Snowbird

My mom was invited to spend Friday at the Snowbird Ski resort due to something she does where she works. After work I headed up Little Cottonwood Canyon. I have to admit that even though I live only a few minutes from it, this is the first time I have ridden this canyon. There are lots of twisties and if you can do the speed limit the entire way up you can lean your bike over pretty far! I'd love to know how close my pegs were to scraping the road.


Here's a pic a few miles from the mouth of the canyon.

I took the curves as fast as I could with the vehicle in front of me, but it was fast enough and as I said, I leaned her over pretty good. On the way up I saw a deer on the side of the road which surprised me a bit as there were quite a few people around and it was broad daylight. Apparently she was used to humans for the most part. I wish I had taken a picture, but by the time it registered, I was already a couple twists away.

I arrived at Snowbird and found a parking spot, conveniently right next to my pickup which my mother had driven up. I stowed my riding gear in the cab and snapped the necessary picture showing the motorcycle at our destination.

The rest of my family had already arrived a few hours before and ridden some of the various rides that were available. When I got there I called my mom and she came out to meet me. We walked in and waited for Rosalie and Mathew to ride the Zip Line down.

It was a decent wait for them to get their turn on the Zip Line, but it finally came. Mathew is a little harder to find in this picture, he's ahead of Rosie and in the shadow of some trees, can you see him?

While waiting for them to take their turn, we watched many others ride the line and none of them screamed at the end. Rosalie on the other hand must have believed she wasn't going to stop and let out out a pretty decent one.

Dinner was provided for free by Snowbird and they didn't hold back. You know you are being wined and dined when you get nice crystal to put your free soda in!

Even Addison got to eat, although I don't think hers was near as tasty as mine :)

I don't really care for posed photo's, mostly cause it gives people time to object or hide, so I tend to take a lot of candid shots.



There was live music, and the view from the deck was really nice.

After our meal we walked over and boarded the Tram for a trip up the mountain. I've been on chair lifts before and they are not bad, but I wasn't a fan of the Tram. My biggest problem with it was it would sway back and forth and there was no railing or anything for me to hold on to, so I felt as though I'd fall over. I was really hoping to hike down to a chair lift at the top and ride it down, but unfortunately they were closed down, so unless I wanted to hike down a few miles of rocky trail, the Tram was it... I did give the hike down some consideration.



I think this has to be one of my favorite signs, I think it should be included in a scavenger hunt or something :)

Here's a bunch of pics I snapped from the top of the peak, in no particular order.

This just struck me as funny!

Here's some more pics from up top.

I survived the Tram ride down... ok I'm making it out to be worse than it was, but still. It was time to go, so we left. As Rosie and Mom were packing up the stroller I was holding Addison and making goofy faces at her. At first she had this puzzled look on her face that was absolutely hilarious, and then she started to smile a little, and then decided her hand would taste good.

Here's a few shots as I left, and a few on the way down the canyon.