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Show Page 6 Thursday. Januar 8, l I he Newspaper THE Restaurant I'AKk CITY UTAH Open For Sunday Brunch served from y a.m. until 2 p.m. Serving Breakfast and Lunch Uii'scby 1 1 lru s.mml.n Dinner n-rwd Wednesday thru s.tlurcl.iy II All KIM.I'KIUI KIH M AlOOi) ASDsll AKs MH I'. IIOMIMADI IIAI)SAIAI)AK INC 11,1)11) Open 8 a.m. Reservations Accepted (i4l) Mhb, S Wain Street If - 1 III t , J UNIQUE... Dennis Rowley Handmade Boots Superb quality handmade cowboy boots. Individual measurements, Personal styling. Dennis will be at The Hat Store in Park City f. (354 Main) Wednesday and Saturday from 5 8 p.m., to take fittings for custom boots. EXOTIC LEATHERS AVAILABLE. Shark Wildebeest Eel Gator Lizard Ring Lizard Ostrich Frog Hornback Lizard Kangaroo Python Snake Boa Constrictor Anaconda Snake Crocodile Springbock Alligator Elephant Anleater Camel Badger 239 East BOO South, Oram. Ulh 84057 (801) 224 4275. Call Dannie for a titling appomimant cither in Oram or Park City. f ' 1 m V jt'!HJ t fill S3 Ohe Second Season Tor Park City 's Qreat Restaurant Opening Triky, Dec, 19th Reservations Recommended 438 Main Street 649-9474 MOUNTAIN QPFISHERYOP Shoveling with the Ski Patrol RESTAURANT FRESH THIS WEEK Red Snapper Oysters Steamed Clams Live Maine Lobster 6-11 p.m. Daily Reservations Suggested 649-4006, 368 Main Street Mastercharge and VISA accepted By Richard Barnum-Reece In the morning they float into the base lodge through the mist as it steams up off the pavement in the parking lot. Most skiers are still snuggled up tightly to their down quilts and each other. But the Park City Ski Patrol has work to do especially these last weeks. "Lots of people think that the patrol is just a skiing job," says Bill Plummer, the Park City Ski Patrol leader. "But that isn't true." Plummer, Plum-mer, who has been on the patrol all but one year of its existence 17 years is rubbing rub-bing his head which looks something like the other side of the moon. Yes,' he's balding, but never mind. In Bill Plummer's heart of hearts he'll always be a high school kid high on the mountains. The mountains have been a lifetime of experiences to Bill Plummer and that's why he's somewhat some-what indulgent with those who, unthinkingly, zip on down one of the easy runs, terrifying first-time snow-plow snow-plow turners as they carefully care-fully crawl their way down the slope. "We'd appreciate it if you took your great skills, your downhill racing ability over to Thaynes or some expert slope," Plummer says patiently to the weekend racers, explaining at the same time that maybe they'll have more fun on more challenging terrain. Although weekend war- PrSll 649-4006, 368 Main Street jK0 . Pastercharge and VISA accepte '''''Sk ; J PROSPECTOR ATHLETIC CLUB 649-6670 JANUARY CLASS SCHEDULE 6 Week Session, January 12 - February 13 RACQUETBALL Steve Coray Beginners Tuesday & Thursday 4-5 p.m. Advanced Tuesday & Thursday 5-6 p.m. DANCERCISES Nancy Schirman Tuesday & Thursday 6:30-8 p.m. DANCE AEROBICS Val Cowan Monday & Wednesday 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 9-10:30 p.m. GYMNASTICS Cathie Corrie Beginners Tuesday & Thursday 3:45-4:45 p.m. Advanced Tuesday & Thursday 5-6:30 p.m. (Ballet Portion) Monday 3:45-4:45 p.m. BEHAVORIAL MODIFICATION WEIGHT LOSS Jeannine Carofanello Monday 7:30 p.m. FEES: Members: $10session (2 or more classes: $20) or $1 .50class Non-members: $50session or$5class visit. NEW PROGRAMS Starting Monday, January 5, 1981. MONDAYS: Men's Challenge Court: 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Cost -$1 S10 non-members) includes all the beer you can drink after 8 p.m. TUESDAYS: Men's Le''?'j. 30 -10:30 p.m. Begins Tuesday, Jan. 6. WEDNESDAYS: Play the Pro: Starts Jan. 7, 7-9 p.m. Play the Pro for $2. If you beat him you'll receive a dinner at the Grubsteak Restaurant. THURSDAYS: Mixed Doubles Challenge Court. Begins Jan. 8, 6-10 p.m. Bring your favorite member of the opposite sex for racquetball, wine and cheese. Cost $2 per couple for members. ($15 for non-members). Includes all the wine you can drink after 7 p.m. WOMEN'S LEAuuE starts the second week in January. Private, semi-private and group lessons available. Call the club for more details. OUCL i J Restaurant A FAVORITE WITH SALT LAKERS FOR YEARS Breakfast 7-11:30 a.m. Luncn 11:30-3:00 p.m. Dinner 5:00-10:00 p.m. THE PUB 4:00 p.m.-closing hors d'oeuvres specialty drinks entertainment on weekends Private Banquet Facilities and Meeting Space 649-8659 1800 Park Avenue THE YARROW riors and others of "their kind think the ski patrol is just a crowd of snow cops out to harrass them, the truth is that much more is going on. The 18 select ski patrolmen (including Kathy Pope, a second-year patroller who is also a registered nurse) have been holding the resort together. For the moment, they are drinking coffee at the base lodge, waiting for the lift attendants to signal that the time of ascension to the top of the mountain has arrived. But soon they will be out on the mountain, shovel in hand, visqueen snowslide at the ready. "I would say that the ski patrol has literally held this resort together for the past number of weeks," says Phil Jones, mountain manager of the Park City Resort. "The lift operators and patrolmen have kept us open and that's a very big statement." Indeed. Without the Ski Patrol and their comrades-in-arms, those who enjoy a quick zip down the mountain ' woald have to go elsewhere: " Although this year isn't as bleak as the drought of four years ago, it's true that without' the ski patrol out there every day, putting their backs to the task of lifting those shovels of snow and throwing the snow onto the fast-melting ski runs, there would have been no skiing at all during Christmas Christ-mas and New Years. "We're in better shape now than back during the drought," Jones says. "We've got a great snow-making snow-making setup for example. But the forecast is still for a big high area over Utah." Earlier this week, the resort recorded six inches of snow. That snowfall confounded con-founded weathermen who didn't think the two small radar echos in Nevada would be strong enough to pierce the atmospheric high shield now over Utah. "The barometer was at 30.2 and we got six inches of snow," Jones says. "I've never seen that happen before." The Resort can make snow at 34 degrees but the quality of that snow is minimal, Jones says. The temperature needs to slip down into the sub-30 degree range to truly afford the proper conditions for snowmaking. And in the meantime the Park City Ski Patrol is out there bending their backs to the task at hand. "Just call us the Live to Shovel Crew," says Brad Carlson, a patrolman with 10 years of experience. He and three of his mates are at the angle station, along the walkway from the Mid-Mountain Mid-Mountain Lodge to the Hollow. Hol-low. That route has been cleared of snow thanks to unseasonably high temperatures tempera-tures but now "Bradso" and his friends are building snow-bridges. snow-bridges. Also, they have become adept at using straw as a last-ditch material. Straw does not scar the skis of those who suddenly come to a screeching halt while motoring down the mountain. moun-tain. A group of tourists from Mexico City are following their ski teacher down the run and they look up to see Bradso as they slip across the straw. "This is terrible," one of the Mexicans says. "Muy Horrible." "If it wasn't tor these patrolmen it would be a whole lot worse," the instructor in-structor says. "Look at it this way: There's no such thing as bad skiing; it's just that some skiing is a whole lot better than some other kinds of skiing." The students appeared to be unconvinced. "Today is Deep Monday," one patrolman laughs. "Like you see in Powder Magazine for example." "Basically," intones Steve Herrin, "What we do is shovel all day. We've been keeping our morale up by doing things like wearing Hawaiian shirts. On another day we'll dress up in knickers anything to keep the patrol's morale up. It's important." The patrol has been doing other things to keep their mind off the down-to-earth work-a-day world they have lately inherited. Stocks for example. "We've invested in the penny stock market," Herrin says. "Thei Wall Street Journal has replaced Play- , boy Magazine as the favorite form of literature at the ski patrol shacks. We work most of the day and then we go in and see how our stocks have been doing; then, since our stock has been doing pretty good, we go out on the job again and we're stoked, thinking about the money we've made in the market that day." One patrolman, Herrin says, made more than $7,000 playing the market one month. On recent investments invest-ments of $250 each, some patrolmen have seen their stocks return dividends of more than $150. "It keeps your mind off shoveling," Steve Lawry says. "We call it snow relocation now. It isn't just shoveling anymore." But few patrolmen are fooled: it's still, in the end, backbreaking work with an idiot stick. "But things are still pretty good," Herrin says. "You can tell because we haven't implemented the shovel toss contest yet. We do that at the end of the day to see who can throw the shovel the farthest. far-thest. Billy Grey has the record. He can throw a shovel a helluva long ways. But I think the Resort wants to discontinue that since it's hard on the budget. You break a lot of shovels that way." During the month of December De-cember the resort picked up just 28 inches of snow. No one wants to talk about it much, but the fact is that with less snow the accident rate went up. The reason? People falling on the ice and injuring their shoulders and hands. Kven Ray Lyman, a patrolman who knows whereof he speaks, got hit. He was skiing in Scott s Bowl and blew out as he skiied over a rock. At another time and place that wouldn't have happened. But without snow to cover the treacherous rocks and mud traps, skiing had become a True Life Adventure. For two weeks, from Dec. 7 to Dec. 22, there were no snowfalls. "It makes it hard," Bill Plummer said. "But people have had a great attitude and now we're., convinced things are going to be improving." |