Utah’s powder is trademarked “the greatest snow on earth.” They call it the Great Salt Lake Effect: When lake water rises into the clouds, producing squalls of light, fluffy, dry snow that dump on the nearby Wasatch Mountains. This phenomenon causes “powder flu” – a highly contagious epidemic among skiers, causing extended work absences and irrepressible grins.

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