Salt Lake City, 2006
- Mountains: Brighton, Solitude, Snowbird
- Conditions:
- Brighton - Packed powder which makes that noise that Laura doesn't like
- Solitude - Packed Powder which makes a better noise
- Snowbird - Powder
- Trip Music: None. There's no radio in SLC.
- Best Fall: Stephen pulling a reverse superman off an oblique jump on one of the first runs.
- Skills Acquired:
- Jessica: Terrain park jumping, getting up the barless chairlift without crying
- Laura: Bowls, terrain park jumping
- Stephen: Bigger air, that spinny thing, insane traverses
- Ryan: BS 180
- Skills Not Acquired:
- Ryan: BS 360
- Jessica: Conquering that fear of heights
- Stephen: FS 180
- Injuries:
- Laura: Butt pain from the Laura toddler fall
- Jessica: The leg!
- Stephen: Blunt head trauma, no concussion
- Local Color: No one in SLC could give reasonable directions to anywhere,
- Most Humbling Moment: When the guy who owned the kiteboard shop told us about his friend who kiteboards UP mountains and then just flies off the tops, hundreds of feet in the air.
- Quotes:
- Ryan: It's okay, it's just a rental. [About the car scraping]
- Laura: Should I try a 180? [Just kidding, kinda?]
I'm not sure what they are doing here.
Laura and Stephen on the chair, below is the new snow.
You can drown in as little as 6 inches of fresh powder.
We found this little girl alone on the slopes, so we adopted her.
All of us playing at the terrain parks.
See, Brighton's not that flat.
Jessica seems to like having the bar down on chairlifts.
The traverse to end all traverses. We took that Dr. Seuss path.
Of course, a narrow traverse isn't dangerous enough unless you are trying to videotape.
The traverse had a payoff.