Just when you think the season is going to fade into t-shirts, bikini tops and sun baking on the lift, an epic day like yesterday sneaks up and pops you in the kisser. It was light, dry, crystalline, abundant and seemingly bottomless. (Photos credit: Matt Crawley, Snowbird) And here it’s brought to you by the
In Like a Lion
The 2011-12 ski season won’t go down as the greatest in Utah history, but holy pow batman, the reports for March 1 and beyond have big beautiful snowflake icons and crooked numbers in the latest depths column. In other words, it’s powder paradise up in the Wasatch this week. Storms carrying powder goodness began in
Wallisch’s Wonderful Winter Run Continues
It may not be as big as football, basketball or even gymnastics (here at the U, at least), but freeskiing is a burgeoning sport with prime-time stages, like ESPN’s X-Games, to showcase its disciplines. One of those disciplines, slopestyle, will make its Winter Olympic debut in 2014 at the Sochi Games in Russia. The hottest
Two Utes Named to U.S. Freeskiing Team
Freeskiing is finally getting its due on the world stage with the introduction of slopestyle as an Olympic event. While Sochi 2014 is a little ways off, the U.S. Freeskiing Slopestyle Pro Team has been selected for 2012 and two University of Utah students — Grete Eliassen and Tom Wallisch — have made the squad.