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Show 16 February 1996 — POWDER PART OF MOUNTAIN: THE FAMILY By The day of powder DAVID BAKER cat and this was a service that skiing started with a 1.5 hour drive from Salt Lake City to Powder Mountain and ended had been set up for our tour, shuttle. What we found was a little peculiar: a wheezing but as it turns out it is always school bus. I hadn’t ridden on available... A Mr. Matt Foulkes spent the day on Lake View trail waiting with one since the day before I got my driver’s license back in 1983. From the looks of the bus it could have very well have been that very same bus painted : blue. To get a ride in the shuttle you must be at Powder with a very full tummy (see sidebar). The original idea had been to try out Powder Mountain’s snowcat experi- a snow mobile and a rope for ence, but the whole mountain ended up being one adven- ture after another. A snowcat, - a snow mobile and a school bus are all to be found at -Powder Mountain along with the more prosaic modes of ascension: chairs and surface baa WwW © Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon and some S Our guides for the start of the day were Rob Rose Lavar, PR had man told me was not | Lake chair. After the first ran we took a second with patroller Steve Searle in Cobabe Canyon, another cat area - this one out of Rob and Wayne’s ja £4 sod 1 6 4s a. mysterious for the area, that the snow ideal. Rob and Wayne echoed this sentiment, saying, “You should have been here last week.” Little did we know this would be the saying of the day; we heard this from seven different people. Before starting out we were asked to rate our ability. I confidently declared myself expert. Our first run was straight into the cat skiing area where I impressed both patrollers by falling ass-overtea kettle in the first few feet. Twice. So much for my self AS. Sa 6 Se Me Bt For the most part the run was tremendous despite the somewhat crusty conditions. We started on the Lake View J trail which provides access {to in-area holidays, between the pickup point and the base of Hidden ski patrollers and Wayne ‘Crookston. The any and all lazy souls who would like a tow. We then dropped into Medicine Man for my taste of humble pie. At the bottom we waited for just a few minutes for Kory Mueller and his snowcat. Kory makes 25-35 minute round-trips, during the day Our | run in Cobabe Canyon (down Gunslinger?) _ was even better. The snow was softening up and the area was so immense that we barely even saw other tracks. This was mostly the result of Steve’s escort. For those setting off on first time cat skiing a word of warning: the trail map is a little confusing, read it carefully. Do not fear | getting lost, though. All trails lead to The those in squeeze A round =, Kory and his cat. cat skiing is not for a hurry. Don’t try to in one of these runs. trip from the main lodge through Cobabe Canyon and back to the - ga lodge was a venture trails as well as cat ad g skiing trails. Gettingg to the Lake View§ s =| hours and four minutes - and required area involved a towg behind a snow §| , mobile. I briefly 2 Jam thought Lavar had gotten wind of my physical condition that took us two three chair rides and > | one : fe D et Meni pull. Having tried the snowcat and the ee eS eae A &er platter for a tow from Matt Foulkes went in search of the ‘Mountain on.a weekend, but there is no additional charge. Just ride the Hidden Lake or Sundown lifts and ski into Powder Country - the name for the out-of-area skiing that would normally strand you on the access road with your DEEP AND POWDER GREAT COFFEE... ---BOTH ADDICTING _ thumb out. In this case, there — is a shuttle pickup area where the powder country skiers and ‘boarders wait. No fancy turn-arounds here. Woody, | the driver, turns the bus around by blocking traffic, stuffing it in the snow bank > and then making a 3-point turn that would make my mgt school driving instructor proud. When we arrived back in the parking lot Rob was waiting. “Every time that thing makes it back we breathe a sigh on relief,” he said, eye- ing the bus. What a day... Powder Mountain also has six lifts: one triple chair, two double chairs and three surface lifts. Meadows Express Cat and some additional skiing 320 E. ON 4OO S. Coffee without Compromise THAI Genuine Thai Cuisine! CUISINE is open for and dinner lunch Lunch six days 11-2:30pm a week. | Dinner 5-9:30pm Closed Sunday. holidays: small fee required. ATs School bus S, S: no addition- Page 7 THAI F,S,S,M al fee unless you want to tip Woody. There is day skiing from Yam until 4:30m and night skiing from 4:30pm until 10pm. Credit cards and snowboarders accepted. Slogan: “You’re “only a stranger once at Powder Mountain... 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