Anniversary Ski Trip

Corey and I took the day off and went skiing in Park City today for a little anniversary trip. Here we are walking out of the Marriott Mountainside by the hot tubs. So fun to walk out and be right on the slope!

Another pic by the pool - the lift behind us. 

We were on the lift at 9:15 - started my Strava! My phone wasn't fully charged, I think I started at 80%. I kept it on low power mode and crossed my fingers that it would last the whole day. My favorite photo of the day was taken on our first ride up the Payday lift. Wow!!!

There had been a light snow falling all night and small diamond flakes were coming down as we rode up the lift. All the trees were frosted with snow. It was so pretty. We went up Payday then went to Bonanza and decided we'd work out way over to the Canyon's side of the resort, just to check it out. Ok, I'm looking at my Strava map that was recorded... let's see if I can track where we went, so...

• Up Payday Lift
• Over to Bonanza Lift
• Down Parley's Park
• Quicksilver Gondola
• White Pine (ooh! that crossed the Midmountain trail!)
• Dreamcatcher Lift
• Across and down McDonald's Meadow
• Down Panorama
• Up Day Break Lift
• Down Lazy Day > Elk Dance > Harmony
• Up Tombstone Express
• Down Red Pine
• Up Saddleback Express
• Down Painted Horse > Echo/Eclipse
• Up Sun Peak Express - 

and that was as far north west as we got. We did Sun Peak 2 times, down Echo again, and down Transitions one time. 3rd time we went past Sun Peak down Flume > Willow Draw to the...

Orange Bubble Express lift! Now this one was a highlight. 

We thought ski lift life in a bubble was GREAT! It shielded us from the cold and the wind! The lift experience was better in a bubble! Why wouldn't you want to be in a bubble! We want to lift in a bubble. We highly recommend bubble lift-ing. And we'll carry that over to our real life too. Why not live in a bubble if you can? It was great. And we also tried to say all these words in the accent of the language over and over again, sounding angry for the German language, fancy for the french, regular for English, and like a chef for Italian. 

After the Orange Bubble Express, we started to work our way back over to the Mountainside. 

• Orange Bubble Express
• Down Upper Mainline

Got a hot chocolate at this point I think at whatever lodge is near the Saddleback Express. We think the High Meadows area would be fun for the kids! They still have one more ski day, maybe we'll come up to the Canyons side of the resort when we do that last day skiing this year.

• Up Saddleback Express 
• Down Snow Dancer
• Surprised to find ourselves at SaddleBack Express again - so went right to go down Chicane
• Chicane > Another World
• Timberline Lift > Iron Man Lift
• Chrome Alley
• Quicksilver Gondola

Back at the Quicksilver Lodge for a photo. It was too bright!

• Down Broadway to King Con, cause that is the lift we know second best (we always bike past that when we are biking up Armstrong). 
• Up King Con
• down Sitka > around the Gotcha Cut off
• a little bit of Ladies Slalom 
• down Homerun
• Up Crescent 
• Down 1/4 load > Claim Jumper > Broadway 
• Up King Con 
• down Sitka (I think this pic was on Sitka)

Did a little bit of Gotcha then I tried to not be a chicken and we did Ladies Slalom from the top. Found an un-skied part of the CMG trail, took that over to the Men's Slalom > Ladie's Slalom > Homerun.

• Up Payday 
• Up Bonanza
• Down Trees/Blaster > Muckers > Short Liner - Miner's Mile 
• Up Bonanza 3:50 > Trees/Blaster > Step's Access > Homerun and then we were done. 

It was a great day on the mountain. 

Sorry for all the boring stats. I'm thinking sometime when we come biking next summer I'll be trying to figure out where we went, so those are for me incase my future self is interested in where we skied today. I usually listen to music when we ski but I didn't today cause I didn't want it to drain my battery, which I was hoping would last the entire day on low power mode. And I think I was wise to do that cause my phone barely made it. After we took off our skis, I was able to hit "finish" and was pressing "save activity" when it died. When Corey and I got to the car, I plugged it into his charger, and was happy when I saw that the activity had not been erased. Strava says we did 23 runs, a distance of 49.35 miles, and 23,616 vertical feet. 

Back at home now. Mel watched Katharine for us today. She left back to Lehi before we got home to thank her. She had the kids do their chores and music and made a little "pizza night" reward chart to help the kids do their stuff.  And she provided the pizza. Thank you Mel! Tonight Corey worked, we didn't go out for date night cause the whole day had been a date, but the kids still watched their movie and I disappeared by coming up here to blog. It was a good anniversary.