Park City, Utah. There are 3 separate ski resorts in close vicinity to each other - Park City Mountainside, Deer Valley and the Canyons. All operate autonomously to each other and have their own characteristics. The Canyons is said to be the largest, Deer Valley is deem more elitist (no snowboarders allowed) and Park City Mountainside is known for its excellent snow and runs.
Sorry if this is brief and abrupt. Been hectic (!) - what am I saying - days are filled with watching films and skiing and attending dinners, but more on that in my next post on Sundance festival. This post is really to document the 2 days of skiing in Park City before our stint with the Sundance team.
Park City mountainside is skiing / snowboarding paradise, due to the dryness of the snow on the mountain. First observation is that skiers here tend to ski with the skis closer together than that in Whistler. Someone told me once that powder in Utah is really dry and so it is imperative in deep powder to keep the skis together so that it forms a single flat platform. Anyway, all this info is way over my head. Many positives of Park City - many varied runs, no queues as everyone is busy watching films, and the best thing is that the trees are such that if you so wish, one could ski between them. Woo Hoo! Of course, best to get some lessons in because - 1) They will make you ski more in control, and 2) You get to see runs you otherwise would not know of.
Ski instructor took us to this magnificent run through the trees. It is so beautiful that I need to document this for future reference - it is a run called Tenth Mountain.
Great stuff indeed.
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Random musings. Why cacat? Cacat is a Malay word for handicapped; and was my nickname in school because of my facial expressions when my fingers get into each other's way whilst playing carrom. I probably still have those expressions; but it's now 30 years on and adults are too diplomatic to call me cacat. What they think is another matter ....
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