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High on Alta No glitz. No snowboarders. There are With its base at 8,530 feet elevation at
no chain hotels or mega resorts here – the head of Little Cottonwood Canyon,
“If you’re going to re-learn to ski, why not just a few condos and five lodges that Alta is high and ultra-dry. When the sun
go to Alta, where all they do is ski?” said
Joe Johnson, a social media friend and include breakfast and dinner in accom- blazes here, snow doesn’t turn to slush;
modations packages. Room amenities
it evaporates. Visitors get 2,200 skiable
expert skier. “It’s been that way for 75 include humidifiers and boot warmers. acres of what locals boast is “the great-
years.”
The place is about skiing – not nightlife. est snow on Earth.”
Alta is old school – a skiers’ classic.

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