{"id":3717,"date":"2015-05-05T22:47:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T03:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2015-05-06T22:13:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T03:13:32","slug":"utah-discoveries-7-park-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2015\/05\/utah-discoveries-7-park-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Discoveries 7: Skiing at Park City Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was so warm, Dave could ski in shorts…well, sort of…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On our first full day in Park City, we decided to check out the Park City Ski Resort, which was just a couple blocks from our condo. We took advantage of a military deal for the resort, although being one of the Vail Resorts, it was still pretty costly<\/a>, even for end-of-season conditions.<\/p>\n

It was quite warm, with highs in the 60s and blue sunny skies.<\/p>\n

As a consequence, there weren’t many trails open, and we had numerous detours. We’re grateful the boys were skilled enough to negotiate some of the detours.<\/p>\n

Skiing at Park City at the end of March was like skiing on the East Coast. Icy. Jacob and Timmy are obviously spoiled rotten skiing in Colorado because they had a very hard time with the changed snow conditions. They didn’t have the best day.<\/p>\n

While at the resort, we skied\u00a0to the Mid-Mountain Lodge, which is right on the mountain, for lunch. We didn’t stay long: lunches were $15-20 per person! I think the “side of potato chips” for $4.95 is what turned off Dave the most. We knew Park City would be on the expensive side, but holy crow!<\/p>\n

We decided to attempt the trails down to the “Town Lift” which I had mentioned at the end of my\u00a0last Utah blog post<\/a>. It wasn’t easy, but the kids made it. Timmy was having a tough day until he saw the view of the town from high up on the mountain. He suddenly got his groove back:<\/p>\n

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Timmy told us “Skiing is nice when you have a view like this.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Happy Timmy. That’s Jacob right behind him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jacob was quite frustrated with the snow conditions, but really enjoyed the “Town Trails” that took you into downtown Park City.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We skied into town and enjoyed lunch at a diner-type restaurant called “The Bridge” since it was next to the pedestrian bridge<\/a>. Many of the meals on the menu had a Brazilian theme, but it also offered omelettes, pancakes, and brunch-type foods. The four of us could have lunch for closer to $10 per person…phew!<\/p>\n

We skied for just a couple more hours after lunch, before frustration at the warm conditions took over: Timmy and I decided to check out the Alpine Coaster (for my next post) and Dave and Jacob did a little bit more skiing. We decided to check out Alta resort later in the week…the next canyon over.<\/p>\n

I’ll leave you with this cool picture of Jacob on the “Town Lift” taking us out of downtown Park City after lunch. I thought it was a cool scene.<\/p>\n

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I love this shot of Jacob on the lift as it goes over Park City. Just behind him is the remnants of the Silver King Aerial Tramway<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our first full day in Park City, we decided to check out the Park City Ski Resort, which was just a couple blocks from our condo. We took advantage of a military deal for the resort, although being one of the Vail Resorts, it was still pretty costly, even for end-of-season conditions. It was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[585,448,37,559,563],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-park-city","tag-skiing","tag-travel","tag-utah","tag-utah-discoveries"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t