The Bird's great for pow but gets crowded and tracked fast. Brighton has incredible terrain for powder, they have night skiing and they get a lot of high school kids- good terrain parks. Not really sure if it would be my first pick for carving. Park City and Canyons are great destination resorts and have all that come with that- high price and crowds, they both have a lot of area and don't seem to track out as fast as the Bird. Snowbasin and Powder Mountain are up north a bit Basin is a great mountain with all the new lifts but the weather tends to be a little more harsh (wind) than Powder, it ices up fairly quick depending on the time of year but I know some carvers like that solid stuff. Powder is a little more quite with a more spread out feel, a lot of places to trek off for great powder. Not as much vertical drop as the Basin but a more laid back small mountain feel, over the last 5 years I've seen more carvers coming here. The Hawaiians like it here, a little less altitude. Oh yeah- the road to Powder Mountain (it is steep) I hope this gives you a better idea and please feel free to e-mail me directly or I'll check here if that doesn't work. Kipp