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Top 15 Ski Areas for Early-Season Skiing

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Early-season skiing is insanely valuable. With winter break providing a great window to take a vacation, unfortunately, ski resort conditions do not always comply with the break. Luckily, Z Rankings broke down the best early-season ski resorts in terms of the resort’s average snowfall and the percentage of terrain open by December 25. Steamboat Resort, CO 93% of Steamboat’s terrain is […]

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Avatar photo Breya Bergom | November 2, 2021
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VIDEO: They’re Already Throwing Backflips, 360ºs, & Ripping Main Chute in 12″ of New Snow at Alta, UT

Wow, a few guys got motivated and skied Main Chute of Mt. Baldy at Alta ski resort in Utah this past Saturday, September 24th, 2016 in 12″ of snow. They threw in a few backflips and 360ºs, just for safe measure. “An unusually early snow storm dumped over a foot of snow in the Wasatch on September 22-24, 2016. While […]

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SnowBrains | September 26, 2016
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1ft+ of Snow Forecasted for Alta!

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NOAA.org and Wasatch Snow Forecast are calling for the first(sorta second) good storm of the season for Alta, UT! WSF is calling for “Total accumulations by Sunday should be 6-12+” above 7,000 feet”. Read the full report here. If you believe the NOAA point forecast, it is calling for 12-26″ by Sunday morning. I find that a bit hard to believe… The snow has just begun to fall in LCC. The Alta cams are all down or not refreshing at this point in time […]

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Aaron Rice | November 13, 2014
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Alta Ski Resort 2012/13 Season Re-Cap | 450” of Snow, 155 Ski Days, 100” Base

words by Joe Jackson, photos by Alta Ski Area Yes, the 2012-2013 season at Alta Ski Area has officially come to an end. That’s one way you could look at it. The other way, and the way prefer to look at it, is that when the Collins lift stopped spinning at 4:30 pm on Sunday, the countdown to the start of the […]

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SnowBrains | April 29, 2013
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