Did we say Solitude…
Well we had planned to ski Solitude but that did not work out at all! We got up at our normal, not so early time and I attempted to find the resort on Delormes. It had some difficulty finding it. But it claimed that it did, so off we went. Well we drove and drove and Marlo was not getting a good sense of where we were heading. We ventured on. It was also snowing pretty well. The awd was such a good idea… well according to delormes we arrived. According to reality we had not… So we pulled into the closest establishment. It turned out to be a ski resort. Sundance ski resort. They told us that it was 1.5 hours to actually get to Solitude. Marlo wanted to stay and ski here… I acquiesced. I really wanted to ski Solitude, but hey we were here and it was getting late. It turned out to be a very nice, but smaller resort. We had a great time and skied some DEEP powder. After we separated I skied with a retired FBI special agent Steve. He was a local and new the mountain. We ended up skiing in hip deep powder with the crest of if flying over my head! Yo baby! The bad news is that at the very top was some NASTY wind and complete white-out conditions. Steve guided us down out of the storm. Of course he and I went back into the blizzard two more times after Marlo had headed off to the blue slopes. We skied and skied and skied. Marlo had headed down. I thought that she would be hanging out in the lodge, but no, she was rocking the other side of the mountain! All in all we had a very nice day at the accidental Sundance resort. The people at the ticket booth said that they had nothing to do with the festival. but who knows…
We came back and ate at RedRock. I had an awesome steak sandwich and we had some good appetizers. We went to the mart and rented “88 Minutes” and “bugs.” “88 Minutes” was pretty good and “Bugs” was slightly better than we expected. When we got back to the condo we discovered, much to our surprise, that our fireplace was working! Happy day. Before the corner had a very cold draft running through it and that was replaced by a cozy warm fireplace.
We checked out the hot tub the first second night and it was not hot. Tonight it was very nice and hot. We hung out for a bit and met a nice guy named Brian that competed in the skeleton, and was now a bobsled instructor. He was a nice guy about 28. Marlo left and then a bunch of people that worked the canyons climbed in. Apparently only one of them or so lives there so they all pile in. all guys and one girl… hmmm at least the water was hot..