Spring Corn in Pipeline and Little Chute - Snowbasin to re-open this weekend! So with this beautiful spring weather, I was finally able to take down both the Pipleline Chute at Snowbird and Little Chute at Alta this weekend. The weather was truly spectacular, temperatures reached the middle 80s in the Valleys, 60’s at the resort bases and a lovely high 40s on the peaks of Wasatch. Not only did the cooler temperatures make for some delicious corn snow but it made all the upper mountain hikes very doable in just a t-shirt, over heating wasn't a problem. For those of you asking yourselves, what exactly is corn snow, well here is the official definition from the Avalanche Centre: Corn Snow: Coarse, granular wet snow. During the spring and summer diurnal cycle of melting and refreezing the corn snow skiing is at its best in mid to late morning, after a layer has begun to melt but before it is too wet and sloppy. Corn snow doesn't just set up overnight, it takes some time for it to develop. This time of year I often hear people ask Snowbird Ski Patrol, "If you have so much snow why aren't you open seven days a week?" The answer they usually get is, "We are farming our snow." Now to the avid skier that makes plenty of sense, but to the tourist on vacation that probably just leaves them utterly confused. What they're inferring is actually a pretty simple concept. In order for "Corn Snow" to grow it takes some time. If Snowbird were open 7 days a week, skier traffic would never ...