Park City, Utah - 8/16-8/19/10

Four days this past week were spent at a regional meeting for work. The nice thing about this meeting, though, was that it was held in Park City, Utah, a ski resort town in the mountains about a half hour east of Salt Lake City. Everything about the area is just beautiful. I had to connect through Phoenix Arizona on the way out, so the approach to landing in SLC brought us up from due south and took us past Utah Lake and Provo, across part of the Great Salt Lake, and then looped around to land from the North. What amazing and bizarre scenery. Below is the view from the terminal, showing some of the 8,000-10,000 foot mountains that surround SLC, which is about 4,500 feet above sea level.


The hotel for our meeting was the Grand Summit Hotel at The Canyons resort. Our group had an unbelievable room rate, and it was a very nice hotel. You couldn't beat the views, as it was nestled on the side of a mountain at about 6,800 feet, with higher mountains behind it. The view below is from partway down the driveway, looking west.


The views below are from the balcony of my third floor room (which was on the back, mountain side, of the hotel), with resort condos to my left, and a gondola up to the top of the mountain off to my right. Obviously no skiing going on this time of year, but during the day the mountainsides were peppered with hikers and especially mountain bikers.


The view from the main entrance to the hotel (looking south along the main mountain ridge).


Of course, while in Utah for the first time, I had to grab a couple of geocaches, and was able to find three on a short walk Monday night after dinner while stretching my legs after a day of flying.

As beautiful as this area is in the summer, I can't imagine how much prettier it must be in winter. And how much more expensive...