Tips for Powder Mountain Utah Trip

Hope there is snow. That’s all. It’s pretty much all natural snow terrain. When good, it’s good. When bad, it’s bad.

SkiBum.Hope there is snow. That’s all. It’s pretty much all natural snow terrain. When good, it’s good. When bad, it’s bad.

Hardly a concern at the end of jan, unless they just don’t get any snow this year. But they typically have a solid base throughout January and February from what I’ve heard.

OUskiguy69Hardly a concern at the end of jan, unless they just don’t get any snow this year. But they typically have a solid base throughout January and February from what I’ve heard.

It's still a legit concern though. Just look at last year. If I recall correctly, they weren't even halfway open until February.

I've only skied PowMow a few times, so I don't know too much about it. My only advice is that if it's nuking, you will 100% want winter tires. The road up there is sketchy. Or you can just take the bus.

This. Last year was abismal up untill that point. Good time to plan a trip! But I would keep a close eye on the weather. So far it's been dry this November. Probably not opening till December.

Paradise lift has lots of lines and hits as well as good tree skiing. Most of the rest of the mountain is low angle.
Lightning ridge is good slack country with some spots to build booters off rocks. Can also pay extra for a cat ride up it.
They scraped their park last year... Hoping for a return this year but no solid word yet.
Woody's world and powder country can be great turns on a good day. Mountain has a bus that picks you up from the road. Might be my mom driving it!

Powder is an awesome mountain thou. One of the best gems of northern Utah IMO. Just pray for snow!

SkiBum.Hope there is snow. That’s all. It’s pretty much all natural snow terrain. When good, it’s good. When bad, it’s bad.

code3O7This. Last year was abismal up untill that point. Good time to plan a trip! But I would keep a close eye on the weather. So far it's been dry this November. Probably not opening till December.

Paradise lift has lots of lines and hits as well as good tree skiing. Most of the rest of the mountain is low angle.
Lightning ridge is good slack country with some spots to build booters off rocks. Can also pay extra for a cat ride up it.
They scraped their park last year... Hoping for a return this year but no solid word yet.
Woody's world and powder country can be great turns on a good day. Mountain has a bus that picks you up from the road. Might be my mom driving it!

Powder is an awesome mountain thou. One of the best gems of northern Utah IMO. Just pray for snow!

Great info thank you for sharing! Yeah I’m praying we have a good winter, every year we do our ski trip the same week (end of jan/first week of feb) and wether we are in the east coast or Colorado that seems to be a popular week for snow, praying the trend continues.



The vehicle I’ve been looking at renting (using Turo as it’s way cheaper with the current Chip shortage) is a Ford 150 4 x 4 very upgraded, but I’m not sure if it has snow tires. Hoping maybe the truck comes with chains? I know trucks don’t always do particularly well in snow with no weight in the back, do you have any experience with this?


thanks again for all the info guys!

**This post was edited on Nov 16th 2021 at 12:00:18pm

I really like the never ending catwalk/cobabe canyon

I believe powmow is passholders only on the weekends? And I think they cap ticket sales as well? I remember buying tickets last year and seeing that they have limited public availability depending on whatever day of the week. That was last year of course, but I do think the passholder-only rule on weekends still stands, so factor that into your trip too somewhat.

If you get into 4x4 before the main climb up on snow days you will be fine.
Going down stay in a low gear, keep your distance and pay attention.
The road is paved and fairly well maintained but steep with some sharp ungaurded curves. Easy to get going too fast.

DeebieSkeebiesI believe powmow is passholders only on the weekends? And I think they cap ticket sales as well? I remember buying tickets last year and seeing that they have limited public availability depending on whatever day of the week. That was last year of course, but I do think the passholder-only rule on weekends still stands, so factor that into your trip too somewhat.

Thankfully we planned it to arrive Sunday, ski Monday- Friday, ditch town on Saturday. Thank you for the heads up though i actually didn’t realize it was pass holders only on the weekend.