Olympic Park - Utah - August 26

Today we went to Olympic Park, the home of the 2002 winter olympics and will be the home of the 2034 winter olympics.  They have a pass that you could go on several “rides” as many times as you want in a 3.5 hour time period.  They had an alpine slide, two zip lines, two tubing slopes and a rope course.   It was a great day to go as the weather was gorgeous, it was a Monday and school in Utah has started.  Translation barely a line in sight.  Dave and I enjoyed 6 rides down the alpine slide, 1 ride on the lower zip line and 3 on the “extreme” zipline and one ride down the tube slope.  Brian enjoyed several treks on the alpine slide, but that was all his dislike of heights would allow.  Julie did everything except the longer tube slope.  None of us were fans of the tube slope.   It was down one of the jump hills and man was it steep.  My favorite coming in and still is the alpine slide.  It was my first time doing a zipline and I have to say I enjoyed it more than I thought I might.  Julie liked everything and said the hype I had provided about the alpine slide was justified.

June on the zipline

Alpine slide in a traffic jam

There was one lady in the front of this trip that was going very slow, which caused quite a backup of people.  Dave figured he would take a selfie of him, Julie and Brian.  I was in front because I have the need for speed.

Enjoying the speed

If you look down from the ski lift you will see a small figure, that is Dave on a tube.  It’s basically they push you down the hill.  

This was the tube slides, the left is the lower one that we tried, the right was the higher and steeper one.  The lower was one and done for us and the higher was a hard NO.

We then toured the museums they had on premises which were about the 2002 olympics and then local olympic people overall.  There was a lot of information, but I decided to leave my notebook off duty today, so no list of fun facts. 

They had a booth in the museum where you could take your picture with various backgrounds, so of course we did.

Then it was time for some food, so we went to a local brewery.

til next time…