Time for a good ‘ole Little Cottonwood Canyon pounding. It’s already started and I am getting ready to head out the door now. (5:36am). This is the first in a series of storms that are expected to impact Alta over the next week or so. The radar mosaic pictured here is a still screen capture… Read More »
I come from New York state. We grew up in the town of Horseheads to be specific. Horseheads is centrally located on the Southern tier of the state near the border of Pennsylvania. When I was young, I remember 3 foot dumps, demolition derby sledding, snowmobiles, building jumps for our cross country skis, and even… Read More »
This year the Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) added a new distribution method for their daily advisories using MP3 files available from their web site. Click Here for the Web Audio Advisories. This adds MP3s to their already robust distribution techniques including email notifications and a toll free phone number. The podcasts are generally 3-6MB file… Read More »
OK time to get caught up. I mentioned a change in the air back on February 6th. By that I was referring to a much needed change over the western US, where a high pressure ridge sat and in fact strengthened over a 45 day period from around mid December through, well, now. Yep, I… Read More »
OK things are starting to come around. I was a working junkaholic today so I didn’t get any powder, but I just talked to Johnny B and he said it was one of those surprise days when it piled up fluffy like we know if can in LCC. JB confirmed what the magnate told me… Read More »
My friend Scott is a wizard programmer (he’s the genius behind the technology for our Affiliate marketing company AvantLink.com) that can whip up some nifty web stuff. In fact, one of the coolest things he’s added to his site Utah Life Outdoors this winter is the Utah Ski Resort Conditions page. This page aggregates daily… Read More »