Little Cottonwood Crews
This photo gallery documents the early-season actions of two groups that call Utah's Little Cottonwood Canyon home for the winter: ski patrol and the local grom squad.
Crews of Little Cottonwood
Ski Patrol
Snowbird Ski Patrol sighting in their avalanche gun to ensure accurate aiming for storm-day bombing.
Red Coat
Long days and tedious work behind the scenes are needed to prepare Snowbird Ski Resort for a long season.
Howitzer
Utilizing WWII army equipment, Snowbird Ski Patrol relies on these guns to accurately trigger potential avalanche threats surrounding the ski resorts.
Keeping Us Safe
Located across the street from Snowbird Ski Resort, this gun triggers most of the in-bounds avalanches.
Grom Squaw
While the ski patrol works hard to keep the mountain safe, Grant Howard and Griffin Rasmussen ditch school early to bust out some hot laps at Alta Ski Resort.
Drew Petersen
Drew Petersen working out the kinks high above Alta's avalanche gun tower.
Griffin
Griffin Rasmussen dialing in his 7 on an early-season jump session above the Wildcat chairlift top shack.
Taylor Pratt
Taylor Pratt kicking off the season right, high above Highway 210.
The two-seater Wildcat chairlift, which links Snowbird to Alta.
At the end of the day, clouds built and a storm rolled in. LCC, get ready: Winter is here.
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Little Cottonwood Crews
This photo gallery documents the early-season actions of two groups that call Utah's Little Cottonwood Canyon home for the winter: ski patrol and the local grom squad.
Ski Patrol
Snowbird Ski Patrol sighting in their avalanche gun to ensure accurate aiming for storm-day bombing.
Red Coat
Long days and tedious work behind the scenes are needed to prepare Snowbird Ski Resort for a long season.
Howitzer
Utilizing WWII army equipment, Snowbird Ski Patrol relies on these guns to accurately trigger potential avalanche threats surrounding the ski resorts.
Keeping Us Safe
Located across the street from Snowbird Ski Resort, this gun triggers most of the in-bounds avalanches.
Grom Squaw
While the ski patrol works hard to keep the mountain safe, Grant Howard and Griffin Rasmussen ditch school early to bust out some hot laps at Alta Ski Resort.
Drew Petersen
Drew Petersen working out the kinks high above Alta's avalanche gun tower.
Griffin
Griffin Rasmussen dialing in his 7 on an early-season jump session above the Wildcat chairlift top shack.
Taylor Pratt
Taylor Pratt kicking off the season right, high above Highway 210.
The two-seater Wildcat chairlift, which links Snowbird to Alta.
At the end of the day, clouds built and a storm rolled in. LCC, get ready: Winter is here.