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Show PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS on B9 CLASSIFIEDS on B1 2 The Park Record D Section B Thursday, June 18, 1992 Page P. I Eriefe Climbing up the wall Snowbird will sponsor a climbing competition for climbers of all skill levels June 20 on the artifcial climbing wall at the Cliff Lodge. Registration will be at 8 a.m. onthe day of the contest, at the base of the Cliff Climbing Wall. Call Doug Henrick at 487-2108 for more information. For a good time trial... White Pine Touring's mountain-bike time trials will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday nights during June, the only month for mountain-bike mountain-bike trials this summer. Pre-registration Pre-registration will begin at 6 p.m. at the startfinish area on Richardson Flats. Call 649-8710 649-8710 to find out more. Pow Wow Run Saturday The Heber Valley Pow Wow 5K Run will take place June 27 starting at 8 a.m. at the Wasatch County Fairgrounds, 300 West 500 South, in Heber City. Trophies will be awarded to age-group winners, and a random prize drawing will be held. Cost is $8 (with shirt) pre-registered, pre-registered, and $10 on race day. Kids under 12 cost $5. Call Jim Sutter (359-6906) or Snady Flores (654-2664) to find out more. Hang on 'til the bell The Oakley Rodeo 5K Run is scheduled for 9 a.m. June 27 in Oakley. The $12 cost ($10 pre-registered) pre-registered) includes T-shirt, prize drawings, refreshments and awards. For more information call Alan Sorensen at 783-5801 after 6 p.m. Summer season fun at ski areas Off-season at the ski resorts still provides plenty of recreational opportunities. At Alta the George Watson Shelter, the mid-mountain lodge there opens Thursday to serve light lunches for hikers and mountain bikers. At Deer Valley the lift served mountain biking on the Sterling Lift operates now Wed.-Fri 1-7 p.m. and weekends 1 1 a.m.-5 p.m. The Moonbeam lift is open at Solitude for list-assisted mountain biking. On June 27-28 27-28 the Utah Fat Tire Festival will have classes from elite to beginner in the 1st Annual Solitude Canyon Festival. And at Sundance the Mount timpanogos Hike and Bike off the Mandan Lift will be weekends and holidays from 1 1 ajn. to 5 p.m. Soapstone A AmH t$MK$ t??4m V 7. W ' ; ;- -w, '?M ' ' . - : - r -f't Slll' -" ' '" 1- ," . v. - - - I V;', L V'A' -- Erik Hogan Sit tall in the saddle deep by TERI ORR Record Editor In the early morning hours when the dew is still clinging to the columbine along the trails in Deer Valley, you can listen to the birds chatter their wake-up calls through the pine and aspen trees. You could do this by just taking a walk or by peddling your mountain bike around on the new paths open this season. But if you want to understand the land, saddle up with the folks at the Deer Valley stables for a ride back in time. There's nothing pretentious about the A frame building with the wood burning stove at the base of Guardsman Pass where Marsac Road meets Royal Street. Ed and Donette have assembled 22 horses (the same number as the Park City Ski Area stables Ed Baltz also runs) in a split rail corral. You put . your foot into the stirrup and head up the mountain on a trail recently, carefully, cut through the trees. In less than a minute you are parallel with the road .climbing the pass but far from the maddening crowd and the cars and the noise. And the scenery is a surprise-even for locals. Because of the wet spring the ground has produced ferns and mushrooms and all kinds of wildflowers. There are blue bells and wild roses and Indian paintbrush and several variations of purple flowers I don't remember the names of .mixed in with the new bright green growth on the tips of the pines. The white bark aspen have thick trunks and clump in stands that could confuse you like a Bev Dolitde picture. The wranglers here know the land. They aren't confused and they take you deep into the forest where ,wmmm knows how to show folks a elk and moose and deer and eagles have all been spotted already this year. They'll point out the highlights but they don't chatter. They know the wilderness is a place best enjoyed in silence. The horses know why they're here. They like the ride. They're comfortable with the trails. They are well-trained and clearly well cared for, too. They have names like Mate and Cartridge- sensible, nothing fussy like a race horse. The folks at Deer Valley have teamed up with the stable hands and carved out a little campsite that feels like something out of Lonesome Dove. There's a rock-rimmed rock-rimmed fire pit and some split logs for benches and tables. This week the artful food and beverage people will take their culinary skills al fresco for the breakfast and dinner rides offered. Count on the standard bacon and coffee over the open fire but throw in huevos rancheros, sliced fruit, morning glory muffins and you have a first class breakfast. At dinner they'll rustle up a steak, like you'd expect, or grill salmon. There will be Caesar salad and Santa Fe style beans and espresso brownies. Did Butch and Sundance eat this good? No matter. After your meal and your - camaraderie around the campfire, you head back. The horses are rested and eager to show you where the stream crosses the trail, where the eagles nest, where the wind whistles through the trees. The land you see isn't much different than in 1868 when federal soldiers discovered silver in these hills. In fact in a few places you can see evidence of mining equipment, abandoned years ago. By the time you reach the stables, you would Continued on B2 river ru . " 5 reel good time s I t 9 . tv- - Ed Baltz loves os through by RON GEOKG Record staff w riter The fly fishing buzzword lately has been caddis; as the solstice approaches, hatches of the . trout delicacy are becoming more and more frequent. Since this is my first year of fly fishing, the caddisfly hatch has meant something else to mc--a corresponding lowering of trout intelligence. My earlier experiences with large hatches were mayflies, which seem to demand more precise presentation. During the caddis hatches, the fish seem to be feeding more opportunistically. The caddis pupa rise quickly to the surface, demanding swift attention from fish, and the adults tend to thrash on the surface, making exact imitation unnecessary. So, in fishing rivers recently where a number of caddis have been present, I've had excellent luck with a size 18 renegade. The small, mostly-hackle fly probably isn't readily identifiable to the trout as any particular insect, but it's been remarkably effective lately as a searcher pattern. That point was driven home this week as my fishing mentor, Erik Hogan, showed me a couple spots along the Provo River near Soapstone Basin in the Uintas. I was forced to reconsider my fly when we pulled up to our first stop-in my excitement over fishing caddis hatches, I'd forgotten mayflies will also be 1 ffc'f&k: Caught-hook, line and sinker, sort of... p ' py in Deer ft 'L1r v. - i A I v leading folks on the trail til r ' " V 1 i " ... w. 0 I I still be around. Relatively large (size 12 er pale morning duns floated ' ) -:: every feeding lane, and sin.i:; rainbows and cutthroats wcr hitting them hard. As we soon discovered, they were also nitt ' , indiscriminately. Hogan's small Adams parachute wasn't quite the nri'i color, and my renegade was iK wrong size, shape and color. Wh' the brown hackly trailing ol! in back of the fly may have prcsmu--something like the shape of ;i mayfly body, the color was all wrong. The small trout didn't on-. Within an hour, I'd pulled in : dozen fish ranging from iiiinunv to about ten inches. While the larger ones did fight a bit, Uu-' wasn't much danger of breakim: my 6x tippet-but these small U-h do provide a good deal of entertainment, often coming completely out of the water to take bugs. These trout arc hanging out :is you would expect, in the deepci runs of some of the rivers wide, slow sections. If there are any larger trout, they may be in the faster deep runs, but they aren't showing themselves. We were entertained enough with the smaii fish, so we didn't try nymphmg tli fast water. Soapstone Basin is located nho-, fifteen miles out the Mirror Lake Highway, which takes off into the Uintas from the center of Kama4; .. ".1 ,4 Valley v. '- .s s less traveled I'hoto bv It" 1 |