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Side Trip to Snowbird Resort

This trip to Snowbird was planned at the last minute. A small group of people in our tour group were interested in going to Snowbird/Alta on our one day off since they heard rumors that conditions there were better since they are much higher than the other resorts. In a way that was true, they had much more snow and the top of Snowbird was about 11,000ft.

However they too had above freezing temperatures the last few days and it only dipped below freezing the night before. It was also obvious it dipped below freezing AFTER they groomed the previous day as the snow was like rumble strips but made of ice. It was VERY difficult to snowboard there for novices like us for that reason, coupled with the fact that even the easy runs have many VERY steep sections and lots of very narrow catwalks. Both of those made far more difficult with the icy conditions.

We took the tram to the top and thought about playing on the back side of the mountain but decided to try the very long blue run that goes all the way down. It was tricky for the reasons described. Lily had it after that run and called it a day. The men decided to try our luck on some blue and green runs on another part of the mountain. That actually turned out to be even icier than the first run! After two more runs the rest of us called it a day. The winds were really kicking up and pretty much all the lifts and the tram were closed so the day was cut short anyway.

In better conditions we could see this being a really fun mountain.

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The Tram when it was still running.
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The before shot of the group with the nice scenery in the back.
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It's pretty cold up here at 11,000ft.
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The blue run looked harmless at first.
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How do you get down this crazy run?
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Lily slowly working her way down.
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Is this snowboarding or ice climbing?
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Mark takes it easy on a flat section.
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The other Mark (aka Spiderman) getting the hang of it.
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Phew, this is hard work.
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Where the heck are we?
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