Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort

We enjoyed many of the exciting summer activities offered at Snowbird. It is also convenient since it is one of the closest ski resorts to our house, only a 25 minute drive. First we rode the tram or gondola for a 9 minute ride to the top of the mountain and stayed for about 10 minutes at the top. It is just too hard to keep track of young children up there! So we rode the very first tram back down. The ride was fun, but a little scary, especially going over each tower since the car would swing fairly high back and forth.







This is a good aerial shot of the alpine slide, which we took turns riding later. As you can see, the slide is very long and spans the length of the entire bunny slope. The kiddie lift is also used to transport the riders and the plastic sleds to the top.











This is a good shot of the other tram going down as we were going up.







No, Dylan is not sitting on the edge of a cliff. There is actually a small hill before the steep mountain that is likely a black diamond ski slope in the winter.







It was very hard to keep the kids close to us and away from the drop offs. They are both trying to get away from me here and this was the best picture we could get.



Yeah, were going back down!



Mike and Dylan riding the lift to the alpine slide.



Dylan loved working the controls.



There was actually an Oktoberfest celebration going on in August! They have it for 8 weeks. The kids were invited on stage for a yodeling contest.



Of course, Austin was freaking out that he wasn't up there with Dylan so he joined in as well.



Dylan was very shy on stage and wouldn't utter a sound when the microphone was held up to him. Mike ended up yodeling by himself, which he wasn't too happy about.







I think they just liked going on and off the stage.



My turn to ride the lift with Dylan.



This time, Dylan wanted to go super fast and kept releasing the brake for maximum speed. I had to keep putting on the brakes since we were told that people do go too fast all the time and crash. Most people are not hurt though.