I tried to do a log about Utah and yet there was always something more important to do, for example sleep. What can I say, time zone change is hard. So because I wasn’t able to post over my trip I’ll try to sum it up right now…
When we got in the hotel room my dad and I crashed. We were so tired from a long afternoon traveling on two planes. One from home to Atlanta and the other from Atlanta to Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah. When we got to Utah we got our rental car from Budget even though it was supposed to be from Hertz, but they didn’t have it right there and then even though we had paid for it and reserved it in advance. My dad was furious because they had already charged it to his credit card but luckily he is getting it off. Because of the delay I had to sit out in the cold Utah air for thirty minutes to guard the bags, making sure nobody called the cops for unattended baggage, while dad got to stay in a warm room, bickering with the Hertz people. When we finally got out car we drove over to Snowbird, the resort we were staying at for the conference he was having there. We got up to the room and, as I said before, crashed. We were finally in Utah.
Day Two
On the second day my dad had to go to his sole purpose of being in Utah, the conference. Because Utah is two hours behind home I woke up at 4:30 rather than 6:30. I know, I am a very early riser, but I do go to bed at around 8:30 on school nights. Come seven o’clock we went down and got our free breakfast that was for conference members only. I’d have to say that there was a lot of free stuff on this trip including dad’s plane ticket and the room. Once done with breakfast I went back upstairs and did some homework for school and chilled out watching TV in the room. Once dad got back we geared up and headed out to the slopes. We took a few lifts up and even a tunnel through the mountain to get to the resort literally right next to Snowbird called Alta. We then did a ton of runs on this one lift called the Wildcat lift. Its an old and slow two seat lift that services some really great black and double blacks that I love because they are through the trees and are rarely skied because most people don’t like the trees so there is usually more snow. I am the exception. The trees are like my friends, they help me through something hard like these cliff-like slopes. They make the slope look not as steep to me. We did this for most of the day and got a ride back to our hotel and dad had to go to another conference. I ordered room service and went to the arcade and then went into a nice, peaceful sleep.
To be continued…
Cam I can’t wait to here more about your trip it sounds as though you had fun.
Don’t worry Cam, I wake up early and go to bed early as well, you are not the only one. Skiing sounds so fun as I have never skiied before. How would you describe the experience itself. The skiing that is. How fast do you go?
I certainly did Osezele! And Josh the experience of skiing is like meditating but faster-paced. You have to have all your focus on getting down the mountain. Things like the texture of the snow so that you are aware of whats in front of you. Also you can go as fast or slow as you want. In a way its like driving a car, less speed means more maneuverability and vice-versa. Say you’re on a steep, cliff-like slope with good snow and lots of trees (like I was recently!). You’re not going to go super fast down this because you have to be able to maneuver through the trees and look for the best place to turn, preferably where there is the most snow or fewest obstacles. Day 3 and 4 are coming up!
This seems like a really fun trip. I can’t wait to read about days 4 and 5
This seems like a really fun trip. I can’t wait to read about days 3 and 4.