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Elizabeth
Oct 28th, 2009

Let it Snow

Yeserday the season’s first snowflakes fell around SOAR’s office near Salt Lake City. We’re ready for the slopes and powder that await us (see image below)! Winter is something to look forward to in the state with the greatest snow on Earth, and here’s why:

  • 13 ski resorts, most which are less than 40 miles from Salt Lake City
  • Nearly 400 inches average annual snowfall at the resorts
  • Nearly 27,000 skiable acres
  • More than 1,100 ski runs
  • Snowboarding allowed at 11 out of the 13 resorts

Ski (or snowboard) on!

Information gathered using information from SkiUtah’s 2009-2010 Utah Resort Facts

SOAR gets rowdy in the winter

Chip
Feb 2nd, 2008

Shelly Robertson at the Deer Valley Resort Visa Freestyle International

Last December David blogged about meeting US Ski Team mogul skier Shelly Robertson. Well, this weekend is the Deer Valley Resort Visa Freestyle Invitational and Shelly is in town.

Shelly Robertson US Ski Team MogulsWhen we first met Shelly she was returning home to Reno after taking 7th place in the women’s moguls competition at the 2008 World Cup season opener in Tignes, France. Since then we have traded emails back and forth with a plan to see her ski in person at the Deer Valley event.

After France, her next event was the Nature Valley Freestyle Cup on January 20 in Lake Placid, New York. I’m signed up for the US Ski Team email newsletter (You can sign up in the middle of the page at (www.usskiteam.com), and I saw that she took 5th place, so I sent her a congratulations email. She responded, “I was definitely excited about 5th- skiing really well- just went way too big on the bottom jump and almost over-rotated the backflip.” That statement turned out to be prophetic for her next event.

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