Ski Bumming 101: How to Ski 100+ Days a Year as a College Student in Salt Lake City, UT Salt Lake City. Where you go to school to ski. A college degree is only a bonus—if you are so disciplined to resist the calling to give up on life and retreat into the Wasatch after your first season experiencing “the Greatest Snow on Earth.” It happens to a lot of people. I graduated from the University of Utah in […] Brains Martin Kuprianowicz | November 22, 2021 1 Comment
Salt Lake City’s Annual “Shred Fest” Kicks Off Winter With Utah’s Biggest Ski Festival This Weekend View this post on Instagram A post shared by Shred Fest (@shredfest.life) Salt Lake City’s biggest winter kick-off festival is back for two full days of action. Shred Fest is a winter and music festival that invites the community to celebrate the arrival of winter with a rail jam competition, lumberjack demo, food trucks, local breweries, and more. […] Industry News SnowBrains | November 4, 2021 0 Comments
Alta Ski Area, UT Will Require Parking Reservations This Season on Weekends and Holidays: Here’s How it Works Brought to you by Alta Ski Area As Salt Lake City grows in population and skier visits, Alta’s number of open parking spaces shrinks in availability. More than once last season eager skiers forced to turn around due to lack of available parking at Alta. The culprit? Usually weekends, holidays, powder days, and just a ton of snow-hungry skiers from […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | October 29, 2021 1 Comment
The Alta Skiing Journal, Vol. 1: “A Beautiful Day to Get Lost in the Mountains” Brought to you by Alta Ski Area Report from Wednesday, Oct. 13 Day one. A beautiful day to get lost in the mountains. Being barely halfway through the month of October, we were not yet back into the flow of things when it came to skiing; we started an hour after we said we would, I forgot my […] Conditions Report Martin Kuprianowicz | October 14, 2021 0 Comments
25-Year-Old Rock Climber Killed in Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT Fall An experienced climber was rock climbing in Little Cottonwood Canyon on Sunday when he pulled on a loose rock, fell from the climb, and was crushed by rocks—one of which was the size of a small car. Unified Police officers were called to the area of the Gate Buttress at about 1:15 pm, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Upon arrival […] CragBrains | October 12, 2021 0 Comments
NOAA: 8-18″ of Snow Forecast for Utah Tonight-Tuesday The NOAA has issued a Winter Storm Watch for the Wasatch Mountains south of I-80 in Utah including Alta, Brighton, Mirror Lake Highway, Moon Lake, Scofield, Indian Canyon, Cove Fort, Fish Lake, Joes Valley, Brian Head, and Alton from Monday, October 11 to Tuesday, October 12. …WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING… * WHAT…Heavy […] Weather WeatherBrains | October 11, 2021 0 Comments
Ultra-Marathon Runners Rescued After 12-18″ of Snow Dumped on Utah’s Wasatch Mountains It was a lovely day for an ultra marathon until a foot-and-a-half of snow dumped on the unprepared runners’ intended route. Local rescue teams were forced to extract more than 80 ultra-marathoners from Utah’s Wasatch Mountains near Salt Lake City on Saturday after extreme weather dumped 12 to 18 inches of snow, causing near white-out conditions during the DC Peaks 50 […] SnowBrains | October 11, 2021 3 Comments
To Protest the Proposed Gondola, Activists Float Giant Red Balloons in Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT Activists protesting the proposed Little Cottonwood Canyon gondola gathered at the mouth of the canyon on Saturday and floated four big red balloons attached to spools of twine measuring 236-feet—the estimated height of the to-be-approved gondola towers. They filled four spherical balloons, each about three feet in diameter, with helium from a tank that environmental lawyer Pat Shea rented and […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | August 23, 2021 1 Comment
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