Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Seattle Bound: Day 5 (Park City, Utah)

Tara goes for Gold!

Well, if you insist! (what a great name for a street!)

Going up the chairlift at Deer Valley!

At 9300ft elevation, it wasn't surprising to see snow at the top!

Going down....

A hidden park in downtown Park City (we're Geocaching, of course)

Park City, Utah was extremely beautiful and I would love to go back any time of the year. We spent a good portion of the day caching, picking which spots we wanted to explore the most, like the top of mountains and Olympic Venues. We even met another set of geocachers while exploring downtown. The crazy part was that they didn't use team names, didn't log on-line and didn't use a GPS unit (just their phones). I don't think their style could have been more different from ours, but here we were with the same goal and find it we did! 

We went up to Deer Valley Ski Resort where we grabbed a few caches and then decided to ride the chairlift up to the top of the mountain to do some hiking and exploring. They had an awesome mountain bike course down the mountain that was clearly very popular...it looked like fun! There was snow on the mountain and we had a good time throwing snow balls at each other...in June! Unfortunately, the altitude was not particularly friendly to me and I ended up feeling pretty lousy after our adventurous day. I recovered quickly and we were on our way to Oregon and Washington the next morning. I'll miss you, Park City. Stay gorgeous until I return!

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