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Show A-6 The Park Record SatSunMonTues, July 24-27, 2004 LIVE THE . Fantastic New View Home in Deer Valley This Ave bedroom, five bath home in Hidden Oaks has it all: Quality, location and views! Luxury touches include alder cabinets, granite countertops in kitchen and all bathrooms, bath-rooms, radiant heat, home theater, wine cellar and more... $1,400,000 A Unique Park Meadows Home Featuring views, spacious rooms and high ceilings, the open floor plan and media rooms are perfect for entertaining. Distressed wood cabinets & floor, granite gran-ite counters in kitchen, 3 rock fireplaces, & stereo throughout enhance this 6 bedroom home. A unique location, with no back yard neighbors. $,39S,000 Technology may reduce roadkill r New Top Quality "Rustic" Home in Old Town This 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath, 4200 sq. ft. home truly does offer everything! Enjoy Rustic charm adjacent to Park City Mountain Resort, including beautiful white oak floors, gourmet kitchen, custom alder cabinets, stone fireplaces, radiant heat, air conditioning, stone bathrooms, valley views and more. Ski-inski-out to the town lift at one end of the street or PCMR lifts at the other end! $395,000 Lot 35 Cedar Draw Estates At the top of the Utah Winter Sports Park Olympic facility. Approximately 1.50 south facing acres with year round access. Partially wooded with incredible views, all in a convenient location! Amenities include clubhouse, pool and tennis court. $$99,000 Prudential Utah Real Estate 2200 Park Ave., Bldg.B Park City, UT 84060 www.pcmls.comscott scottvpureutah.com t V T iScott (435) 647-8039 (800) 553-4666 Continued from A-5 to the on-mountain fleet, reports Pique newsmagazine. A new report adopted by the municipality lays out short- to long-term long-term strategies to deal with air quality. qual-ity. Like many other ski towns, Whistler has been experimenting with biodicseL and based on the success suc-cess so far, use of it will be expanded to more vehicles. One tantalizing possibility is hydrogen-blend fuel. Mayor Hugh O'Reilly earlier this year went to Los Angeles to follow that line of thought, and recently he and other officials were in Saskatchewan to see a vehicle that operates on a hydrogen-blend fuel. The proponent propo-nent hopes to demonstrate the vehicle vehi-cle in Whistler when it becomes fuel ' ready. Truckee climbing on information informa-tion highway TRUCKEE, Calif. - Truckee is already bisected by both a transcontinental transcon-tinental highway and a transcontinental transconti-nental railroad. Now, it wants to get on the information highway, but it's more expensive than was expected. The Truckee Donner Public Utility District now is borrowing $24 million to build and operate the proposed pro-posed fiber-to-the-user system until it becomes profitable and self-supporting. That's $7 million more than was previous projected. Despite the increased costs, says the Sierra Sun, the district expects the broadband service to start earning earn-ing more than its cost within three years, with any other capital expenses expens-es repaid within eight years. Something about the Golden Rule in here DURANGO. Colo. - Tom Wolf said you can never go home again. Just the same. Will Sands did so recently. He puts out the Durango Telegraph, but grew up in nearby Telluride. Going home again, he reports, means strolling down a gauntlet of insults - the sort of insults he used to toss out when he was a youngster. He 'even has a name for it: Super Hippydoin. "As Telluride kids we specialized in heckling tourists form the chairlift and providing faulty directions downtown. When Telluride Bluegrass rolled through town, we preyed on innocents, selling sell-ing powdered lemonade disguised a fresh-squeezed by a couple of sliced lemons. Any dust-covered car with Texas plates always suffered greatly. Parked on the streets of Telluride for only a matter of minutes, cryptic writing would appear almost magically magi-cally on the dusty surface: 'Stay Away.' 'Go homeland 'Leave your daughters.'" As Super Hippies, he says, "we were all a little insecure about our place in Telluride. We also felt like our paradise had been invaded." Now he's one of the insulted tourists. "Let me guess. You all are tourists, right," slurred one woman who emerged from a bar last winter as Sands and companions happened by. This summer, planning to attend the bluegrass festival, he got on the Internet to buy a ticket and in a chat-room chat-room was advised to "Stay Away!" by somebody identified as Super Hippy. "The event is now detrimental detrimen-tal to the town's fragile environment and true locals don't appreciate your company THAT much." sid the posting. Sand went anyway, enjoyed himself him-self fully, and returned to Durango with a .modified attitude about tourists. In the tourists to Durango he sees the people who will pay his bills - and allow him to be a tourist at Telluride again next year. Backhoes carve up the ranches ranch-es into ranchettes CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. No where in the Rockies has there been so much attention paid to preserving pre-serving the pastoral landscape as in the area between Crested Butte and Gunnison. Even so. vacation homes have been encroaching. The latest news is of 29 new home sites being carved by a project called The Reserve on East River. Lots are priced at between $1.25 million and $2 million. mil-lion. They are 35 acres in size, the minimum amount of land under Colorado that large parcels can be subdivided without getting specific governmental approval. The project has been in the works for three years, reports the Crested Butte News. New infrared cameras may reduce roadkill INVERMERE, B.C. - By standards stan-dards of Colorado's 1-70 or Utah's I-80. I-80. the traffic on the highway between Banff and Radium Hot Springs is light, only 5.000 vehicles on a typical summer day. Still, 22 large animals - from moose to bighorn sheep - have been killed this year on roads in the Kootenay National Park, and more can be expected to follow. The carnage car-nage is such that wildlife biologists attribute declining elk populations in the late 1980s and well into the 1990s to highway mortality. To make the highways more permeable, per-meable, 24 wildlife crossing structures struc-tures and also fencing have been installed along the Trans-Canada Highway as it winds through Banff National park. As well a new system was tested during the last two years in Kootenay. The system uses infrared cameras to detect wildlife close to or on the road. The sensors can detect body heat even during rain and snow and in the dark, alerting drivers driv-ers with flashing lights. However, a verdict on the effectiveness of the system seems to be out. Winter Park businesses still want gondola link WINTER PARK. Colo. At Winter Park there has been talk of a gondola for at least 20 years. The base of the ski area is about two miles away from the core of the town, and the town merchants believe - with a great deal of proof -that they're missing out. They want a connecting gondola to, in effect, put them at the base of the slopes. With deep-pockets Intrawest now running the ski area, there was some hope that the $20 million gondola gon-dola would finally be built. But Intrawest remains non-committal, and in fact there is evidence to suggest sug-gest that Intrawest has no plans to build a gondola, at least not in the next few years. And that, reports the Winter Park Manifest, has a large number of business owners and the town council concerned if not annoyed. Some are even willing to talk about helping build a gondola. Does Intrawest have any motivation motiva-tion to do so? On the face of things, it would seem not. The company is readying plans to begin a major real estate project at the base. Why share with the down-valley businesses? The Manifest pointed to a recent article in Ski Area Management, on that very subject of linking ski areas and ski towns. That article posed the question of whether the "villages" that Intrawest has been cranking out like cookies need connect to local populations if they are to work. Allen Best has edited mountain town newspapers for 20 years. 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