Yamaste
Certified Ski Diva
One of the things I love about MCP is the ability to visit lots different and new (to me) mountains on long weekends. I've grouped some that are very close into slightly longer trips (Alta/Snowbird/Snowbasin and Lake Louise/Sunshine) but this is the first time we're doing a long road trip where the mountains are 4-5 hours from each other. I've been to Idaho once before and Wyoming & Montana never, so I was excited. I hope it's helpful to anyone else planning to hit up several MCP mountains on one trip.
We lucked out, it snowed 29" in SV the day we started our trip and the general area is going to get a gentle 1-2" most days this week. We were supposed to fly into Sun Valley, but all flights that day got diverted to Twin Falls because of snow and reduced visibility. There was no gate announcement and no emails. The pilot only explained once we were aboard. My SO was flying in from a different city but received an early morning text alerting him of the change. I kept checking but no alerts. A lot of people on my flight were visibly giddy even if they were bummed about being rerouted. We waited maybe 1 hour for the shuttle bus, and the ride took about 1:45 to get to Sun Valley airport even though its about 70 miles. I appreciate our driver being safe! We had no option but to upgrade the car we reserved to an SUV w/ AWD in order to get around, but the rate quoted at the counter was much more reasonable than the 1300 they wanted online at time of booking. We booked a full size and gambled we'd get a better offer once we were there.
I'll post about each mountain sequentially.
We lucked out, it snowed 29" in SV the day we started our trip and the general area is going to get a gentle 1-2" most days this week. We were supposed to fly into Sun Valley, but all flights that day got diverted to Twin Falls because of snow and reduced visibility. There was no gate announcement and no emails. The pilot only explained once we were aboard. My SO was flying in from a different city but received an early morning text alerting him of the change. I kept checking but no alerts. A lot of people on my flight were visibly giddy even if they were bummed about being rerouted. We waited maybe 1 hour for the shuttle bus, and the ride took about 1:45 to get to Sun Valley airport even though its about 70 miles. I appreciate our driver being safe! We had no option but to upgrade the car we reserved to an SUV w/ AWD in order to get around, but the rate quoted at the counter was much more reasonable than the 1300 they wanted online at time of booking. We booked a full size and gambled we'd get a better offer once we were there.
I'll post about each mountain sequentially.