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Show WEBER STATE COLLEGE, OGDEN, UTAH Friday, February 1, 1966 Vol I, No. 1 Csd Gfltelhis J) If Ag0,dia3 0 Oh Dy2 Moite Dvpe MO s Eari Miller schusses Snow Basin's Becker Hill, one of the thirteen ski areas acclaimed as Utah's "Greatest Snow on Earth". The high altitude areas allow skiers an extended November thro May season. Utah Has Snow, Sunshine, and A Wide Range of Facilities Lather a two-mile high mountain Tange with layer upon layer of what experienced skiers label "the greatest snow on earth"; spend millions of dollars to build the most modern ski lift to service scenic slopes; spend additional millions for luxury lodges and more modest family style resorts, fine restaurants and informal spas; link ski slopes and resorts with jet-age transportation, and you have ski Utah land, US nomination for the 1972 Olympics. For over a quarter century Utah has been widely known as an unexcelled winter sports area for both snow conditions and terrain. The Wasatch Range Utah's Rockies extends on a north-south line through the state, spearing snowclouds atop 12,000 foot high peaks. At the westernmost extension it snows early and stays late, hence the worldwide reputation of Alta, one of the first resorts to attract an international clientele. Today a dozen fine ski areas are scattered from Utah's northern forests down to a new development in the state's southwest. The Alta Lodge has a new, highly modern wing, similar to Rist-ler's lodge. Peruvian, with its swimming pool; the Gold Miner's daughter, especially among the college crowd; and Snow Pine Lodge, recently rebuilt, has accomodations ranging from dormitory to family style. The mile-long Albion Basin lift, opened three years ago, provides intermediate and beginnner runs at Alta, while Wildcat and Germania double chair lifts serve expert slopes and high country trails. Brighton Ski Bowl, twenty-nine miles east of Salt Lake City, is another long-time favorite with skiers of all ages and purses. The lengthy Mt. Millicent chair lift, an intermediate double chair on Mt. Majestic, and beginner's double chair leading partway up the same scenic peak offer a variety of runs , - . . . ' .. y. r and open fine touring. country. Mt. , Majestic Lodge and Majestic Manor have fine guest and food facilities.Solitude, just two miles from Brighton, has three double chair lifts serving expert, intermediate and beginner slopes -- plus night skiing under lights. Ski slopes at Alta, Brighton, and Solitude range in elevation from 8,500 to 11,000 feet above sea level, meaning the early November to mid-May season is one of the nation's longest. Other popular Utah resorts are similarly blessed with their fair share of the greatest snow on earth, although only one, Park C ity, is presently equipped with overnight hostelries. Snow Basin, our "home" slope, has a new $150,000 double chair lift, adding to facilities at the big Wasatch National Forest resort area already serviced by two major double chairs. Utilizing the new Wildcat and older Porcupine lifts, each just short of a mile in length, skiers can take expert and intermediate runs that equal any in the nation and can simultaneously enjoy some of the West's finest mountain-and-basin scenery. Beaver Mountain, near Logan, is typical of family-style ski areas found along the Wasatch, having tow modern chair lifts, excellent runs, plus a modern food service-shelter chalet. Timp Haven, near Provo, has a half-mile long chair lift, a T-bar, highly scenic slopes and trails, and newly built restaurant and shelter facilities. Utah's newest winter sports resort is at Brian Head, in deep-snow country adjacent to southwestern Utah's Cedar Breaks National Monument and only a short distance from Zion National Park a spot being developed with the needs of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix residents in mind. Its double chair, T-bar, and food service facilities opened this season, while a major lodge is still on the drawing boards. The state's most complete new winter resort is at Park City just a few miles from Salt Lake City where an entire mining town is being rehabilitated to service winter and summer recrea-tionalists. Treasure Mountain, center of winter activities, now has added the nation's first underground ski-lift to its facilities. Skiers board an electric train, ride three miles into the heart of the mountain, then are taken 1,800 feet up to the peak aboard a high-speed elevator hoist for runs down the mountain's famed slopes. Skiers who would rather travel topside than via subway ascend Treasure Mountain aboard a two and one-half mile long gondola, one of the nation's longest. Atop the mountain are two double chair lifts, including one that is one and a quarter miles long with a 1,300 foot vertical rise. There's a fine skier's cafeteria 9,300 feet above sea level on the mountain top, with a more elaborate restaurant, cafeteria, cafe and sports shop area at the lower terminal a mere 7,000 feet above sea level. In Park City itself, visitors find such pleasant lodging and food establishments as the Chantacler Inn, the Christopher, Kelly's, Pop Jenks, David's, for night-life a-plenty.Other ski areas found in Utah, aback from prominent attention, are Blue Mountain, located five miles west of Monticello; Gooseberry, fifteen miles from Salina; Grizzly Ridge, north of Vernal; Little Mountain, up Emigragion Canyon; Snow Park, 1-12 miles east of Park City; Brian Head,, located near Cedar Breaks National Monument in Southwestern Utah and Timp Haven, Provo Canyon's contribution to the ski collection. 13 (count 'em) 13 little resorts for the biggest skiing on earth!! Utah USA The "desert" state of Utah is the United States' nomination for the eleventh annual Olympic Winter Games to be held in 1972. If the bid to the International Olympic Committee on April 25 is successful, Utah will host the very best of the international skiers, and the resorts surrounding Salt Lake City will be the scene of some very exciting action. Governor Calvin Rampton led the Utah entourage to Chicago on January 10 as a prospect against Anchorage, Alaska and Lake Placid, New York. Salt Lake City was the undisputed winner with 36 of the 42 U. S. Olympic Committee votes. Dev Jennings, executive director of Ski Utah Associates, a group of predominent businessmen interested in boosting Utah skiing, made Utah's presentation outlining the following advantages: By 1972, Salt Lake City, which will be the center of the Olympic complex, will have a population of more than 625,000. The city will have its new Civic Auditorium which will include a massive sports arena and convention complex. For ice hockey there will be over 10,700 seating capacity. For figure skating, a seating capacity of 10,500 is in the offering. Boosters propose to shade the University of Utah stadium, which seats 30,000 and add freezing equipment for the speed skating events and practice squares. For the actual skiing there are five major ski resorts with all the necessary terrain within a 45 minute drive from city center. Now another task faces the Olympics for Utah Committee, and that is convincing the International Olympics Committee when it meets in Rome that Utah is the most qualified site for the games. NOT MUCH TIME, BUT. "We're working on it with everything we've got," emphasized Max E. Rich, president of the Olympics for Utah, Inc. "In spire of the short time in which we've got to do it, we'll have the best possible presentation." In Detroit, the U.S. Olympic Committee president, Douglas Ruby, said, "They'll have to expand it. It was almost good enough to present to the International Olympic Committee." Mr. Rich said the Olympics for Utah Committee is now awaiting more materials, including detailed requirements for formal bidding. Once the details are received, he also stated, the committee will know exactly what expansions and improvements will be required for the presentation in Rome. Mr. Rich noted that he had received several good tips for the presentation in a telephone conversation earlier with Mr. Ruby, and "much encouragement" Nominee |