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Show depends on the eventual tion of Big Cottonwood Work at Solitude is progressing, but its been an uphill battle by Tom Horton Enterprise Staff Writer Fire in the hole! The call echoes three times across the wooded slopes. For six minutes the forest is silent until a sudden jolt, felt more than heard, sends a plume of earth and rock 100 feet into the morning air. And one more lift tower is closer to completion at the Solitude Ski Resort, 10 miles up Big Cottonwood Canyon. all-ne- June The National Enterprise, Page twelve w lifts in the state a fact the management is quick to point out. The resort The heaviest construction activity at the moment is centered on the resorts new culinary water system. This summers work is being divided among several contractors, according to Loucheim. From over a dozen now, the summer workforce will grow to several dozen by the height rs Customer convenience is obviously high on Solitude's priority list, with a new resort feature designed to make skiing an easier sport to pursue. Lockers, a day care e food sercenter, vice, a new sundeck, ski and rental shops and a game room put skiing accessories under one roof. tal shops. hasnt settled on a If the mood of Solitude's new management seems optimistic. its because the areas recent years have been less than lucrative. high-volum- pricing structure yet, but is aiming at the day skier market, a group which traditionally spends less to leave its tracks in the snow. The remodeled lodge will have no overnight facilities, although such expansion in the future is in the companys plan. It all The resort started with a secure place in Utah's skiing picture in the 50s but went, so to speak, downhill from there. Before long the old, handmade lifts were having trouble passing inspections, the management was having Continued on page lb Encouraging penny pinchers Unlike many of the larger, more heavily capitalized re Sankyo MICRO MINI RECORDER POCKET DICTATION SECRETARY Recommended Retail s119.95 $169.95 MICRO-MI- Sankyo TRANSCRIBER NI YOUR SECRETARYS BEST FRIEND MICRO-MIN- I ACCESSORY KIT Recommended Retail $ 69.95 $ 59.95 GO! Blasting out new foundations for ski lift towers is just one of the exciting , if hurried, aspects of getting Solitude Ski Resort ready for opening by November of 77. New owners are also Recommended Retail $109.95 doing extensive lodge remodeling . On schedule WE VALIDATE ZCMI PARKING . BEEHIVE AUDIO VISUAL PHOTOGRAPHIC CORP. of the season. Solitude plans e about 30 employees full-tim- With bureaucratic tangles largely out of the way, and the financial backing of Utahs largest bank tucked firmly in their pockets, princpals in the venture say the rehabilitation of one of the area's oldest ski slopes is on schedule toward a November completion. of Executive the company, Hal Loucheim. says the price tag on this vice-preside- nt summers construction activ- well into seven figures, with only a few hundred thousand of the total going towards remodeling the Solitude day lodge and accessory buildings. "The mountain is where the marbles are, says Loucheim, and he adds construction of the ski lifts will take precedence if winter moves in too quickly. The bulk of financing is coming from First Security Bank of Utah, N.A. ity is To the highest peak Most of the money has been spent to replace the areas entire ski lift inventory with new Thiokol chairlifts. Two lifts will replace the former ones, but a third will take a new course, climbing further and higher than most other Supplying Your Audio Visual ond Photographic during the winter months, independent of the conces- - 60 0 EAST 50. TEMPLE SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH dtomfil fngjlhrtt 641 10 Needs PHONE 531-147- 4 woth my wife anmymore. used to be hard for me to get away on a business trip without getting in a good argument with my wife. Part of it was not being sure about plane schedules, car rentals, the whole logistical problem of commercial travel. Before I finally got away I would be grumpy and sullen. It Now everythings changed. let TRAVEL DESK handle all my business trip planning. It doesn't cost me anything extra and I always know that things will go I smoothly. In fact, TRAVEL DESK has done such a good job with my business trips, Im letting them plan our vacation. Sort of a second honeymoon. A 1977 sorts on the Wasatch Front, Solitude's management is enand couraging brown-baggeothers trying to ski on a budget. soluCan- yon sewage disposal problems. Loucheim points out. ski and ren- sionaire-operate- d 15, lot of things have gotten better since called TRAVEL I DESK. Travel Desk, Inc. 341 South 5th East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 801 355-347- 7 |