Snowbasin

It has been 10 years since the Winter Olympics came to Snowbasin, but the impact of the 2002 games will be felt at the resort years into the future.

SNOWBASIN -- In just his second year as a professional, Justin Morgan has already had a taste of what every competitive snowboarder strives for.

HUNTSVILLE — Snowbasin Resort has a brief chapel service every Sunday at 2 p.m. in Needles Lodge downstairs, for the remainder of the ski season.

OGDEN — A video in which a Snowbasin ski patroller is seen reprimanding a snowboarder before directing an obscenity toward another guest has gone viral, sparking an online discussion as to whether snowboarders are singled out at ski resorts.

In the video, which was captured and posted Tuesday on vimeo.com, a Snowbasin ski instructor and a ski patroller stop snowboarder Austen Knudson, of Layton, on Bear Hollow, a run that is often crowded because it begins at the bottom of the Middle Bowl area where several runs converge.

SALT LAKE CITY — A year ago, snow was falling in Utah at about twice the average rate and resorts were packed with crowds of tourists reveling in the white stuff.

Now the state’s snowpack is at about 50 percent of average, and one resort without snowmaking capability hasn’t even opened for the season.