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Show The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, January 5-7, 2005 Holiday shoppers flock to stores • Continued from A-9 Main Street "Its been ridiculous." reports Ashley-Kale Self, sales associate for Mary Janes shoe store on Main. "The week before Christmas and these past few days have been even busier than last week. 'Iliere have been no parking spaces-they've lie en towing a lot of cars. It took me half an hour to get off Main Street to get home the other day." 'Hiough Main Street saw a bit of a delay in December crowds, Mike Sweeney, President of the Main Street Business Alliance and owner of Seasons Day Spa, says the week between Christmas and New Years Day made up for any early losses. "If my business is a typical example, I was down just a little bit before Christmas, but by the 27th it was like people turned on the light switch. 'Hiings got busy," claims Sweeney. Sweeney found that even the snow storms late in the week did not discourage people from traveling to Old Town. "'file snow closed the Town Lift and it had an impact on our cafe, but it didn't have any impact on the Day Spa," Sweeney reports. "People who arc staying at Deer Valley or Marriott Summit Watch or Mountainside are in town. 60 percent of them come in by limoor bus. They dont have cars. The buses did a good job of getting people in and out." Snowflakes attract skiers to Utah resorts By NATHAN RAFFERTY Communications Director Ski Utah While this year's Christmas storm was tame compared to the 100+ inches of snow that fell over the same period last season, Utah resorts saw yet another prosperous Holiday period with Christ masweek storm totals climbing as high as 67 inches at area resorts and reports of visitation numbers on a record setting pace. "Although numbers have been strong this Holiday week, and look to be strong throughout the remainder of the season, the work of promoting our ski areas is never complete." said Ski Utah President Kip Pitou. "Utah's ski industry continues to see peaks and valleys in visitation throughout the season, a trend that will be combated with an ongoing strategic marketing and media relations campaign from all levels - resort, county and stale tourism agencies.11 December visits to Skiutah.com were up over 500,000 page views when compared to the same period a year ago with approximately 10.000 more unique visitors. Some highlights from around the state: Aha Ski Area: Resort spokesperson Connie Marshall reported that. "Alta received three feet of snow through the Christmas Holidays leaving skiers 'very satisfied.'" Alta currently reports a 109 inch settled snow depth willi 279 inches having fallen to date. Brian Head Resort Brian Head saw 49 inches of new snow over the last five days. Resort spokesperson Craig McCarthy said. "We had excellent Holiday visitation and would have likely set records had the wind not interfered with our operations." The Canyons Resort The Christmas-week storm total at The Canyons Resort was well over three feet. Lodging numbers'at the Grand Summit Resort Hotel and Sundial Lodge have been consistently strong before, during and after the Holiday period. Recent snowfall has increased call volume significantly putting them well ahead of last season's reservation numbers. 'Hie Canyons Resort President Scott Pierponl said, "The product we have is exceptional, and the guests that have been here in the past week have truly witnessed the Greatest Snow on Earth." He added, "If you weren't happy with the skiing at 'ITic Canyons and in Utah over the Holidays, you should probably give up the sport." Deer Valley Resort SO inches of Christmas-week snow helped Deer Valley reach a record breaking December. Bob Wheaton. Deer Valley Resort General Manager reports that reservations are on pace to break the resort's previous best skier day totals set during the 2001-02 winter season. Powder Mountain Winter Resort Powder Mountain reports skier visits and revenue both up for the year. "December revenue is up." said resort spokesperson Marc Paulsen. "Our snow quality and quantity over Christmas was the best we've seen in recent history" Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort Snowbird's recent Holiday period was significantly ahead of last year's thanks, in part, to ideal weather. While huge storms forced road closures last year over Christmas, last week's storm provided optimal conditions for vacationers. Approximately four feet of new snow fell over the Holiday period, which provided tremen- dous powder conditions for skiers and riders but did not necessitate any road closures. The New Year's storm was the largest of the holiday period, dropping 20 inches over two days. Midmountain saw snow totals of 47 inches between Christmas and New Year's/with greater accumulations on the upper mountain. Solitude Mountain Resort Big Cot ton wood Canyon saw the highest accumulations in the state. Starting on Dec. 28, Solitude's storm total topped out at 67 inches of Utah's world famous "Greatest Snow on Earth" pushing their season total to a whopping 309 inches - well over half their annual average of 500 inches and all just two months into the ski season. j "Skier visits and lodging nights have been very strong this season.' The village at Solitude was at. capacity for six days during the* Holidays and we saw two capacity^ days on the mountain,- said resort spokesperson Jay Burke. TK.C.L PLANNING family ELstabe Planning at its Jeffrey T &ahb. JP, CfP Principal. PLanner 50+ Yeas experience advising executives, frushess ewners. re\xees> aid thdr families A family based approach using wealth preservation Tax avoidance and asset protection -techriquea Experience with charitable giving, incapacitated persons, and "special needs" situations is the season .. <J to be open! 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