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Road Warriors- UDOT’s Avalanche Battle on Utah’s Canyon Highways
They call it the Red Snake. This crimson serpent is the dread of all skiers and snowboarders in Little Cottonwood Canyon, and has a cruel tendency of only emerging on epic days when perfect Utah snow falls on the Wasatch. Overnight storms bring powder hounds to the canyon bottom in droves, yet what they seek […]
Making Corduroy- The Life of a Ski Groomer
When you roll off your last ski run and into a hot-tub soak, when the chairlifts come to their quiet halts, when sunset leaves behind a black night: magic happens. Come every evening at each of Utah’s fourteen ski resorts, tiny armies of men and a few women climb into massive, machinated beasts of mountain […]
Ted Wilson: Character of a Cliff Climber
“Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports…all others are games.” –Ernest Hemingway quote –Ted Wilson conviction In and around Salt Lake City, the question “Who is Ted Wilson?” has several different answers, depending on who you ask. Some know Wilson as the three-time mayor responsible for rebuilding Salt Lake’s water […]
