by Beth Lopez | Mar 4, 2016 | Trailblazers, WINTER
When the longtime director of the Utah Avalanche Center tells snow stories, people listen During the early ’80s, the Utah Avalanche Center’s daily advisories were keyed into a Teletype machine by bleary-eyed forecasters on pre-dawn mornings at the National Weather...
by Tiffany Frandsen | Mar 4, 2016 | WINTER
This is the Place Hike into a wonderland of scrambling Off a rather inconspicuous turn-off on the south end of Layton, sits Adam’s Canyon, a 3.7-mile round-trip hike to a waterfall. HIke up a 1,400-foot change in elevation with some snowy and icy scrambling, but stop...
by Tiffany Frandsen | Mar 4, 2016 | WINTER
This Is The Place 1.Hike 2.Sled Down The slippery trudge of the return trip is what makes many a hiker into a backcountry skier. Whether it be knocking your way down a shale field or trying not to slip and hit your bottom while stepping down packed snow, this is the...
by Austen Diamond | Mar 4, 2016 | Weekend Warriors, WINTER
Discover Brian Head Ski Resort Brian Head, located atop Parowan Canyon near Cedar City, is not the first place along the Wasatch Front we think of when the snow starts to drop. But the resort often gets storms that miss northern Utah and offers an excellent...
by TJ Parsons | Mar 4, 2016 | WINTER
Creating a new mountain out of Utah’s best ridgelines. Many a modern-day snow snob the world over can trace their evolutionary roots to a ridgeline somewhere in one of the Cottonwood canyons. With “The Greatest Snow on Earth; and a near-ostentatious surplus of...
