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Show V Page 8 Wednesday, February 25,1976 Tolemwk Tales, y Tsmn 'Ski With Stein Day Results Pros Set for $40,000 Hang Ten Cup pairoog m mmiimo Inlaws S. ADpmi n Up by Jim Miller Park West SkFTouring Instructor I sure do like skiing in the Uintas. I'm not sure exactly ; why they have such a tremendous amount of magic for me, but this probably has something to do with the way they run from East and Westinstead of the usual North and South orientation of all the other U.S. Mountain Ranges. The sun always shines along the canyons (instead of across), plus the major bowls are North facing instead of East. I-always I-always have enjoyed something on the unusual side, anyway, and the Uintas are a unique range. We have a really nice National Forest map in our shop showing both the entire Wasatch and Uinta Mountain Ranges. While , I can't take anything away from the impressiveness of the Wasatch (especially the Salt Lake side) they really don't hold a candle to the Uinta's as far as total areaa, elevation and massiveness. Both ranges are plagued with infiltration of useless roads but at least the heart of the Uintas is wild and free. I'm afraid the Wasatch Mountains are doomed for development an Alpine environment en-vironment will never be the same after a ski lift is installed. Sure hope our wise government officials of-ficials are kind enough to keep the Uintas a natural area for us kids. Anyway, back to skiing. because of time limits I do most of my skiing close to home. The small towns of Hoytsville,, Peoa, Oakley, and Kamas have many fine day touring canyons, and all are less than 45 minutes from Park City. Even the high canyons of the Bear River area where our hot skiing is centered, cen-tered, could be used as a day area, but we, of course, prefer to spend three days to do it justice. The actual primitive area is hard to reach in the winter (a good 5 miles from our cabins, which is still anouther 4 miles from the road) but in the wintertime most of the Uintas are in a wilderness wilder-ness state. Most visitors are "summer onlv." Snowmobile use can be heavy on the established routes, especially on the Mirror Lake Road outside of Kamas, but then there are ways of getting around this problem don't ski on weekends. You see, in order to have a $2,000 or $3,000 machine, maintain it, keep it full of gas (10 mpg) plus purchase a trailer to haul it, maintain the trailer, and buy a big powerful truck to haul the trailer and snow machine, maintain the truck plus gas all for the sake of recreation there is no way around having to also take on a full time job to pay for it all. The good ole' 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., 5 days a week, only weekends off kind of job. So me, I take every Tuesday off and never see the snow machines. They are all parked at home while their owners work. I many times will ski on snowmobile tracks. They make a smooth, packed and fast track for rapid traveling. The gentle Uinta canyons are very accomdating to the skier with lightweight equipment anyway, (most of the canyons have, such gradual uphill climbs, that one hardly notices the usual uphill labor associated with the steep Wasatch Canyons)- so with a packed, even trail, one can just fly up the canyons. And you know another great thing about snowmobiles is that most of them either get borred easily, or their fuel tanks don t hold much, so they usually don't go very far. In fact, just about the time I get my second wind, the snowmobiles, turn back. This way we have the advantage of skiing up a smooth, fast track in the Hatter and lower elevations; only to have our objective, the steep back powder bowls, looking is pure, clean and untracked as it has for countless eons of winter storms. It's like riding a "ehairlift or something. As the weather is now starting to turn, I hope many of you will go out and explore our sister mountain range. In the next few issues I'll describe a few of my favorite spots. As little as :hese areas are traveled,.. I have no fear of overcrowding, in fact, the more the merrier. The Uintas will be able to handle the ever-increasing demand for wild country for many years to ;:ome. Of course, the farther The results of Park Stein Day" for Marsac students is as follows: . . Mini Race Kindergarten - Girls - 1st tie (Christy Latham 8.5, Alexandia Willard 8.5. Boys - 1st Colin McComb 17.5, 2nd Zach Craigle, 2 min. 6 seconds. First Grade: Girls - 1st Amy Morris, 14.5, 2nd Abby Peterson, 18.0; 3rd, Christy Hill, no time. Boys - 1st Mark Van Leeuren, 6.0; 2nd Brad Zaba, 9.5; 3rd Billy Rice, 12.0; 4th Tom James, 15.0; 5th tie - Mark Stewart and Andy Miller, no time. Second Grade: Girl 1st - Kathryn Willard, 7.0. Fourth Grade : Girl - 1st, Laura Jarvis, 9.0. Pre-school Honorable Mention, Paul Johnson, 10.0. ' Main Event Second Grade: ' Girls - Isabelle Betz, 33.00. Boys - 1st Alex Hogle, 28.5; 2nd, Mike McComb, 29.5; 3rd Tim O'Brian, 31.00; 4th Robbie Wells, 33.5. Third Grade: Girls - 1st Sara Elw ell, 28.00; 2nd, Cindy Barnard, 30.0; 3rd Tori Pillinger, 30.5; 4th Wendy Hosenfeld, 40.5. Boy's - 1st Rolf Sandberg, 26.0; 2nd Kenyon Kennard 26.5; 3rd, Matt Mapstone, 27.5. Fourth Grade: Girls - 1st Wendy Plummer, 24.5; 2nd Susan Knudsen, 28.00; 3rd Casey Huzlerigg, 31.5. Honorable guest, Toni Peva, 26.5. Boy's - 1st Albert Betz 23.5 and Jimmy Hayes 23.5; 2nd, Mark Zaba, 25.00; 2nd, Shawn O'Brian 25.00; 3rd Mike Jaroz, 28.5. . . Fifth Grade: i flirls . 1st iKtm-PrirrP ivauuy jveiiiiaiu, n.vv, 24.00; 3rd Billy Simmons; 24.5. Sixth Grade: - .' ' Girls - 1st Amy Wells and Holly Bloom, 22.5; 2nd, Karl Sandberg, 23.5; 3rd Julianna Erikson, 24.00; 4th Jona Price, 24.5. Boy's - 1st Neil Clegg, 22.00; 2nd, Troy Pat-man, Pat-man, 23.0; 3rd Alex Holmsen, 25.00; 4th Chad Hughes and Chris Stoan, 26.00. Fastest Boys: t Neil Clegg, Mike Hayes, Paul Mawhinney, Randy Kennard, 22.00. Fastest Girls: . Amy Wells, Holly Bloom, 22.5 Cooper and Teague Take Can-Am Titles christin Cooper, 16, Sun Valley, ID and John Teague, 19, a Burke Mt.racer from Moretown, VT who is on the U.S. Can-Am Team, each won one of the two Can-Am Slalom races held at Camp Fortune, Quebec, Feb. 14-15 to capture the 1976 Can-Am Slalom titles. Cooper won the women's title with a perfect 75 points for her three Can-Am slalom victories and also gained a place on the U.S. Can-Am Team. Teague's victory with. 65 points was based upon two wins and one 3rd place finish in the Series races. Can-Am points are awarded to the top 10 finishers in each race on the same point scale as World Cup points. Standings in each discipline, as well as overall standings, are based upon the best three results in each discipline. The six Can-Am slaloms were completed with me iwo races in lamp Fortune. The four downhill. races were completed on Jan. 31 in Uossland. B.C. with Eric Wilson, U.S Can-Am Team and Canada s Jeanette Zanier, takir g his titles The six Giant Slaloms will be completed on Feb. 20 with the Can-Am final in Whiteface. NY. i. . l. viki r ii!CKfns,iem, u.o. d Team. Syracuse, NY, and Burke Mt.,VT racer, took 2nd City's annual "Ski with 9S5: '.Mi-'jxs mit jHi uu, awn iiimamq in the Can-Am Slalom standings with 65 points. Although she took a third in the first slalom race on Feb. 15, she was not able to improve im-prove her point standings. Sarah Pendleton, U.S. Can-Am Can-Am , Marblehead, MA and also from Burke Mt. Academy captured 3rd in the Slalom title race, with a victory and a 2nd in the two Camp Fortune Races. For the men, 2nd place in the final slalom standings was a tie between two U.S. Can-Am'ers with 60 points each. Jerry McNealus. Pawlet. VT and Stratton Ml. Academy. VT and Hon Fuller, So. Lake Tahoe, CA McNealus earned most of his points at Camp Fortune with a win on Feb. 15 and a 2nd on Feb. 14. Fuller, who finished 2nd on Feb. 15. had already accumuiaiea nis 60 points in earlier races and his finish aid noi improve his stan. dings. , (he overaM Can.A ' standings, Fleckenstein and Wison cnnUnue hold their leads. Cooper moved ahead of Pam Noyes and L . Heyer to take 2nd ,ce the women with her , snowing on Feb ,5 j anA Vnor ,.,,ntim, ... J,l . . .v,.,v iw IIUIU .2nd and3rd spots in the men competition with Teague now in a petition in 4th pi; John strong A new twist in the World Pro Skiing format will combine men and women professional ski racers at the $40,000 Second Annual Hang Ten Cup here, Feb. 27-29. ;j Though men and women ,; competed in the event last season at Hunter, the .. scheduling of races segregated the two groups. Ladies dueled in giant slalom and siaiom on Thursday and Friday; men competed Saturday and Sunday. Not this year. Friday, Feb. 27, preliminary racing for the women will eliminate all but the top four distaff skiers in GS and slalom. Those four women finalists will then compete fo -top honors m the , GS on Saturday afternoon and in the slalom on Sunday afternoon, interspersed with the four men finalists in each a dual-challenge pro discipline. The women will not be racing ;against the men, rather they, will race one another in the intervals between the men's semifinals and finals. "I think this is an exciting innovation," says Bob : Beattie, executive 'director of the iSRA, . "because it eliminates the short pauses in action between the men's : races, and it provides the fans with an opportunity to see top women run the men's ; course and bumps, head-to- ' head. . -.. . . ,( Injured pro champ Hank 1 Kashiwa . is listed as a possible starter for the Hang Ten Cup. But pros Henri . Duvillard I and Jean-NpeJ Augert of France, Josef Odermatt of Switzerland, Vermont's Bob Cochran, Aspen'sxSpider Sabich and Rudd Pyles, and Austrian's Werner Bleiner and Harald Stuefer (also of Hunter Mtn) will compete for the $30,000 men's purse. Barbara Ann Cochran and Kiki Cutter are the two top women who will compete for the $10,000. Devin Captures Can-Am Lead With 2nd and 3rd place finishes in the Stratton Mt., VT Can-Am Giant Slaloms, Steve Devin, U.S. B Team'er from Winthrop, WA captured the overall lead in the 1976 Can-Am Trophy Series from Eric, Wilson. With only one more race remaining on the schedule, a final Giant Slalom to be held at Whiteface, NY on Feb. 20, Devin now has a 5-point lead 1 136 points) over Wilson. Devin also holds 2nd place in the Can-Am Giant Slalom standings. , f. Peter Dodge. U S. B Team from St. Johnsbury, Vt, won -the : Feb. 17 Giant Slalom which was raced in difficult. Conditions with hail, strong . winds and poor visibility. , Dodge now holds the lead in the Giant Slalom, standings ' for the series and has advanced ad-vanced to 3rd in the men's overall standings with 107 points. 'v ,In the Feb. 18 Giant Slalom, Bob Hill. U.S. Can-Am'er from Rutland. VT who races for Burke Mt. Academy, Members of the U.S. Olympic Alpine Team are now taking a few well-deserved well-deserved days of rest after returning home from the exhilarating but grueling experience of the Olympics. Competition resumes with the U.S. Senior National Championships to : be held Feb. 26-28 in Copper Mt., CO. From there, the team goes to Heavenly Valley, CA where the entire international field, including the current World Cup leaders and Olympic medalists, is expected for the Govenor's Cup-World Cup Slalom and Giant Slalom races, March 4-7. The circuit continues in Aspen, CO on March 12-14 for the Roch Cup-World Cup-World Cup races there. Both races flt on wmAM o n1 titAiMAn 1 1 hTA Ruthie's Run; the women also have a Giant Slalom and the men a Slalom at Aspen Highlands. NASTAR HOTSHOTS DUELING PROS Most racers on the World Pro Skiing Tour can point to a trophy case filled with gold medals won in Olympic and World Cup competition. But if you can just point to your own gold NASTAR medal, that may be enough to qualify you to duel against me pros. A recent World Pro Skiii rule modification now provides for two NASTAR skiers to join the 40 top-ranked top-ranked touring pros and compete in giant slalom and slalom elimination matches. If a special NASTAR racer posts one of the fastest 16 elimination times, he qualifies for the pro money matches. captured 1st. This puts Hill in a tie for 3rd in the Giant Slalom standings with ' Ron Fuller of So. Lake Tahoe, CA. James Kurlander, U.S. B Team, from McAfee, NJ who ' had just joined the Can-Am circuit affer returning from the World Cup races in Europe, won both the Feb. 17 and 18 women's Giant Slalom races. In that fell swoop, -Kurlander assumed 3rd place in the Can-Am Giant Slalom standings and moved into a tie for 9th in the overall. With 2nd and 3rd place finishes in the (wo Giant Slalom races, Lyndall Heyer. U.S B Team from Stowe, VT , moved into a strong 2nd place . in the women's overall., standings with -117 points. However, Viki Fleckenstein still holds an overwhelming lead and is assured victory in the overall title "with 155 points. And a with a perfect 75 points in the Giant Slalom, she can do no worse than tie for the Can-Am Giant Slalom title. : . ' At the U.S. Championships, the entire U.S. Alpine Team, including all members of the U.S. B and Can-Am Team who will just have completed the 1976 Can-Am Trophy Series on Feb. 20, , will compete for the 1976 titles in downhill, giant slalom and slalom. , In the two World Cup meets, the U.S., as host country, may enter 16 men and women, so it is expected that several of the U.S. Can-Am Can-Am Team members will have their first opportunity to test themselves against the international in-ternational field. After returning from Europe with . very strong Olympic and World Cup results, the U.S. is optimistic about their chances against the Europeans. Cindy Nelson, bronze medalist in the ' Olympic Downhill, is determined to capture a World Cup victory. Andy The two NASTAR wild card slots are filled by the fastest NASTAR skiers at the host area. These .racers will become official members of the International Ski Racers Association (the self-governing self-governing organization of pro ski racers) and may elect to forfeit any race winnings in ( Vast C&taiheifab&tt iSNAqmMm does win prize money, he must pay 20 per cent of earnings to the ISRA in lieu of regular membership dues. A skier may only participate in this program once. "It's a good program for both NASTAR and World Pro Skiing," enthuses Bob Beattie, NASTAR Com- missioner and executive PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED Pharmacist on Duty 2-6 p.m. Daily FREE DELIVERY WE A1SO HAVE GREETING CARDS FILM MAGAZINES 649-8300 NEW STORE HOURS 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. DAILY ifiSO at ftesorl liwus. Mill, with his exciting 6th place finish in the Olympic Downhill, should be in strong form. And Greg Jones, who put in a strong performance in all three Olympit: events and won an FIS bron; e medal in the Combined for his efforts, ef-forts, is now racing very well. Traditionally, the U.s;' has earned some of their best results racing on their home ground in an environment where the language and customs are familiar and where the spectators are rooting lor tnem. ,.,v The U.S. will he pnmnptino' against such OlvmDic and World Cup luminaries as Austria's Franz Klammer, Italy's Gustavo Thoeni and Piero Gros, Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark (the current men's overall World Cup leader) and West Ger many's Rosi Mittermaier .. (the current women's nvprall leader). - director of the ISRA. "It fccucicuea eiuuuMasin in uie pro race because local skiers ran nnw nnmruito urith tho ninc onI if alcsh rvnAMn4 a-. , enthusiasm in NASTAR, particularly for the skier who has collected several' NASTAR gold medals and is looking for an additional rtllfi&&' ft fhHifR qualifying rule will be in effect at the following World Pro Skiing meets: Hang Ten Cup, Hunter Mountain, N.Y., Feb. 28-29; Wilson Foods Ski ," Classic, Steamboat, Co., Mar. 13-14; The Lange Cup, Sun Valley, Id., March 27-28; and World Pro Skiing Cham- pionships, Vail, Co., Apr. 3-i 5 .i' !li r'l! |