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Show Ski area conditions to be told SALT LAKE CITY - ' The Utah Travel Coun- Cl1 cil's up-to-the-minute ski reports will be available on a new. number this winter, 1-900-976-3720, beginning Nov. 1, 1981. Serving skiers in the U.S., Alaska and Hawaii, the ski reports will carry the latest information on snow and ski conditions at Utah's 16 ski areas as well as report on the number of lifts operating, road conditions, weather forecasts and avalanche conditions when applicable. ap-plicable. The reports will be compiled every mdrning by 7:00 a.m. and up-dated as often as weather and snow conditions change throughout the day. The "900" number is a new service replacing the Council's toll-free "800" number. Skiers utilizing the new exchange will be billed 50 cents a call, the current rate set by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) which developed this service. (Salt Lake area residents can still call the Council's 521-8102 number free of charge.) Utah is one of eleven western states participating par-ticipating in AT&T's new ski information program know as the Dial-It Ski Report of the Bell System, which handles the phoned-in reports through its main computer com-puter center in Kansas City, Mo. |