Alta Ski Area

Supply chain issues continue to cause car-rental sticker shock. Avoid it altogether.

Trees, couloirs, and cliffs, oh my! When high angles get your blood pumping, these are the ski areas that should be on your go list.

Don't even think about ordering a Bud when there are locally inspired brews to be had at your favorite ski town this season.

Everyone wants legs of steel as soon as the chairlifts begin turning. But in order to get there, it’s time to start putting in the work now.

The debate rages in Utah's Little Cottonwood Canyon over the two most recent proposals: gondola or expanded bus service.

The Snowpine Lodge first opened as a public shelter for skiers in 1939. Here's what it looks like nearly a century later.

Even without the powder, this skier's haven is still pretty dang rad.

With eight feet of snow in four days, Utah's Alta and Snowbird are officially buried.

Bring the European experience home by touring three ski areas in the Cottonwood Canyons.

The ski-only resort is focused on the authentic ski experience and knows where its strengths lie.

With his heart set on combining work and play, Alta doctor Ken Libre found a way to turn skiing into his daily practice.

We crunched the numbers: Here's the Top 10 resorts for purists who care only about the ski experience.

These spots might not be on your radar, but they still have have something awesome going on.

Urban buzz + powder turns combine for a refreshingly high-energy ski vacation.

Spring skiing isn't just about the snow and the sun—these six cocktails are a must for your après adventures.

Alta's Onno Wieringa named this season's Hero of Sustainability.

Skiing is living. Regardless of age, skill, style, and background, the simple act of skiing down the hill brings joy.

Starting from the base of a world-famous ski resort, runners rally up windswept ridges and glacial cirques to towering peaks, power down a quad-burning descent, and break the tape into a festival of live music, food, drink, and vendor tents.

Find your ski pass for next season—and the best deals—here.

Seven camps to make you a better skier.

We chucked an Alta snob into Snowbird…and might have permanently altered her winter migration patterns.

Check out these 2013/14 pass deals that will save you money and get you skiing.

Eldora joins Vail’s Epic pass while Mountain Collective adds Mammoth, Snowbird, and Whistler Blackcomb.

First up in a new series about places we like to stay.

Sage's Alta

Utah's youngest crew of skiers makes movies their way.

Come Hither: Alta, Aspen, Jackson and Squaw/Alpine team up.

Since allowing boarders in 2008, the resort has seen visits climb. Who’s next?

Bottomless. Breathless. Wild...Alta is a homewrecker, all right. Confessions of a Little Cottonwood groupie.

Less vert, more burn.

A spa to take the hard core edge off Alta.

the best après spot at Alta.

Burgers and beers with a mind blowing view.

The closest thing you’ll find at Alta to the mega-ski resort hotel.

Alta’s oldest lodge is quiet and secluded and the perfect place for somebody who wants to vanish and ski for a while.

Perhaps the most friendly and party-oriented lodge in Little Cottonwood Canyon

The Peruvian is decidedly lowbrow, but it is this warmth and homeyness that brings families back year after year.

The Alta Lodge sits directly across from Alta’s marquee run, Alf’s High Rustler, and it’s within this context that the lodge operates. It’s about the skiing.

Your best option for fine dining on the mountain at Alta.

Explore Homestead Crater in Midway, near Park City, the hot-spring pools inside a 55-foot-high beehive-shaped limestone dome formed from mineral deposits thousands of years ago.

Thanks to extended operating hours, fresh snow, spring parties, and end-of-the-season savings, now is the time to go skiing. We've got tips on where to head this weekend, including Durango, Colorado, Taos, New Mexico, Okemo, Vermont, and Alta, Utah.

We spoke to pro skier and BASE-jumper Suzanne Graham yesterday at Alta, Utah, about BASE jumping, med school, and how to fight the powder-hungry masses on Alta's famous High Traverse (hint: it's all in your elbows).

We spoke to pro skier and BASE-jumper Suzanne Graham yesterday at Alta, Utah, about BASE jumping, med school, and how to fight the powder-hungry masses on Alta's famous High Traverse (hint: it's all in your elbows).

Every local has their favorite watering hole and every ski town has some great ones. While we can’t guarantee that a visit to one of these bars will give you that warm fuzzy, “I’m home, mom” feeling, we can say that if you’re looking for a warm place with cold beer to end up when your day is finished, these fine establishments should be at the top of your list. And if your favorite isn’t here, don’t be shy, let us know by posting your recommendations in the “comments” section below. —Tom Winter

After two weeks of dismal snowfall in the West, the Powderchaser blog is calling for light and heavy snow in the seven-day forecast for Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and California.

A few images from the recent storm that pummeled Utah ski resorts. Some resorts claimed as much as 48 inches from the weekend system, a necessary addition to the base before holiday skier traffic.

Ski photographer Lee Cohen created Altaholics Anonymous in 1983, when Utah's Alta ski resort received 244 inches of snow in one month. He launched a website to sell his goods a few years ago, and he's recently added a few more products. Interview by Caroline Gleich.

Sure, Utah's 13 resorts are known for their unbelievable snow. But the drinking scene has remained, well, questionable. Not anymore: Utah's changed their liquor laws. And that's only one of many improvements the state boasts for the 2009-10 ski season.

Utah Mountain Adventures and the Alta Lodge team up to offer three backcountry skiing clinics this season.

Introducing four women-only ski camps geared for girls looking to up their game.

Snowbird locals sent us a YouTube video this week tracking the above average seasons of the past two years and this one liner: “Snowing hard in Little Cottonwood right now.” It’s official, winter is here, but when will Utah resorts open?

Wieringa on avalanche control, running a ski resort, and shooting a big ol' gun.

The heavens really open up in Utah. These neighboring resorts at the end of Little Cottonwood Canyon typically get more than 600 inches a year.

With the exception of Whistler Blackcomb, no other resort comes close to matching Jackson for easy access to back- and sidecountry lines.

Like the Olympics it’s about to host, Whistler Blackcomb is big, hyped, and full of underage Asian women on drugs.

Alta and Snowbird usually receive between 400 and 500 inches of snow, depending on the season and where it’s measured. In 2008, Alta got 702 inches. That's nuts.

A behind-the-scenes look at a group of skiers' attempt to ski Utah's 13 resorts in 24 hours.

Can it be done? Is it stupid? The answers, respectively are maybe and yes. But a group attempted to do this for the first time last winter. Here's what happened.

Prices plummet as snow totals climb at Utah ski resorts.

Why settle for one resort when you can ski six in one day? A backcountry jaunt through the Wasatch’s best, and least-skied, terrain.

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The pranks have involved explosives, goats, mannequins, doughnuts, and nudity. Each year on April Fools' Day, the Snowbird and Alta patrollers punk each other, sometimes spawning real panic and organized rescue. Is this the year they get busted?

Rachael Burks offers tips for difficult traverses.

Photographer Lee Cohen outlines what you need to create to cover shot.

Utah backcountry skiers are shaking their heads at a possible Alta expansion.

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