Hiking Park City

This post if from a few months ago- I never published it, so here it is. A September post in December.


I am so excited for ski season I can barely stand it! A few weekends ago I wanted to hit the slopes (in September) and I decided that if I couldn't ski the runs at PCMR (Park city mountain resort) I was going to hike them. 

I know the mountain really well up there, since I spent every weekend last winter skiing it's runs. I felt really comfortable with just starting at the parking lot and hiking up 'Home Run.' It turns out that I love this hike, and it allows me to be on the mountain I love, even with no snow. The energy of the mountain bikers and fellow hikers is wonderful, but it's also quiet and allows me alot of solo quiet time when the mountain feels like it's all mine and I'm left alone with the sound of the breeze through the trees and the smell of the fall leaves and pine trees. 

I've hiked Park City 3 weekends in a row, and on my last hike I was bound and determined to make it to the very top-to the summit house restaurant, where I shared many a hot tea on a cold winters day with my wife.

I enjoy hiking on the weekends because it's such good exercise, it allows me to be outside for hours on end and it helps to shake up my routine of swim, bike, run. Now it's more like swim, bike, run, hike-and hike again. 

Here are some of the pictures that I've taken this summer/fall while hiking Park City Mountain Resort.

Old abandoned mining building up on the mountain.