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What appears below seems to be a review of an outing to Powder Mountain:

The drive up took bout 1 ½ hour drive from SLC

The drive up was awesome. We took I-80 to I-84, then around the loop at Pineview Resevoir. The mountains in those parts are absolutely huge and scenic.

It was no short drive. We didn’t leave Park City until 9:10; so by the time we got to Eden at 10:20, we were certainly ready to ski. It was still another steep, 20-minute chug up Powder Mountain Road to reach the resort.

On the far side of Eden, we began to worry that we had missed a turn, as we seemed to be passing through a residential area. We however continued climbing, slowly at first, then the road gradually steepened and the mountains drew closer to each shoulder. Rounding bend #437, we began to notice ski tracks dropping off the ridges through the trees on both sides of the road. The sheer quantum of apparent backcountry further piqued our interest. Still climbing, we eventually ground into a small parking lot with one chairlift traveling up the western ridge. After a brief tour of the parking lot, we decided to continue on in the hope that the main lodge was still to come.

Mountain Layout Powder has been described as an “upside down” mountain in that much of the resort is actually located below the main lodge. In fact, if you really want to, you can drive even further up the road to the parking lot of Hidden Lake Lodge, the resort’s highest structure.

Perhaps the best way to describe the layout of Powder Mountain - and folks, this is a spectacularly insufficient description - is to picture a bunch of bananas thrown on a table stem side down, with the stem pointing south to the Hidden Lake Lodge. The bananas themselves form the ridges, and the intervening valleys are represented by the spaces between the bananas. Below Hidden Lake Lodge lies the main Powder Mountain Lodge. However, if you wish to reach the former from the latter, you must first ski down to and ride up the Timberline Triple, or as we said, drive. We choose the lift on the advice of a friendly employee who suggested that we use the opportunity to get a look around. His advice that “You can see the whole resort from the top of the lift" proved to be the wildest overstatement of the week - it’s that vast.

The staff and locals are the nicest folks around. The guy running the ski shop talked my friend out of buying something he didn't need, then gave him a discount on something he needed. Try finding that in Park City. The atmosphere at Powder is totally laid back and the longest lift line was about 6 people long (and that's on President's day).

Chair Lift Access The area is full of these quirks that most areas masterplanned out years ago. For starters, there are two base areas, which sit about a half-mile from each other, with a trail running from the upper base to the lower and a shuttle running from the lower up to the upper. The lower base has rentals, bathrooms, a restaurant, a ski school meeting place, and a double chair and poma lift. Most of the action is at the upper base, which sits at 8,250 feet above sea level. Here, you get a handful of restaurants, a condo or two, and rentals and lift ticket sales. But there are no lifts here. The upper-mountain base is actually mid-mountain, and at the base you strap in and ski a few hundred vertical feet to the three-seater.

The quad is the central lift in the system. It rises more than 1600 feet up the crest of a ridge and serves predominantly black diamond terrain, most of which has never seen a grooming machine. For a mix of green, blue, and black groomed trails ride the Timberline Triple, in the same neighborhood, or the Sundown Double above the main "base" area.

The lift accessed terrain was average, but the hikable stuff (lighting ridge and cobabe canyon) are where it's at.

But come on, the place gets over 500 inches annually. no joke, 2 weeks after a storm, you can still find plenty of fresh.

We rounded the point at the bottom to NOT stand in line for the Paradise lift.

In addition, in 1999, Powder Mountain added the Paradise quad to service 1,200 acres previously accessed by sno-cat only. It is also whispered that the aptly named Powder Mountain gets more snow than any ski resort in Utah. Now there is also access to Lightning Ridge via sno-cat for an additional 700 skiable acres.

Two minutes into the ride, we discussed how this lift was aptly named. The entire ridge beneath the lift was one gigantic whale spine of a natural terrain park. The red rock boulders and cliffs just kept coming, topped with massive tufts of the 114-inch base. Any size drop you’re man enough for lies beneath the Paradise lift. Andy and I wanted to jump off sooo bad.

Directly north along the high ridgeline, we could make out the top of the Paradise lift, the resort’s newest chair. A fixed-grip quad, Paradise accesses acre upon acre of blue and black trails, glades, and open faces along both sides of the ridge. This is the “in-bounds” advanced/expert section of Powder Mountain. Here you'll also find the longest true lift-served runs on the mountain – 1,600 vertical feet of sustained drop. The Timberline Lift itself tops out somewhat above the Paradise lift, with trails almost connecting to it via the ridgeline, but due to a topographical dip you can't ski directly from the top of Timberline to the top of Paradise.

To skier's right of the Timberline Lift lies another east-trending line, Sunrise Ridge, served by the Hidden Lake chair - perhaps the world’s slowest operational double still in existence. About 1,300 vertical feet of mainly blue-rated runs spill northward off of the entire length of the ridge. The mellow terrain is markedly sweetened by a profusion of wide-open aspen and evergreen glades. Much of this portion of the mountain consists of short, often somewhat steepish pitches, followed by fairly long and undulating flatter sections. While you can link together a few steep sections in one run, none are sustained. You’ll in the process discover about 500 acres of absolutely primo family and intermediate terrain.

All of the aspen and evergreen glades off the Hidden Lake chair had become eminently skiable - no underbrush, no fallen logs, just line after line of fresh snow. All of the trees were sublime, possessing that perfect pitch that allows your skis to just run. Spacing between trees was tight enough to give that feeling of isolation, but open enough to provide plenty of options.

At the eastern terminus of Sunrise Ridge, a short poma lift transports skiers to the ridge’s summit. From there, seemingly endless opportunities abound. If one chooses to drop off to the extreme skier's right of the ridge, you reach the quasi-backcountry terrain of Cobabe Canyon, where black diamond options spill off both the east- and west-facing sides. The entire Sunrise Ridge area and Cobabe Canyon dump out at the base of the Paradise Lift after a short runout.

The Hidden Lake Double, the area's longest lift at 6000 feet, also serves a fine mix of groomed trails for all abilities. From the top of this lift scoot down to the Sunrise platter for the ride to the top of Sunrise Ridge and access to Cobabe Canyon. The green and groomed Sunrise Ridge trail leads to Catwalk and Cobabe Canyon for an easy and scenic ride all the way to the base of Paradise; the upper part of this trail also access ungroomed black diamond paths. A moderate hike will get you to the other side of the canyon where blue and black powder lines await.

Backcountry Bus Another advantage is that Powder Mountain essentially offers a shuttle service for backcountry skiing. You can ski off-piste down to the road and catch a bus back to the resort.

Alternatively, one can drop north off the backside of the Hidden Lake Lodge into the vast expanse known as "Powder Country,” containing some of the resort’s signature terrain and its best secret stashes. These are known as the “bus runs.” From the top terminals of any of the Hidden Lake, Timberline, or Sundown chairs, one can ski black diamond-rated glades and chutes of nearly 2,000 vertical feet all the way back down to the access road. Once there, a shuttle bus cycles back and forth transporting emerging skiers and boarders back to the main lodge. Virtually limitless untracked lines exist in the nearly 800 acres of terrain here. And, the price is right - it's included in your lift ticket

Powder Country is a patrolled area adjacent the lifts accessible by a short traverse. The long and steep gladded terrain runs down to the resort’s road where a bus shuttles riders back to the lifts every fifteen minutes.

Jerry next took us over into "Powder Country" to do a bus run. These west-facing slopes were by now heating up a bit and starting to stick in the afternoon sun. The pitch, the terrain and the trees, however, remained almost perfect. Filing onto the funky blue bus at the bottom of a 2,000-vertical-foot private stash for the ride back to the resort proper is a positively cool in-bounds experience. I feel sorry for the pants-in-the-boot tourists back at The Canyons.

Woody, pictured abov

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