Photos: Skiers celebrate Utah's record snow with pond skim stunts

If not for record snows, this weekend would have been the season-ender at a lot of Utah's ski resorts.

• Instead, this year's ceremonial "pond skim" marked an extended winter on the slopes, with most resorts planning to remain open a few extra weeks.

What's happening: "Pond skimming" is a skiing tradition in which crews dig a plastic-lined pond into the snow at the bottom of a run, and skiers either try to "skim" across the surface or make a splashy jump.

• Judges give awards for skim execution and costumes.

Here were some of the biggest crowd-pleasers from Park City's pond skim on Saturday:

• But we won't sleep on the heroics over at Solitude.