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Monday, November 14th, 2011
First Tracks Online Powder Day Report
by Marc Guido – First Tracks Online www.firsttracksonline.com Day 2: Powder day! The second part of our one-two punch of a storm arrived around 3 am and was a bit bigger than expected. I’d been tossing around the idea of hitting up lift-served at Solitude or skinning at Alta with mbaydala, Skidog and Bobby Danger. [...]
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
LA Times Feature Story/Video on Solitude.
By Christopher Reynolds Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDecember 12, 2010 Reporting from Solitude Mountain Resort, Utah — At last — a ski area suitable for our readers in the federal witness protection program. Solitude Mountain Resort lies about 30 miles from downtown Salt Lake City, tucked into the same Wasatch range that harbors such famed [...]
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
Beat the Inversion, Head up the Big
Excerpt from: http://skiingsolitudeutah.blogspot.com/2010/12/beat-inversion-head-up-big.html Yesterday I woke up to a mean inversion. How could the skiing be any good when you cannot see the mountains? Read more here:
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Tanner Hall, Chad Spector & Posse Shred the ‘tude
Excerpt from http://chadspector.com/blog/ “A little bird whispered in my ear last night that Solitude was going to open the Powderhorn and Summit chairs for the 1st time this season. That meant that there’d be many many feet of snow that was just sitting there waiting for someone to ski it. Snow that had taunted all [...]
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Silver Fork Expansion Application
Solitude Mountain Resort is applying for 182 acres of lift served skiing in Silver Fork Canyon, a reduction from the original proposal of 462 acres. The popular Meadow Chutes and West Bowl are NOT part of the proposed expansion that would include only one new lift, as well as a realignment of the current Honeycomb [...]
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Avalanche Awareness Course Dec 19 & 20
Join members of Solitude’s Professional Ski Patrol and Snow Safety team to learn how to travel responsibly and safely outside resort boundaries. This two-day course is a great introduction to the identification of avalanche hazard and the skills needed to safely travel in the backcountry. The course will focus on identifying avalanche terrain, analyzing snow [...]
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Powderhorn II Ready for Operation
With the final bolts tightened, tests passed and chairs hung, Utah’s largest on-mountain improvement for the upcoming season is ready for action – Powderhorn II. Powderhorn II starts near the bottom of Sunshine Bowl, travels above a widened Concord ski run, and ends in the same location as the original Powderhorn Lift. Some terrain improvements [...]
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
More news from 9800′
The chopper visited us again and flew in all the towers – believe it or not in about 3 hours they had every tower in place. Talk about efficiency – these guys should run the Senate or something. The next phase of this project will be to put thetop and bottom lift terminals in place, [...]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
PH II Progress Report
A picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s a few chapters to enjoy. Equipment in staging – lift towers and the like. We hired a heli to fly in concrete for the footings. This is the concrete bucket the heli swings around like a rag doll.
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
New Quad Lift!
That’s right – Solitude Mountain Resort has begun installation on Powderhorn II, a $1.5 million improvement to the lift system. This new fixed grip quad replaces the original Powderhorn double, a holdover from its mid-70s installation – albeit with an improved lift line . Coming on the heels of last winter’s $7 million investment in [...]