It depends how much you go and what kind of coaching you get there. The ramps are different than snow so you have to spend some time getting used to them. If you go a decent amount and have good coaching it can really help you fix things in your current tricks and expand your bag of tricks for...
Yeah, longboarding's sick. I've been shredding the U, canyons, aves, basically everything paved and sloped in sight. Buy FM boards when they're released, their sick.
They are piles of mine tailings from back when Alta was a mining town. If you go up there in the summer theres a bunch of busted old mining equipment by them too.
It took me forever for me to find a pass to make it up, it was good, though.
Powder even sent someone up there to take pictures.
http://powdermag.com/gallery/alta-closing/index6.html
Yeah, I-street is the shit for dirt jumps around here. All the trails around the city like bobsled and such are fun too. PC has some crazy stuff. I can't bike for a while, though because I snapped my frame and I'm too poor to get a new bike.