Thursday we traveled to the top of the Little Cottonwood Canyon to ski Alta, an iconic resort. That morning my cousin Les and his wife Jen, who broke her shoulder, departed for the drive back to Northern California. Alta is a a unique place, that has an "Old School" feel to it. Alta along with Deer Valley is one of the two resorts in the U.S. that do not allow snowboarders. Alta is thought of as being synonymous with Powder snow. However, on our trip it had not snowed substantially in several weeks, so we were skiing "groomers" on a partly sunny and fairly warm day (35 degrees at the top and 45 at the bottom). The result was little crowds and we had a very nice half day of skiing. We were able to use our Mountain Collective pass.
In the afternoon we went down to Salt Lake City to visit our son Matt who has recently relocated to this town. We had a very good visit with Matt. Then back up to Park City to get ready for the next event, Red White and Snow, the three day fundraiser for the National Ability Center which Kelley and I have supported for several years. The event kicked off with a wine tasting at the Stein Ericksen lodge. Later that night four of our friends arrived. More about RWS in the next blog. post
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