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Show Wasatch Canyon Reporter ORIENTEERING CONTINUED ~ FROM PAGE AVALANCHE BENEFIT ECLIPSES ALL EXPECTATIONS 13 , by Powder Pilgrim Creighton Hart Under the rosy full lunar eclipse, the Friends of the Avalanche Forecast Centers 3rd skiers who get lost and call annual fund-raiser was beyond most earthly expectations. “This event has become the killer for help on their cellular party of the fall, a sure not to miss event’, stated one enthusiast. Principally funded by Black phones? (Another technologDiamond Equipment Co., and co-sponsored by Uinta Beer, Evolution Ski Co., and the ical anomaly in the Great Patagonia Store. These companies meet the expenses of the event and all the money raised After a tumultuous Outdoors.) They will either goes to. the Utah Avalanche Forecast Center. This year a total of over $16,000 was raised thanks period of confusion, mayhear the laughter of the to the 423 people that attended, almost. twice the number of partygoers from last year. hem, and finger-pointing, the - Forest Service, or be handed Additionally the event had over 50 businesses that donated items as door prizes or for the _ team developed a strategy a bill of several thousand dol| famous silent auction - and there were some great deals to be had (advertising in the WCR that better allocated its team lars for a helicopter rescue valued at hundreds of dollars went for ten bucks - go figure). | : -members and resources. that could easily have been Once again the magical culinary hands of the House of Tibet appeared with delectable food Despite initial suggestions to avoided with a ten dollar for all guests well into the evening. | oer leave their recently-handiAll of this was highlighted by the blood red lunar eclipse over the Wasatch Range as the compass. Picture the chalcapped teammates out in the sounds of Crested Butte’s own String Cheese Incident provided the mellow diapason to rock ‘lenge of plotting new ski or woods as roadkill, they carinto the evening. Remember it is your generous donations and support of this event and others mountain biking routes on a that allows the Avalanche Forecast center to provide the daily to twice daily updates to the ried and led them along; this es topographical map, or actualpublic. The number to reach the Forecast Report is 364.1581 or 364.1591 for the extended unexpected benevolence paid ly finding your way on the report. You can still offer support and donations to the Friends of Utah Avalanche Forecast off, for we had also hidden Poison Spider trail in Moab. Center (UTAFC) at 488.1003 or PO Box 521353 Salt Lake City, Utah 84152-1353. To find - potions along the route which While GPS units are cool and out about other events such as Pieps drills, avalanche classes and future fund-raisers call 524cured blindness and paralyextremely accurate, they also 5304. | sis. While the team hardly teach the rest of the team compass skills. The blind -were now literally leading _ the blind. ce: still cost as much as those reminded me of the Chicago Bulls in championship form, their new system allowed new Scarpa ‘Terminators you've been eyeing. Using a GPS for recreational purpos- them to complete the course » es is also like hunting with a with two minutes to spare Machine gun: it gets the job despite numerous other pitdone, but it’s hardly fair. falls and setbacks we had - Sailors can navigate by complanted for them. In the two pass rather than LORAN or days that followed the outGPS on days without much door experience, we helped wind, and even up the ante by - them explore the teamwork using a sextant. Refreshingly — problems that had emerged in _ atavistic the woods, and develop new - perating norms to. back at work. : ~~ e Besides the uncanny: - compass, milarities orienteering can that is life, there are countless applifor fun, safety, and. | maybe twenty if DIAMOND FORK DAM DEBATE The ongoing debate on whether to dam or not agriculture in the county. Ironically, Juab County — ranks 25th out of the 29 counties in the state in agricultural production. Third, is there an actual dam the Diamond Fork Drainage in Spanish Fork Canyon will be the keynote topic of the Tuesday, November 19th Wasatch Front Forum. To be held at the First Unitarian Church, Salt Lake City, at rather than.a dam/pipeline system, then 200 mil- lion dollars could be saved. Plus, a proposed dam of 300 million dollars. Of this the taxpayers of Salt Lake City will cough up 67% of the money. in — property taxes, yet receive only 24% of the water, Juab while 3 | County taxpayers will pay only LG. 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As mention, the Forum starts at 7;00 pm on Tuesday November 19th at the First Unitarian Church, Meeting farmers Joyce Maughan 359-5900, or write PO Box 58671 Salt Lake City UT. 84158-0671. ee OPEN MON - SAT 10-6 destructive dams avoided and 500 million dollars could be saved if the Diamond Fork water were sent north to Salt Lake County via a pipeline.” | 7 Lee Wimmer, Central Utah Water Conservancy East Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information on this Forum call Stephen W. Lewis 272-2598, eenernte me Soath would save another 300 million dollars. So in total 2 environmentally that this is critical to the Juab and the of iF Complementary Personal Training With Purchase on the Bear River would be unnecessary. This The argument is importance | Landice Other more current water con- to Salt Lake County, using underground pipelines want a deluxe model excitement: For “instance, need for the dam? servation and delivery methods have not _been thoroughly explored, including mandatory low 7:00 pm. Diamond Fork dam project by the Central Utah flow water legislation, conservation practices and Water District, has been the object of recent heateven rain catchment and cistern systems. These ed debate for close to two and half years not to mechanisms are cheaper in the long run and do ‘not mention the thirty years of congressionally comhave nearly the negative impact on our environmissioned inquiry stemming from the days of such . -mentasthedam. huge federal boondoggles. | According to Zach Frankel, ‘Utah River So what’s the flap about concerning this dam Council, “If Diamond Fork’s water were sent north _ project? First is the environmental and ecological _ damages: to these riparian system, the scenic beavPelorus, and let your imagi- | - ty and the hot springs. Second is the cost to the nation run wild. | ct _ taxpayers. This particular dam has a current budget you — have in common with real cations in a world taking the recreation out of -our follow...ou recreational pastimes. So kick down that ten spot for a Wasatch Front Forum Presents: 2 me ioe on hall , 569 South 1300 |