Ask PCSkiGal: Second Thoughts About Skiing Spring Break?

I’ve seen folks out rockclimbing this week in both LCC and BCC. Continue reading →

International Womens Ski Day Gets The Girls Out At Solitude

I’m going to be bold and call it a powder day at Solitude Saturday. It wasn’t epic in the way Utah prides itself but we take what we can get right now. Plus, were it not for International Women’s Ski Day I might have stayed in bed bemoaning the weather and missed it. Instead I … Continue reading →

#FirstDayFaces Can Win You A Trip To Utah

A new social media campaign called “#FirstDayFaces” is underway to find the posterchild for beginning skiing and boarding. Learn to ski at your local hill, then take a trip to Utah…on the house. All you or your friends have to do is take a beginner lesson then share your (positive-you’re smiling right?) experience on Twitter, Instragram, Facebook … Continue reading →

#Utah Ski Season Officially Starts Tuesday! #Brighton Resort Beats #Solitude To Opening Day

Brighton Resort will try to beat Solitude to opening day this year. Get your ski gear ready for this Tuesday according to sources. Solitude’s date is Friday, Nov. 21, Alta will also open on Friday; Snowbird and Park City Mountain Resort on Saturday. In the past, it was always a race between the two Big … Continue reading →

Deer Valley Buy$ Solitude Resort!

Solitude on a Sunday.by Ryan Freitas And then there were two. Vail Resorts buys Canyons; Park City’s Ian Cumming buys Snowbird; Vail Resorts buys Park City Mountain Resort and today Deer Valley got into the Ski Area Monopoly game with their announcement that they have purchased Solitude Mountain Resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon. “It’s coincidental … Continue reading →

ONE Wasatch’s Interconnect Concept Poses Multiple Questions For Utah Resorts

(Photo courtesy Alta Ski Area) Well, Folks. I wish I had something new to report from this afternoon’s SkiUtah press conference but alas there were more questions than answers. I shared the news last night and hoped that today’s conference might shed more light on the plan- nay “concept”- of lift-linking seven of Utah’s ski areas but … Continue reading →

Utah Interconnect Closer to Reality?

(Photo by Ryan Freitas) It’s been bantered about since the demise of SkiLink and today, SkiUtah, shouldered by the managers of the seven Wasatch ski resorts, is poised to make the idea official. A press conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. to announce a lift-served interconnect set to rival anything in the U.S. ski industry. … Continue reading →

Learn To Ride Month Arcs into Utah

Photo Courtesy Sherri Harkin Photography January Skiers Get Lucky By PCSkiGal Here’s an awesome reason to stop slacking if you put “learn to ski” on your New Year’s Resolution list- Utah’s 14 resorts have joined 33 other states and more than 300 resorts nationwide to promote Learn to Ski and Snowboard month. Given the state … Continue reading →

Utah Ski Season is On…Kinda

 (photo by Ryan Freitas) Brighton Resort on opening day 2012.   Unwilling to concede an inch, literally, Brighton Resort, is opening TODAY- For Free. Anyone desperate to make a few resort turns before tomorrow’s official opening can ride Brighton from 2-4 p.m. on the Majestic Lift’s Shoulder Run. “We went through the effort of making … Continue reading →

The Snow Cometh!

By Jill Adler Lake effect snow in September?! After a seriously rainy month, the temps have dropped and that rain turned to snow EVERYWHERE in the west this week. The reports started rolling in yesterday from Colorado to California and it was only a matter of hours before the bullwheel started turning here in Utah. … Continue reading →