K9hndler98
Certified Ski Diva
How is 49 North and Switzer (I know I spelled that wrong)? My daughter skis both but I can't get a good review from a teenager!
The inversion in Utah is going to be a major issue for me :(
How is 49 North and Switzer (I know I spelled that wrong)? My daughter skis both but I can't get a good review from a teenager!
How is 49 North and Switzer (I know I spelled that wrong)? My daughter skis both but I can't get a good review from a teenager!
Mind you - it's not an air quality problem everywhere in Utah or all the time. There is never an air quality issue up in the mountains, or usually high enough up on th benches. It's only in the valleys. So if you can live higher up - no issue. If you're talking about being based at Hill - you're right along the mountains, so if you can find a place even part way up higher, you're out of most of it, and you might be looking at a few days a year of bad air. If you can be up in Park City, for instance - you'd never be dealing with the air quality issues.
And it doesn't happen all the time. Even in this crappy winter, we had several weeks of nasty air in December, but it really hasn't been bad in the past month. While the storms that drop 1" of snow lately seem annoying, they keep the air clear, so that's good. And usually, you know, it snows regularly!
Just wanted to clarify. Utah's a big place!
the pre-wash dog tongue. (Did I just ensure no one is ever going to dine at my house?)
Sorry for the thread hijack! They are fun mountains! 49 is very small but also a quick hour from Spokane. Schweitzer is a bit farther but a really nice mountain, quite a bit larger. Can get fogged in a lot but that never stopped us! We would fly from Virginia to ski these areas because they were far better than anything in the mid-Atlantic.
Have you been to 49 since they added the two new lifts? How long has it been since you've skied up there?
Schweitzer is big enough to be a destination mountain, for sure.
ETA: Yes, I left out the stuff about the neanderthal legislature and all, but I've done well professionally, and it's a lot safer than most places I've lived.
I find this whole thread interesting. In general, everyone assumes that somehow "conservative" and/or Mormon is by nature a "negative" and yet all express only the positives of living in Utah. I don't have "pony in this race" but can't help wondering if it is safer and everyone is having a positive experience why the dominant conservative, mormon population is viewed as a negative? ... besides the obviously more complicated liquor laws that is!
PS I am not LDS associated just curious
Very true; you should see the Pride parade! And we had our own OWC thing in Liberty Park (which got closed down when a guy died, I think of an overdose, and that was that for now). And have you heard aboutI've been told there is a sizeble, vocal gay community in SLC.
I grew up in a rural, southern VA, very Christian community. I was told as a child by my school-mates they couldn't be friends with me because I wasn't Christian. In Durham, NC, it came up in a conversation between my hubby and one of his co-workers that he wasn't Christian. The co-worker's response was "And I thought you were a good person."I find this whole thread interesting. In general, everyone assumes that somehow "conservative" and/or Mormon is by nature a "negative" and yet all express only the positives of living in Utah. I don't have "pony in this race" but can't help wondering if it is safer and everyone is having a positive experience why the dominant conservative, mormon population is viewed as a negative? ... besides the obviously more complicated liquor laws that is!
PS I am not LDS associated just curious
I grew up in a rural, southern VA, very Christian community. I was told as a child by my school-mates they couldn't be friends with me because I wasn't Christian. In Durham, NC, it came up in a conversation between my hubby and one of his co-workers that he wasn't Christian. The co-worker's response was "And I thought you were a good person."