We loved our snow trip and stay at The Resort at the Mountain so much last year that we decided to do another one this year. We learned a lesson that the place with the tow is only open on the weekends, at least for sledding, so we planned our trip as Sunday and Monday nights so we could still take advantage of the BOGO program the resort has. Our biggest pleasant surprise was that they added a cover over the pool to make it economical to heat in the winter!
It turned out to be not great weather on Sunday, but we bundled up and braved the slopes anyway. Some serious mountain fashion:
Rockin the rainbow!
OK, the tow thing seriously rocked. This next picture is not it, lol, but thought Orion towing Akasha was cute. We didn't take many photos because it was raining, but we had a good time!
Nuttyhead laying in the snow at the end of our sledding.This one was taken by my phone, crazy blue!
We picked this place partially because it has a play area as well, which Orion was looking forward to.
Can you see him in the little window?
He wanted to do a whole series of him jumping into the balls,
which meant he was basically just a blur lol.
So of course the next day was lovely weather! We decided to try to find an area to at least do some playing in the snow. We stopped in a local place to do some glove upgrading, and found these cheap sleds:
The guy also told us about a great place to go sled for free during the week that is a bit of locals secret. It is a place with a fee on the weekends, but then it is totally unstaffed during the week and people still use it.
Nice view of hood heading to the sledding area:
We even had fresh snow! Guess the rain from the previous day turned into a blessing afterall!
This hill was pretty small. Perfect for a place without a tow lol.
Just before heading down the hill.
Orion had alot of fun just playing in the snow.
We kept seeing people come and go down a trail, so we asked them what the deal was and found out there was a much longer run not too far away. We decided to check it out. It was pretty fun, and we met some other homeschoolers there, but the walking back up part not so much haha.
Nice trip, although heading back we realized how much closer we are now that we live on the Eastside. It kinda seemed dumb to pay for the hotel when we could have easily done this as a daytrip. But the "getaway" aspect is neat too. Not sure which we will do next year!
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