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Show A-14 The Park Record Saturday, March 29, 1997 And so it goes. fIMUTav ruJl.i riii.. a it mmms iwi&uxszi ggewwfflii imifl&wtitwuaii Spring break in Moab By Tom Clyde Iftt 1i Ik; MOM USE Ann MacQuoid ' , W Si " 4f ,- f. 1996 Park City Board of REALTORS REALTOR OF THE YEAR REAL ESTATE 128:$ Deer Valley Drive - ")44 Main Street - Park City - I tali -84060 (801) 4()-1884 - (800) (4 1-1884 sal 12 e V 4 u 93, e cu en ci arij U'jtremziusis CJ (J AND AWESOME DINN RS l&r I A,? S,N. I K N 1 SINCE 1972 FAMILIES WELCOME DINNER NIGHTLY 5 I'M TO I O PM h-IATl'RING THU I ON OWING f'NTRKKS Kansas City Strip Steak harbyoded wnijifs beef Texas M iloaf - . . Ultl llUIsk'J oMtOi'V illlj f,Till"V Silver King Cutlets rv,idVJ 1 t'lll 1 lillt'C siintt.rJ in a dibcrnct mushroom sauce Panfried Mountain Trout u'iti pinenut corn relisi Western Stir Fry l kjiiY of chicken or .shrimp Baked Halibut in li'nion dill iikIl't Spinach Fettuccini Prima vera sauteed in ulive nil and wine Linguini Pagosa c'llantro pesto iTi'iim sauce Canneloni E.E. wuh tomato basil or white wine cream sauce BBQ Specialities house-smoked baby back ribs , beef, pork and half chickens BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER OPEN AT 8AM 649-8284 317 MAIN ST. PARK CITY, UT 4 rating -25 years SERVING PARK CITY According to my Hemming's Motor News calendar, calen-dar, which features a picture of a rusted out 1936 Buick this month, today is the 25th anniversary of the recall of the Ford Pinto because of the exploding gas tanks. That's information you won't find just anywhere. any-where. Living here in the land of expensive new cars, it may not matter. It was brought to my attention recently in Moab. In Moab there are still a number of Pintos on the road, and I was nearly witness to one exploding. Some friends and I were sitting on the bums' bench outside Dave's Corner Market, a world famous institution institu-tion in Moab, enjoying an ice cream bar when a Pinto pulled in and lurched to a stop just before knocking our knees into the frozen food aisle. Then seconds afterwards, the first Toyota Land Cruiser ever built came bouncing down from the Slickrock Trail with three five-gallon gas cans tied to the front bumper with a frayed bungee cord and duct tape. The steering seemed to have a little slop in it, and the driver, who seemed to have a lot of beer in him, nearly missed his parking spot. For a second there, it looked like he was going to make a direct hit. smashing his loose gas cans into the fragile rear end of the Pinto. Dave's Corner Market and all around it would have been scattered in pieces from Green River to Monticello. The steering finally grabbed hold and the napalm-toting napalm-toting Toyota managed to dock without igniting the Pinto. It was only one of many similarly strange scenes in and around Moab last week. I've gone to Moab for a couple of weekends now. It's been perfect, soaking up the sun like a lizard on a rock, riding trails that the guide book calls "gonzo-abusive" "gonzo-abusive" and living in comparative luxury, car camping in the VW bus in one of those commercial campgrounds camp-grounds with a hot shower and good water pressure. It's hard to get any better than that. Last weekend was the start of Jeep Safari, and every motorhead in the western states was there. Most were missing a muffler and a couple of teeth, but the chrome was polished. They were parading up and down Main Street displaying their chrome transfer case covers and big shock absorbers. Out on the trails, it was a different thing. I was having a tough time picking pick-ing a route through some of these areas on a mountain bike. With tires two inches wide and 15 feet of road to chose from. I had lots of options, and still opted to get off and walk in a lot of places. These guys in the Jeeps had to take what the width of their "rigs" would give them. It was pretty amazing what they could get over without destroying their trucks. It was the kind of stuff that I might consider driving over only in the most dire of emergencies, where the choice was certain death if I stayed where I was, and just slightly better odds of survival driving over the cliff in search of help. But they were doing it for fun. There were lines of Jeeps on some of the trails, with traffic backed up waiting for somebody to get over a particularly rough spot. Most had winches on the front of the Jeep, but I guess it is a real failure to have to resort to that when others got over the ledge under their own power. It was nice to pick a path through the stalled traffic on the bike and keep moving. I didn't want to be crushed by a Jeep falling off the cliff above me. For the most part, it seemed like everybody was getting along the motorheads, the bikers and a few hikers out enjoying the desert in the early spring. There is a lot of country down there, and even when Moab itself is packed like Park City during Film Festival, the trails are not crowded. I could do without the burning clutch smell, but it didn't last long. After one long ride, we were driving back to our campsite. The plan was to stop at the grocery store and load up on stuff for a major burger feast at camp. But the grocery store parking lot was jammed. There were people spilling over onto the highway. It was like the old days here in Park City with only one grocery store and everybody checking into their condo for the Christmas vacation. We decided to go get a shower and come back. Somewhere in the exhaustion of sitting around camp, we decided that there had to be a better way than going into town. We found a phone and ordered pizza. They delivered it right to our campsite, hot out of the oven. Now that's my idea of quality camping, when you can enjoy the great outdoors and still have pizza delivered. The kid at the pizza place wasn't sure they could do it. He kept asking his boss if they could deliver to a campground. The manager wasn't sure, either, but couldn't think of any reason why it wouldn't work. So there it was; camping with room service. Refreshed by dinner, we decided to go brave Main Street and see the Jeep Safari action in town. That ended up at Dave's Corner Market for a Haagen Daz bar and the Pinto roasting. Dave's was doing a land-office land-office business in beer, munchies, and ice. There must have been one hellacious party going on up on the Sandflats, judging from the sorry condition of the college col-lege kids who were stumbling into the market to re-supply. re-supply. Spring break in Moab. While we were there, a minor emergency developed. devel-oped. It seems Dave's had sold out of Mr. Zig-Zag cigarette cig-arette papers, which was creating something of a crisis among the spring breakers camped up on the Sandflats. One carload was willing to try smoking the local Real Estate Guide instead. A girl who seemed very concerned about the environment and health was afraid that she would get all kinds of terrible diseases from smoking dope rolled up in the Canyonlands Real Estate Guide. I'm not sure if it was the ink or the editorial edi-torial content that had her worried. Either way. it seemed terribly dangerous to her. I'm not sure how it ended because she jumped into a door-less, roof-less, roll bar-less, brake-less Jeep, driven by a guy who was falling down drunk, and drove away. We finished off the ice cream bars and drove (cautiously) (cau-tiously) back out to our camp. I was surprised to see that the maids had not turned down our sleeping bags and put mints on the pillows. Still, anytime you can get room service to deliver pizza to your tent, it's got to go into the books as a quality camping experience. Besides, it wasn't snowing. Summit to summit News from the West The Aspen Times The 'green party' is alive and well in Colorado A local chapter of the internationally recognized Green Party is determined to shake up the traditional two-party system in the Aspen area. In fact, the small-but-vocal group, has successfully placed one of its members on the Carbondale Town Council and has a growing membership. Disavowing themselves from both the Republican and Democratic parties, members. Dubbed "Sopris Greens" the group was formed in 1991 in response to the war in the Persian Gulf. Founding members demonstrated for peace and then, after the end of the war decided to keep the momentum momen-tum going. The Greens have since taken stands on several major local issues including opposition to the expansion of the Aspen ski area on Burnt Mountain and support of environmentally oriented political candidates. can-didates. The group is working on establishing a green market, a barter exchange and a tenants' association. (limes Jndfhtttnfnt I Moab airport revs up for Air Show event in May There is a buzz of excitement at Canyonlands Field outside of Moab. May 3 the airport will host a day-long airshow including educational and entertaining flights of fancy. The show will be preceded preced-ed by a day of aviation programs in the schools. Members of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Civil Air Patrol and a women's aviation group will speak to the students. The kids are already in the spirit spir-it they helped design the poster for the event. Saturday the action takes to the skies at the airport. Several aerial acrobats have been booked. Pilots will be invited to compete for prizes and an area will be set aside for the Utah remote controlled aircraft club to show off their skills. TRAIL Ski museum to feature local snowboard exhibit Snowboarders in Vail apparently have a civic bent. They formed a charitable outreach group dubbed The Snowboard Outreach Society aka SOS. SOS members, including a number of local high school students, managed to collect early snowboard-ing snowboard-ing memorabilia from many of the pioneers in the sport including such familiar names as Jake Burton. Tom Sims and Poppin. The artifacts will be part of a new exhibit opening March 27 at the Colorado Ski Museum in Vail and will become part of a permanent display. The Escalante Escape P.C. business mogul is wooed by Escalante The Escalante Town Council admits it has been actively trying to recruit Park City business mogul Hansy Milking to run for mayor. "We want him to do for us what he did for Park City and Moab," a representative was quoted as saying. say-ing. "We've never been to Park City but we've got a pretty good idea of what it's like from that fancy magazine mag-azine he puts out." Council member Anna Sazi added that the town also could use Milking's sewer expertise. "He's been on that sewer board up there in Park City for a quarter quar-ter of a century. Heck, we can't get anyone to show up for our sewer meetings, much less run for the board." The Escalante merchants reportedly offered to build Milking a mansion above the river on the Egypt Road. They said he'd like the site because a lot of his friends ride their mountain bikes through there and they could stop by for a visit. They allegedly have offered to rename their weekly week-ly tabloid The Newspaper so Milking and his friends could feel right at home. Don't miss Teri Orr's view of the Park, every Wednesday in The Park Record . |