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Show T Pace .2 February THE MOUNTAIN FLOWER 23, 1973 IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT RUN We Mountain flower Continued from page 1 to ski? Three guys get off the lift and one says he wants to ski Fresh Bananas and the other says he wants to ski Double Chocolate and the third says he wants to go down Chocolate Chips Run and maybe they arent friends after they make down and I have to ski those Employment Security office and to a regular Saturday visitor ugly moguls. And its pretty. I guess that makes sense. It Park City, dont really like any also seems to make sense when run. They like to create their other. Snowbird skiers refuse to own. Woody says his favorite down hill the of tell you what their favorite run "way getting Lost of is. the to is begin at the top They want to eiyoy it all by down ski themselves. I would guess, howProspector chairlift, under the lift for a ways, then ever, that if a secret poll was . decision. a run most Snowbird skiers over to cross the Prospector taken, Send us your name and address. about that difficult trying Its comes choose until he on would but Regulator keep going We'll start sending you The Mountain Flower. to get any group of skiers to simParcalled as Johnson to a semi-secrtheir favorite. Its slope That's all there is to tt. ply name their favorite runs unbelievably big and roomy by leys Park. with or without ice cream. uncrowded Utah standards. You can go and Parleys Park is an has at least it seems, mini-ruEverybody, n cut along the side of go and go. THE MOUNTAIN FLOWER one favorite run at a certain You dont hear much about Prospector that lets you avoid Subscription Dept resort for reasons that are about around these days, at least not Solitude the that moguls pile up Post Office Box 11722 as irrational as why people like like a few years bade when they the middle of that more heavily ice cream flavors. traveled run. Its a great little had that big hassle over who was Which isnt to say a persons Pioneer Station drop through the trees, but going to plow the parking lots. choice of favorite run has to while it is generally uncrowded, But its still there and people are Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 make sense. If you look at it in its popularity is catching on. . still skiing it. Joel Janetski, who a certain light even skiing wont Another skier who likes Parleys began skiing Solitude during his Name. make any sense. Lots of lifes Park ft Dick Charles, a mortcollege days, says the greatest good things are like that run there is to work back along gage officer with First Security Address. theyre to be enjoyed, not underBank. Dick says hes also fond the ridge from the Powderhom stood. of Claim Jumper as "a run to lift jumping the cornices. I know Some skiers, like Woody who prefer the moguls of on. others warm up City. State. .Zip. Godfrey, an official of the Utah for Grass Bowl. Bobs a is Ray sportswriter I skied Park West a lot the the Deseret News and a time Park City skier. He has first year they were open. I was INNOCENT BYSTANDER three favorite runs: Keystone, a still in school then and that $27.50 season pass was the best tight, demanding path through the trees into Thaynes Canyon deal around. My favorite fun (the prettiest); Powder Keg, a then was Slaughterhouse, but for reasons that only mean relatively short deviation from Assessment (the best to warm something to me. which Silver and on); Skis, up ARTHUR Slaughterhouse is one run HOPPE "Whats more, says Paddy, By "Shame on you, Joe, says and is best comes close to matching its that (the steep Dear President: I, Joe demanding to the "they even agreed holding Paddy. "If it were left up to the Take for fast name. Its a giant S carved hard, skiing). your free elections theyd been asking likes of you we never would have Sikspak, American, take pen in hand to lift my cap to you. I dont for since 1954. Thanks to our pick. through the trees. Its steep and won this famous victory. Alta instructor Ford Stevenknow how you done it. develops giant moguls after a spending $140 billion and few for son I dropped by Paddys Place the those American grew "looking days of wear and tear. I up bumps "Make that a boilermaker, lives, 45,000 found while Millicent at that I had to ski it fairly to other night. Hes got the tee-ve- e out are there skiing get going people Paddy, says I. "You mean to say well followed or he' Then his and it would literally beat me finishcalled there 'the what the President Brighton. going we won the war? you are, I was human and frail. to brother death. and Alf the how the war joined ing up telling us precious right to determine But not School at Alta. He this little girl I used to is over. Engen Ski Tm not saying it, Joe, says their own future, knows ski with. She was indestructible. the Alta mountains "Give me "Whats that mean, Paddy? Paddy. "The President says it. Seven-higShe almost well as as the greatest skier and wasnt I. anyone Thanks to our selfless entersays in hours the she was gutty but free a world, "It means theyll get spends many climbing Paddy, says I, prise, the justness of our cause and to His them in summer. the "and toss in a willing go just about any- choice, says Paddy, "between and our dropping seven million favorite best And everything she did where. runs are beer chaser to General Thieus dictatorship described, tons of bombs on their heads, we not celebrate us . and a Communist dictatorship. just identified. When skiing was a joy. have at last forced the heathen ITl always remember the snow Ford likes to start out of held. ever that are elections packed the If to being enemy their knees. from the I would be. struggling times of for "I Germania, cant top mess.,. help jaeing sorry ' "The1 President K said' that? down "over race the course, the enemy, says I, "getting go through those huge licked like this. shoulder and end up by boomsays I. moguls, working, sweating, Paddy, "You are "Yes, sir, says Paddy. "How "Dont be, Joe, says Paddy. ing through Shush Gulley. In panting and finally stopping to referring to one can you win peace with honor of the most self- "Theyre claiming they won a powder he prefers to start on catch my breath and looking without a victory? We forced less enterprises famous victory in a glorious war, Peruvian Ridge, drop down into back to see how she was doing. them to knuckle under and yield too. in the history of what is called Punch Bowl and Invariably she had fallen and ' nations. objectly, the President said, to "How can they say a thing like finish his fun on Wildcat. You was sliding down through the demands 'all laid the hed "Who says so? says I. that, Paddy? says I. get to know these runs by moguls. They were so deep I down. "You know these Asiatics, "The President says so, says experience, not be reading trail couldnt even see her but I could hear her laugh floating down to Joe says Paddy, "all they care maps. Paddy. "And furthermore he me, reminding me of what skiWho face. is "And I. about caved to in? said three select said times we all ought saving they people dont says favorite "What else could they do? runs rationally? Was ing and maybe life too was be proud of the glorious role our PresiSo my caps off to you, that me? Now Im embarrassed. really supposed to be a joy. says Paddy. "Wed killed a millgreat nation played in this noble I dont know where she is vicI asked Arlene Van Dyke, a ion of them. So in the surrender war. dent, for pulling a famous "Til try, Paddy, says I. agreement they signed, they tory out of the fire. Seeing how University uf Utah student, today. I think she married a car. much this victory cost us and what her favorite run was and salesman. But sometimes in the "You . should, Joe, promised to let our troops Bays to retreat we what it got us, I sure would of heres what she answered: spring I can still hear a laugh or Thailand "because Hawaii at or last got Paddy, ' "I like hated seeing us get whipped. Peruvian Gulch at floating down through the wherever, leaving only 145,000 peace with honor. The President of theirs hanging around. said so four times. Truly yours, Snowbird. It has variety. And it evergreens and quaking aspen. Joe Sikspak pushed me, makes me a better And when I hear it, it doesnt "For the past couple of years, I "And thought theyd never skier because when I get to the make any difference where I am, (Copyright Chronicle Publishsays I, "I would of settled for any Co. bottom there is no easy way that run is my favorite. give up, says I. kind we could get. 1973) ing PubBsIwd monthly during winter end summer by Media West. Address aN correspondence to: The Mountmn Flower, Post Office Box 1 1 722, Pioneer Station, Salt Lake Gty, Utah . Subscribe ... Free et , A TBIMIIE T : . h, ski-dow- "MsayT : maa? sv cmcrsH that the O ' RKEUIIY HA-- com msr, our M REACHED THROUGH PUBLIC hsop A FB6SI' Rasirajr R BHOTB HRE 00 W pfum oecTiou ID WHICH I50ATEP. moowtaio TOR 15 AW? AW? MADE MEWS I emt tJ6 , BYTHE SECOND R&RAM. .rrv w this -- DATOUS HSTORH! 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