Welcome to Day Trippers - a series of travel guides brought to you by Sun Bum. In this series, we get a local’s perspective from some of the raddest people in action sports about their home towns - from Noosa Australia to Salt Lake City USA.

‘We did the best we could considering the broken ankle,’ is a hell of a way for Jill Perkins to preface her Day Trippers Guide to Salt Lake City, and it’s true, they did great.

For those who aren’t familiar with the glorious and beautiful city of Salt Lake, first of all, I don’t blame you. It’s okay, you’re not out of touch. There’s just nothing to surf there so it doesn’t pop up on your radar very often. Don’t beat yourself up, let us give you a brief. Population: 204, 657. Elevation: very high up. Sprawl: somewhere between ten and ten thousand miles, it’s hard to tell where it ends and begins. Founded by the mormons in 1847 and is famous for its aptly named, incredibly buoyant Salt Lake, it’s beautiful temples and architecture, the highest-rated Denny’s in America, and a mountain range which holds some of the best snowboarding and skiing slopes in the world.

No wonder, then, pro snowboarder Jill Perkins lives there. You get it. It makes sense. SLC is a bit of a massive and much-adored world hub in snowboarding, even hosting the Winter Olympics some years ago, but there are no good breaks so you were completely ignorant to it. It’s okay. Now you know, and that’s all that matters.

Doing press - especially press like this which requires being quite active and out there on the town - despite a broken ankle is quite an admirable thing. No easy feat. Imagine you break your ankle and some dunce hits you up to show them around your city, and you sort of get pressured into it. Not that we pressured, more so begged. Luckily and thankfully, Jill delivered. Here are a few of professional snowboarder and one of our personal heroes, Jill Perkins’, favorite places in and around Salt Lake City, Utah.

SOMETHING YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR HOMETOWN?

I love the access to the mountains, the local music scene, the abundance of skateparks, the friends, and the fact the airport is 15 minutes away.

SOMETHING YOU DON’T LOVE ABOUT YOUR HOMETOWN?

The never ending construction yet constant bumpy roads.