Snowbird is, in short, not a place for the ski-to-lunch-then-après crowd – and, given its steep landscape, remote location and free-spirited foundation, this is perhaps to be expected. Snowbird is ...

Many ski resorts hold an official pond skim event in which a makeshift pool of water is created in the snow for skiers to glide across, but at Snowbird, Utah, a naturally-forming pond steals the show.

It wasn't always that way. There was a rough-and-tumble period, after the snowbird business died out in the 1980s, when things were pretty rough on the neon highway. She doesn't want to talk about it.

Still, there is some solace for Solitude. As one of two resorts that kicked off Utah’s ski season last Nov. 7, it can still boast having the longest ski season in Utah at 183 days. Snowbird ...

Snowbird's last day of the Winter 24/25 season was held on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, 2025, and the scenes that unfolded at the unsanctioned pond skim on Anderson's (highlighted on the trail ...