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Show C-5 The Park Record .Wed/Thurs/Fri, May 24-26, 2006 give way to sport climbers CITY OF ROCKS NATIONRESERVE, Idaho (AP) - The towering spikes, monoliths and pillars of granite that jut but of the high desert floor along the * old wagon trail to California's • gold fields were marveled at by ' thousands of transcontinental ", travelers more than a century ,ago. "Encamped in Granite City 'one of the finest places of its \ kind in the World, I banter the | World to beat it," Dr. John Hudson Wayman wrote in his emigrant journal while camped ;at City of Rocks July 12, 1852. Congress set aside the south-eastern Idaho valley of geologic ' oddities as a national reserve in 1988 to recognize its significance ps a historical landmark on the ' California Trail. But today, most of the more than 70,000 people who visit the City of Rocks annually come not for not for pioneer recollection, but for world-class rapelling. "This is the best granite faceclimbing in the country," says Wallace Keck, superintendent of City of Rocks National Reserve and the neighboring Castle Rocks State Park. "There are more popular and taller places to climb, but there isn't better granite for sport climbing in the U.S." The reason is simple. "There is just more rock to. hold on to," says Brad Schilling, who pionccercd many of the routes at City of Rocks and who has been the reserve's climbing ranger the past 10 years. "Usually, granite is smooth between the crack system but here it's unusual because there are so many places on the face to hold on to." Features with names like Rabbit Rock, Heartbreaker Wall, Morning Glory Spire and Bread Loves have become popular draws for world-class technical climbers while the so-called Inner City Boulders - smaller formations thai sprout skyward from fields of purple, white and yellow irises - attract newcomers as well as veterans honing their skills. "The climbers that come here now are more likely to be in an SUV with a bullet box on top and a kiddie car seal in the back than in a beat-up old Toyota or van," says Schilling. "There has been a definite change in the climbing demographic to more families and groups, such as Scouts and college clubs." Several of the spires of rock are historic billboards • that memorialize the thousands of westward settlers who passed through from 1843 until 1869, when the transcontinental railroad was completed. Names, dates and personal ads such as "Wife Wanted' - were scrawled on the rock with axle grease and tar and are still clearly visible at spots like Register Rock, which is off limits to climbing. Although sport climbing is the main recreation magnet, the National Park Service site 200 miles southeast of Boise is morphing into a camping destination, with a 60-site recreational vehicle campground under construction this summer just outside the park's boundaries. The new campground will be in addition to the 62 existing primitive campsites scattered at the base of features such as Bath Rock, Parking Lot Rock and the iconic Twin Sisters, dual rock cones that mark the exit from the city where wagon trains headed south into the Nevada desert and on toward California. "With the RV campground, we will be attracting a whole new clientele," says Keck. "We'll still get that jufct-out-of-college crowd who are into dirt camping and want the primitive sites, but we're going to get people in the new campground that may be more interested in the history than the rock climbing." If You Go... City of Rocks National Reserve: The City of Rocks is located in southern Idaho on the northern e,dge of the Great Basin, and is open year-round. The visitor center is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily. Getting there: From Salt Lake City, take 1-84 to the Sublette exit, then west on the county road to Almo and the entrance. Services are limited, but meals, overnight lodging, gasoline and groceries are available in nearby communities. Guides: Exum Mountain Guides of Jackson, Wyo. and Sawtooth Guides of Stanley, Idaho, offer professionally guided climbs in the City of Rocks. For more information: http://www.nps.gov/ciro/ or call (208) 824-5519. 1/2. Priced Apptfiim h Smote Fret Loungt And Supper Club UKatt4 belowtt»£laim lumper SicaK Mouse Main Slr«t, Par* C&\ : (4*6) ( ^ 8 - ^ M a private elub for member* NOW SHEWING SMART REAL ESTATE What's Hot in Local Real Estate on Park City Television This Week Promontory the Ranch Club Channel I 7 (Wasatch Back) Saturdays & Sundays Novel's narrator is a likeable neurotic with the accidental death of their 4-year-old son two years earlier. Claire tells Hollis that they need to be apart for a while to give them any chance of staying together. As his summer hiatus begins, Hollis also breaks up (AP) Sometimes when the with his young mistress. Winthrop portrays with going gets tough, the not-sotough may suspend their ordi- poignant humor the characters n a r y lives and take a little time and events in Hollis' anxiety: out for reflection before moving filled existence and the small1 town atmosphere of Baybury, his on. •"' In this limbo between unre- seaside New England home. Pondering how he arrived at solved grief and the resumption of a new normalcy, we meet this unproductive, lonely junc-'Hollis Clayton, self-described ture, Hollis reviews significant "non-writing writer," an intro- events from his past, seeking insight to help him start writing v spective, neurotic yet likable ^suburban homeowner and the again and win Claire back. vwry narrator of Elizabeth Expecting some external Hartley Winthrop's first novel, event to jump-start his life, ^"Fireworks." Hollis nonetheless keeps trying , , Hollis has been abandoned in often droll ways to regenerate -for the summer by his wife, the his lost creativity, telling himself: ,,long-patient Claire, because he "Maybe this is one of my prob• is still unable to come to terms lems. In my head, nonstories are better than stories, and nonstories become stories in the telling. But I guess most people don't feel that way." Fortified by a steady intake of bourbon or beer - or both - he ignores most housekeeping chores except yard work, contrives unconventional research missions to produce material for stories, and waits for Claire to call and steadfastly hopes she'll return at summer's end. He roams around conducting his research with a companionable stray dog, refusing to acknowledge to neighbors that his wife has left him, and regularly seeks inspiration or solace from his drinking pals at a local watering hole. Much of his research seems to involve some type of snooping. He watches the neighbor children when they play outside and waits for a story idea to come from it. 8:30 - 9:00 AM 1:30 - 2:00 PM 6:00 - 6:30 PM Feeling cursed with too much awareness, which he finds "oftentimes debilitating, disorienting, terrifying," Hollis actually seems mostly unaware of how peculiar his actions are. He wants only to lie low but instead gets himself into many ironically comic situations. He complicates several social occasions by panicking and needlessly lying about some simple question or event. Hollis' perplexed world view makes him an ultimately endearing curmudgeon, and his daily quandaries and inner dialogue build - the suspense about whether or not he will be able to move on from his self-created limbo, be drawn back into the mainstream of life, and start turning all his nonstories into stories again. "Fireworks." By Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop. Knopf. 290 Pases.'$23.95. Tuesdays 5:30- 6:00 AM Thursdays 5:30 - 6:00 AM 10:00 - 10:30 PM and Channel 3 (Wasatch Front) Saturdays & Sundays 1:30 - 2:00 PM LewisWolcotto^Dornbush R E A L E S T A T E 800 641-1 884 ro/JFra- . 435 6 4 9 - 1 884o//icr w ww.lvv d p a r k c i t y . c o m 1283 Deer Valley Drive. P.O. Box 2370, PjfkCHy. UT 8-1060 .www.parkrecord.com www.parkrecord.com www.parkrecord.com www.parkrecord.com www.parkrecord.com Ballets Russes Film Review by Moira Macdonald Two dancers, a man and a woman, demonstrate a scene from the classic ballet "Giselle" and create a little bit of magic within the walls of an unremarkable studio, as dancers so often do: She, smiling girlishly, floats a hand to her hair; he stands above her, extending a strong arm, catching her eye. A photo shows us this same couple, performing the dance in earlier days: They look very young, quite beautiful and a little wistful. It is 2000, and that scene, in the studio is taking place at the first official reunion of the Ballets Russes. The dancers, Nathalie Krassovska and George Zoritch, are well into their 80s. They, along with many of their former colleagues in the company that reached its heyday in the '30s and '40s, still dance, still teach, still find magic in the arc of an arm or the tilt of a head. Dance is perhaps the most ephemeral of the arts, but these people have found a way to grasp hold of it, to make time stand still for just a moment. "Ballets Russes," a marvelous and often quite moving documentary by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller, can be experienced two different ways. Dance fans will be dazzled by its treasure trove of archival dance footage. But those who know little of ballet will find plenty here to feed the soul, in the film's rich portraits of men and women nearing the end of a life lived in the arts. There's a just-in-time sense to this documentary, as if Goldfine and Geller seized the moment quickly, before these people slipped away. The end credits list several dancers in the film who died before its completion. Among them is Krassovska, and the loss is a sad surprise she's a vivid, lovely presence in the film. She, like many others profiled, continued to teach ballet until her last days. Tatiana Riabouchinska, who died in 2000, laughs as she remembers people asking why she still taught. "What would I do?" she asks rhetorically. "Sell books? Sell fruit?" "there were those who believed that with him died ballet." From the ashes of the first Ballets Russes, however, came a second company, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and a third, the Original Ballet Russe. Its international troupes of dancers tirelessly toured the world, creating an audience for dance and inspiring generations of young dancers. * Among the many interviewed for the film are Seattle native Marc Platt, one of the first Americans to join the company; Raven Wilkinson, the first African-American woman to dance with a major ballet company; Frederic Franklin, who at 90 still travels the world staging Ballets Russes choreography; and Dame Alicia Markova, the last surviving member of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, who died in 2004. 1 1 The Smooth Breeze. With the POFAll Starjazz Band The film presents a brief, clear chronology of the complex history of the Ballets Russes, which began life in early-1900s Paris, founded by the Russian ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev. The company quickly became worldrenowned, boasting dancers such as Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova and world premieres of works such as "The Firebird." Upon Diaghilev's death in 1929, however, the film's narrator, Marian Seldes, notes that "Ballets Russes" presents numerous snippets of choreography, from the likes of Leonide Massine and George Balanchine, much of it shot casually from the wings. These wispy bits of celluloid, with their scratches and cobwebs, document dance history. Two Nights Only! - Friday & Saturday June 2nd &3rd Jointly presented by : - This film is a gift to all who love dance, and to all who will dance in the future. Park City Film Series presents Ballets Russes May 26, 27 & 28, 2006 Fri. & Sat. at 8:00 p.m. Sun. at 6:00 p.m. - Post-concert private party with Eric 9:45pm - S100 (LiniiWd seat Ing) Host edbv Shaba i EGYPTIAN THEATRE _ COMPANY pjaying wd( :g louclhevl 435649-9371 Sponsored by Sandra Vogt & > Deanha Carter Identity Properties Summit County KAPTux park city series www.parkcityfilmseries.com or online at • Park City Magazine parkcityslunvs.com Underwritten by University of Utah Continuing Education Call 615.8291 or for info, previews & reviews visit Tickets $35 &$so ' I Egyptian liox Office June 2nd & 3rd. 2006 7:30pm, Egyptian Theatre VH Main St., Park Cil v * |
