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Snowbird Spring Skiing

Share Most people don’t expect to be skiing on Mother’s Day, particularly those of us from the East Coast.  Snowbird and Mother Nature had other ideas this year and cooperated to provide mostly clear skies, soft spring snow, edge to edge coverage and minimal crowds at Snowbird Ski Resort.  The drive up the canyon was [...]

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Share Today at Snowbird Ski Resort was more or less a continuation of yesterday!  Nice warm temperatures, softer snow, great snow cover and excellent spring skiing characterized the day today.  The Snowbird tram, Little Cloud Lift and Mineral Basin Express were all open today and virtually all terrain serviced by these lift was open for [...]

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Share After the eastern-like (cold, icy, wind-blown) conditions at Snowbird Ski Resort yesterday following the deep freeze, the sun, blue-bird skies, wispy cloud cover and warmer temperatures returned to the mountain!  We needed snow or sun and we got sun!  The sights were stunning, the snow was excellent on groomed terrain and much more manageable [...]

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Share Winter once again returned to Snowbird Ski Resort today!  Freezing temperatures (around 20 degrees at Hidden Peak during mid-day), mostly cloudy skies, strong winds, blowing snow and a mostly rock solid icy surface made up the conditions of the day.  Following a number of sunny or partly sunny days and warmer temperatures, it got [...]

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Share The drive up the canyon road to Snowbird Entry 4 was another pleasant one today. The skies were mostly clear, the roads were clear and the sights were phenomenal as usual.  Snow still coated most everything except the road there there were big piles along the road and scattered throughout the parking lot from [...]

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Share Today was a beautiful day at Snowbird Ski Resort!  The day started out cloudy, overcast, windy and cold. The warm temperatures after the epic snowfall during the previous 5-6 days, created a “stale icing” type snow condition anywhere the mountain was not groomed.  There was a light crust on top of anywhere up to [...]

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Share With only 5 more days to go until Snowbird switches to a weekend only schedule for May, the sun from yesterday has vanished, the temps have turned significantly cooler and there will likely be highly variable snow conditions.  The remaining open lifts will include the Snowbird Tram, Little Cloud and the Mineral Basin Express.  [...]

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Share After about a week of near continuous spring snowstorms at Snowbird Ski resort, the sun finally came out, the canyon road cleared and more of the mountain opened up!  There were fresh tracks to be had in moderately soft powder on many sections of the mountain. from 9-a-3p, Little Cloud from 9a – 3p [...]

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Share Today was another EPIC day out on the slopes of Snowbird Ski Resort!  Another 22 inches of fresh snow fell in the last 24 hours and it has finally tapered off after what seems like an eternity of continuous snowfall.  When skiing in some places like Cirque Bowl and a little off the beaten [...]

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Share Talk about endless winter! Another 18 inches of snow in the last 24 hours for a total of 566 for the season. 600 inches isn’t out of the question the way things are going now! Time to load up the car, head up the canyon and go play in some endless powder at Snowbird [...]

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