Alta and Deer Valley with Kendra and Susie
In March of 2017, Susie, Kendra and I went skiing for 3 days in the middle of the week in the Salt Lake City area. Kendra had off on Spring Break, but Dallas, Ft. Worth, UT, Texas Tech and Salt Lake City all had the next week off. That meant nobody was at the ski areas and no lift lines all week! On top of that, we decided to ski at Alta and at Deer Valley which are both for skiers only so we had no snow boarders.
Felicia rented us a 3-bedroom house through VRBO in the Sugar Hill neighborhood of Salt Lake City. Easy to get to, close by to lots of eateries, ski shops and grocery stores.
Later on, I will put some GoPro videos online at:
https://www.youtube.com/@stonedog_4
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Bar stop in Pagosa Springs. February was Porter month so I had a Bacon Porter – it sucked but I stood by the sign anyway
It snowed as we were getting to Salt Lake City, they got 13 inches of new snow at Alta so we decided to go there on day one. We were not very good at skiing in that much new powder and it was pretty cold and windy on our first day there.
On our second day, we drove over to Park City and went skiing at Deer Valley. Weather was beautiful, snow packed down some so the skiing was much better. On day three, we went back to Alta to ski some of the areas that we had not skied on before.
The snow conditions were much better in Salt Lake City than they had been in Colorado a few weeks before. Much more snow base (143 inches) and the new snow made it fun and challenging to get around. We did need the 4WD and snow tires to drive up the road to Snowbird and Alta – cops were checking.
And did I mention that for three days we had no lift lines?!
