The Coaster will Knock Your Socks off at Park City

We had a great time celebrating our anniversary and cousin Lily’s B-Day up in Park City. We stayed at the Deer Valley Club which was really cool. We were at about 8,000 feet in elevation there.

We enjoyed the time outside and also some of the attractions at Park City. The last time I was at Park City and rode the Alpine Slide must have been about 20 years ago.

Now they have something called the Alpine Coaster which was crazy! More on that further down…

Below are a couple views from where we stayed at the Deer Valley Club.

We stayed on the 7th floor, but the room numbers on the floor started with 6. Weird. There were only 10-15 rooms in the place if I remember right.

The girls slept on the floor. Oh, they look happy now, but it wasn’t all that easy to get them to go to sleep.

Below, Angie is by her flowers. There wasn’t a vase for flowers so a plastic water pitcher had to do.

At Park City, we had lots of fun the girls ate it up and wanted to do just about everything there.

In the picture below, we’re riding up the mountian on a huge ski lift that can fit 6 people. To the left, you can see the Alpine Slide, and to the right you can see a clearing where it looks like a pipe is going up the mountain. That’s the Alpine Coaster.

The Alpine Coaster is like the Alpine Slide except for the cart you are in is connected to a track (think the Matterhorn ride at Disneyland).

You strap into the coaster which looks similar to a little race car (without the doors and protective windows), and then it pulls you up the mountain on a cable.

Once you reach the top, the worker tells you not to break at all going down (I think they like hearing the screams).

You get going very, very fast and almost feels like the coaster could come off the track.

Megan and Autumn loved going down the Coaster. It curves and twists and bounces up and down.

Unfortunately, we forgot to bring our camera on the trip, so our pictures here are from Grandma’s camera.

It was a lot of fun. We thought the zip line (pictured below) that lots of people chicken out of would be more scary, but it was the Coaster in my book.

The zip line starts at the height of the Alpine Slide. You put you sit in a harness, but to begin, you put your feet up against the release gate so your legs are parallel to the ground about 4 1/2 feet about the platform floor. The opperator then realeases the gates which swing open and you zip down the mountain.

We saw a big guy get stuck on it towards the bottom of the line earlier in the day, and the operator said that heat from the sun can expand the line and slow you down. Humidity can change how fast you go as well.

Below Megan enjoyed going on the bouncer.

She wanted to do the activities without prodding from Mom or Dad.

Autumn enjoyed it too.

We ended the trip with a nice walk though the woods.