Utah Ski Area To Re-open in June
Utah Ski Area To Re-open in June
Published : 11-Jun-2023 08:47
Utah's Snowbird ski area is planning to re-open next weekend, June 17-18, for summer skiing and boarding, "conditions permitting".
The centre, which is usually the last to close in the famous ski state, is usually the last to close in Utah, in May or sometimes June.
This season is unusual though, first because of the vast winter snowfalls in Utah which saw Snowbird become one of the few resorts to post more than 800 inches (20.3 metres) of snowfall (an unusually big amount for any ski area anywhere any season), a lot of it still lying on the upper mountain.
It's also unusual as the centre has taken a three-week temporary break in its summer ski operation while they perform scheduled Tram maintenance.
Part of that down time is so that the resort can install the new 'balconies' on top of their new for 22-23 cabins, allowing those who want to ride up the mountain in the open air, on the cabin roof.
It's a new option for North America, although the former glacier ski area of Dachstein in Austria as well as Tignes in France, which also opens for summer skiing next weekend, use variants of the design on their cable cars.
Snowbird say that moving forward they'll assess operations on a weekend-to-weekend basis thereafter, including, hopefully, the 4 days of the Fourth of July weekend.
There are currently four ski areas still open in North America. Mammoth Mountain and The Palisades in California, and the summer ski centres of the Palmer snowfield at Timberline in Oregon and Beartooth Basin on the Wyoming/Montana border.
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