Day five in Ogden - Powder Mountain

Bob made scrambled eggs, biscuits, and gravy for breakfast to fuel us for our first day at Powder Mountain!!! It wasn't snowing in Ogden so our spirits were high as Josh and I drove up the mountain. Powder Mountain is even further up than Wolf Creek, and the incline on the extra road was very scary... it started to snow and just got worse and worse. We made it to the first parking lot, in the Sundown Lodge area, bought our two-day tickets, and then hit the slopes!

We took a blue run down and it was not too bad! The powder was amazing and it was like falling on pillows. Since the Sundown lift just provides access to a tiny, tiny part of the mountain, we took the shuttle to the resort center, where we could access many more runs. I thought it was very neat that we had to take a green run to get to the lift!

We eventually made it to the Hidden Lake Lodge, where I took this photo of the lift:

That really is exactly what it looked like outside. The lodge had lots of beautiful photos of gorgeous sunny days... it was almost cruel! Josh maintained a positive attitude and kept saying that the clouds would clear out... but they did not, and we spent the day snowboarding in a blizzard!

Josh did a few runs by himself while I thawed in the lodge, and then we did a few more together. (In the image below, purple denotes runs that we did together.) Josh would not let the weather get him down, but could not muster the energy to really smile... or his face was frozen!

I worked on "kicking out" my back foot in order to link turns quicker, but it was difficult to learn this in deep powder... it was much more fun just to "surf" the snow! A few runs were kind of groomed, so I managed to practice this new technique on those.

Josh was planning on upgrading his ticket for night skiing but it was still snowing when we got to the Sundown night skiing area, and we decided to head home... Josh did not want to have another scary nighttime driving experience on snowy mountain roads! However, the roads weren't too bad, so thankfully it was a smooth drive back home. We had leftover shrimp Alfredo for dinner before getting to bed early to prepare for our last day of skiing in Utah tomorrow!

Obviously we had the same high today: snowboarding in fresh snow was fantastic! The mountain is enormous and we barely covered any runs even though we were there all day. We also had the same low, which was the awful weather. It was difficult to enjoy the snowboarding when you couldn't see farther than 10 feet in front of you! Josh's "ho" was singing our made-up song as we drove off the mountain... since we drove pretty slowly, the lyrics went: "Taking our time getting down the mou-ou-tain," and we took turns making up other lyrics :) My "ho" was listening to Bob tease Shawn... sometimes Bob just says things that are subtle jokes at the age difference between Kathleen and Shawn.