My bro and I worked in SW Wyoming in '73-'75 and skied at Alta and Snowbird many times. Bunny runs at Snowbird were black diamonds elsewhere!
Same with Jackson Hole....Steep-n-deep...only jumped into Corbets once ....shit your pants scary triple black diamond.
My last winter in Alta,early 70's,first year bird opened up,we would take the lone single chair(in alta) to to schutes funneling into snowbird,ski down the narrow shutes to the road and hitch hike back to Alta...chest shots all the way down those shutes,wood core 210cm skis....today on these short fat skis I'd kill myself....to old to re-learn....knees are shot.
Down side to ski bumming in utah.no night life,dry state at the time....Jackson Hole was my fav.but again very little night life but we made the sheep nervous...
Later in life I landed in colorado,living in breckenridge by winter,working alaskan oil fields by summer (Arco oil) Vail was my huckleberry when we had a chance to road trip the 30 miles to vail,hot in shape ski minxes from around the world,5 mountains to ski.Great times were had