As far as I know I just need to pack a sleeping bag, some food/booze, and the rest is provided after I climb up there. As a backcountry skier (without access to a snowmobile) the canidate yurts need to have terrain suited for ski lines, be reach-able within a day, and be affordable. Some yurts in Utah require a hired guide your first time...which is deal breaker for me! Too bad because I love the terrain in the Tushar Mtn. Range in Beaver, Utah and one of the two yurts would be ideal for a ski trip, the other is too close to the road to be worth it.
This year the Bunchgrass Yurt and the Steam Mill Yurt are on the docket (up logan canyon). I am just about to reserve the bunchgrass yurt as soon as I hear back from my east coast buddy that is spending 3 months here. Next year I hope to try out the the yurts around the sawtooths mtns in Idaho.
The web site
www.yurtsofutah.com is where you can get the most info all in one place.
Hopefully it goes better than the trip I took to Montana last year to ski/sleep at the Garnet Mountain Fire Tower just outside of Bozeman, MT. Not only did I pull a muscle while backcountry skiing out there 2 days before planned expedition, but the avalanche danger soared to" High" while I was there, making it so the rest of the group bailed on trying to get up there. Adding salt to the wound my car broke down on the way home about 110 miles from Salt Lake City, stranding all of us in Idaho for a while. Good times!!!