August 7, 2016
Utah Olympic Park
Park City, UT

Today Chuck drove us 34 miles east of Salt Lake City to the town of Park City. Park City was one of the Olympic venues for the 2002 winter Olympics held in Salt Lake. The Park City venue was used for events such as luge, bobsled, and Nordic ski jumping. Today it is used as an Olympic training facility and a sports park.

They have a nice museum showing items from the 2002 Olympics as well as Utah Olympic athletic history. They even have  costumes and props from the opening and closing ceremonies. Here is a picture of Chuck and I inside the museum, in front of one of the displays that made us look like the Blue Man Group.......

We signed up for a guided bus tour which took us to each of the event areas. The first stop was at the ski jumping training pool. This first shot shows a skier at the top of the ramp on the right.

here is the shot as he starts a flip at the base of the ramp.....

And here he is swimming to the ladder.

Here is the starting gate for the Luge/Skeleton track....

 Here is a shot down the track...

Here is a shot of the starting gate for the bobsled track....

This is a shot from the top of the long ski jump....

And another shot showing the view in the distance....

After Olympic Park we went into Park City and it just happened to be the same day they were running the Tour of Utah annual bike race starting and ending in Park City. The following are shots up and down Main Street....

Park City is a beautiful ski town with unique shops and restaurants. Of course the barricades for the bike race detracted a little from the ambiance....

For lunch we dropped into the No Name Saloon..... its an adult only establishment serving good food and beer.....

 We had a great time and saw some really cool and interesting things as well as enjoying the beautiful mountain scenery.