Once, Katherine asked me, “What was your happiest moment?” I can’t remember what I said. I think it was a family Thanksgiving vacation in Barcelona, far away from eating turkey but close to Gaudi. Katherine’s happiest moment was a deep powder day, making turns down a run at Alta Ski Resort in Utah. 

Most advanced skiers know the feeling. It’s like your chest is full of monarch butterflies, and your mind is free from thought, although you may be humming a tune. For me, I feel supremely thankful. This is me at 63, and I like it! 

I wanted to see why Katherine was so in love with Alta and Alta Lodge. She goes back every year. A Sundance ski pass had been dangling from my desk light, a travel-writing perk acquired at Ski Utah’s fall press party. Thus, the Sundance—Alta four-day ladies’ jaunt

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