Powder Mountain - The powderstash no one talks about?

[tradygirl]

After an epic weekend, I decided to check out the local snow totals out of curiousity. It snowed incredibly hard both Sat and Sun, and I figured 48 hr totals would be around two feet for the Cottonwoods. I was pretty much right on for the Cottonwoods, but this caught my eye....

Powder Mountain Resort
Base: 6895'
Summit: 8900'
1/7/08
24 hr: 24"
48 hr: 34"
Base: 101"
Comments: TAKE YOUR FIRST SAY OF SICK LEAVE FOR THE YEAR! WE'RE IN A CATEGORY III POWDER ALERT!!! COME SEE WHY IT'S CALLED POWDER MOUNTAIN!

This happens all the time, but it still blows my mind. Powder Mountain consistently gets more snow than the Cottonwoods, but no one ever talks about it. I've lived here for 28 years and I've never been up there, and it's really starting to make me mad. I think this is the year to save up some sick days and make the drive to Ogden one stormy morning.

Has anyone ever been to PowMow? Just curious if any out-of-towners had heard much about it.

 

[Little Lightning]

Sure, I've skied it. Also, Snow Basin, before the Olympics. It's smaller and was a fun area to ski.

Back in the 90's we used to ski SLC at Christmas and we enjoyed going there to get away from the bus loads of kids from California.

There is a restaurant in the canyon along a creek where we would spend New Year's Eve.

 

[num]

Actually, I've been tempted to try and work in some kind of detour up there during the Solitude trip. There's a nicely priced condo up there and if you stay for 3 or more nights the owner throws in a day of skiing with a Level 3 instructor (who I'm guessing is the owner).

 

[SueNJ]

Powder Mountain is our primary destination for our ski trip in March. Your description has me drooling! Although, I've never skied in that kind of, or that much powder, so I'm sure it'll be an experience in more than one way.

 

[Lori_K]

Sounds like a PERFECT opportunity to take your camera and write a trip report!

I've heard good things about Powder Mountain (lotsa snow, no crowds). It's been on the list of "places to go" in Utah for us.

 

[dloveski]

Powder Mountain is awesome. After being introduced to this vast resort last year, I bought a Powder Pass.

The Snow Cats open up a whole canyon of trackless powder. Powder Country is vast. You also can ski thes areas that drop you through the trees onto the road---and the shuttle picks you up every 15 minutes.

It's a retro feel---like I remember Solitude in the 70's and 80's (and even Park City---oh I am sooooo old).

And I understand the heli skiing is awesome.

At the top of the quad, you look out over 4 states (UT, ID, NV, WY) and the view of the GSL and the Uintahs is fabulous. And it can be cold.

 

[dloveski]

Actually the resort facilites are smaller, but the terrain is huge---sort of like Solitude, Brighton, Alta combined, but with only 4 lifts. The snowcats, the shuttles, and copters service the huge resort area. And it's easier access by road than the over-used Cottonwood Canyons in which one road services the resorts and thousands of folks per day.

 

[Pequenita]

I skied PowMow for three days last Feb. We got a condo (Lakeside or something like that) that gave us easy access to both it and Snowbasin. It's great for us east coasters who are still learning to ski in powder/trees b/c the terrain isn't particularly steep and the trees are well-spaced. Also, b/c its base operations are small, the demo/rental people totally remembered who I was on a day to day basis and were always asking me what I thought about the skis they gave me, etc. Lodge facilities kinda rustic (actually, it just reminded me of being back on the east coast - think Mad River).

 

[SueNJ]

I'm liking the idea of Powder Mountain more and more! I love places that are understated and low-keyed (and less crowded!). I may not want to come home. :D

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Don't they offer cat skiing as well? I seem to recall someone mentioning this on another forum.

 

[altagirl]

Yeah - we skied there a few years ago. I liked it, Craig hated it and refuses to go back. (Claims it's too flat and boring for the drive.) Rob's a big fan though, so maybe we can get a group together and just leave Craig home.

 

[tradygirl]

...so maybe we can get a group together and just leave Craig home.

Yeah, leave him to his precious Alta. :D

I think maybe the next round of storms I might start keeping an eye out and have a sick day on deck ready to go. Probably have to be getting up at 4AM to check the snow totals and still make it up there by 9:00, but it would be fun to hit it on a day when they got twice what the Cottonwoods got.

 

[alta_gal83]

Trady, you'll love PowMow ... just don't fall asleep on the chairlifts (I tend to have that problem there). Retro -- yes. Slow -- yes. Snow ---- epic!