Sunday March 17 - Travel Day - Back Home
All good things must end. We ate our final delicious free hotel breakfast and packed up the truck for the 692 mile slog back to Phoenix. And wouldn't you know, we ran into some snow storms! Came down good in the middle of the Navajo reservation and again as we passed through Heber AZ. Luckily, the highway was warm enough that it wasn't sticking. But it seemed appropriate for our final travel day. Resisted the temptation to detour off to the Arizona Snowbowl...
All in all, it was a great trip. It was an ambitious plan but we accomplished our goal of 17 ski days. No fights, nobody got hurt. Rob says I yelled at him a few times. Oh well, I'm the older brother, that's what I do! Would I do a trip like this again? Probably not. I'm glad we did it and it was exactly what we wanted to do, but next time I would opt for less driving and longer stays at fewer places. In any case, the Mountain Collective pass was the ticket to this journey. Averaged out to $34 per day for lift access!
For sure, two days at each place, especially huge places like Big Sky, Jackson Hole and Aspen/Snowmass, is only enough time to barely scratch the surface of all they have to offer. All of those deserve return visits. We had the best snow at Big Sky, seconded by Aspen/Snowmass. The real sleeper was Grand Targhee - man I would love to visit on a powder day! And Driggs is a great little town.
Thanks for reading!
Had to get Rob a tissue: