Powderhorn Patrol Shack, Solitude Resort

A Patrol Post Above the Slopes

This camera looks out from the Powderhorn patrol shack, a small outpost built near the top of the Powderhorn run at Solitude Mountain Resort. The vantage point gives ski patrollers a clear line of sight across the terrain they monitor, with the forested slopes and distant ridgelines of the resort spread out below.

The Powderhorn Terrain

Powderhorn is one of the mountain's steeper, tree-lined sections, favored by advanced skiers and riders for its pitch and natural contours. The shack's elevated position lets patrol staff keep an ongoing watch over this part of the resort, coordinating operations across the surrounding runs.

Solitude Mountain Resort

Solitude is a mid-sized ski area in the Wasatch Range, built around a network of chairlifts strung across bowls and ridgelines above Big Cottonwood Canyon. The resort blends open bowls with tighter, tree-covered runs like Powderhorn, giving its patrol teams a varied mountain to oversee.

Big Cottonwood Canyon

The resort sits within Big Cottonwood Canyon, a glacially carved valley in the Wasatch Mountains southeast of Salt Lake City. Dense conifer forest climbs the canyon walls around the patrol shack's elevated perch, framing the working heart of the mountain captured in this fixed view.