We found a site that features all kinds of car and truck racks for people like you who are active and need to lug gear around the mountains. BikeRackOutlet.com features the complete lines of car and truck rack systems from top brands like Thule and Yakima. It looks like they’re featuring gear from RackAttack.com. From their site: “With eight retail stores, over 60 full-time rack experts on staff and likely the largest inventories in the business, Rack Attack is North America’s premier retailer of automotive and home storage rack systems..“

The site features…

• Ski & Snowboard Racks
• Water Sport & Kayak Racks
• Base Racks
• Bike Racks
• Lockable Accessories

They also feature an RSS feed for coupons and discounts from RackAttack. You can actually subscribe to the RSS and keep an eye on what’s going on sale right from the homepage of BikeRackOutlet.com. Check it out!

We found discounted lift tickets at Snowbird Ski Resort!

Are you heading to Utah this winter to experience ‘The greatest Snow on Earth’? If so it’s likely your plans call for a day (or several) in Little Cottonwood Canyon (for LCC and Alta/Snowbord daily grind check out AltaCam). Well we’ve found some discounted lift tickets for you: Snowbird is offering 1 Day Adult Tram Tickets for $56 through Backcountry.com…regularly $64. That’s a savings of $8 per lift ticket. If you have a family of four, and you’re hitting Snowbird for two days…click the link below and you’ve just saved $48!!

Once on Backcountry.com just search ‘Snowbird’…or you can CLICK HERE to go directly to the snowbird lift ticket page.

>> Snowbird 1 Day Adult Tram Ticket
>> Snowbird 2 out of 5 Day Adult Tram Tickets

Well we’re due in Utah for one of our famous dumpages of snow…and it looks like it’s on. It’s been quite a dry spell. Although the snowpak is taking it’s time getting going this year…we all know what’s to come in the Cottonwoods: Blower POW days galore. Check out today’s Alta Powder Alert that just showed up in my inbox:

Hello Alta Powder Hounds….

In the past 24 hours, Alta Ski Area has received: 7″ of new snow
The settled mid-mountain base is currently: 51″
So far this season we’ve received 120″ of snow
The extended weather forecast is: 6-9″ inches of snow today (Saturday, December 16th). 5-7″ of snow tonight.

Sign Up!
Alta Powalert: http://www.alta.com/pages/powalert.php

Other powder junky links…
Alta Snow Report: http://www.alta.com/pages/report.php
Alta Mountain Cams: http://www.alta.com/pages/mtncam.php
Alta Pic of the Day: http://www.alta.com/pages/pod.php

Alta Ski Lift Co. features several forecast and weather links on their site, but I wanted to highlight our favorite. The National Weather Service for Salt Lake City issues a daily report for the canyons east of Salt Lake City that are the most thorough and perhaps the most accurate.

For example, here is the synopsis for today:

Synopsis:
A weak but moist storm system will move through the canyon areas this afternoon and this evening. Snow density should be higher than the Sunday night system. Flow across the ridges will be moderate to strong through the week with the snow level rising to 7500 to 8000 feet by Thursday.

Bookmark the Cottonwood Canyons Forecast page for future reference..

If you haven’t already you might want to check out Evogear.com…coming on strong as a web retailer in the outdoor gear category. It’s a grassroots and organic operation run by industry folks. If there was ever a group core to their roots it’s this crew. Evogear is quickly becoming a top multi-channel retailer to represent the ski, snowboard, wake and streetwear markets. They carry hundreds of the hottest brands and are one of the few online stores with a unique, lifestyle centric, product mix. More on their ‘About Us’ page.

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Attention Ski Photographers! AltaCam’s first ever monthly ski photo contest has a winner. Their community skiing forum votes are in and the winner is Pete Coleman! Great photo he took of his friend Greg on a fresh, untracked zone of Glory Hole at Alta Ski Area with Patsey Marley in the background. Pete gets a a $75 gift certificate to Backcountry.com and his photo featured on the homepage of AltaCam for the month of December.

This contest is ongoing each month during the 2006-07 ski season so dig out your ski photos and submit them for your chance at winning. November winning image below. Click on image to see larger version and caption.

We’re snow junkies..and I happen to be partial to Alta Ski Lift Co. …like it or not a lot of these posts will be focused on snow riding in Little Cottonwood canyon! (i say snow riding to not alienate the snowboarers ;))

Each new, crisp powder day I’ll post the ‘Alta Ski Area Powder Alert‘ (click the link to subscribe).

Here’s today’s juicy news:

Hello Alta Powder Hounds…

In the past 24 hours, Alta Ski Area has received: 19″ of new snow
The settled mid-mountain base is currently: 43″
So far this season we’ve received 81″ of snow
The extended weather forecast is: Heavy snow through Wednesday. Another 10″ of snow is forecasted for Today.

AltaCam has opened the voting polls in their monthly ski photo contest. Anyone can submit their photos. All contest submissions will be included in a monthly site image gallery. Winner gets a Backcountry.com gift card and their photo/link featured on the homepage of AltaCam.com for a month.

Click Here to cast your vote for the November photo contest winner!! (must be registered to forum to vote)

Local skiers and snowboarders…you may find this to be useful information. It’s a daily update all in one place of winter & turning conditions for all Utah resorts. If you’re coming out to Utah for a visit this winter this would also nice to keep track of. …it’s a quick and easy view of current ski and snowboard conditions for ‘The Greatest Snow on Earth’. Grab the RSS feed at Utah Life Outdoors (a site dedicated to outdoor living in our state) and plug into your favorite content or news reader. Another options is to have the reports delivered to your email inbox each day. Visit the Utah Ski & Snowboard Conditions Page to do either…

We’ve also included subscription links for this real time feed:

Utah Ski Resort Conditions  

Happy powder…it’s definitely lined up to pound on us in Utah week after Thanksgiving 2006.

On November 1st AltaCam announced a photo of the month contest. We blogged about it back at the beginning of the month.. Update: Submission deadline has passed for November, but don’t worry if you want to try again they’ll be accepting submissions all winter. This is a monthly contest, and the winner each month get’s their photo posted on the homepage of AltaCam.com and a $75 gift card from Backcountry.com.

And the big news, this contest has actually been posted on the Alta Ski Area web site: Alta.com.. Go to their homepage and Check it out!

Info on the contest: Photo of the Month Contest Page