So after the great American un-winter this year - it was the latest year on record that the temperature went below 0F (-18C) and almost no snow we decided not to go up North to Lutsen (biggest hill/mountain in Minnesota) where we've been before and to head out somewhere a little bigger - to Utah (motto - greatest snow on earth) to see what that was like.
The answer was - very big indeed, made Whitefish where we went last year look very small indeed. They had 20 lifts with 6 of them with 1,500ft elevation and 2 more than a mile long.
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The resort itself was fantastic, lots of new facilities including a European style village complete with snow beach.
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We did have one day to recover when we went to Salt Lake itself (not the city as it looked like any other big city) - Utah is pretty spectacular, tons of mountains all around, wish we had some more in Minnesota.
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The lake itself was a real contrast from the ski area, the kids love the rocks, I swear that they have more fun with rocks and boulders than at any theme park,
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The hotel also had an outdoor heated pool which was a feature every night we were there, even on days when it was snowing heavily - and we had over 2ft of snow when we were there!
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This is at the top of the main gondola, so we're a mile into the resort at the top of an load of runs and the mountain in the background is up another lift but just one of the 5 peaks in the resort. The grades of runs are also somewhat more challenging than anywhere else we've been, see the steep looking slope down the mountain - behind Andy- well that's a double blue, I'm sure it would be a black anywhere else.
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You can't make her out unless you blow up the picture but here's Becky having just come down that double blue on her first day of snowboarding on a real mountain (and only the 5th or 6th day she's even been on a snowboard).
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