Mountain Biking Behind the House

One of the best aspects of living in Park City is the HUGE network of mountain bike trails that are easily accessible from most anywhere in town. There are more than 10 trail-heads within a 5 minute ride from my front door, which lead to a network of more than 300 miles of trails. These trails are all maintained by the good folks at the Mountain Trails foundation, so most everything is in top shape all summer long.

Tonight I decided to do a quick ride up the hill behind my house. The loop I did consists of the Gamble Oak and Solamere trails, with about 600 vertical feet of climbing. The downhill into Solamere is great because it's so smooth, with tons of switchbacks and fairly narrow singletrack. The loop is about 3.5 miles, and only takes about a 1/2 hour.

Lately I've been playing around with a cool little video camera called the GoPro Hero (http://www.goprocamera.com/). This is definitely one of the smallest digital video cameras on the market, and it records everything on an SD card, so there are no moving parts. The camera is enclosed in a waterproof case that mounts very well on bike handlebars. I put together a quick little edit of some footage from earlier tonight, so you can see how well this camera works mounted on a bike. You do lose a little quality uploading videos to a sharing site, but Vimeo seems to have better quality than most.




Let me know what you think of the footage, and I should have some more in the coming weeks. I really want to strap this camera to my downhill bike and get some footage on the crazy trails at Deer Valley.

In website news, Casey and I should be hitting the road in the coming week to gather restaurant information for the major ski towns in Colorado and Wyoming. This should be a month-long roadtrip to about 10 ski towns with world class dining. Stayed tuned for our action packed travel blog adventures...

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A High Altitude Hello

Imagine looking at your computer screen. You are sitting in your home office (once a living room), it's about 81 degrees, and you are starting to overheat a bit. You don't have air conditioning because, well, you live in Park City. You're curious, scared stiff, and maybe a little hungry because you forgot to eat today. You just started a blog, you just invested your life into being self-employed, and you have the intense high pressure of writing your first entry into the rest of your life.

With the incredible weight of birthing your first post, what do you write? What are readers who are checking out Ski Resorts, Dining, and Deep Pow looking for? Do you write about yourself, why you like food so much, why you are in love with that certain floating feeling of three foot days?

Here it goes:

It's the late 70's. Two people meet in a L.A. bar, fall in love, and decide to take off skiing a few months later. They discover Utah on accident while driving East on I-80 in the middle of the night and are low on gas. They find some quirky cowboy town off the highway and spend the night. It's October, the fall colors are out, and they realize they are in paradise, and it's called Park City. Three years later, I arrive. Flash forward 20+ years, I meet a boy with the same aspirations I have, and we contemplate what our beloved lifestyle is lacking.

With many sleepless nights and months of hard work, we are very proud to present SkiTownRestaurants.com, the online restaurant guide for Park City. We currently offer listings for over 80 restaurants in town, and we are in the process of making sure that we offer the most up-to-date and wanted information about Park City, Dining, and some general info about life at high altitude.

So, what do we offer?

For each restaurant, you'll find a detailed description, pictures, full menus, coupons, special offers, user reviews, restaurant webpage links, reservation links (if available), and more.

Why a blog?

Because like everyone else, we like to talk about our plans, our travels, our dreams, our goals, and of course, our skiing and our eating. This will be our little corner of the internet world to speak about what life is like, at high altitude.

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