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Show Wednesday, February 23, 1977 THE Page 9 X5T By Hank Louis The shortbed loaded up with dirty but thermostat ther-mostat blankets, dogs black-and-white, cushions, slow cardboard sleds, frisbees, six-packs six-packs and a kid pack, half a gang four wheel drove down out of town like a lost posse in search of winter, or summer, or anything other than this Indian inbetween nonsense. Past the deceptively white fingers desperately clinging to our ski mammary, the bottommost hand still waiting to be smothered by others in a rah-rah huddle; and past the deserted dumpland where the Square and Village are still mirage, where a rectangular rink sat in sixty degrees, slushing like the feet of a siesta time wino. An on. On through the hoof and mouth outskirts of outskirts themselves-burnt-orange fields, half hard, half dusty, already growing and now flowing in the sun and its breeze. Half through a town, another in the string of normal .mountain winter buoys held together by scenic highway, the half group cut up, and then they passed through that same town spelled backward. The sign said Road Closed and No Winter Maintenance and something sounding like aha ! was heard through the eyes of the half group. A guess at best, but perhaps winter had lost its way up this unplowed road and was stuck up to the headlamps of a sun-roofed summertime shape of things to come in its half-baked, almost-there, I'm a comin' snow. The half gang thought hard and its collective eyes saw itself as a rescue team in photographs and front-page headlines. They turned their heads away in unison and four wheeled right by the sign. They pushed on. On past pick-ups hooked to naked trailers to either side of, and sometimes in the road that was now the old soft snow. Soon the half gang found itself, hubs finally locked, smack in the middle of a snowmo-cross course. They dodged these motorized toboggans. And they dodged stiff-legged people on skinny waxed skis sliding up up up with their wineskins. The half group was sure it was getting warmer, war-mer, like a kid on the seek side of hide and. But the mercuric needle rose, too. Around another bend and up ahead a Buick-could Buick-could winter be driving a Buick?or some similar freeway cruiser that misread the road map. Alas, when they arrived said the eyes of the half group; for it was only a pushing and shoveling family of accents. With a chain they iere jerked out and sent easing on down the road. Dejected by the tasteless bait the half group backed down behind the obese V-8, its eyes peeled for summer. But all the half gang found were Uintas during Indian inbetween, and, while the frisbee was floating, a white rabbit-it's up to you to guess whether or not he was on schedule. mm We were all discussing skiing the other night. A couple of non-skiers, Peggi and L I was on my concentration kick. I think Tve told you the theory before, but basically it is that when we ski, nothing else dares enter our minds. I the boss is mad at us, we ignore it for a day. If our wives or husbands aren't talking to us, a ski run makes us forget why. If we get fired, hired or have important decision, they don't matter.. .at least fora while. My whole theory is skiing is a magic elixire, washing away all the cares of the day. That's always been my philosophy and I've been quick to share it with others. Peggi is usually quick to rebut anything 1 would have to say positive about our sport; she only enjoys en-joys it in secret, never admitting it in public. But this time, to my astonishment, Peggi actually ac-tually agreed with me. ..even if it was in her own way. Nevertheless, when one is starved for agreement, we take what we can get. "He's right, you know," she told our friends. When I got off the floor, she continued. "If you ski like he does , you don't dare think about anything else." North Star Receives Final Approval A 10-lot subdivision located just west of Lowell Avenue received final approval ap-proval from the Park City Planning Commission Wednesday Wed-nesday night. The North Star Subdivision, Sub-division, proposed by Joe Bernolfo and presented by engineer Jack Johnson, has five lots fronting on Lowell and five hillside lots which will be serviced by private roads. These private roads caused special provisions to be included in the commission's com-mission's approval. The commission stipulated that the developers sign disclaimers freeing the city of any responsibility for providing emergency services ser-vices should the private roads become impassable. The developers will be responsible for maintaining the roads which will be 20 feet wide as opposed to the 30 feet width normally required by the city. The commission allowed the "substandard" roads to prevent cuts in the hillside which would occur if a 30 foot street were required. The commission also required that fire hydrants be placed at closer-than-normal intervals in the North Nor-th Star dubdivision. !with Craig Aitschul ' A funny lady I married, huh'' But, it is true. When I ski, anything else looses something in the translation. How about you? Wrant to prove it? On your next run, think about it . Catch yourself midway just as you come up on a big mogul. Now, make sure it's a field of bumps at least 15 more to carve through. Make sure it's a good vertical drop with a few quick turns necessary when the field is finished. Stop at the first mogul. Think hard. What did boss say to you yesterday that made you so angry? Got nowhere, did you'' Why are you and the spouse not speaking? Don't remember, do you? That's what I'm saying. Skiing is a matter of concentration; for some of us the work is survival. I would no more think of anything other than skiing when on a hill than I would of standing up in arollercoastercar. Peggi got back into the act. "Concentration is essential in skiing," she said in her best professorial tones. Perpetual beginners know all the answers, you see. "If I were to think of what happened at the office of-fice yesterday for even one second," she said, now getting a bit less pedantic, "I would be right on my..." The dialog was getting earthier. "Skiing is much like driving a car," I told our friends, who were now dozing off. "We can almost drive by rote. I know we shouldn't, but we do." Not when we ski though. I maintain even the best skiers haw to concentrate. Because the conditions change by the hour. Two times down the same run can yield two entirely different sets of conditions. Nice powder can become hardpack or a wind storm can crust it over. Anything can happen. ..and, to me... usually does. So, that's why I ski, I tell my friends (one of whom is now snoring). It's an escape. Reality become a pole plant. 'Hie truth is an edge set. Life begins and ends with Minnie's Mile. 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