Back to the "Bird"...

Snowbird is a cool ski resort, but it’s also far from my Park City home. It takes about one hour to get there on dry roads and light traffic, as it’s about 40 miles (64 km) away, so I seldom go and ski there when it only takes me just 5 minutes to drive to our local resort. 

I traditionally do it late in the spring, when Park City Mountain is closed, which has been the case for one month now. So, this past Saturday, I drove down to the Salt Lake Valley and then back up to the “Bird” as locals call the place. The day was beautiful, traffic flowed smoothly and I immersed myself driving into the early morning scenery. 

On my way to skiing, I was thinking about a quote attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson the American philosopher: “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey”. That’s right, it was all about enjoying the journey, ‘the getting there’, was for me every bit as important as reaching the slopes. 

Whatever we’re doing, there’s joy and learning to be taken from every possible moment we live our lives. When I got there, I was lucky to find a rare parking spot as the place was surprisingly crowded, and soon, I was back on my skis. 

At first the sliding was rough, I had not been on my boards for close to four weeks and the early morning conditions weren’t great, but it got better as I rediscovered my ski legs and by 1 pm when quitting time came, I was back into the groove. I even managed to ski to my car and just had to cross the road…