer, it looks breathtaking in the winter.
Posted October 29, 2007
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