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Show nPr: ;rT UU I ON AND OFF THE RACE COURSE The 2002 Olympic Winter Games are right around die comer, and Park City Mountain Resort plans to welcome the world in sty le. But w hile the resort has its sights set on helping to present the best W inter Games ever, its focus on the recreational skier and nder remains strong. Some of the improvements Olympic -related and otherwise oth-erwise completed for the 2000-2001 Winter Season include the following: Opening of the Legacy Lodge The grand opening of the Legacy Lodge, a 54.000-square-foot base lodge, was held on June 1 7, 2000. In the 2000-2001 2000-2001 Winter Season, the Legacy Lodge's foodcourt-style restaurant will expand its operations to include a pasta bar. grilled items; specialty made-to-onkr sandwiches; bakery; self-serve soup, salad and baked potato bar. and daily hot entree specials. The Legacy Lodge will also house a Main Street retail area, w ith various upscale stores including Legacy Sports, a ski and apres ski apparel store stocking brands like Mountain HardVvear, Nike ACG, Descente and Tsunami; a logo shop where guests can purchase Park City Mountain Resort and 2002 Olympic Winter Games officially licensed merchandise; merchan-dise; Primo's Coffeebar, Rossmiller PiXrtography and a concierge service. And the lower level of the lodge will again serve as the location of Park City Mountain Rentals, a state-of-the-art ski and snow board rental and repair facility, day and seasonal lockers and rrstrooms. Addition of toe MountainCross Course, Pay Day Play Park and the Sitka Super Park Riders rejoice! Snowhoard operations have been significantly expanded for the upcoming winter season. The new MountainCross course, located on the Blanche run, will sate even the gnarliesi hunger for the hippest trend in snow sports, i the boardercross. This NASTAR-format course allows riders to compete against each other or ride the course alone. For free nding sans the competitive compet-itive element, the PayDay Play Park and the Sitka Super Park are not to be missed. Both of these new terrain parks include a vari ety of challenging features, including hips, rails and bowls. The PayDay Play Park is designed for younger ndcrs or those making mak-ing their first foray into free ruling; the Sitka Super Park is the bigger, stronger and faster brother of the Play Park, with super-sized super-sized features. All of these new services are open to both skiers and snowboarders. Construction of the 'Super 'Pipe' in the Eagle Race Arena In conjunction with the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, Park City Mountain Resort has designed and constructed con-structed a halfpipc unlike any other used in international competition. The Eagle "Super "Pipe" features a state-of-the-art, partial below-gradc design, created primarily prima-rily to provide die best possible viewing of events held in this area. One-third of the 'pipe, located at the base of the arena, is situated below the current grade level, w hile the other tw o-thirds of the "p'jx remains above grade, constructed of snow . The new design also features higher decks, a wider transition and ov erall kmger 'pipe. The Eagle "Super "Pipe" will be open to the public as soon as snow and w eather conditions allow. The first w orld-class competition scheduled to be held m the new 'pipe is the Nokia Snow board F1S World Cup, an event featuring the same structure and many of die same athletes that will return to Park City Mountain Resort to battle it out in 2002. The Nokia Snowboard FIS Work! Cup will be held March 1-4,2001. An Olympic-specific finish area During the 2000 Summer Season a 3fc LA. P"x0 cewtesy Pt Cy Voirtn Bort regradmg project w as completed on lower Pick N Shovel run and lower CB 'j run to create a wider and steeper finish area for the alpine and snow boarding giant slalom events, and to accommodate the snowboard snow-board halfpipc venue. This area is also home to other infrastiuciure-onentcd services serv-ices to be uuhcd at Games time, including miles of cable, videoKvard-N timing and telecommunications facilities. About 50,000 yards of earth was movrd over the course of this project Increased snow making capacity Specifications for the Olympic half-pipe half-pipe v enue call for more than 500.ft.i0 square feet of snow an area greater than 33 football fields! Combined with the deTiiands of covering the remainder of C B 's Run (a total area of 31 1,500 square feet) with at least three feet of snow for the Games, snownuking efficiency effi-ciency and performance becomes critical. Additional snow-making lines and hydrants hav e been installed m the Eagle Race .Arena finish area to augment the resort's already extensive snowmaking sy s'em one of the most technologically technological-ly advanced in die Intermountain West. In addition to all the dirt that the resort moved this summer in preparation for the Games and bey ond, there is more good news for tree skiers and ndcrs: Additional glading w as completed in the McConkey's Bowl area, providing even more powder caches for advaneeJ snow sliders. |