Dispatch from Salt Lake City
05 Mar 2019 - Michelle Ho
We’ve spent a week in Salt Lake City already. Here are some of the highlights:
- The Original Pancake House is just so many pancakes. Pretty much everything comes with a side of pancakes. We took a car-nap afterwards.
- The Tracy Aviary is full of amazing birds. We made it in time for the birdshow at 11 AM. The cute and sociable Keas from New Zealand were our favs. Geoff passed a little metal washer through the fence to them. They played for it for a while, and then passed it back through the fence to us! Aw.
- Momentum Climbing Gym in Sandy has amazing views of the mountains. We thought the grading was a little soft compared to gyms in NYC. We disliked the extra $5 charge for the lead-belay test.
- Alta Ski Area is just for skiers. There’s a lot of short steep terrain and not a lot of trees. I think I liked Aspen better for the trees and the size.
- Snowbird is amazing.
- Games! We played so many good ones: Skull, Sushi Go, Codenames, Coup, Love Letter, Super Smash, Quiplash, and Overcooked 2. No ski trip is complete without a good set of games.
- One More Noodle House Thanks to Ali Wong’s instagram post, Charlie and Linda discovered this little noodle shop in SLC’s Chinatown (which is really just a strip mall with a few Asian stores)
We got our fill of noodle soup after a neighborhood hike in the foothills of Draper.
Finally– I lost my phone at Snowbird. If you want to reach me, contact me via the suggestions page or call Geoff.