Alta Conditions Report – Great Coverage and Spring Temps! This winter in Utah has sure been a weird one. Crazy warmth and not much snow. But there is a reason we ski Alta. Even a bad year hear is better than a normal year in Colorado. The past few weeks have been very warm, but luckily Alta is mostly North facing and the coverage on most slopes is still good. By the afternoons everything is skiing great. The Collins Jib lap is […] Conditions Report Aaron Rice | March 31, 2015 0 Comments
Alta Conditions Report – Beach Weather Temps have been downright springy as of late. This made for some awesome jibbing, slush bumps, and corn skiing the past week. However be warned that Alta is a predominately North facing mountain. This means that you need to time your […] Conditions Report Aaron Rice | March 21, 2015 0 Comments
Alta Conditions Report – Spring has Sprung! Whelp, we are back to spring time sun and warmth. The weather and snow has been behaving more like late April, rather than mid March this past week. However it is not hard to make the best of soft snow and goggle tan weather. After the last storm there was a nice coat of new snow and patrol dropped the ropes on 100% of terrain. East Castle and Devils [,,,] Conditions Report Aaron Rice | March 13, 2015 0 Comments
Alta Conditions Report – Classic Wasatch Pow!! Winter has returned to Alta!!!! After a grueling most of January and February, March arrive with a great storm cycle! We received over 40″ over the past week, and conditions have been fantastic! The storm started ramping up on Friday and it snowed through Tuesday! Then on Wednesday and Thursday we had classic Wasatch bluebird powder days. Temps remained on the cool side then the snow remained awesome. Wednesday saw […] Conditions Report Aaron Rice | March 6, 2015 0 Comments
Alta Conditions Report – 11″ Teaser with More to Come There’s no denying that it has been dry in Alta for much of January and February, but winter has finally returned! Last Friday into Saturday we received 3 inches followed by a surprise 11 inches! This storm skied great for the weekend. The crowds were a bit bad in the mornings but settled by the afternoons. Following the storm we had a few more days of sun a warm. All of the locals got out and enjoyed the stable backcountry conditions, putting more tracks on some of the favorite roadside attractions than I have ever seen. […] Conditions Report Aaron Rice | February 26, 2015 0 Comments
Alta Conditions Report -The Last High Pressure Report! This is the last high pressure report I am going to write for a while. Alta started off the season great! big, consistent storms. However January and most of February we have been stuck under a massive high pressure ridge. One big storm snuck though in early January, but other than that our best days have been a quick refresher, some wind to smooth things out, and some legitimately great corn skiing. But come on! This is […] Conditions Report Aaron Rice | February 20, 2015 0 Comments
Alta Conditions Report – 100% Open If you have skied Alta, you know how sweet the terrain is! However, due to the high level of awesomeness of said terrain, often avalanche danger or low snow may not allow Alta to open everything for our skiing pleasure. Recently we have been graced with high pressure that has lasted for well over a month. We have had a few nice quick hitting refresher storms, but avvy danger has remained low. With low danger and prolonged high […] Conditions Report Aaron Rice | February 12, 2015 1 Comment
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