High adventure: Ski resorts offer a variety of summer thrills

Mountain biking and/or scootering has become very popular. Mountain biking is a signature activity. It offers 20 miles of forested single-track trails. Visitors can take the Sunrise lift, which rises up nearly 1,000 vertical feet from the Solitude Village, and choose to stay on and ride back down or get off and explore or hike down.

For those looking for a different ride down, the resort offers modified scooters called a Diggler, a cross between a kid's scooter and mountain bike.

Hikers and bikers are able to access two canyons off the chair — Solitude and Honeycomb — that feature some unique geological features and remnants of early mining days.

Consensus is that the resort's disc golf course is one of the most scenic in the state. All "holes" are par 3. The entire 18-hole course is 7,750 yards. The Sunrise lift takes discers to the course Wednesday through Sunday.

Chair single ride $6

Chair all-day $15

Sundance

Phone: 801-536-4071

Web: sundanceresort.com

Activities at Sundance are enhanced with the spectacular backdrop — Mount Timpanogos — and include scenic lift rides, mountain biking and hiking and horseback riding.

The resort offers riders and hikers more than 25 miles of lift-served single-track trails. Those taking the Ray's Lift can either get off the lift at the top and explore the surroundings or hike or back down.

Last year the resort started full-moon lift rides between 9 and 11 p.m. Dates for the nighttime ride are June 29 and 30, July 28 and 30, Aug. 28 and 29, Sept. 26 and 27.

Horseback rides leave from the Sundance Stables and head to a number of scenic wonders, including Stewart Falls, from the back of a horse. Rides include no more than six riders. The resort also offers evening sunset trail rides.

Full moon lift $8

Lift single adult $8

Lift single child $7

Wolf Mountain

Phone: 801-745-3737

Web: www.wolfmountaineden.com

The resort opened its mountain to mountain biking for the first time this season, as well as access to its Wolf Lair's Mountain Bike Terrain Park, which includes earthen features, four cross, board walk jibs and trails.

The mountain trails offers riders everything from expert to beginning trails.

Visitors can also hike the mountainside or simply take a scenic lift ride.

Lift all-day adult $15

Lift all-day child $10

Lift single ride $5

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