Seat-clutching fear.
Remember how I sometimes get to do awesome stuff as part of my job? (I haven’t heard on the Thunderbird yet in case you wondered…)
Well today I road up to the top of the world in this beast.
It is Powder Mountain’s snowcat.
I am terrified of heights. But not all heights. I love airplanes. I’ve been parasailing. I really want to go skydiving. But put me near an edge, even the edge of a one story roof, and my brain starts to freak the hell out. So needless to say a large mechanical monster being driven by a man I don’t know, albeit a very experience man I don’t know, gave me the willies and I forced myself to be calm and only have a death grip on my pen and the chair. I even looked out the window the whole way.
And this. Oh yes. This. Was my reward.
At nearly 10,000 feet in elevation, I was standing in a cloud. Literally.
Growing up around mountains like these is why I laughed when I found out the highest point in Denmark was just over 500 feet. (My remarkable lack of research about Denmark before I went is a whole other topic that’s pretty funny. Maybe I’ll tell you the story one day. Sometimes I’m too laid back.)
The world is super pretty.
Oh, that’s breathtaking! My mom used to work at Powder Mountain when she was in college. (She grew up in Eden.)
I love it up there. Not that I’ve ever been to the resort, but driving up the canyon was always breathtaking.
I miss my grandma.