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Show MINERS STAR SIGNS LOI, k Editor: Christopher Kamrani sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.118 SNOWBOARD PROGRAMS AT PCMR Registration is available for our Saturday snowboard programs. These programs are open to PCMR season pass holders and are staffed by specially selected coaches from the Park City Ski and Snowboard School: Saturday Adventure-snowboarding is for our youngest riders (ages 5-6) and meets for 10 Saturdays from 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. beginning Jan. 8. Participants must also be able to ride chairlifts without an adult. Cost is $775 for sign-ups by Oct. 31, $875 after that date. PC Ride is for snowboarder's ages 7 to 10 who want to explore the whole mountain as well as our world class terrain parks. This program meets for 10 Saturdays from 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. beginning Jan. 8. Cost is $699 for sign-ups by Oct. 31, $799 after that date. "AMP" snowboarding is for advanced riders ages 11 to 15 looking to improve their skills. This program meets for 12 Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. beginning Dec. 11 Cost is $840 for sign-ups by Oct. 31, $940 after that date. To register please call (800) 2272754, or visit parkcitymountam.com for more information. JUNIOR JAZZ SIGNUPS The Junior Jazz Youth Basketball season has arrived and don't miss out on this year's fun of action packed basketball. Jr. Jazz Basketball is offered for boys and girls in 3rd through 8th grade. Games will be played two times a week during the week, no weekend games. Deadline is Dec. 4, and space is limited so sign up today. For more information on this league or any other programs run by Basin Recreation log on to www.basinrecreation.org or call (435) 655-0999. TEEN AND PRETEEN SKI PROGRAM AT PCMR Registration is now available for the AMP Ski Program. AMP (All Mountain Progression) is open to PCMR seasonpass holders who are advanced skiers ages 11 to 15 looking to improve their skills in steeps, powder, moguls, groomed, park/pipe and everything in between. AMP is staffed by specially selected coaches from the Park City Ski and Snowboard School. During the season, participants will not only develop their overall skiing skills and abilities, but they will have a great time doing it, always in a safe and controlled environment created by their coach. AMP meets for 12 Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., beginning Dec. 11. Cost is $840 for sign-ups by Oct. 31, $940 after that date. Early season pass prices available through Oct. 31. To register, please call (800) 227-2754, or visit www.amp-pcmr.com for more information. SSHS PREPS FOR BRONCOS, B-3 More room to groom Nordic tracks in Summit County continue to grow By CHRISTOPHER KAMRANI Of the Record stuff Charlie Sturgis knows a community-wide vision held by many is well on its way to fruition. The executive director of the Mountain Trails Foundation has seen trails in Park City evolve from mining-era paths to an estimated 60to-70 kilometers of cross-country skiing track. Back when Mountain Trails was established in 1993, Sturgis recalls the sort of underground tactics that nordic skiers had to resort to. '"We had 14 miles of trails probably in town. Most of it probably wasn't legal. It was hand-cut, it was recovered mining trails." Sturgis said. "If we found an old track through the woods from the mining days, we'd go through and clear it out; we didn't have any permission to do that." Now the sport and the tracks are burgeoning. Combined with White Pine Touring's trails, the local tracks are well on their way to becoming some of the most impressive and scenic in the country. With an estimated 25-to-30 kilometers of track in the Round Valley area alone. Mountain Trails is seeing the benefits of growth in the sport, but sees a desperate need for people to get involved and help further the cause. PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO Nordic skiing in Summit County has experienced a boom over the last few years, and locals are pleased. "What we really want to have happen now is the level of the membership increase to the level of usership,'1 Sturgis said. "Right now we have a membership of 300 people, and I would guess you could argue that we have a user group of 15,000 or 20,000 people." Isaac Wilson, the director of the Nordic Center at White Pine, sees the benefit of the sport, and has witnessed the growth first hand. Wilson, who has been with White Pine for the past eight or nine years. said he saw cross-country skiing explode when the nation's economy began its wicked slide a couple years ago. "We've seen our business grow leaps and bounds," Wilson said. "We've been a great complement for Park City." White Pine offers 20 kilometers of cross-country ski track within the cily limits. Wilson pointed out that the beauty of nordic skiing is that it doesn't necessarily rely on large amounts of snow. ''Less snow is sometimes better," he said. "We want to provide for visitors of Park City when the snow isn't very good. We haven't had a bad year in about eight years." Wilson hopes to dispel any notions that cross-country skiing is a specifically a sport for experts. "Thai's what's hard to convince other people of," Wilson said. "It's only as hard as you make it out to Please see Nordic, B-4 U.S. Sprint Grand Prix coming to Park City Canyons will host snowboardcross event in February 2011 GRAYSON WEST/ PARK RECORD U.S. snowboarders Graham Watanabe (left) and Jonathan Cheever signal to the crowd at Tuesday's announcement of the U.S. Sprint Grand Prix coming to Canyons. By CHRISTOPHER KAMRANI Of the Record staff Cheever is an official rider for Canyons and- is excited for the chance to race against some of the best riders iri the world on his home mountain. Canyons resort will have a chance to showcase its new mountain amenities to a worldwide audience this winter. The U.S. Sprint Snowboarding Grand Prix, to be held in Park City on Feb. 11-12 at the Canyons' new snowboardcross venue, host to some of the world's best snowboard athletes. 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