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Show B-4 The Park Record Calendar High School Sports Boys Basketball Wasatch @ Farmington December 4 7:00 p.m. North Summit @ Providence Hall December 5 7:00 p.m. South Summit vs. Uintah December 5 7:00 p.m. Park City vs. Highland December 7 7:00 p.m. North Summit vs. Ben Lomond December 7 7:00 p.m. South Summit vs. Providence Hall December 7 7:00 p.m. Wasatch @ Salem Hills December 7 7:00 p.m. North Summit @ South Summit December 12 7:00 p.m. Girls Basketball South Summit vs. San Juan December 1 Noon Park City @ Orem December 4 7:00 p.m. South Summit @ Millard December 4 7:00 p.m. Wasatch vs. Murray December 4 7:00 p.m. North Summit @ Preston, ID December 6 TBA South Summit vs. Ben Lomond December 6 7:00 p.m. Park City @ Summit Academy December 7 7:00 p.m. Wasatch @ Highland December 7 7:00 p.m. South Summit vs. Tooele December 8 3:30 p.m. Park City vs. Cyprus December 11 7:00 p.m. North Summit vs. Bear River December 11 7:00 p.m. South Summit vs. Ogden December 11 7:00 p.m. Wasatch vs. Clearfield December 11 7:00 p.m. Ice Hockey Park City @ Brighton December 5 9:15 p.m. Park City vs. Copper Hills December 12 6:30 p.m. Park City @ Bingham December 19 9:15 p.m. Park City vs. Viewmont January 2 6:30 p.m. Continued from B-1 Swimming Park City Swimvitational December 1 9:00 a.m. Park City @ Wasatch December 4 3:00 p.m. Park City @ Box Elder December 13 3:00 p.m. Park City @ Lehi December 18 3:00 p.m. Park City @ Grantsville December 1 8:00 a.m. Park City @ Summit Academy December 5 3:30 p.m. Park City @ Stansbury Academy December 7-8 TBA Park City @ Utah Military Acad. December 12 6:00 p.m. Park City @ Dixie Tourney December 13-15 TBA Park City @ Ben Lomond January 5 3:30 p.m. Recreation Sports Park City Recreation Services (615-5401) Basketball 6:00-9:00 p.m. Volleyball Comp Division Wednesday Rec Division Wednesday 8:00 p.m. Speed Skating Training Wednesday 6:30-7:45 p.m. Basin Recreation Fieldhouse 6:00-9:00 p.m. 6:00-9:00 p.m. Drop-in Sports Basketball (age 16 +) Tues. 7:00-9:00 p.m. Basketball (age 16 +) Tues/Thurs Noon-2:00 p.m. Basketball (age 16 +) Sat/Sun 8:00-10:00 a.m. Pickleball (age 16 +) Mon/Wed/Fri 2:00-4:30 p.m. Pickleball (age 16 +) Sun–Friday 8:30 a.m. Noon Volleyball (age 16 +) Thurs. 8:00-10:00 p.m. Soccer (age 16 +) Mon/Wed/Fri Noon -1:30 p.m. Soccer (age 16 +) Wed. 8:00-10:00 p.m. Soccer (age 30 +) Tues 8:00-10:00 p.m. Masters Swim Tues/Thurs Noon-1:00 p.m. South Summit Aquatics & Fitness Center (783-2423) Adult Basketball Thursday Rock Wall Weather Hotline (cancellations) Saturday 6:30-9:30 p.m. 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Pickleball Open Gym 615-5432 Wed. – Fri 4:00 – 6:00 p.m Park City Ice Arena Ice Hockey Gold League Sunday Ultimate triathlon (655-0999) Wrestling Adult League Thursday Silver League Wed/Thurs/Sun 615-5707 6:30 p.m. To include an upcoming sports event in the calendar, please send an email to Joe Lair at scoreboard@parkrecord.com Searching for new things to do? You don’t have to work this hard. Check out the calendar in Scene for local music, events and more! gather $100,000 before setting out. He will also have to log countless hours in preparing both his fitness level and planning the intercontinental challenge’s logistics to make it all come together. He’ll be preparing to bag Asia’s signature peak, negotiate an aquatic exit from Britain to Europe, and go from sea to shining sea in America. The hike Mt. Everest almost needs no introduction. At 29,029 feet (8,848 meters), the Himalayan peak is the tallest mountain in the world, which means it gets really cold, with highs during July, its warmest month, averaging around -2 degrees Fahrenheit near its peak, and climbers draw in far less oxygen per breath than they would even at Park City’s elevation. The altitude causes all kinds of problems – from coughs and fatigue to cerebral edema – while the exposure and elemental factors cause a whole set of problems outside of human control, like avalanches, the effects of frostbite, and snowblindness. These issues come together to create a myriad of challenges for climbers. Of the nearly 1,300 who buy a permit to climb the mountain, about 600 reach the summit, and more than 300 have died trying since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers on record to summit the peak in 1953. Though Lea had some experience as a mountaineer before Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, December 1-4, 2018 this year, he had never climbed anything like Everest. He had never been into the “death zone,” the 26,000-foot marker that connotes a precipitous rise in altitude-related difficulty. At least, not until this autumn, when he and his current fiancee (then his girlfriend) professional ski mountaineer Caroline Gleich, climbed Cho Oyu. Cho Oyu sits about 20 straight miles from Everest on the Tibet-Nepal border, and shares some of Everest’s characteristics. The mountain gives adventurers a taste of the high-altitude climbing, topping out at 26,906 feet, and expeditions often include the employment of local mountain guides (called sherpas, though some aren’t members of the Sherpa ethnic group) to set fixed ropes for groups of climbers. Gleich and Lea went with Alpenglow Expeditions, a group that approaches the mountain from the north in Tibet, and provides staged camps at various points of the climb for the five climbers to use on their acclimatization hikes and their eventual attempts to summit. After some acclimatization, Lea and Gleich reached the summit of Cho Oyu on Sept. 28. As if bagging one of the 14 “eight-thousanders” wasn’t enough, the day took on even more importance when Gleich proposed to Lea, and then skied down some 5,000 feet, as was her goal, while Lea descended through a mix of skiing and hiking. Their experience solidified the couple’s ambition to climb Everest. To make that ambition a reality, they will have to act fast. They need to secure funding through sponsors or a donor to pay for the considerable cost of climbing the mountain (Alpenglow’s Everest expeditions cost $85,000 each), including guide services and permits. And Lea said he must make a $10,000 down payment to by the end of this year to secure a place on the mountain. With reservations secured, Lea and Gleich would start acclimatizing by sleeping in a hypoxic (low-oxygen) tent in February, start exercising with hypoxic masks in March, all before flying to Tibet in April and spending roughly a month acclimatizing and climbing the mountain. Lea and Gleich plan to finish the climb by May 26, when Lea would then turn his attention to English Channel. In the two months between his estimated summit date and his English Channel plunge, Lea will need to start gaining weight (climbers can lose anywhere from 15 to 50 pounds over the course of one Everest expedition), and changing his athletic build from one centered on trudging up and down mountains to one centered on swimming through sea currents. The swim The section of the English Channel known as the Dover Strait, a 20.7-mile gap between the white cliffs of Dover in the United Kingdom and a peninsula near the French port city of Calais, is not for the faint of heart. Of the 3,951 attempts to swim the gap made by about 1,832 swimmers since its first crossing by Matthew Webb in 1875, about 60 percent have been successful, according to Dover.UK.Com, a local news outlet that keeps records on the swim. Fishermen, invaders and recreational swimmers going both ways have always had to contend with the channel’s strong Atlantic currents and temperamental weather patterns, but in the modern age the strait also is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, with up to 600 ships passing through and Please see Ultimate, B-6 Continued from B-2 Wildcats defeat Miners before the Miners reined in the Wildcats offense. It wasn’t enough, however, as South Summit came away with the nine-point win. Peterson and Miles led the Wildcats in scoring with eight points each, followed by freshman guard Reagan Sanderson with seven points. As for Park City, sophomore post player Ari Janssen led the team with seven points, followed by senior point guard Corrine Sullivan with six and senior forward Alex Springer with four. “It was a battle,” Park City coach Brett Isaacson said. “They definitely showed improvement; cut our turnovers in half, which gave us a chance to win, but we just kind of had some breakdowns early in the third.” He said the silver lining was still the Miners’ tenacity when facing long scoring runs by the other team. “I loved, again, they got up to 17 and we battled back and got it down to single digits,” he said. “Definitely some room to be optimistic. … But at some point we have to get over the Continued from B-1 Sports briefs INTRO TO YOGA The PC MARC is offering Intro to Yoga Workshops on Mondays from 7 to 8:15 p.m. beginning Nov. 26. The workshops are designed to give a foundational understanding of the basics for personal yoga practice. For more information or to sign up, visit parkcityrecreation. org or call 435-615-5400. 7 VS. 7 COED SOCCER LEAGUE Basin Recreation’s 7 vs. 7 coed adult soccer league (17 and older) will feature 50-minute games with playoff times to be determined based on participation. Each team must have at least two members of each gender on the field at TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Park City High School’s Sadie Ortiz Gomez looks for a teammate while guarded by South Summit High School’s Reagan Sanderson. The Miners outscored the Wildcats 15-10 in the fourth quarter, but couldn’t come back from the Wildcats’ 21-point third quarter. hump, which we’re getting to. We’re getting there.” The Wildcats traveled to Price this weekend to play Grand County on Thursday, Carbon and Manti on Friday and San Juan on Saturday, then will returned home to play Millard on Tuesday at 7 p.m. The Miners will travel to Orem High School to tip off at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. a time. The league will run on Thursdays and Fridays, from Dec. 6 to March 8, 2019, starting at 8 p.m. on The Fieldhouse turf field. The sign-up fee is $550 per team or individuals can register onto a free agent team for $50 per person. Learn more and sign up at basinrecreation.org. ketball league for players 18 and older. Games will be played at The Fieldhouse and PC MARC. Games will be 60 minutes long and each team will play one game per night. The league will run on Thursdays, from Dec. 6 to March 7, 2019, starting at 6 p.m. Teams cost $550 to register, plus a $100 refundable team forfeit fee, or individuals can register onto a free agent team for $50 per person. Learn more and register at basinrecreation.org. 3 VS. 3 BASKETBALL LEAGUE Basin Recreation’s winter 3 vs. 3 coed basketball league (16 and older) will feature 30-minute games and each team will play two games per night. Teams have a maximum of five players. The league will run on Tuesdays, from Dec. 4 to Jan. 22, 2019, starting at 7 p.m. on The Fieldhouse court. Teams cost $120 to register or individuals can register onto a free agent team for $35 per person. Learn more and register at basinrecreation.org. 5 VS. 5 BASKETBALL LEAGUE Basin Recreation and Park City Recreation are joining forces to provide a 5 vs. 5 coed adult bas- PARA AND YOUTH WORLD CUP On Friday, Dec. 14 and Sat. Dec. 15, the Utah Olympic Park will host the IBSF Para Bobsled World Cup and Youth Series. The races are open to the public. For more information go to utaholympiclegacy.org. WASATCH CITIZEN’S SERIES The Wasatch Citizen’s Series cross-country ski races are scheduled to kick off on Dec. 15 at Soldier Hollow. For information about registration, cost and times go to http://www.utahnordic.com/wcs. |