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Show ‘Wasatch Canyon Reporter Opening Tie tear and eriticiem of Olympics eonutimues, and wiil years. We “JaZZ Ceremonies look at “challenges” Atlanta’s and the for current imagine our impending troubles. Yet no one seems to share my fear. I quake at the thought of the opening ceremony. This Utah’s we really I is our culture ready for want.to. record theme: chance .to. the to display world...are this? be: the: first. to-.go.-on with How a suggestion abouts. 2...4 for the Western theme. You know cowboy boots, hats, and lots of spangles. Does anyone. else -fé6el-.a bit: of nausea, contemplating an endless vista of arrhythmic people parading about in neon red white and blue western wear?. Chicago the It is as Bulls bowels inevitable title. of the city as Somewhere some the in obscure committee is busily planning the hunsit§etprom of Utah. Before. 1 is fait accompli I would like to offer one alternative theme that speaks more passionately from our hearts. Hewes about a .thousand freshly scrubbed 19-year = old <youths ~ in white .pressed shirts, dark ‘pents ere rtivenr tres. speed bikes in: massive stadium eat trong “black "ten circkes -around’ -a sized all you can family buffet. And in the heart of the butfet.will. be a huge.green Jello and marshmallow salad...and at just the right moment the Utah dancers will pop out. Ones ‘sweating in a Park City Allows Snowboarding I wanted Thumbs up to Park City for catching up with the times and allowing snowboarding for the 1996-1997 season. There had been much deriSive speculation of how P.C. was going te Hold «the. snowboarding events in the Olympics, while not allowing snowboarders. I applaud them for The a wise End The winter business of is my legs best snow last week of Alta’s I have seen are — jones. of the The made up for the sorry fall. Every day was a powder day. The last three were. epic beyond: measure. The Wednesday before Alta closed, they sold sixty tickets to . the. public...maybe another sixty pass holders were there. The mountains looked unappealing from the valley, but the snow fax said 9” fresh overnight, and I was feeling like a gambler. I Glared at. my -golr- clubs; stuffed two: could quarts=of find into the my thickest badly ‘oil 7% leaking. Toyota junker and’ threw every.snow toy I owned into the bed. Sunny and seventy .1n “che put Valley, -auld= tT “wes screan: Lyndon Snowbird haven’t in years. season £6 Sutferitno tai. that whoever did the morning measuring was conservative enough to Winter over, as summer denial, I resisted the “Kidder/Lawrence” delusional insanity gig, and headed for the hd Ss Riding up Wildcat -1t was clear decision. and. IE as. pale: aS Cam joe, quite gotten rid of the ski Alta closed with 175 inches my Mountain pants, I grabbeda forty-four ounce f£1x of caffeine and rebuffed peoples silly stares... “Skiing ish’€..over ;” EHOGgnt -. LaRouche they in would office. have At measured it at three feet. At Alta it was an honest 18-24’ of reasonably light snow. There were ten empty chairs before and aft.of us; and six of the 120 skiers on the hill were busy right below. the Wildeat Turt-— line. They were enacting the grid ski search. Unfortunately rather than using the traditional rectanGQuliar. search pattern they opted for the more creative pentagram. Utahns have a better chance of getting the lottery than these unfor- tunates One head of. intrepid powder his ate finding searcher cord to horse ire evident Piglet corporal earth. 4 ‘lost was whip in Ho give the his snow; every passionamount’ of hire punishment to ski. using caused the sup-.anski.wss, | - Over the crest of Wildcat the opened” up ‘to show ery “mountain My. first - UintPpacked .1,.100.. Acres. turn body hill: and -E.tuckedup, rolled; packed a fair section of From there’ on it was.a and the beau-— ty day. The. snow. -was-..coming .in hard, and it just became deeper and deeper. We skied most of the same lines all day, alwaye .beri ited. We closed the day in Gun sight,a natural chute;’*tHat “1s: “wide, steep, and filled witht ol be ane erous The last On. the. . lehe) cua rece. forty turns were truly bottomless, effortless, like the Colorado brochures IT. am year. show, but starting to. Utah provides. wish ~tor3 Planned kindness acts Why doesn’t anyone flash tights anymore to ° warn motorists <of-' an: ampending- trap. polite Ttlash -In, the thing my .past. to do. lights «if. next ce | of there «ether saddr Seemed..the Nowadays when in’ a-congenial warning I feel like a felon: The other drivers give me a confused little wave as “L£E:-to:say-“hi; um, SEOD te don se actualiv=> know 2 yous incessant flashing please.” our EE we get this’ habit going again, Chen. you. cah “réallyimpact some- one’s& life. positively.,..You. someone feels good after you think stuff a dime in their parking meter, wait (tow you see how: they. feel arter you save them from a ($500 zticket, and -da insurances increase. |