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Show WedThuraFri, July 28-30, 2004 The Park Record B-11 MOU NTAI N TOWN N EWS Tahoe gets more smelly, dirty sorts By ALLEN BEST Record guest writer LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - An increasing number of dirty, unkempt, odiferous people are showing up in Lake Tahoe this summer - hikers stopping in for a regular meal and a shower during their five-month-long attempts to cover the entire distance of the 2,750-mile long Pacific Coast Trail. In reporting this, the Tahoe World has no hard numbers, but instead anecdotal reports that at least more people are trying to become "hike-through" hikers of the trail. Inducing the greater ambition seems to be the lighter equipment equip-ment such as one-pound sleeping bags and tarps that weigh even less. Something like. 300 people begin the trail every year in early May, hoping to complete it by September. It begins at Campo, Calif., and ends just north of the Canadian border. Bigger jet means less space at toe airport BLAINE, Idaho - Servings of French fries got bigger, and so have houses. Why should private jets be any different. At Friedman Memorial Airport, quarters are getting more tight, in part because of the bigger jets that people use to fly to conferences and other getaways. get-aways. Sun Valley Aviation general gen-eral manager Mike Rasch said an increasing number of larger corporate cor-porate jets with wider wingspans reduce available space. Two of the popular new generation Gulfstream 5 jets with 20-foot wider wingspans take the space of three Gulfstream 4 jets. If the airport runs out of space, pilots may have to deliver their passengers and then park at Twin Falls or Boise even conceivably conceiv-ably their home airports. Or, the visits could take commercial com-mercial service, but then these are the likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and assorted other billionaires. Hydrocarbons boom comes home to Aspen PITKIN COUNTY, Colo. "Gas field" isn't the first phrase that would come to the mind of most people in conjunction with Aspen. But The Aspen Times reports that the first proposal to drill a natural gas well in Pitkin County in more than 40 years has been submitted to the U.S. Forest Service. The site is located about 40 miles west of Aspen toward the end of a giant swath of hydrocarbon-rich public lands that sweep northwesterly across Colorado. If the exploration firm finds reserves that are economically feasible to produce, the Forest Service will perform another review of a broader plan to build a pipeline and other infrastructure infrastruc-ture needed for production. The proposed well is in what is called the Wolf Creek Storage Field, which produced 12 billion cubic feet of natural gas from 1960 to 1972. More recently, the well field is used to store natural gas obtained elsewhere, then piped to customers in Aspen and other Roaring Fork Valley communities communi-ties during winter months. Revelstoke looking to beef up tourism REVELSTOKE. B.C. -Mindful of the power economic engine that has been created at Whistler, the provincial government govern-ment in British Columbia continues contin-ues to outline a strategy for creating cre-ating the infrastructure for tourism development in the province's interior. Aspects of this plan were outlined out-lined at a recent meeting attended attend-ed by 175 delegates at Rossland, B.C. One plan is to develop new tourist-passenger train service. So far, $836 million is targeted for transportation. Also getting a great deal of attention are plans to transform the smallish ski area at Revelstoke, called Mt. Mackenzie, into a major destination destina-tion resort. To do so will take $270 million in capital investment, but the project is expected to produce 6,000 construction jobs as and 3,000 permanent jobs. All of this planning comes in the face of a major demographic shift in the other direction. As mining and logging operations have declined in the interior, people have been moving to urban areas along the coast. Allen Best has edited mountain town newspapers for 20 years. He has served as managing editor at four different mountain town newspapers and is now living in metropolitan Denver. UDOT to improve canyon road Motorists headed up Big Cottonwood Canyon for recreation recre-ation will soon be driving on brand new pavement after UDOT completes com-pletes a repaving project. Right now, S.R. 190 (Big Cottonwood Canyon Road) is showing the effects of normal wear and tear due to the high volume of traffic the route sees year-round. UDOT crews will begin repaving the road within the next two weeks, and expects to complete the improvement project by mid-August. mid-August. Work will take place during daylight hours - on weekdays only - to accommodate higher-volume weekend travelers. The road will be restricted to one lane, with flaggers directing traffic throughout the whole project. proj-ect. Motorists can expect delays up to 15 minutes. In order to accommodate canyon recreation for the July 24th weekend, crews will not work on the route from July 23 through July 25. Roadwork for the project will consist of grinding the road surface and resurfacing with asphalt. This is a routine activity that maintains the roadway and increases the life of the pavement. Motorists are advised to visit www.commuterlink.utah gov and to call 511, Utah's free Travel Information Line, to find the latest construction and road condition updates. UDOT urges motorists to reduce speeds and use caution when driving through work zones. 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