Powder Mountain, UT, Lifts Cap on Season Passes Powder Mountain Ski Resort officially announced it will no longer be capping season pass sales starting in the 2024/2025 season. This is a big development for Powder Mountain, as it has never done this before in its 50-plus years of business. Not to mention, the resort has never sold more than 3,000 season passes or 1,500-day passes in a given […] Industry News Noah DeVries | March 1, 2024 0 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: The Rich Get Richer | Utah Prepares For Another 1-2′ of Powder The latest Utah snowstorm. Source: maps.weatherbell.com Forecast Summary A large trough dives down across the Western U.S. over the next few days. California will see several feet of snow, while Utah receives the leftovers. Snow starts over far Northern Utah on Friday, with a few inches of snow expected at Snowbasin and Powder Mountain through Friday afternoon. Measurable snow likely […] Weather WeatherBrains | February 29, 2024 0 Comments
Powder Mountain, UT, Report: Average Days Don’t Exist Here Report from Sunday, February 25, 2025 The first wow moment was pulling into the parking lot on top of the mountain. Let alone the short 35-minute drive from downtown Ogden, Utah. I parked at Timberline Lodge, the middle of the three offered at the resort. From there, waiting on the rope to drop at 9 a.m. rather than a lift […] Conditions Report Brett Ploss | February 26, 2024 0 Comments
Brighton Resort, UT, Opens Its First Mid-Mountain Lodge and Restaurant Skiers and snowboarders visiting Brighton Resort in Utah will now be able to enjoy a classic mountain dining option with the opening of Snake Creek Lodge and its on-site restaurant, Sidewinder. Located mid-mountain at the base of the Snake Creek lift, the new facility offers a cozy respite from the slopes and a large patio to accommodate hungry skiers and […] Industry News SnowBrains | February 20, 2024 0 Comments
Snowboarder Attacked by Mountain Lion After Leaving Beaver Mountain, UT, Resort Boundary A snowboarder’s quick thinking saved him from a potentially deadly encounter with a mountain lion while riding near Beaver Mountain, Utah, on Sunday, February 5. Related: Update on Colorado Wolves as CPW Announces Plans to Capture & Release Additional 15 Wolves Charlie Duffy recounted his experience in an Instagram post, describing how he noticed fresh paw prints in the snow […] SnowBrains | February 12, 2024 0 Comments
Legal Battle Between Wasatch Peaks Ranch Private Resort and the Residents of Morgan County, UT, Comes to an Abrupt Resolution It’s over. For the last five years, there has been an ongoing legal battle between the ultra-exclusive Wasatch Peaks Ranch (WPR) and five residents of Morgan County, Utah. Now the legal saga has reached a swift and stunning conclusion. Background The feud started in October 2019 when the county council voted 6-1 to approve rezoning the land from “forestry” and […] Industry News Brent Thomas | February 2, 2024 0 Comments
Alta, UT, Report: Devil’s Castle Opens For The Season & Delivers Elevator & Sneaky Peak Chutes Report from January 30, 2023 Today was my last day in Utah for a while. I wanted to do something memorable and we’d seen that the Devil’s Castle zone had opened at Alta yesterday for the first time this season (East Castle opened today for the first time as well – Baldy Chutes tomorrow?). I’d never skied that zone and […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 30, 2024 0 Comments
Trip Report: Failure in Maybird Couloir in Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT Report from January 29, 2023 This morning we decided to go for a chute we’d never skied in Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT. It has been really hot the past few days so we thought we’d go for corn/slush on a south-facing couloir – Maybird. When we were scoping it at 8am, Martin mentioned that he saw some fierce rumble in […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 29, 2024 0 Comments