Alta Ski Area sits seven miles up Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. It boasts an average seasonal snowfall of 548 inches—more than nearly every ski resort in the contiguous ...

Two days after Alta Ski Area turned the lights out on its epic 2022-23 ski season Sunday, the resort hit a season snowfall total that prior to this year would have been considered mythical ...

At Alta Ski Area, Utah, another seasonal milestone has come and gone. Late last week, the Little Cottonwood Canyon destination passed 400 inches of seasonal snowfall. Still, a considerable gap bet ...

After protecting skiers and the Town of Alta from avalanches for 75 years, Alta Ski Area’s howitzer has been silenced. The Little Cottonwood Canyon ski area rendered its 1960s-era military ...

If Crystal Mountain is slightly removed from the nexuses of North American resort skiing, Lost Trail Ski Area, Montana, is off the map. Nestled against the Idaho ... Mammoth Mountain—everyone’s ...

Considered to be the "epicenter" of the avalanche universe, Alta Ski Area, UT has used a WWII-era artillery cannon, among other explosives, to remotely trigger avalanches since the 1940s.

Skiers will still find plenty of moguls at Alta Ski Area next season, but “the bumpies” will be gone. For the past decade, skiers taking the Supreme lift to the terrain on the east side of ...

Alta Ski Area, Utah, has received United States Forest Service authorization to realign its Supreme chairlift this coming summer, allowing it to iron out an eight-degree bend that made for a ...

ALTA — Alta Ski Area announced that its lifts will begin spinning on Saturday. The resort's Wildcat and Collins lifts will start up at 9:15 a.m. However, there will be no access to Albion Basin.

LITTLE COTTONWOOD CANYON, Utah — This ski season marks the end of an era for Alta Ski Area’s patrollers as the Howitzer is silenced after 75 years of use for avalanche mitigation. Its history ...