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Show B-2 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, December 30, 2017-January 2, 2018 From cinch to pinch: how The Mine Bouldering sets routes rec report PARK CITY MOUNTAIN RESORT Park City Mountain Resort is open for the season. On Tuesday, the resort listed 25 lifts and 62 trails open. Chrome Alley, White Pine, Cascade, King Con Ridge and Temptation trails are all scheduled to open this weekend. For more information, go to Parkcitymountain. com or call 435-649-8111. For the climbing gym, building new routes is critical DEER VALLEY RESORT 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 52 runs open. BEN RAMSEY The Park Record JEREMY RANCH NORDIC Wednesdays are route setting day at The Mine bouldering gym in Kimball Junction. Each week, the plastic holds are unscrewed from a wall and taken down, and the tape marking the starting point and its grade is stripped off, leaving a clean canvas. Then route setters, both full-time workers and people brought in specifically for the task, go to work. Starting at 7:30 a.m., they start inventing routes, placing holds of varying shapes and sizes until they’ve built a vertical pathway. It’s the heart of the gym, what keeps its customers coming back. Without the variety provided by route setting, there would likely be few, if any, regulars. For the setters at the gym, it’s an anticipated tradition where they get to use their imagination, strength and climbing experience to create something new. It’s also a formidable workout – starting with what’s called “forerunning,” where the setters systematically test and adjust each route until they match their intended level of difficulty. “I’m just saying, my belly is full of grease and coffee; ready to climb,” route setter Andreas Sederholm said as he The Jeremy Ranch Golf Course is 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. 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. approached the area the setters were working on. “Normally I just eat like five (jalapeno) poppers and some coffee, and I’m ready to go.” Some things to know about bouldering: climbers don’t use ropes, it focuses on short, intense routes ranging in difficulty from V-easy (essentially a ladder of holds going up the wall) to, in the Mine, around V10 or V11 (which look like a sparse constellation of plastic chips blown across a wall). On a recent Wednesday morning, Sederholm, Luke Turkington and Dayton Henriksen start with the V-easies in an area called “the arch,” because it has an arch that runs over the middle of the area from wall to wall. “This actually is, I would say, our most difficult set just based on the angles of the walls and the arch in general,” Henriksen said. “So it’s usually a little bit slower process -- harder to figure out how to get out of those different areas and corners.” Turkington climbs up a purple V-easy, hops off, grabs a small plastic hemisphere and a long bolt and mounts it to the wall with a power drill – another foothold. “Sometimes, trying to make a V-1 and V-2 that’s fun for an adult and not going to shut down a kid, it’s almost harder than just making a hard route, like a V-7 and V-8,” Turkington says. To build a V-1, they have to make something that’s accessible to people of all heights and nearly all skill levels, meaning 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. BEN RAMSEY/PARK RECORD Luke Turkington screws a hold onto the wall. During the setting process, holds are added and removed until the intended grade is met. The L D 2 BEN RAMSEY/PARK RECORD Luke Turkington, a Mine employee, works through a problematic climb during a forerunning session -- in which route setters work out the kinks in new climbs. Each week a small crew resets one of The Mine’s walls, a process that runs from early morning to sunset. it must be on a vertical wall, but also find ways to make it interesting. At this grade and below, setters extend their arms out over the holds as they climb, seeing if their elbows can touch them, as a proxy for the short arms of their youngest clientele. “We try and get a different variety (of setters),” Turkington said. “The more body types we have setting the better, and the more climbing styles the better.” He said he and Henriksen have different climbing styles, so they frequently set together, with Henriksen setting more powerful, dynamic moves and Turkington setting more technical moves. “Then we try and bring people with experience setting at other gyms,” Turkington said. “They Weather Park City statistics for the week ending Dec. 28 SATURDAY Temperatures: SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY High for the week ................................ 45° Low for the week ................................. 11° Precipitation: Total for the week ............................. 0.72” Plenty of sunshine Partly sunny Cloudy Winds: SSW 6-12 mph Winds: SSW 4-8 mph Winds: W 4-8 mph Winds: NNW 3-6 mph Winds: WNW 4-8 mph 46°/25° 41°/22° 42°/18° 39°/23° 42°/30° A blend of sun and clouds Periods of clouds and sun ACCUWEATHER UV INDEX TM Ogden 43/24 Elko 51/21 Salt Lake City 49/29 Saturday .......... Sunday ............ Monday ............ Tuesday ........... Wednesday ...... Sunrise Sunset 7:49 a.m. ......... 5:08 p.m. 7:50 a.m. ......... 5:09 p.m. 7:50 a.m. ......... 5:09 p.m. 7:50 a.m. ......... 5:10 p.m. 7:50 a.m. .......... 5:11 p.m. Moonrise Saturday ........... 3:18 p.m. ......... Sunday ............. 4:10 p.m. ......... Monday ............. 5:11 p.m. ......... Tuesday ............ 6:18 p.m. ......... Wednesday ...... 7:29 p.m. ......... Moonset 4:48 a.m. 6:00 a.m. 7:09 a.m. 8:12 a.m. 9:07 a.m. Ely 59/19 Last New Craig 46/16 Park City Provo 46/25 Price 47/25 Richfield 59/23 Moab 46/21 Cedar City 60/23 Jan 8 Jan 16 Grand Junction 48/21 Farmington 56/19 Page 56/35 First Shown is Saturday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday’s highs and Saturday night’s lows. Grand Canyon 64/15 Jan 1 Aspen 48/21 Cortez 56/15 St. George 61/32 MOON PHASES Full Evanston 43/20 46/25 Wendover 48/23 SUN AND MOON Jan 24 NATIONAL CITIES City Albany Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Boston Buffalo Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus, OH Dallas Denver Saturday Hi Lo W 18 2 sn 21 18 c 50 29 pc 33 15 sn 21 10 sn 18 2 sn 53 26 pc 6 -1 pc 22 5 sn 20 9 sn 21 5 sn 46 33 r 50 13 c A storm system will pass from Idaho into Wyoming Saturday. This will bring 3-6 inches of snow across portions of northern Idaho, Montana and northwestern Wyoming. Areas just south will have a few rain and snow showers. A cold front associated with this system will sink southward Saturday night, bringing some snow to parts of northern Utah. ROAD CONDITIONS REGIONAL CITIES Logan 39/16 Sat. Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. 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. Please see Setting, B-6 Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017 REGIONAL FORECAST FIVE DAY FORECAST FOR PARK CITY ALMANAC can bring in different knowledge, different experience, and also different body types and climbing style as well.” After 30 or 40 minutes, the setters have finished the easy routes, and the difficulty starts to creep up. The person who sets the route watches as another setter climbs it for the first time. In V-2, the routes start to become overhung. In V-3, they start requiring more technical skill. The setters keep climbing, revising, and tweaking their routes. V-4 turns to V-5 and V-6 – Henriksen’s favorite grade to set. “V-6 is just a fun grade to climb,” he said. “You can just start implementing a lot more as 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 Saturday Hi Lo W 48 21 pc 49 21 c 30 6 sn 52 19 pc 51 21 c 59 19 pc 43 20 pc 61 24 s 65 18 s 64 15 s 48 21 pc 44 10 pc 35 15 pc 36 7 sn 65 36 s 33 17 sn 43 24 pc 56 35 s 41 15 c 46 25 pc 43 13 pc 61 30 pc 34 13 pc 61 32 s 49 29 pc 34 19 c 41 14 pc 59 26 pc 41 21 pc 28 0 sn Sunday Hi Lo W 42 11 pc 27 9 pc 18 -7 pc 27 4 pc 49 20 pc 55 19 pc 34 17 pc 56 23 s 61 18 pc 58 15 pc 48 20 pc 40 5 c 24 9 pc 27 3 pc 63 39 pc 23 6 pc 39 22 c 56 34 pc 30 12 s 40 19 pc 30 1 pc 58 32 pc 24 7 pc 59 32 pc 43 28 pc 26 12 pc 31 13 s 57 25 pc 34 18 s 19 -2 pc Interstate 80: An afternoon rain or snow shower can cause travel delays Saturday. Some snow at night will slow travel. US-40: No weather-related travel problems expected Saturday, but snow showers at night can lead to slow traffic. TRAVELERS FORECAST Slower-than-normal traffic is expected Saturday for travelers heading to the north because of some rain and snow. Elsewhere, sun will mix with some clouds with no new weather-related travel delays expected. WEATHER HISTORY A storm that brought snow to the Deep South a few days earlier ushered recordbreaking cold into the East by Dec. 30, 1880. The low was 7 degrees below zero in Washington, D.C., which was the coldest ever so early in the winter. 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