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Show B-6 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, December 30, 2017-January 2, 2018 Continued from B-2 Setting new routes Need CBD oil for pain? East West Health is the only clinic in Utah to carry Charlotte’s Web, the World’s Most Trusted Hemp Extract. Charlotte’s Web™ is a whole plant hemp extract containing the entire range of U.S. Government patented cannabinoids. Health issues CBD oil can help manage: INFLAMMATION MIGRAINES INSOMNIA ANXIETY CHRONIC PAIN MENSTRUAL CRAMPS We also have topical creams for your aches and pains. Come by our office to see all of the Charlotte’s Web products we have to offer. East West Health 1790 Sun Peak Dr., #A-102 Park City, UT 84098 435-640-1353 a setter. At that grade, it’s more mentally challenging than anything else.” Just for reference, V-4 is generally where climbing starts to get genuinely difficult. It corresponds to the 5.12a classification in roped climbing, which often represents a barrier to casual climbers. There’s even a book published by Falcon: “How to climb 5.12.” It recommends doing things like watching what you eat, keeping a steady schedule and climbing more than twice a week. There are, however, people young and old that can climb this grade. At the higher levels, the setters are faced with another conundrum: How do you set something that’s at the peak of or beyond your own skill level? It’s one thing to set the route. It’s another thing to know it can be climbed. And Mine staff can’t leave a route unclimbed and call it climbable. So the real climbing begins. Near the end of their recent session – about 3 p.m. -- the setters start working through a route made of about 10 yellow holds, estimated at V-8 or V-9, that starts with the climbers Continued from B-3 Keeping the snow white try skiing are actually reasonable given the amount of snow,” said Charlie Sturgis, executive director of the Mountain Trails Foundation, which grooms the area. But maintaining the existing trail system, rather than grooming new trails, is a prior- BEN RAMSEY/PARK RECORD Holds of varying color, shapes and abrasiveness sit in a bucket, ready for use. Through thoughtful installation and a healthy dose of trial and error, they can create routes for climbers -- beginner to expert. hanging underneath the arch, then moves across small, shallow holds until he or she must throw a hand out around the edge of the arch and climbs up its face. By this point in the day, Sederholm has dislocated his shoulder and is out of commission on the shoulder-intensive climbs. Turkington and Henriksen take turns on the route, making small progressions in each try, until both get stuck on the last move. Henriksen rounds the corner and pushes himself off of a small hold at the bottom of the arch’s face, and onto a pair of yellow globes, keeping his body nearly parallel to the ground. He reaches up and touches the bottom of the final hold, but can’t get his hand around the top of it. After some cursing and straining he falls. Turkington tries and comes away with his finger bleeding. Henriksen tries again with the same result, then crawls away from the route and sits on the matted floor. “Just wish this was over because now Luke has to do it, and if Luke can’t do it, I have to do it again,” Henriksen said. If neither of them can finish the route, then they will relocate holds until they can. Eventually Henriksen sends it, then Turkington, leaving them only three more routes with a similar grade to climb before opening the wall to the public. After 48 hours – kind of a comment period for regulars and competitive climbers – the setters post the difficulty ratings at the base of each climb, and the work is done for another week. ity – a straightforward but, at times, challenging goal. “As I like to say about the world of cross-country skiing, all you have to do is keep the white side up,” Sturgis said. By that, he means keeping the trails free of dark patches that soak up the sun’s rays and create holes in the track. “Any kind of dark, whether it be mud from tires, dog poop, chewed up sticks -- all of that facilitates melting,” he said. This is the big concern for skiers and groomers, because little relief is predicted for existing snow and what’s fallen will likely deteriorate over the upcoming weeks. “If it gets warm for a cou- ple days and doesn’t freeze at night, then people will break through in the daytime when it’s warm,” said Dave Hanscomb, Wasatch Citizens Series race director and member of The Utah Nordic Alliance. “It acts like a cancer for the snow -- it sucks up the heat from the sun and spreads it. It’s not like it’s going to melt the whole track, but there are going to be some continuous bad spots.” So, before the patches start poking through, Sturgis said he recommends getting out and enjoying what’s available. “I’m optimistic we’ll make it to the weekend but after that it’ll be sketchy then,” he said. “Ski cautiously and have fun.” We publish stories about what’s happening in the world of Summit County Students & Education in every Wednesday edition. 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