Waterfall lovers everywhere—rejoice!  This is your time of year!

We’ve been spending many weeks already exploring trails we haven’t walked since the fall.

The waterfalls, in particular, are pretty wonderful right now!  Right behind Alta Crystal Resort (a whopping 10-minute walk), you can check out Deep Creek Falls, a gorgeous 15-foot waterfall.  Along the way, you’ll probably take picture after picture of Deep Creek since it literally looks like someone must have planned it to be so beautiful.

You can also hike 3 miles roundtrip to Goat Falls.  This hike is listed in The Mountaineers’ Book, “Best Hikes With Kids”… Read Full Story

Easter has to be one of our favorite weekends of this year, and 2010 was no exception!

On Friday night, we kicked off the weekend with a cupcake decorating and crafts party.  Lots of Easter cupcakes, lots of decorations and all sorts of springtime crafts.  We even showed the classic, “It’s The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown”.

On Saturday afternoon, after skiing, we hosted our annual Easter egg hunt with prizes for everyone.  Some years we’ve had snow and some years we haven’t, but it’s always been fun!  After dinner, we had our 13th annual Easter bonfire, complete with s’mores, hot… Read Full Story

We’ve been absent from our blog for a while (having too much fun doing outside things, you know!). But we finally went on Crystal Mountain’s Alpine Wilderness Snowshoe tour a couple of weeks ago, and we wanted to let you know just how wonderful it was!

We first did this tour almost 2 years ago when Crystal was testing the idea with employees and locals.  We meant to sign up all last winter, but kept forgetting until it was too late.  Our friend, Tena, convinced us to actually schedule it in advance this time (!) and so 4 of us… Read Full Story