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Show April ril 8, 1981 3E FOCUS To Every Season We have come to listen to the weather reports with a skeptical ear but it was more than 'a feeling in our bones' that assured us last Wednesday that this time they were right there was a big storm on the way. There was something about the light and the w ay the wind kicked up at dusk that made everything seem unstable. The all night Wednesday morning there were branches strewn across the driveway and it was still blowing hard. No me needed a stockman 's advisory to see what was looming on the horizon. The sky was steel gray and the valley looked more like me in Kansas than Utah. Our neighbors were already up, laying in extra feed and preparing bedding for a few early calves. The wind-howle- d wind rushed us through everything we did that day. Changes are almost always welcomed. In a low water year particularly, storms are eagerly ted. By Thursday morning, however,, the anticipation had become almost unbearable and we were wondering whether we had been hoodwinked once again. It was easy to understand how the winds across the plains of Nebraska and Iowa had driven-som- e of the early pioneers crazy. Birds were flying sideways, the cover blew off the woodpile, everything was topsy turvy. Some friends cruised by on a motorcycle and as we exchanged our amateur speculations about the front it began to snow. Within half an hour, their bike was sporting a new white coat and they were beginning to have second thoughts about the ride home. Visibility was diminishing rapidly and it looked still darker off to the west They pulled up their collars, cinched down their helmets and looked sorry that they hadn 't left earlier. They didn't look half as sorry though as the runner we saw just after they left. He looked like a slow moving vertide snowbank with a moustache made out of snow. He declined a ride home and we wondered if he would have to use an ice pick to take off his sweatshirt This weather cm be quite confusing. Athletes espe- cially have trouble in the spring. Friday morning that runner was among the first m the lifts at Park West hunting for powder. The skies didnt clear completely until Sunday. We could hear the cranes rejoicing overhead. In their post- storm over-exuberan- skiers frolicked on the mountain and sunburned their faces. Frankly, there was a sigh of relief when Monday's skies clouded over and it was possible once again to look across Main Street without squinting. Tuesday it snowed hard. It Mew sideways across Park toward the mountain there wax only white. The chairlifts, we heard, were running but we also heard one fairly reputable skier say he was glad not to be m them. Most everyone was downtown doing errands, waiting out the storm, but later that night there were rumors it had been the best powder NC day of the season. MMl 8M 131180 DUilE HID CUMK mM nmnurnn Mi UB EMIIIB On The Cover Horsemanship is the name of the game at the Olsen arena in Park City, where young jumpers train with WjfVi-d- y Larson. See story P. 4. 1IHMB LB -- FUCT THOQUOOS iniTEnEIELR! S1TRIZ0 2--5: 6-- 7: wm timra 'MW wur ncinu April 2: Sunrise: 6:39 u.m. Sunset: 6:S3 p.ra. April 14: New Moon Forecast: Very cold, blizzard .April April Sunny, mild April 8: Rain Avenue and looking up I1HHTT (MB obiite FIREPLICE E-CE- 1UITU3 BEDS mrs ub mm TORI OF TEE (QTORT GOLBEI (UK ' 355-33- 00 an |
