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Utah's "Greatest Snow on Earth" slogan, coined in 1960, is trademarked since 1975.

Jim Steenburgh highlights Little Cottonwood Canyon's ideal conditions for exceptional powder skiing.

Climate change is altering Utah's snowfall, increasing rain at lower elevations over time.

SALT LAKE CITY — 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 I

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