| Sunday the sun was up, a few clouds and the temperature around 35 degrees. | | | | | | | |
| As we could ski any of the 3 mountains on any given day, a few made their way | | | | | | | |
| to Deer Valley, and the rest were on the 8:41 shuttle to Park City. What an | | | | | | | | |
| absolutely amazing day at the mountain. The snow was great, NO ICE!!! | | | | | | | | |
| We almost didn't know what to do without the annoying sound of edges scrapping | | | | | | | |
| on ice. We had been told that even though this year the 3 mountains may not have | | | | | | | |
| gotten as much snow as in the past, but the quality of snow was 'Brilliant', as | | | | | | | |
| Maxine, from The Peaks Hotel, told us and it was. Park City was just great, | | | | | | | |
| and later in the day we found that Deer Valley was just as good. We had lunch on the deck | | | | | | |
| of the Mid Mountain Lodge, and had to replenish the sun screen before we left for our | | | | | | | |
| mountain tour. A few clouds rolled in, but they actually helped, as the snow held up | | | | | | | |
| all day, without turning into slush. We finished up the day at the Legacy Bar for a few | | | | | | | |
| amber colored cocktails and then back to the hotel for the hot tub and some cookies | | | | | | | |
| from 'The Cookie Man'. | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Monday we had the same ' terrible' weather as we had on Sunday, so we managed to | | | | | | | |
| trudge ourselves out to The Canyons, where Maxine had been nice enough to offer us | | | | | | | |
| our own mountain tour. The Canyons was amazing!! Great snow, the mountain was so | | | | | | | |
| big, we didn't even think we would get to cover it all in one day, so we were really looking | | | | | | |
| forward to coming back the next day. As the day ended we saw thick clouds coming over | | | | | | |
| the mountain, and we actually saw a few flakes fall. We were outside of Doc's by days end, | | | | | | |
| all taking about the great conditions, and what a great mountain it was. Tuesday we couldn't | | | | | | |
| wait to get to The Canyons, as almost 7 inches of fresh soft snow had fallen over night, | | | | | | | |
| and the mountain didn't disappoint us. The snow turned the mountain into an amazing place to ski. | | | | | |
| Every trail we found had great conditions, we were ankle deep in snow on some trails, just gliding down. | | | | | |
| A few brave soles found their way up to the top of 99-90, and better still, found there way down. | | | | | | |
| After a tough day of skiing at The Canyons, Wednesday became an off day for many, but still | | | | | | |
| others got lift tickets and continued to ski in great conditions. For the off day, it was mixed between | | | | | |
| a day trip to Salt Lake City, Golfing outside of SLC, shopping in Park City, spaing (messaging) just outside | | | | | |
| of Park City, or just relaxing by the hot tub and pool. | | | | | | | | | | |
| Deer Valley was next for most of us, and Joel Malek and Pete Wolf had some friends out there who | | | | | |
| met us at the mountain, and gave us our own little tour. No fresh snow at Deer Valley but the mountain | | | | | |
| had some great views, great snow, and of course the Brass fittngs in the bath rooms. | | | | | | | |
| Thursday night we had our group dinner and drinks at the hotel, and afterward we were forced to finish | | | | | |
| off the left over alcohol in Gerard and Darlene's room. Thank goodness the Jagermeister was only there | | | | | |
| for medicinal purposes, the same holds true for the Petron. | | | | | | | | | |
| Our Club races were set for Friday at Park City, and the natural snow was falling. The weather that | | | | | | |
| day was all mixed up, it snowed, the sun came out, fog came in, it snowed again, and the sun came | | | | | |
| out again. Needless to say, some of the Club races became very competitive, in the usual friendly manor. | | | | | |
| Jim and Mike had a great race, as did Gerard and Darlene. Our newest member, Al Chanin, happened | | | | | |
| to go through the last gate backwards, and needed to get off the track through a side exit, but he still | | | | | |
| managed to have a lot of fun. Joel Malek decided to take the shortest distance between 2 points, and | | | | | |
| split the poles from the beginning. He thought it was a little strange that he was in deep snow instead of | | | | | |
| the tracks that were laid out around each pole, but he came back with a strong effort for his next run. | | | | | |
| The strong rumor that had started was that Jim had been chicked by Gerrie Heitman, but it was only a | | | | | |
| rumor, as Jim beat her by less than .05 of a second. He was really getting worried if the age factor for | | | | | |
| him was going to start taking it's toll. | | | | | | | | | | | |
| We were all up early Saturday morning as the bus was picking us up at 6 am, and except for the Hotel mix up of | | | | |
| taking another ski groups baggage onto our bus, we were ALL at the airport in plenty of time to board the plane. | | | | |
| Well at least that was what we thought until we landed and realized that Neil and Barbara O'Keefe were not | | | | | |
| at JFK to pick up their luggage. They somehow managed to miss our flight, but their luggage arrived, so | | | | | |
| it was one of the few times that luggage had to wait for people to leave the airport, but they were on the | | | | | |
| next flight, and everything worked out. | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Another great weeklong trip in the books. | | | | | | | | | | | |
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