Now with the snow finally melting, I can go hiking on the mountain, and all the big animals are finally up calling Snowbird their home once again. We had our 3rd longest ski season with a total of 611 inches of snow falling from October-June. We also had measurable amounts of snow at least once a week from December-June. It also snowed my first day of work (Sept 26th) and finally stopped on June 11th....that made for a long winter.
- White Pine Connection: This trail takes you from Snowbird down to my favorite trailhead for White/Red Pine lakes. Only takes 50 min round trip so it makes for a quick and easy hike before work.
Baby Thunder lift
still lots of snow melt coming down
Work time! I hike our Barrier Free trail everyday as well as drive around exploring for animals and waterfalls on the resort or up in Alta.
The Cliff Lodge
looking down canyon at the village, Cliff Lodge in front
The Cliff with Mt Superior in background. Mt Superior is one of the most active avalanche chutes in the world
Mt Superior with waterfall. This is also where the mountain goats live in the summer months
Superior during sunset
Superior is the left chute and Hellsgate is the right chute.
Barrier Free Trail
Gad Valley
A SKIER ON JUNE 26TH!
waterfall in Pervian Gulch
I took the tram up on Thursday (June 26th) to see how much snow we had so I could figure out when i can start hiking into Mineral Basin and the neighboring peaks. I still have a month....
Mineral Basin & American Fork Canyon from Hidden Peak 11,000 ft elev
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Twin Peaks
The valley with smoke from the California fires burning
Again without the haze from the fires you could see Heber (where dad is moving), but not today
Pervian
See the shadow from our Tram?
Red Tram coming down
Like I said before, the big animals have finally made their way back up the canyon to Snowbird....I saved the best for last
Chipmunk at Hidden Peak
Potgut at Hidden Peak
K here is a mtn goat but since he was so high up I was unable to get a clear shot of him, so heres a blurry white blob....This heard sits up on Superior and my office looks towards
Superior. Needless to say I get to look at them everyday with a scope, they are the coolest
animals Ive ever seen hands down
Deer time. The next 3 pictures are of 3 deer who scurried across the path to get away from us. Here is deer 1
Deer 1 and 2
And Deer 3 was kind enough to pause for 30 seconds for a photo op
Deer 1 and 2
And Deer 3 was kind enough to pause for 30 seconds for a photo op this is a good one to enlarge
Buck
2 more
Another Buck
And finally, what were known for in the summer. Our Moose family. We have a mother bring up her baby every year and they live on our mtn and come to our pond every night at dusk for dinner. This is last years baby. She was only 15 yards away from me
Moose Patrol at work. Really, we have to make sure the guests dont get too close. 
Video of her eating....
Buck
2 more
Another Buck
And finally, what were known for in the summer. Our Moose family. We have a mother bring up her baby every year and they live on our mtn and come to our pond every night at dusk for dinner. This is last years baby. She was only 15 yards away from me
Moose Patrol at work. Really, we have to make sure the guests dont get too close. Word spreads quick around the resort when a moose is out and they flock to take pictures.
Just consider me the Mooses body guard
Video of her eating....
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