- All right! Welcome to Sun Valley!
One of my favorite places in the world!
My name is Cody Doucette, and this is my beautiful
wife, Katie.
We both grew up here, and then moved away after college.
Now we're getting to come back and see it with a new
set of eyes.
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- There's really nothing like skiing Baldy for me.
Everyday I'm up there, it's a bit of deja vu
mixed with the thrill of new experience.
Smell of the air, the views, they just never get old.
The smiles, the laughter, getting to spend it with
my wife and friends.
It's just one of the happiest places on Earth.
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- Ahh that's so fun dude!
- There is really something about a ski-town bar,
in the energy that is in that place after a good day
on the mountain.
It doesn't exist in anything else, or anywhere else.
- Apple's has always been a part of my life.
Both Cody and I have worked here over the years.
It's definitely my favorite apres bar in a town.
We even had our wedding reception here.
That's how much I love it!
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- Cheers!
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- Snow shoeing isn't something I ever did growing up here,
but as a visitor coming home it's one of my
favorite things to do.
- And it's this kind of idea of fresh experiences,
and a familiar place that has brought us back
here to Sun Valley,consistently.
- Within a matter of minutes, you can be all by yourself,
just surrounded by you and the mountains.
Incredible scenery.
It's really something special.
- So, last night we went to the Boulder Mountain yurt.
It was a really beautiful hike in.
We had a lovely dinner.
There was nice fires going, all hot and warm.
We had some friends gathering.
Sharing time with each other,
in a place in the mountains like that.
It was just a really great ambience when you
walked in.
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- Yeah, Nick! Good to see you, brother!
Welcome to Sun Valley! Glad you made it!
- One of this things that always makes Sun Valley
so incredible, is the access to the back country.
It was incredible to see when we first got out
on the snow mobiles. It was snowing.
The clouds were socked in, and then if on que,
the storm sort of blew through, the clouds
opened up, and we were treated to a sunset in the
Bolder Mountains that I'll never forget!
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- Being able to take my buddy, Nic
up there who had never spent anytime on a
snow mobile or really much time in the back country,
just an incredible experience.
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- This town of Sun Valley and the mountains
that surround it are a special place to both
Katie and I, but also anybody who's fortunate enough
to be a visitor or spend time in them.
The accessibility in the amount of recreation nearby
is truly spectacular.
So great to see the town growing, expanding,
more energy, more people coming.
But the thing that brings everybody in,
and what never changes, are these mountains.
They continue to inspire awe and wonder in everyone
who is fortunate enough to spend time in them.
Everything from riding the resort, on skis and a snowboard,
to ice skating, back country skiing, snow snowmobiling.
All these things so close, so accessible.
Really a unique place, and there's no better place
to celebrate life and love, than here in the mountains
of Idaho in Sun Valley.
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