Skiing
No account of Utah would be complete without mention of the great winter snow.With 7 major ski resorts within an hour of the SL Airport and 2 more just a little further, skiing is a big tourist draw. The "Greatest Snow on Earth" is not just a registered trademark, skiiers time and time again agree it is truth. Two canyons on the west side of the Wasatch (the "Wasatch Front") have two resorts each. In Little Cottonwood are Alta and Snowbird. In Big Cottonwood are Brighton and Solitude.ALTA is legend. Always at the top of the lists for the greatest and best powder snow, with an average of 500 inches of snow yearly the snow is plentiful and deep. And as they say it is a "dry snow". Created as clouds cross the Great Basin Desert and are sucked dry of moisture, and the snow is powder dry as it runs into the Wasatch Range and drops in the Albion Basin. The owners have kind of been...









