Why do you live in Park City?

When people ask "Why do you live in Park City?" I think the best why to explain it is, we are all just big kids who refuse to grow up. Sure, we have responsibilities just like the next guy. But admittedly, we have our priorities a bit out of whack. I can't speak for every aging ski bum, but for me, there was a fork in the road, usually around the first few years after college. The much larger, well traveled straight road, with a wide horizon was for those who wanted a more traditional and stable road, based more on the pursuit of financial stability, family upbringing and close community. But for many ski town dwellers, we blew passed the big fork to the draw of the less traveled narrow twisting road. The desire to see what was around the next corner was too much of a draw. Like many have done before, we headed west. For us skiers, that meant, for the most part, the Rockies, Wasatch and Teton's. If you wonder which kids are more likely to move out west and gamble their financial future on the search for mountain powder and desert solitude, you need to look no further than the kid in class that the teacher continueally yelled at to stop looking out the window.

Today was a great example of why we live where we live. Here is a little video. The idea isn't that we ski the gnarliest lines and huck the biggest cliffs everyday (and quite honestly, our knees can't take it anymore). We don't live a ski movie. It's about friendship and sharing experiences. It's about being in a town where everyone had different starting points, but we all ended up in the same place, because we all a little different from the norm. We all have similar stories. We are the modern day, "Land of Misfit Toys". Today, three such misfits got together and had a great lunch! There were thousands of such "lunch meeting's" in mountain towns around the west. This is our idea of a "Power Lunch."