Deer Valley, Utah

[expedition_retirement]

 After skiing three full days at Park City, and being slightly frustrated by how little of the mountain was open, we decided to spend a day over at the neighboring Deer Valley Ski Resort. We spent a week skiing here last year, and were familiar with the mountain, and knew we would be able to enjoy a day over there. We started our day a little earlier, as we needed to catch a bus from the Park City Mountain over to Deer Valley, but we were able to get there by the time the lifts opened. It was a chilly day, and the visibility was a little limited for the first hour, especially at the top of the mountain. But the sun soon burned off the cloud cover, and it became a beautiful blue sky day. Deer Valley had only gotten a couple of inches of snow over the weekend, so the runs here were icier, with the groomed runs largely scraped off by mid-day and the moguls solid and icy. So, while our morning runs were fast and fun, it became more difficult and less fun as the afternoon progressed. We might have done a few more runs, but the last couple were decidedly not fun, and so we ended up leaving earlier than we otherwise might have.

Our day at Deer Valley was a nice break from Park City, giving us a different selection of terrain to ski. With the limited amount of open terrain at Park City, it is unclear that we would have enjoyed an additional day there anyway, and this gave us a chance to change things up in the middle of our week.