Ride Utah Blog

It’s looking like it’s going to be a good winter for national contests.  In addition to getting the Grand Prix back, Snowbasin will be hosting the Winter Dew Tour on January 15-17th.  I wonder if they’re going to have to move the Superpipe.

Salt Lake City was such a success as a host for the Summer Dew Tour, organizers decided to come back for more. This time the temperatures will be a little chillier and the background scenery will be mountains, not the downtown skyline.

As previously reported by The Salt Lake Tribune , the Dew Tour announced Monday it has selected Snowbasin as the site of a Jan. 15-17 stop on its three-stop schedule. The tour will also includes events at Breckenridge Ski Resort (Dec. 18-20) in Colorado and Mount Snow Resort (Feb. 5-7) in West Dover, Vt.

“We are thrilled to be the host community for this event,” said Ogden Mayor Matthew R. Godfrey. “Ogden’s national reputation as being the mecca of high adventure recreation is a perfect match for a premier extreme winter sporting event like the Winter Dew Tour.”

All three stops of the Winter Dew Tour will be televised on NBC. Heading into its second season, the Winter Dew Tour capitalized on the growing interest in extreme sports in 2008-09 by drawing more than 70,000 fans to its events and an average of 26 million TV viewers as popular athletes such as Shaun White, Kelly Clark and Tanner Hall showed off their skills.

http://www.sltrib.com/sports/ci_12827613

Think again.

Snowbird was awesome today.  More snow on the way.

I stopped by the Slug Games at Brighton today.  I got there a little late because I spent the morning teaching my 3 year old how to shred, and then the lunch hours riding with my 14 year old neighbor.  The Candyland Jam seemed well attended by groms, but, I ran into some friends and everyone seemed to be having fun.  Check back here or check out Slugmag.com for the results.

The ever popular product toss.

The Sweet Trophies

Here are some photos sent in by RideUtah’s buddy Brock Butterfield.  Photos by Jake Lawlor.  Thanks guys. Got a photo or video of you getting ill in Utah?  Send it in.  I’ll probably post it.

It is currently dumping rain in Salt Lake and nuking in the mountains.  Check out the Snow Cam at Snowbird, it’s already pushing over the one foot mark:

Snowbird Snow Cam

The current Cottonwood Canyons forecast is calling for  8 – 12 ” today and another 8 – 12″ tonight, with a 30% possiblilty of 13 – 16″ tonight.  Even more snow is on the way tomorrow.  At some point the rain in Salt Lake should be switching over to snow.  Hopefully it will be dumping on me while I’m sitting in the Hot Tub tonight.

If we end up with 3 feet or more I might have to go make my first tracks of the season.  I’ve got a little place that’s high altitude (so lots of snow), steep (for lots of speed), and grassy underneath (so I don’t have to worry about hurting my board or my butt on a rock).  Here are some shots from this undisclosed location taken on October 21st of last year.

The Utah Office of Tourism new winter ads.  Wonder where the lame snowflakes go.

In additon to the fall colors, we’re starting to see snow dusting the high peaks here in Utah.  This winter saw cold temps and our second shot of snow already.  I spent the weekend in Southern Utah in the depths of a slot canyon where we only had to worry about some rain and the potential for a flash flood, but, up in Northern Utah they got some snow.  Keep your fingers crossed and hope for a good start to winter with lots of early snow!

Snow and Fall Colors at Snowbird this weekend.

P.S. The National Weather Service is calling for more snow this weekend in the Canyons.