Pine Sage Blend

a room with a view

This week I’m at Snowbird Ski Resort for corporate meetings (for my day job).  About 90 other managers have traveled here from all across the country, while I enjoyed my short 30 minute drive.  Proximity to these amazing mountains is one of the things I love most about living here.  It’s nice to be close, but also strange to be overnighting at a hotel in my home county.

One pleasant surprise up here is the soap (You knew there was a soap connection somewhere in here, didn’t you?).  Normally hotels always have the same-old, glossy-paper-wrapped, dull-smelling, small, hard, white, bars - like my brother and I used to love collecting on our summer trips with Dad. 

After he forked over his hard earned money for a motel room, Dad would go to park the car while we grabbed the key and ran from the front desk to the room.  We were like conquering pirates, grabbing up the spoils of war and shoving it in our pockets.  Logo pens, pads of paper, books of matches, shower caps, and tiny bars of cheap soap were quickly discovered and immediately confiscated. 

By the time my dad made it to the room, hauling his old, light brown leather bag, we would have cleared it and plopped ourselves down contentedly on the bed closest to the TV. 

“Take your shoes off the bedspread,” he would remind us, as he headed out the door for another load.   

The best part about the soap here at Snowbird is the strong “pine and sage blend” scent.   It’s a nice, rugged smell, bringing instantly to mind, images of breaking out of the trees upon a stunning Western vista with distant, dry, desert valleys, hemmed in close by successive, fading layers of mountainous horizon. 

An appropriate, and well-conceived fragrance indeed.