Mormons Mormons are very cool and super hospitable people but they don't drink and they have a few curly laws in place that make it harder for your average law abiding boarder to get a decent beer or vino. Harder, but no real problem. Utah is still relatively undiscovered and gives new meaning to the word uncrowded. Utah is hosting the 2002 Winter Olympics and following that you can expect the crowds to flock. Its a 'freak of nature' and in English that translates to 'Home of the Greatest Snow on Earth'. .
Storms role in from the Northwest Pacific and dump the first load on the coastal mountains.
They then travel across 1000 miles or so of desert which removes a lot of the remaining moisture content. Now at the base of Utah's Wasatch mountain range lies the Great Salt Lake and as storms pass over this, they are recharge by the lake's evaporation. While most natural snow crystals for on microscopic nuclei of dust or spore particles, the Great Salt Lake evaporation uniquely provides salt nucelli. The final ingredient to this snow making Mecca is 'Box Canyons'. Picture an open shoebox with one of the ends ripped off and you'll have good image of a box canyon.