Salt Lake City well within 3 hours of any resort in Northern Utah. There are 7 within 45 minutes of the airport. What resorts are you thinking about? You should be able to do plenty of hiking that time of year.


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>I plan to use the resort as a base for hiking and exploring an area within three hours drive of whichever resort we can get, which might be almost anywhere in the mountains but is likely to be near one of the major resort towns like Aspen or Vail. I am basically wondering if the weather will let me do that. Perhaps it will be all right, but not at the highest elevations. Maybe, for example, parts of Rocky Mountain National Park will be open and other parts closed. I imagine that I-70 would remain open but some of the higher passes would be a matter of luck. I don't mind walking or even driving in snow, up to a point.
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>There are also a couple of RCI resorts in Northern Utah, which I have never seen. I imagine it would be the same situation. Perhaps it would be easier to get to lower elevations there if we were unlucky with weather.
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>I'm interested in any impressions people have. I'm not looking for a complete, rigorous answer to my vague question.