Utah has low-profile gems for the avid skier
POWDER MOUNTAIN, Utah - Utah's most famous ski resorts - Alta, Snowbird and the three Park City areas - are skiing household names. They are revered for hundreds of inches of cloud-light powder that fall on their slopes every year. But there are other places in Utah to ski, with more elusive images and lower profiles.
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Exodus to Utah, Take Two
by Geordie Brackin
Photo by: Green Mountain Ski Furniture
There's a foot of fresh in the Wasatch and your plane just touched down in Salt Lake. But instead of heading to Alta/Snowbird or Park City, your destination might just be 40 minutes north in Ogden, a burned-out industrial city that's gunning to become the Next Big Destination in skiing.
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THE REVIVAL: A hundred years ago, this Utah outpost—45 minutes north of Salt Lake, in the foothills of the Wasatch—was a hopping railroad junction. But after the diesel engine and I-15 came through, in the '50s and '60s, Ogden faded into anonymity as a blue-collar manufacturing burg with gobs of overlooked natural assets.
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Why Ogden: It may have been too rowdy for Al Capone back in the 1920s, but today's Ogden isn't any less rambunctious than it used to be. It's just a different kind of wild.