Thanks, interesting. Yeah, I can imagine wind at the top of Snowbird. And clouds at Mirror Lake, although it doesn't seem too much worse than in the valley. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:30 AM, <erikhansen@thebluezone.net> wrote:
As I recall, Mirror Lake fizzled out because of the seemingly always presence of cloud cover.
On 22 Aug 2010, at 20:07, Craig Smith wrote:
I noticed at Mirror Lake this weekend that they have star parties occasionally, and also that Snowbird has a Summer Stargazers event where you take the tram up to the top where they have telescopes set up. Has anyone attended or participated in either of these?
SLAS used to do annual trips to the Uintahs. Seems like that was back in the 70s or early 80s. Not sure why we quit going but it may have something to do with the participants getting to old (in the years since then I've oft said that my idea of roughing it is no room service.) :)
As for Snowbird I've done 3 or 4 of those. I found the experience at the top of the tram to be less than fun. Every time I was there it was cold and very windy and the public unprepared (lots of shorts and tee shirts) so they'd leave early.
I helped with one in Snowbird's parking lot. While there's less sky
there
because of the canyon walls, the event lasted much longer as conditions were much nicer than up on top.
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