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PARK CITY , UTAH | WWW.PARKRECORD.COM Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, December 17-20, 2016 Serving Summit County since 1880 Vol. 136 | No. 91 50¢ A carol for an angel Al Gore will The slide danger is discussed bring sequel to Park City Sundance is set to screen an environmental documentary, but will he meet city leaders? Avalanche forecaster describes hazards of the backcountry By JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record By ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record Fresh, backcountry powder can be enticing after a recent snowstorm, especially this time of year. But the snow can also be unforgiving, and, at times, deadly. “Avalanches don’t discriminate,” Craig Gordon, a longtime forecaster with the Forest Service Utah Avalanche Center, said on Wednesday to a room full of skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers at the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association’s Center of Excellence. “Maybe it catches us, maybe it carries us or maybe it buries us, but we always have a choice.” Gordon led the group in an hourlong avalanche awareness program he created about the destructive power of avalanches. The Alpine Collective, a community-based membership organization, hosted the free program titled ‘Know Before You Go.’ Natural and human-caused avalanches commonly occur in the backcountry areas of the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains. Two skiers died in separate incidents in the Salt Lake area in 2016, according to the Utah Avalanche Center. Both occurred in ungroomed backcountry areas outside of the resort boundaries. Nearly all avalanche fatalities occur outside of resort boundaries, Gordon said. On Dec. 11, two snowboarders collapsed a slab of snow causing a fracture two feet deep and about 60 feet wide, Gordon said. He added, a snowmobiler is also thought to have triggered an avalanche, nearly 200 feet wide in a backcountry area, on Clayton Peak. “Inside resort boundaries, chances are you won’t be triggering avalanches, but outside of their boundaries remember you don’t have the hard-working avalanche reduction team making the terrain safe,” Gordon said. “You have to be your own avalanche forecaster. In 93 percent of all avalanche accidents the avalanche is triggered by the person or someone in your group.” The steepness of the slope and evidence of other avalanches are the biggest clues that an area’s terrain is susceptible, Gordon said. He said slopes of less than 30 degrees do not have the gravitational pull, or tug, to trigger an avalanche. “But with slopes steeper than 50 degrees, they are constantly avalanching,” Gordon said. “Now, between 35 and 45 degree slope steepness, that’s where we have the most fun riding and where most of the deadly avalanches occur. “What makes backcountry avalanche conditions tricky is when we have very strong snow on weak snow Please see Slide danger, A-2 3 sections • 46 pages Business............................... A-13 Classifieds ........................... C-12 Columns .............................. A-20 Crossword ........................... C-4 Editorial............................... A-21 Events Calendar .................. C-6 Legals .................................. C-15 Letters to the Editor ............ A-21 Movies................................. C-4 Restaurant Guide................. A-19 Scene .................................. C-1 Scoreboard ......................... B-5 Sports .................................. B-1 Weather ............................... B-2 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD The Park City Singers open the Festival of Christmas concert at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in the Snyderville Basin with John Rutter’s “Angel’s Carol” on Thursday evening. The group is celebrating its 21st year. Do not trash a brand new bill Summit County introduces a fee to offset growing costs By ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record Summit County’s property owners will see a new bill this week after Republic Services sent nearly 20,000 invoices for garbage collection county-wide, a service previously subsidized through the county’s general fund. The fee covers services that were provided during the 2016 season. When the County Council approved the 2016 fee schedule for county services, it included a $36 annual trash collection fee. Businesses, hotels and commercial spaces that have dumpster service are not included because they likely contract with a trash service provider. The Solid Waste Division requested the increase to cover the costs of closing the Three-Mile Landfill and development of a new cell in 2017. “The money is basically to help offset the growing cost of collecting solid waste and recycling,” said Derek Radke, Summit County Public Works director. “It provides revenues to build the new cells. Three Mile will top out and we won’t have any place to put trash.” This week, about 18,500 household waste and recycling fee bills were mailed to property owners or homeowner associations for services during 2016. The county is contracting with Republic Services to administer the billing on the county’s behalf. The fees are expected to generate more than $650,000 annually. The bills can be paid through the mail or online, according to the Republic Services websites. They will be due upon receipt or within 30 days. If the bill is not paid within 30 days, a notice will be sent to the property owner reminding them payment must be paid within 45 days to avoid service termination. “Each user will be able to set up an account and Republic Services will be able to implement new services that will be individually targeted to users,” Radke said. “If we wanted to do an optional green waste pickup they could schedule that with Republic Services directly. They will start rolling those out in 2017. “It will provide additional options for our residents,” he said. Reece DeMille, manager of municipal services in Utah for Republic Services, said adding more services is “one of the things we are excited about.” DeMille said they will be introducing a new curbside option in 2017 to remove large items, such as mattresses or televisions. “It will be for stuff that you don’t know how to get rid of,” DeMille said. “One of the good things about this for people who pay online is they will already be set up in the system and they can just go in and request that service for that day.” DeMille encourages property owners to read their invoices carefully, including the insert that explains the billing process. He said residents can also visit www. summitcounty.org/recycle for more information. “Most places charge between $15 to 20 a month for a garbage can and recycling,” DeMille said. “This is kind of on the lower end.” Radke said the county often receives calls from new residents about setting up trash service. Al Gore, the former vice president and environmental activist, is expected to visit Park City in January for the Sundance Film Festival with “An Inconvenient Sequel,” a documentary that follows his earlier Sundance entry, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The visit could provide an opportunity for Park City leaders to talk with Gore in the months after City Hall aligned itself with an environmental program under the umbrella of the Gorefounded Climate Reality Project. Sundance is a month away and it is not clear whether anyone from City Hall will have the chance to talk with Gore. It seems, though, there is a possibility Please see Gore, A-2 Event space in Old Town is approved Vote critical to the project at former art center site By JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The team redeveloping the former Kimball Art Center property in Old Town on Wednesday night secured a permit from a City Hall panel allowing an event space to operate at the site, something that was critical to the business plan of project. The Park City Planning Commission approved the event space on a unanimous vote, but the meeting highlighted the longtime tension between Main Street and people who live in surrounding Old Town. There have been concerns for years among residents of Please see Do not, A-8 Please see Event, A-2 A commute involves 41 relaxing minutes Bus linking Park City and Salt Lake Valley offers many benefits By FRANCES MOODY The Park Record It was 23 degrees outside on Dec. 8 at 7:45 a.m., but Maria Corral still stood at a Salt Lake City bus stop the same as she always does five days a week. Bundled in a green down coat and wearing a white-knit hat, Corral said being cold for a mere five minutes is worth the perks provided by the 57passenger vehicle that takes her to Park City, where she works. “I like that I don’t have to worry about driving every day,” she said, exhaling a cloud of fog. Corral is one of the near 250 passengers who take the SLC to PC Connect each day. She and a few others riding the Thursday morning bus told me there are several reasons they don’t drive up Parley’s Canyon to get to work. Amy Krull said she does it because her employers pay the fare. Ioana Andor said she has no other way to get to her job. They all acknowledged the environmental and economic benefits the trip offers. Exploring such perks is why I embarked on what was a 41-minute journey from UTA’s 2100 East stop in Salt Lake City to Park City Transit’s one on Park Avenue in Park City. The Connect route began in 2011, when Park City and Summit County struck a deal with Utah Transit Authority (UTA) to pay $470,000 per year for the authority’s vehicles to make the trip up the canyon. UTA signed on to pay another $180,000 to make it happen. Several Park City employers, such as Park City Mountain Resort and Skullcandy, also got on board, agreeing to buy passes for workers. It’s better for the environment Since 2012, the number of passengers who use the commuter alternative increased by more than 20 percent. UTA Spokesperson Remi Barron said he understands why the number of riders is up. He noted the same reasons FRANCES MOODY/PARK RECORD Jerry Jones, a part-time Utah Transit Authority bus driver, says taking transit between Salt Lake City and Park City has economic and environmental benefits. Corral, Krull and Andor listed to explain why the use public transportation. The environmental benefit is at the top of Barron’s roster. “Every car that comes up the road helps put hundreds of pounds of par- VISITOR GUIDE Park City Singers plan a festival for Christmas ticulate matter in the atmosphere per year,” he said. “That’s why taking the bus for environmental concerns is an obvious benefit.” Krull, who lives in Salt Lake City Please see A relaxing, A-8 The Park City Singers will perform its Festival of Christmas concert at 7 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 18, at Park City Community Church. Tickets are $12 for adults and $5 for children ages 12 and younger. They can be purchased from any of the Park City Singers and at SmithsTix.com, parkcitysingers.com and the Market at Park City. Tickets can also be purchased at the door of each performance for $15. More: www.parkcitysingers.com. |