Susan Munroe

My new God’s name is Ullr. Floating. Floating all day. On 24 inches of freshies, on good vibes between friends, on rays of sun sparkling on snow crystals in the air. Floating in the afterglow of a fantastic day. The Wasatch got dumped with snow all day yesterday, and I called in “overwhelmed” at my [...]

Salt Lake City is organized on a numbered grid system, with the Mormon Temple at the center (0,0) and the rest of the streets fanning out north, south, east, and west in straight, orderly lines. The valley is flat; mountains form protective stockades on the eastern and western edges. It’s the eastern peaks that draw [...]

This is what I tell my co-workers at the Brighton Resort Ski School when they roll their eyes about “icy conditions”.  To which they respond, “You must be from the east coast.”  The last week has been warm, the snow soft and thin in patches (this is, after all, pre-Thanksgiving skiing), but it has not [...]

So much to say, so little time to say it! In the past three weeks, I… Visited Queenstown with Moni – Drove his car, The Beast (twin turbo engine, sports shift, v6, responsive and oh so smooth on the corners), south through the Canterbury Plains and the barren, imposing Lindis Pass. Wandered about the town, [...]