Mountain Bike for Her Issue 4 - Dec/Jan 2015 | Page 23

Travel

PARK CITY,
UTAH

Words by Teresa Edgar

W

hen people think of mountain biking
in Utah, the first place that comes to
mind is usually Moab. However, 3-hours
north is another gem called Park City.
Park City is a 40-minute drive from Salt
Lake City, which makes it an easy flight
from almost anywhere in North America
and I was there within 3-hours of my
plane leaving Victoria, British Columbia.
I had plenty of time to catch the airport
shuttle to my accommodation and relax
before dinner.
My accommodations were provided
by Park City Lodging for this trip and
I was excited to discover I had a onebedroom suite in a building close to
Historic Downtown Park City. It meant
that I didn’t need to rely on the free shuttle
to explore and I had a comfortable place
to call home for the four nights I would
be there.

The next morning I picked up my
rental bike from White Pine Touring
and met the other four members of the
tour, along with our guides Scott House,
Shaun Raskin-Deutschlander, and Tim
Moore aka T-Mo. We were buzzing with
excitement as we set off towards Deer
Valley Resort, although I’ll admit that I
was a bit nervous about the elevation.
Park City sits at 2,134 meters (7,000 feet)
above sea level, which meant I was going
to feel like a fish out of water, flopping
around and gasping for air.
Scott knew the elevation would be
hard on our group - most of us came
from sea-level - and to make things easier
on us, he chose to shuttle us to our dropin point, which sat at the 2,674m (8,773
feet) mark. You could see for miles and
with the leaves on the aspens starting to
change colour in the autumn sun, it made

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