Thompson Tale's: Ski Utah

We just got back from our trip to Park City, Utah. We have been going for the last ten years or so and stay at a place called The Grand Summit at The Canyons. Will's Mom and Aunt's have a condo there which makes it quite convenient. We are a bit spoiled honestly.

The Grand Summit at the base of The Canyons Ski Resort

So what do we do for eight days??? We ski, play cards, drink beer, drink wine, eat great food, shop, go to the hot tub, ski some more, drink more wine, play more cards, go to the hot tub again, ski, shop.... You get the picture. This year Will and I got a few extra days by ourselves so we did somethings we had not done before. We have seen a lot since we have been many times but this year we went to a couple new ski resorts and we actually checked out the Olympic Ski Park which includes the ski jumps and bobsled track.

Just to confirm in case anyone is curious I am not a skier. I enjoy easy, easy runs and am in no hurry to get down them. I like looking at the scenery and at The Canyons the views are amazing as you will see in the following pictures. Will on the other hand gets his phone all hooked up with his GPS and trys to see how fast he can possibly get down the hill. He was fairly safe and sane this year and I am not sure he got above 40MPH but last year he was upwards of 65MPH. I just call this stupid honestly. Love you honey!! To Will's credit he does wait for me and well he waits some more and gets some pictures of me hanging on the hill debating if I am going to come down or not. His patience is amazing!

See me in pink? This hill is much steeper in person I promise!!

Who are the two dorks on the chairlift??

Isn't the view amazing? Just look beyond the orange coat. :)

Beer and skiing somehow go together. Here I am at lunch holding up the wall.
Ski boots are just not comfortable!

We went to Snow Basin for lunch this year which is about 45 minutes or so from the condo. The lodge there is quite impressive but the day we went it was raining so didn't get any good pictures. We did however also go and checkout Sundance which is about 45 minutes in the other direction of the condo. This is Robert Redford's ski resort and it was super cute. It has three lifts and the ski shop looks like an old barn. There is nothing flashy here but right up my ally I loved it. We decided we will have to go back skiing there or at least night skiing.

View along the drive to Sundance it was beautiful.

Main Lodge/Ski Shop

One day we made a trip to downtown Park City and did some Geocaching. Some of the caches were hard to find because of the snow but we managed to log a couple.

Downtown Park City

Yes it is a tree of shoes. One of our Geocaching stops.

Will found it! Good job!!

Writing our "Keystone Campers" on
the log in the capsule.

Our next adventure was to Olympic Park. They actually have Bobsled rides but Will wasn't interested. I thought for sure he would be in but not his thing I guess. There was also a ski museum there and we were both amazed at how far ski's and boots have come over the last 100 years or so. I can't believe what people threw themselves down a ski jump in. If I thought those athletes were crazy now they were crazier several years ago with the old school equipment. Yikes!!!

You can see the pool is frozen over where they do their practicing in the Summer.

What do you think? Should I try out to carry the torch?

Cards, cards and more cards. This time I taught everyone a new game I learned when I was in Arizona visiting Mom and Dad. It was called Screw your Neighbor or Up and Down the River or as my mom calls it Screw the Dealer. Will and I did play a lot of Cribbage too once Erika and Chris left.

He has a perma-smile because he wins all the time!!!!!

I probably was the blue pegs. Seriously I don't know why I play sometimes.
Will on the flipside thinks it is great because he wins and wins some more. :)

View from the condo. I told you we were spoiled.

Another fun and relaxing trip. We did a few snow dances and they finally paid off towards the end of the week and Will and I got 7 new inches of snow one night to ski in the next day. It was a lot of fun although I think sitting in the hot tub with the snow blowing sideways the night before was better than the skiing but that is just me. Thanks for reading my blog, cheers and until next time!