OCR Text |
Show B-2 The Park Record Continued from B-1 Nordic and ski jumping recreport PARK CITY MOUNTAIN Park City Mountain Resort and Canyons Resort are open for the season. On Tuesday, the resort listed 21 lifts and 43 trails open. For more information, go to Parkcitymountain.com or call 435-6498111. DEER VALLEY RESORT The women So far, the U.S. women’s team has only had two weekends of World Cup events, one in Lillehammer, Norway, and one in Hinterzarten, Germany. According to Gluek, the U.S. teams (in both ski jumping and Nordic combined) have been struggling to find training because of lack of snow early this season. Expect a tight competition when the jumpers return home. The World Cup competitors have all been finishing in or around 30th place over the season. Anita Englund was the only U.S. jumper on the World Cup leaderboard as of Dec. 26, with a high finish of 30th this season. She is followed by Nina Lussi, who has finished as high as 29th in a qualifying round and 34th outside of qualifying. Abby Ringquist will also be a strong contender. She took 33rd and 32nd in two finals events in Lillehammer, while Sarah Hendrickson could be a dark-horse competitor after topping out at 45th this after recovering from injury. Deer Valley Resort is open for the season. For details on the resort’s activities and season passes, visit DeerValley.com or call 435-6491000. On Tuesday, the resort listed 18 lifts and 29 runs open. JEREMY RANCH NORDIC The Jeremy Ranch Golf Course is not yet open for Nordic skiing. For more information about conditions and fees go to thejeremy.com BRIGHTON MOUNTAIN RESORT Brighton Mountain Resort is open for the season. For more information, call 801-532-4731 or the Snow Report Hotline at 801-5324732 ext. No. 2 or visit: www.brightonresort.com for more details. SOLITUDE MOUNTAIN RESORT Solitude Mountain Resort is open for the season. For more information call 801-534-1400 or visit solitudemountain.com for more details. BASIN RECREATION Basin Recreation keeps a busy schedule, maintaining more than 145 miles of trails for hiking, biking, dog walking and more. To plan a visit, go to www.basinrecreation.org for a complete list of trails. For trail information or maintenance concerns, email Phares Gines, at phares@basinrecreation.org. SOLDIER HOLLOW Soldier Hollow park opened for the season on Dec. 21 offering a number of winter activities through March including tubing, groomed cross-country ski trails, cross-country lessons and ski rental, as well as the Biathlon Experience. Reservations and rates are available online at UtahOlympicLegacy.org. The men Watch for local Will Rhoades, followed by Mike Glasder and Kevin Bickner. Glasder qualified 35th in an event in Ruka, Finland, but was disqualified from his next jump. He recently finished 47th in Englelberg, Switzerland. Park City local Rhoades has this season’s highest U.S. World Cup finish after taking 21st in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, on Dec. 12. He is also the only U.S. men’s athlete on the FIS World Cup leaderboard, where he sits in 37th. Bickner has not finished high enough to get out of the qualifying rounds in World Cup events so far this season. Glueck said that, because of the format of this event – a single-day, winner-take-all jump – not to discount any athlete. “They all know this hill pretty well so I expect them all to come home and jump pretty well,” Glueck said. “All it takes is a couple good jumps and all of a sudden someone on the outside looking in could punch their ticket.” MOUNTAIN DELL Mountain Dell Golf Course is available for Nordic skiing. For pass prices and conditions go to utahnordic.com MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION Round Valley Express, Silver Quinn, Fast Pitch, Matt’s Flatt and Hat Trick have been groomed and area ready for Nordic skiing, according to the Mountain Trails website. Other trails are open for fat biking and snowshoeing, though might not be skiable. For more information go to mountaintrails.org. WHITE PINE NORDIC CENTER The 3K track and 5K tracks are both open, as is the store, which sells skis, ski service, clothing and season passes. For more information and current track conditions call 435-649-6249 or go to the winter activities section at whitepinetouring.com WASATCH-CACHE NATIONAL FOREST The Heber-Kamas Ranger District maintains trails and campgrounds in the Uinta Mountains east of Kamas. Wolf Creek Pass is still open, and Guardsman Pass is closed. The Mirror Lake Highway has also closed for the season. For more info, go to FS.USDA.gov/uwcnf or call 435-783-4338. STATE PARKS AND RESERVOIRS For information such as water temperature and current conditions at Jordanelle and Rockport state parks, visit StateParks.Utah.gov. For information on the Echo Reservoir, call 435-336-2247. The Wed/Thurs/Fri, December 27-29, 2017 The women There currently is no FIS World Cup circuit for women’s Nordic combined, and therefore, the U.S. has not yet recruited one, Glueck said. There are some ongoing efforts both in the U.S. and abroad create the sport, but the lack of a World Cup circuit means the U.S. will focus on women’s ski jumping for the upcoming Winter Games. Nordic combined Nordic combined, as its name suggests, is a combination of ski jumping and a 10K cross-country race. As mentioned earlier, the ski jumping portion is scored exactly the same in Nordic combined as it is in ski jumping. Athletes will compete with the same parameters on the same hill. However, the points that Nordic combined athletes earn from ski jumping will then determine their position at the start of the cross-country race. The first-place jumper leads the race, with subsequent jumpers starting later according to the score of their jump. Whoever crosses the finish line first wins. “Theoretically, someone could jump to last and still win if they ski faster than everybody,” Glueck said. “It gives everybody kind of an equal chance to make that team.” The men Bryan Fletcher leads the U.S. in the World Cup right now. He is ranked 19th and is currently the only U.S. competitor in the top 50. “Bryan is the kind of elder statesman and team leader,” Glueck said. “He’s been consistently one of our top skiers the past couple years, and the most consistent at the World Cup level.” Taylor Fletcher, Bryan’s younger brother, could give him a run for his money if he manages an Nordic combined: the art of timing and tenuous truces Olympian Taylor Fletcher explains sport’s strategies BEN RAMSEY The Park Record For those that haven’t seen Nordic combined, think of it a little bit like cycling. Basically, the athletes will all go through a full-sized ski jump, which establishes the order in which they then compete in a 10K Nordic race. But during this weekend’s event, there will be a handful of tricks and shaky alliances made in hopes of walking away with the grand prize -- a spot on the U.S. team at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Bryan Fletcher, who leads the U.S. in World Cup competitions and is also an avid cyclist, said the initial ski jump sets up the field and in a way establishes a leader and a chase group, just like in a bike race. “The chase group is going to have to work together to catch that front group,” he said. “The difference being it’s a little more cutthroat.” Unlike some bicycle races, this Saturday’s Nordic combined event will be every man for himself (there is no women’s Nordic combined World Cup circuit, and therefore no U.S. team), meaning any partnerships made to try and catch the leader are between rivals. “In Nordic combined, sometimes the best way for individual success is to team up with an athlete from another country (or in this case, your own) and take turns sharing the lead,” Fletcher said. “It’s kind of a tough thing because, in the end, you know one of them is going to get their back stabbed.” The co-conspirators, as it were, trade off pushing through wind and setting the pace, but it’s a tenuous partnership. “You’re working together, but at the same time, when you’re coming into the last lap it’s every man for himself,” Fletcher said. “It’s an individual sport and you’re going to have to find out how to outsmart that guy – whether that means sitting behind when it’s your turn to pull through and leaving him out there to dry, or putting in a big attack on the fourth hill (of the fourlap race), somehow you’re going to have to beat that guy.” In the end, someone always gets burned, Fletcher said, and he’s been on that side of the deal his fair share of times. “There’s always someone that’s playing the field – playing that they are more tired and that they can’t pull through or whatever,” he said. During last year’s World Cup season, he said the Germans were Weather Park City statistics for the week ending Dec. 25 WEDNESDAY Temperatures: THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY High for the week ................................ 46° Low for the week ................................. 11° Precipitation: Total for the week ............................. 0.82” ACCUWEATHER UV INDEX TM Some sunshine giving way to clouds Mainly cloudy Partial sunshine A blend of sun and clouds Partly sunny Winds: SSW 6-12 mph Winds: SSW 6-12 mph Winds: SW 4-8 mph Winds: S 4-8 mph Winds: SW 4-8 mph 42°/23° 41°/24° 45°/26° 44°/25° 40°/23° Ogden 41/25 Elko 43/16 Salt Lake City 43/30 Sunrise 7:49 a.m. ......... 7:49 a.m. ......... 7:49 a.m. ......... 7:49 a.m. ......... 7:50 a.m. ......... Sunset 5:06 p.m. 5:06 p.m. 5:07 p.m. 5:08 p.m. 5:09 p.m. Moonrise Wednesday ...... 1:20 p.m. ......... Thursday .......... 1:55 p.m. ......... Friday ............... 2:33 p.m. ......... Saturday ........... 3:18 p.m. ......... Sunday ............. 4:10 p.m. ......... Moonset 1:22 a.m. 2:28 a.m. 3:37 a.m. 4:48 a.m. 6:00 a.m. Wednesday ...... Thursday .......... Friday ............... Saturday .......... Sunday ............ Ely 54/16 Last New First Jan 1 Jan 8 Jan 16 Jan 24 Craig 39/14 Park City Provo 41/21 Price 42/21 Richfield 52/21 Moab 45/19 Cedar City 56/21 Aspen 40/16 Grand Junction 44/18 Cortez 52/15 St. George 59/32 MOON PHASES Full Evanston 38/22 42/23 Wendover 41/17 SUN AND MOON Farmington 53/19 Page 54/32 Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Wednesday’s highs and Wednesday night’s lows. Grand Canyon 62/14 NATIONAL CITIES City Albany Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Boston Buffalo Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus, OH Dallas Denver Wednesday Hi Lo W 18 -1 pc 16 10 pc 46 31 r 31 11 pc 22 6 s 14 3 pc 49 22 c 11 5 s 19 7 pc 14 6 c 17 7 pc 39 30 c 50 26 s Northwesterly flow will bring a few disturbances across the northern and central Rockies Wednesday and Wednesday night. Most of any snow that falls will be found across Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, as well as the higher elevations of the Pacific Northwest. A building ridge will keep Utah protected from any major storm systems into Thursday. ROAD CONDITIONS REGIONAL CITIES Logan 36/22 Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Shown is the highest value for each day. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 High; 11+ Extreme. T a prime example. ”They played everybody,” he s said. “They sat in the back – they T never led – then fourth lap around and they dropped everybody to win. It burned a lot of people, and a lot of athletes trained really hard this summer to reach their level, and this year... it’s a lot more mixed throughout the field. It only takes a few times of getting burned like that before you start going, ‘OK, what am I missing, how am I going to outsmart this other guy?’” That doesn’t mean the athletes will all be vying for the back of the pack come Saturday and waiting for a chance to sprint. Fletcher said each athlete’s strengths will still determine their own strategy, and there isn’t a single strategy that will work for every racer. “If you have an athlete like Taylor (Fletcher, Bryan’s brother), who can go hard from the very beginning and push the pace from a long way out of the finish, he’s going to go a lot earlier than a younger skier who doesn’t have that strength,” Bryan said. “(That skier) is going to wait until the end and then try and put in a high-powered neuromuscular sprint to the finish.” Saturday, all the tricks will come out and the winner will walk away with a ticket to the Winter Games, while the others may be left wondering just how they got burned. Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017 REGIONAL FORECAST FIVE DAY FORECAST FOR PARK CITY ALMANAC outstanding jump. He recently finished 34th at the Ramsau am Dachstein World Cup in Austria, and, according to Glueck, is one of the fastest skiers in the world. “If he can put a good jump together he’s definitely a threat,” Glueck said. Then the Loomis brothers – Ben and Adam. Adam Loomis finished 52nd in Ramsau am Dachstein. Like each competition in this weekend, regardless of ranking and status, there will always be a chance someone can collect a seat to the Olympics plus the cash prize. “If you win, you’re going to the Olympics,” Glueck said. “If you get second place, great job today.” Admission to the event is free. Nordic combined jumping starts at 9 a.m. with racing starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Ski jumping runs from 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Sunday. See UtahOlympicLegacy. org for more details. City Aspen Boulder Butte Colorado Springs Elko Ely Evanston Flagstaff Gallup Grand Canyon Grand Junction Gunnison Idaho Falls Jackson Hole Mesquite Missoula Ogden Page Pocatello Provo Pueblo Reno Rexburg St. George Salt Lake City Spokane Sun Valley Tahoe Twin Falls Yellowstone Wednesday Hi Lo W 40 16 pc 48 28 s 28 17 sn 47 27 s 43 16 s 54 16 s 38 22 pc 61 21 s 63 12 s 62 14 s 44 18 s 39 6 pc 30 22 c 33 24 sn 63 36 s 26 22 sn 41 25 c 54 32 s 37 29 sf 41 21 pc 43 13 s 56 27 s 27 24 sn 59 32 s 43 30 pc 23 20 c 35 21 c 54 21 s 38 27 c 20 12 sn Thursday Hi Lo W 41 15 pc 46 29 c 30 23 sn 49 21 pc 46 22 s 54 20 s 38 27 c 60 23 s 59 12 s 59 17 s 44 19 s 38 7 pc 32 25 sn 34 27 sn 64 40 s 32 26 sn 41 29 pc 55 32 s 37 31 c 42 23 pc 54 14 pc 57 31 s 30 27 sn 61 34 s 44 32 pc 30 27 sn 35 30 c 58 26 s 38 30 pc 23 16 sn Interstate 80: Mostly sunny conditions can be expected Wednesday which will allow for some melting in sun-prone areas. US-40: Mostly sunny conditions and seasonal temperatures will allow for quality road conditions. TRAVELERS FORECAST Snow should remain north of Utah on Wednesday, so no travel issues are expected. Travelers heading to portions of southeastern Idaho could have flurries, while a little snow falls in Wyoming, that could lead to a few slick spots. WEATHER HISTORY New York City was hit by its biggest 24-hour snowstorm on Dec. 26 and 27, 1947. The accumulation was more than 26 inches in Central Park, 26 inches at nearby Newark, N.J., and almost 30 inches at Long Branch, N.J. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 WORLD CITIES Thursday Hi Lo W 10 -5 s 17 12 c 36 27 i 27 11 pc 15 4 s 12 1 c 35 22 c 18 11 sn 24 15 c 19 10 c 22 16 c 45 35 c 48 23 pc City Des Moines Detroit Dover Houston Honolulu Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis Nags Head New Orleans New York Norfolk Wednesday Hi Lo W 11 6 pc 15 0 pc 31 13 pc 47 39 r 82 68 sh 65 43 s 74 53 s 83 69 pc 4 1 s 44 31 r 50 42 r 26 15 pc 42 22 c Thursday Hi Lo W 20 4 sn 17 10 sn 26 15 pc 51 42 c 81 69 pc 68 44 s 78 53 s 82 67 s 13 -3 sn 36 32 c 53 45 r 23 15 s 31 24 pc City Oklahoma City Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Providence St. Louis San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle Tampa Washington, DC Wednesday Hi Lo W 31 22 c 77 59 pc 30 16 pc 75 46 s 19 8 s 24 6 s 19 10 pc 44 38 c 69 49 s 57 44 s 42 39 c 78 60 pc 34 18 pc Thursday Hi Lo W 42 25 c 75 59 pc 26 17 pc 77 48 s 23 16 pc 16 6 s 27 18 c 49 41 c 71 50 s 57 43 s 46 42 r 76 59 pc 29 21 pc City Auckland Bangkok Barbados Beijing Berlin Buenos Aires Dublin Frankfurt Hong Kong Jerusalem London Montreal Wednesday Hi Lo W 73 56 s 80 73 c 84 78 pc 39 18 s 42 35 c 88 66 pc 39 28 s 42 36 r 70 64 s 60 45 pc 41 31 pc -1 -14 s Thursday Hi Lo W 71 59 pc 84 73 c 84 78 pc 42 20 s 40 34 pc 92 69 s 38 34 r 39 31 sn 70 63 pc 60 50 c 41 32 s -2 -14 pc City Moscow Oslo Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome San Juan Seoul Sydney Tokyo Toronto Warsaw Zurich Wednesday Hi Lo W 37 33 c 34 27 pc 42 32 r 87 73 r 58 43 r 85 75 pc 27 20 s 80 69 pc 48 36 s 10 -8 pc 43 39 pc 37 31 r Thursday Hi Lo W 36 34 c 32 21 sn 42 33 pc 85 75 r 52 36 sh 84 75 pc 38 27 c 83 72 pc 47 38 s 9 -4 pc 48 33 c 33 26 pc Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. |