Shaking the Snowglobe

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After a great night of sleep, I woke up rested and pleased that I didn’t have to rush out the door before 7am. The whole nonsense at Alta/Snowbird of having to wake up at 6:30am to not be in dead stop traffic is bit of a bummer on the whole experience there. I woke up…

The sun rose on our red rock canyon-surrounded lodge and I walked to a 7am Yoga Class. While I was envisioning an energizing flow with some other lodgers backdropped with a view of the morning over the Colorado River, the reality was me and the instructor, Bri, in the basement’s John Wayne room surrounded by…

There is something about this part of the country that seems made for road trip viewing. A mountain range appears in the distance beyond a stretch of arid flatland. It stays in view long enough for you to wonder what natural magic had to have happened to carve the shelved peaks out of the Earth,…

One day wiser, our house shifted our morning up by twenty minutes to avoid seemingly forty extra minutes of traffic through the valley pass into the mountain. We also opted to go to Snowbird instead of Alta, where we heard the runs were a little steeper and terrain more exciting. The morning was smooth and…

Little Canyon Cottonwood Road is the only way to enter the Alta/Snowbird ski area and traffic quickly plugs up the pass as early as 7:45 in the morning. In the throes of the stoppage, Alex, Nikhil and I looked for any and all opportunity to get a leg up, move up a few spots in…

I am a little caffeinated still, at 1:30am, which was pretty necessary to drive the 9 hours from Tahoe to Salt Lake City starting at 1pm. It’s been a long day, but I am super glad that I started it off by doing a backcountry tour up Mt. Tallac with my friend Celia and some…

It is a simple fact of my life: there is a pre hot Pilates me and a post hot Pilates me. I arrived to the Tahoe City Mountain Lotus Yoga Studio, thinking I had signed up for a Vinyasa Yoga class. Turns out, that Yoga class was in the Truckee location, and this studio was…

Alex, Zach, and Hayley left our Tahoe house yesterday. Eating dinner by myself and falling asleep to an empty house gave me a sense that my trip was truly beginning. I woke up feeling the past four days of skiing deep in my legs. A calm morning of oatmeal, reading the Eastern Sierra backcountry skiing…

I am currently in Tahoe, and this upcoming Friday am driving out to Salt Lake City to meet up with my old New York roommate and close college friend Alex. We’re staying in an Airbnb with some new friends to ski at Alta for the weekend. On Monday, Alex and I are planning to drive…