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Utah bills itself as having the 'greatest snow on Earth.'

Many skiers and snowboarders live for powder days.

The Cottonwood canyons have all the ingredients for the world's best snow.

Utah for decades has billed itself as having the “Greatest Snow on Earth.”

Tom Korologos, an editor at the Salt Lake Tribune, coined the phrase in a headline for a special ski edition of the newspaper’s Home magazine in December 1960, shortly after Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus passed through town.

“Intermountain folk will tell you that the winds blowing from the west leave the wet, sticky snows in the Sierras. When the storms reach the Intermountain ranges, only the most perfect dry powder is left. That’s just a sprinkling of what you’ll find in the vast, scenic country that is t

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