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Jay Peak, VT Has Gotten More Snow Than Any Ski Resort in UT, WA, OR, CA, ID, or MT

Jay Peak in Vermont has gotten 223″ of snow this winter. Alta has gotten 193″ of snow this winter. Both are respectable numbers, but it’s crazy to see that Vermont is getting more snow than Utah, right? It’s been a crazy year in the west with the West Coast and Utah experiencing high temperatures, low snowfall, and more rain than anyone would like to admit. Jay Peak in Vermont, on the other hand, is have a banner year. They’ve already gotten 223″ of snow and it’s only early February… Jay Peak claims that they get 377″ of snow per year. That’s a ton for the East […]
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Alta Conditions Report – Rapid Refresh!

With Junuary gone we are all hoping that our long dry spell is over. February started with a few small disturbances. Though the storms were small they were dense and we ended up with about an inch of water weight, at normal Utah densities that would be about 10-20 inches of snow!It looks like we are in for a couple more refreshers this weekend. Hopefully we can get a full pattern change and get some […]
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Alta Conditions Report – January Doldrums

Whelp, there’s no way to beat around the bush on this one. We are in a deep dry spell here in Alta. The only thing keeping us going is a good base from a productive December and early January, and knowing how rough California has it (sorry). Words like chalky and buffed-out have replaced words like powder and blower. And with no burning need for first chair, the bars are full from apres to closing time. We did receive a couple very small storms. One dropped a couple inches of grauple with some wind that made for […]
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Alta Condtitions Report – Bluebird Above Valley Inversions

This past week has been a bit of a conditions roller coaster. We ended a long period of high pressure with a 21 inches storm that had some of the highest intensity snow of the season for a few morning hours. The storm came in hard and left in a hurry leaving us with a couple gorgeous bluebird days. Monday was an insane day! it snowed 21 inches of snow with 11 inches falling in 4 hrs. It was […]
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Alta Conditions Report – Bluebird for Days!

For many people in Alta last week was the best week of skiing they had had in years. As in anything in life, with the good comes the bad. Lucking this is Alta, so bad is really still pretty descent. I like to say that in Alta it is either snowing hard or bluebird, and this past week has not let us down. Though it has been dry, it has been absolutely gorgeous and ski patrol has been able to drop some ropes, most notably on […]
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Alta Conditions Report – 81″ of Snow in Ten Days!

Alta ended 2014 on a high note! A series of storms dropped 81″ of successively lighter snow, leaving us with some epic (and I don’t use this term lightly) powder skiing. The storms lifted and we are now in a period of high pressure, but there is still great snow out there and with cold temps the skiing is still fantastic. I won’t be to wordy with this post, and I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves. Enjoy! Midstorm riding conditions were as deep as they get. Bluebird Wasatch powder skiing the way it should […]
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