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, with summer and wildfire season on the horizon. The snowpack has likely peaked and is melting into the area’s waterways, officials indicated. But because of historically dry soils, much of the snowmelt is being absorbed by the earth on its way to the area’s streams and rivers. Glen Merrill, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City who also manages its hydrology program, said on April 8, before the recent round of storms, that the snowmelt runoff was predicted to be only half of normal levels for the Weber River and Upper Provo River basins. “Quite grim,” h...

Ridgelines The California-Comstock Mine stands silently in Thaynes Canyon at the base of the Keystone run at Park City Mountain Resort. Photo by Tom Kelly Keystone is one of those magical runs at Park City Mountain Resort. It’s a bit tucked away — you need to take the old Pioneer lift to get there. Filled with undulating terrain, it’s a nice blue groomer with a ton of width. Given its location, you never have to play pinball with crowds so you can unleash some big, sweeping carving turns. As you ski down Keystone it’s important to position yourself to the left. As you near the bottom,...

Truckers to hit another week of snowstorms out West First storm cranks up Monday afternoon in Sierra Nevada (Photo: Caltrans) After a few rounds of mostly light to moderate mountain snowfall out West last week, truckers will face more wintry weather in these areas over the next several days. Fortunately, most of these storms will not likely stop drivers in their tracks, but they will need to be prepared to chain up. The storms will come in waves, and some will be stronger than others. The first will hit the Sierra Nevada during the first half of the week, with the heaviest snowfall fr...

Midweek storm to spread snow across southern Rockies AccuWeather 2/23/2021 Mary Gilbert After a relatively quiet February in terms of significant snow events for residents outside the highest elevations of the southern Rockies, a more potent storm looks to take shape around midweek. A cold front will dig eastward across the Plains and southward through the southern Rockies on Tuesday night, and colder conditions will follow in its wake. Leftover energy from a storm that brought heavy rain and avalanche danger to parts of the Pacific Northwest to begin the week, and an influx...

× How rescuers saved an Idaho man and his 16-year-old daughter after a ski accident in Montana’s backcountry By Eli Francovich, The Spokesman-Review Published: February 22, 2021, 6:05am Share: 2 Photos Kelly and Edward Moellmer smile during a backcountry skiing trip in 2020. (Courtesy Edward Moellmer/The Spokesman-Review/TNS) Photo Gallery SPOKANE — Goggles covered in ice and visibility nearing zero, Edward Moellmer squinted down an expanse of snow near the summit of Montana’s Engle Peak. What was that? That blurry disruption in an otherwise white expanse of sn...