The mountains — and this will come as no surprise to anyone who has been conscious in Utah the past 5 months — are well on their way to a record snowfall season.
There have been big, long winters before, but none shaping up to be bigger or longer than 2022-23. It started snowing in October and it's only stopped so it could start again. Here at Alta, the venerable mining town turned ski mecca, theat the historic guard station located on the north side of the highway was 745.4 inches during the winter of 1994-95.
Dave, who just turned 40, came here 19 years ago after graduating from college in New Hampshire so he could ski for a year and get that out of his system. Then he would move on to graduate school and some vague, yet-to-be-determined career.Then he fell in love with the mountains. He's paid his dues. When Alta told him the best path to getting on their ski patrol was to gain experience elsewhere, he spent a winter in Colorado and another winter in Montana learning the ropes before returning to Utah and getting hired at Alta.
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