A dusting of snow covers a forest of aspen and pine in Big Cottonwood Canyon, a canyon in the Wasatch Mountains, that is accessible in the summer and winter months from the Salt Lake Valley in northern Utah.
The Wasatch is a 250 mile long north-south mountain range in northern Utah, that is begins south of Mt. Nebo, the ranges highest point 11,928 feet (3,636 m), at the southern end of Utah Valley and ends near the Bear River close to the Utah/Idaho border. Its known for world class hiking, and what Utahan’s have called the greatest snow on Earth, during the ski season.
Geologically, the Wasatch are considered part of the larger Rocky Mountain range that features most prominently in Colorado to the East.