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Show :irst Ski-Study Snow Survey ncouraging, Team Reports Preliminary survey of i area which has boon posod for a ski eom-x eom-x in tlio LaSal mouii-ns mouii-ns began last Friday :h t ho arrival of Walter iitl, a representative of iviroeon, the study con-ictor con-ictor which will lie wing- the area. Smith arrived Friday th plans to fly over the oposed area, but after vting with members of ! i Keonotnie development mmit'.ee and the Coun-j Coun-j Commission to disenss jt ails of the study, the !.ither proved too windy the flight. Saturday morning tw ) contractors for Envirj. in, John II. Smith and y Kingston, as well as -jabites P. L. Taylor and tss Donoghue, boarded plane provided by K. E. :Dougald and spent al-jst al-jst an hour in the air .ecking the area whieh niM be used for slopes. Following- the flight, e men were joined by n Giambruno, Economic velopment Director Don ffman, and Cliff Sack-son Sack-son who operated the dland Telephone snow t. The group traveled to .stle Valley where they lloaded the cat at the stle Creek drift fence. They traveled to Don's ke where they reported arly three feet of snow the SSOO foot level, ley then went on snow-oes snow-oes about a half mile rther up the mountain the 93t50 fot level and t up a snow course after ;asuring between four ,d five feet of good ality snow. . This compares, accords' accord-s' to Hoffman, with U. Forest Service and Suil nservation Service mea-rements mea-rements near Geyser ss at the SSOO foot eleva. n of 2o.4 inches of ow and at the 9400 foot; iire a measurement of .1 inches. There has, vever, been some new ow dropped since the irest Service measure-ent measure-ent was taken on Feb. Mr. Hoffman said. In e future, measurements ill be taken by the study v ntractor to coincide with ose taken by the fedcr-agencies, fedcr-agencies, so some cor-:lation cor-:lation work can be done. According to Mr. Hoff-an, Hoff-an, the team was pleas-1 pleas-1 with the amount of low and what they were ble to see of the slopes, lthough the initial look ppeared good, Mr. Hoff-ian Hoff-ian stated that a good ' sal more study will have be undertaken before ny definite ideas can be :rmed as to the value of ie area as a possible ski omplex. The team will be ack periodically during ie next several months ) continue their work. l ! ! t ' 1 ' v. .; '-, v. i. set 11 - ' -J -, -... . 'v "i- - - - m, ' mm . . ' Oltici.ils of F.nvirocon, Inc. as w ell as some local personnel per-sonnel hoarded Midland Telephone's snow cat to travel tra-vel to the site of a proposed ski ana in the I.aSal mountains. 1 1 . . ' ' :- ' rrn - --H' MemKxrs of the snow study group stopped for lunch at Don's Lake last weekend and set ud a lower snow course at the 8800 foot level. r. 1 ' i - - ' ' -' .... . i . T: : - ' . -' ; V x' ' ' ; ' i; f : , .: ; I ' 1 . . . - Midland Telephone Company's snow cat wound its wav through the aspen above Don's Lake where snow-measured snow-measured about three feet. ,! '. y. - i -j-.a-- - - - - Members of the snow study survey group were forced to end their ride by snow cat just above Don's Lake when snow became too powdery for the machine to operate. They continued their journey on foot. (Photo by Cliff Sackcrson) |