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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, September 10-12, 2008 The Park Record A-14 CORE SAMPLES By jay Meehan • North Fork dudes Integrating Technology & 6 Traits Writing across the curriculum 435 649.2791 Park City Academy Preschool through 8th grade www.pofkGtyocademy.org You know the actual event horizon is out there afternoon when somewhere but you can't really make it out, what their turn comes with the basin being chock full of lakes, meadows around to once and Iodgepole pine. For that matter, the spruce and again perform upon the fir don't help much either. And then there's the haze you brought along, a Pavilion stage. Something about such gatherings has a tendency residual from dancing the previous night away to the "Barfly Wranglers" with the rest of the posse to blur the lines between here and now. For some down at the Defa's Dude Ranch saloon. There are the answer lies in confronting the aftermath of the lots of intervening variables between you and the previous night's debauchery by tramping off into geologic probability that you're searching for along the primitive area as early as possible the next that far west ridgeline of Grandaddy Basin, but you morning, which is how our current pilgrim finds his can never seem to get it squarely in your crosshairs. hiking boots standing atop Hades Pass at the You swear you can see forever from 11,000 feet break-over into Grandaddy Basin. He read somewhere that early glaciation might at Hades Pass as it all unfolds in panorama down below. And you can! It's just that individual erosion have been the culprit - that the divide that separatpatterns have a way of hunkering down between, ed the Duchesne drainage and that of ihc west fork below, and behind the surface trappings. Up on the of Rock Creek had been scoured to the point south slope of the Uinta Range, drainages are wide where, in order to maintain their relationship with the Rock Creek side, the and rather full of themwater would have had to selves. Once again we had journeyed up flow uphill. On this day, as on There is a "wind gap" many in the past, we are the North Fork of the Duchesne on the old Hayden Peak stalking the illusive spot where the Duchesne River to pay homage to the celebratory quadrangle map where the elevation differential River drainage "captured" the ancestral West nature and the memory of the late, on the west side has the Fork of Rock Creek - great. Ernie 'the bread man' Scow, a Duschesne waters flowing 800 feet below the thereby gaining "water rights"- to Mirror Lake Park City icon if ever there was one." divide, which isn't all1 that much erosion in and its environs. Maybe I ^ ^ ^ M ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H not as brazen a theft as geological time. That that perpetuated by Orrin Hatch and Earl Holding could explain it all, but it would take the setting of up around Snowbasin prior to the 2002 Winter one's eyes upon the actual topography of the "capGames, but, in the current context, certainly wor- ture" to make things right in a moderately hunthy of mention. gover world. Once again we had journeyed up the North Fork But accomplishing such a mission required much of the Duchesne River to pay homage to the cele- more hiking than had been originally budgeted for bratory nature and the memory of the late, great the day, and there's still another night of fandango Ernie "the bread man" Scow, a Park City icon if upon the saloon hardwood on tap. And then there's ever there was one. Members of the posse who always next summer when you can repeat the stalkkeep track of such things figure this one had to be ing ritual and gaze out into your basin of dreams about the 16th annual gathering of the tribes. once again. It wasn't long after Summit County had forced Early autumn at elevation lends itself quite well Ernesto to close up shop at his old party digs along for hiking and daydreaming along the trail. Rasmussen Road out near Kimball Junction that he Thoughts easily turn to some former members of came up with the idea that the cute little dude Ernie's vigilantes-for-fun bunch that for one reason ranch north of Hanna might be the perfect fit for or another aren't with us any longer. Too many, his wandering flock. including Ernie, came to the end of their hike much And so it went, year after year, summertime too soon. raptures up on the south slope of the Uinta Range. And that's kind of what keeps this annual gathHomemade music and homemade grub. And dogs, ering of the faithful such a drawing card to both of course. In fact, most any livestock could worm those who knew what those days were like and the their way through the door at one of Ernie"s group greenhorns just learning about the mythology when gropes. To one who for years packed Ding Dongs lies are swapped around the campfire. Even and Twinkies side by side on his bread truck, diver- through time, some forces are truly magnetic. Ernie sity came easy. "the bread man" Scow is one of those. The drill over the years has been to rent a cabin so that you have a place to bunk down each Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and a free-lance evening after 1 the saloon music stops and the camp- writer with a background in commercial and comfire wranglin subsides. Oftentimes, following the munity radio, among other pursuits. He has been a initial evening's festivities, participants find them- columnist and feature writer for various Park City selves being rousted out of their bedrolls the next publications going back to 1973. WANDERING THE WEST By Larry Warren • Sonoma summer Fact: aBuyers a i fhave f i lmore Wnegotiating i P B ^ M Fact: power in today's marketplace. With a larger inventory of properties, buyers have more choices. Park City continues to represent a I ^ W B ) Buyers have more buying power great value when compared to other world- with today's mortgage rates. The increased class ski resort towns - especially with the SLC FHA loan limits are only temporary. International Airport just 45 minutes away. All real estate is local. All markets are different nationally, regionally and locally, For the best advice Nobody knows Park fi'ity reaTSRate c o n t a c t *oUr P ' 0 * ^ 0 " * Park city REALTOR* today, or visit, like a local Park City REALTOR® r > ^ n ^ ; * , . x x • T- * ParkCityHousingFacts.com Your Source for Park City Real Estate Information. PARK CITY "REALTORS* As it starts getting cool in the mountains, it heats up Inland from in central California. Summers can be cool from San the coast in Francisco north along the Pacific coast, but come Sonoma County, September, summer heatfinallyarrives, just as most vis- Petaluma is an old itors return home. lumber-shipping We've been making an annual fall pilgrimage to the town that has Bay Area, and especially Sonoma, for the past decade. been revived over Last week it hit 100 degrees in Sonoma, and the Sonoma the past two Coast was in the 80s and perfect for a few lazy days by decades into a the ocean. When you've lived in the desert most of your thriving down- _ _ _ _ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ ^ ^ _ ^ _ _ , life, the sight of water stretching to the horizon and the town of shops, restaurants, and a theater and arts dissight and sound of crashing surf on rocks is all the enter- trict. Drive the neighborhoods near downtown (try D tainment you need for a while - that and restaurants Street) and you'll see great examples of Victorian serving local oysters, produce and fish and Sonoma and homes lovingly restored to their century-ago grandeur. Napa Valley wines. Of course the heart of Sonoma County is Sonoma, With as many people as live in the Bay Area, and as with its large town plaza ringed by wine-and-cheese crazy as traffic gets, the Sonoma Coast just an hour shops, restaurants, and restored buildings housing the north is as mellow as a _ ~Z ~ ~ kinds of shops that line all High Uintas meadow, (fc bOnOma LOUnty has many faces - resort-town Main Streets, ndudin e and nearly as wild in thp WHO wild COaSl, ma<zt We the* UpSCaie imvralp Small vmall igalleries Ssot hfamiliar real-estate some places. Point UW on our Reyes and the Point towns, and the miles and miles of vine- M a i n S t r e e t T h e r e s t o r e d Reyes National Sebastiani Theater has Seashore is a peninsula yards. At its core, it's still farm country, movies and stage producof wide-open spaces, and the Sebastiani undeveloped coastline, where dairy cows and grape vines share tions, Winery is just a few blocks and grazing rule elk. space with heirloom tomato patches and off the square for tours and The long road out to tastings. The Sonoma Point Reyes rows of sweet corn." Barracks, built in 1836 to Lighthouse is empty ^ M ^ ^ ^ ^ M ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ • I ^ B M ^ ^ ^ ^ I ^ house Mexican soldiers, but for a series of catthe Sonoma Mission tle ranches. At the lighthouse, the view from the head- both still stand on one side ofand the square, and are part of land goes forever, and you'll learn some lighthouse his- a state park. tory. Sonoma County has many faces - the wild coast, the But I like to walk along the beach and dip my toes in upscale small towns, and the miles and miles of vinethe water, and Point Reyes is too high on a cliff for that. yards. At its core, it's still farm country, where dairy cows Bodega Bay is a good place for the beach walk, but the and grape vines share space with heirloom tomato water can be numbingly cold. This little village became patches and rows of sweet corn. This is the place where famous as the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's classic "The you'll found those relaxed California cows in those Birds" and people still come to see the place where the California cheese commercials. birds took over the town and pecked their way through And it's summer there now. the 50s hairdos. Today, pursuits run more to walking the beaches, dining, kayaking and heading out on fishing Free-lance writer Larry Warren has been wandering the charters. From Bodega north to Jenner are accessible West covering news stories for television and magazines beaches, but this is not a tame stretch of placid ocean. since he landed in Utah in the mid-1970s. In this column Weirdripcurrents lead to "sleeper waves" which pop up he writes about the favorite places he goes back to when from unexpected directions. There are few lifeguards on he can. this wild coast, and there are reasons why one beach has a landmark called Death Rock. THEVnAlS: ' " ' . But the Sonoma Coast also has a milder side that's San Francisco to Point Reyes Lighthouse: 55 miles . slowly being discovered. Tomales Bay ends near the litSan Francisco to Sonoma Ptaza: 42 miles tle village of Point Reyes Station (where the road to Point Reyes begins) and runs north 12 miles to its open- Websites: www.tomalesbay.net www.bestinsonoma.com ; ing to the ocean just south of Bodega Bay. Here the ocean water is manageable, and the water warm enough Insider tip: On the east shore of Tomales Bay, in tiny Marshall, stop ' and safe enough for swimming, kayaking and sailing. by Nick's Cc*ve.The owner, a famed San Francisco restaurateur, The bay's western road. Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, spent $ 10 million recapturing the fed of the old original Nick's \ feeds you onto Point Reyes for the drive out to the light- • Cove, a landmark on Highway I .There are rental cottages on |> house, or to Tomales Bay State Park, where Hearth pilings over the water.and the fcjod, some of it plucked from j | Desire Beach is a safe, sandy beach on the warm, shaldie bay's waters, is outstanding. . v low, very swimable waters of the bay. \ i |