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Show B-2 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, December 15-18, 2018 At long last, a Continental Cup rec report Geraghty-Moats will compete in Nordic combined WHITE PINE NORDIC CENTER White Pine Nordic Center has opened its 3K, 5K, farm loop, practice area and dog loop for cross-country skiing. For rental and course information go to whitepinetouring.com. BEN RAMSEY PARK CITY MOUNTAIN RESORT The Park Record Park City Mountain Resort has opened for the winter. For informa- On Dec. 19-20, some of the United States’ Nordic combined and ski jumping national team competitors will return their teams’ home soil to compete in the Nordic Combined Continental Cup – the second of the season after the opener in Steamboat Springs Colorado on Friday and Saturday. The jumping portions of the event will be held at the Utah Olympic Park, while the cross-country legs will be held at Jeremy Ranch. The early season competitions are always exciting, but for Tara Geraghty-Moats, they have been a long time coming. That’s because this season is the second Continental Cup circuit that has ever included women’s Nordic combined. tion on upcoming events and winter ticket prices go to parkcitymountain.com or call 435-649-8111. DEER VALLEY RESORT Deer Valley Resort has opened for the winter. For information on winter activities and ticket prices go to deervalley.com or call 435649-1000. UTAH OLYMPIC PARK Utah Olympic Park has started its winter programming, including guided tours and bobsled rides. For a complete list of fall hours and rates, visit utaholympiclegacy.org. SOLDIER HOLLOW Soldier Hollow’s tubing hill opens on Friday, Dec. 21, while its Nordic COURTESY OF THE INTERNATIONAL SKI FEDERATION Tara Geraghty-Moats competes in the women’s Nordic combined Grand Prix in Oberwiesenthal, Germa- P ny in August. A Geraghty-Moats has been one officials have slowly considered aghty-Moats said of her up-t of the sport’s early advocates as skiing runs are set to open on Saturday. For programming go to utaholympiclegacy.org or call 435-654-2002. BASIN RECREATION Basin Recreation maintains more than 145 miles of trails for hiking, biking, dog walking and more. To plan a visit, go to basinrecreation. org for a complete list of trails. For trail information or maintenance concerns, email Phares Gines, at phares@basinrecreation.org. MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION The Mountain Trails Foundation has started grooming Round Valley for cross-country skiing, fat bike riding and snowshoeing. For trail information, including maps and conditions, go to mountaintrails.org. 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 for the season, according to the Utah Department of Transportation. Guardsman Pass and the Mirror Lake Highway have closed for the season. For more info, go to fs.usda.gov/uwcnf or call 435783-4338. For more information on seasonal road closures go to udottraffic.utah.gov. STATE PARKS AND RESERVOIRS For information such as water temperature and current conditions at Jordanelle and Rockport state parks, visit stateparks.utah.gov. For COURTESY OF U.S. SKI & SNOWBOARD information on the Echo Reservoir, call 435-336-2247. Tara Geraghty-Moats competes at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Ski Jumping last winter at the Utah Olympic Park. The adding it to the Olympic lineup. It’s currently the only sport at the Olympic level with a division for men, but not women. Women’s Nordic combined is slated to make its World Championships debut in 2021, which is expected to pave the way for an Olympic debut, though the possibility of Beijing hosting the event in 2020 was nixed by IOC officials last summer. “I’ve been looking forward to this for a very long time,” said Geraghty-Moats. “To finally be able to compete in all of the events, see where I stand in the world standings and race with a bunch of really passionate women who also do combined is sort of a dream come true.” She did not compete last season because she was shooting for an Olympic berth in ski jumping – one of several sports she has competed in at various levels, including biathlon and cross-country. She was also recovering from a fracture in her arm. Two seasons before that she raced in the U.S.A. Nordic Combined National Championships at Soldier Hollow. Until that point there had never been a women’s national championship competition. This season, she plans on competing in both the Nordic Combined Continental Cup and the Ski Jumping World Cup. “I’m just going to take it one weekend at a time,” Ger- Weather Park City statistics for the week ending Dec. 13 SATURDAY Temperatures: SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY High for the week ................................ 38° Low for the week ................................. 11° Precipitation: Total for the week .............................. 0.11” ACCUWEATHER UV INDEX Partly sunny Mostly sunny Cloudy most of the time Intervals of clouds and sunshine Partial sunshine Winds: S 4-8 mph Winds: SSE 6-12 mph Winds: S 4-8 mph Winds: SSW 3-6 mph Winds: WSW 3-6 mph 42°/23° 44°/22° 41°/23° 37°/23° 44°/26° TM Ogden 42/24 Elko 39/16 Salt Lake City 43/26 Saturday .......... Sunday ............ Monday ............ Tuesday ........... Wednesday ...... Sunrise 7:42 a.m. ......... 7:43 a.m. ......... 7:44 a.m. ......... 7:44 a.m. ......... 7:45 a.m. ......... Sunset 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 5:01 p.m. 5:01 p.m. Saturday .......... Sunday ............ Monday ............ Tuesday ........... Wednesday ...... Moonrise Moonset 1:05 p.m. ................ none 1:32 p.m. ....... 12:57 a.m. 2:00 p.m. ......... 1:57 a.m. 2:30 p.m. ......... 3:00 a.m. 3:03 p.m. ......... 4:05 a.m. Ely 45/20 Full Last New Dec 15 Dec 22 Dec 29 Jan 5 Craig 39/11 Park City Provo 42/22 Price 40/21 Richfield 50/27 Moab 43/20 Cedar City 51/26 Aspen 40/15 Grand Junction 43/24 Cortez 47/15 St. George 58/33 MOON PHASES First Evanston 36/17 42/23 Wendover 36/18 SUN AND MOON Farmington 48/23 Page 49/30 Shown is Saturday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday’s highs and Saturday night’s lows. Grand Canyon 53/19 NATIONAL CITIES City Albany Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Boston Buffalo Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus, OH Dallas Denver Saturday Hi Lo W 45 28 c 22 19 s 56 45 c 54 43 r 51 37 c 40 31 c 61 44 r 45 29 pc 47 39 r 45 38 r 49 42 r 60 35 s 56 28 pc Tranquil weather will be on tap across much of the western United States Saturday with a ridge of high pressure in control. A weak system will exit to the east of the Rockies during the day, allowing clouds to break in eastern Utah and western Colorado. The weather will remain quiet through Saturday night under clear to partly cloudy skies. ROAD CONDITIONS REGIONAL CITIES Logan 36/17 Sat. Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. The higher the AccuWeather 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 Nordic combined, B-4 Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018 REGIONAL FORECAST FIVE DAY FORECAST FOR PARK CITY ALMANAC coming season. “There will be a couple World Cup events for ski jumping that I miss, but actually not too many. If it’s ever too crazy I’ll just not do something.” But racing and jumping in Park City is on her to-do list, and the 25-year old could find herself at the top of the finals list. Over the summer she tied with Stefaniya Nadymova of Russia in a two-event Nordic combined Grand Prix series. “It will be really interesting to see how we stack up again after a fall of training,” Geraghty-Moats said. “I’m sure she will be a fierce competitor.” Geraghty-Moats said she also expects to see some strong upstart competitors from Norway, and some developing athletes who have just recently started training in the nascent sport. The last time Geraghty-Moats, who is originally from West Fairlee, Vermont, raced at Jeremy Ranch, she was a 16-yearold competing in the Wasatch Citizens Series. She said she will have to take another look at the venue when she gets to town and form a plan for the race leg, though usually she isn’t concerned with the cross-country competitions. “I really like hilly courses,” she said. The first round of competition ski jumping starts at 9 a.m. 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 40 15 pc 57 34 pc 36 14 pc 58 28 pc 39 16 pc 45 20 s 36 17 pc 52 20 s 54 13 c 53 19 s 43 24 pc 31 2 pc 34 15 pc 35 10 pc 63 35 s 38 21 pc 42 24 pc 49 30 s 37 15 pc 42 22 pc 60 18 pc 49 34 pc 33 15 pc 58 33 s 43 26 pc 38 31 pc 34 22 pc 45 31 c 40 23 pc 28 13 pc Sunday Hi Lo W 43 16 s 56 36 s 37 18 pc 55 27 s 39 23 pc 50 28 s 35 19 s 52 22 s 55 17 pc 54 21 s 45 23 s 30 3 s 35 17 pc 32 10 pc 64 38 s 36 27 c 43 27 s 51 30 s 39 20 pc 43 25 s 58 19 pc 51 39 c 36 18 pc 60 35 s 45 28 s 41 38 c 39 27 pc 47 29 c 42 27 pc 34 13 pc Interstate 80: The weather will be tranquil along I-80 Saturday with a mixture of clouds and sunshine overhead. US-40: There will be increasing amounts of sunshine Saturday, making for good weather conditions for traveling. TRAVELERS FORECAST Morning clouds will give way to some sunshine across eastern Utah and western Colorado Saturday. Elsewhere, skies will feature a mixture of clouds and sunshine. No weather-related travel problems are expected. Saturday night will be quiet. WEATHER HISTORY On Dec. 15, 1969, in Los Angeles, Calif., a chain-reaction car crash involved more than 100 vehicles on a 12-mile stretch of the fog-cloaked Santa Ana Freeway. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 WORLD CITIES Sunday Hi Lo W 36 31 sn 25 22 sn 56 41 pc 49 35 r 44 37 r 39 31 pc 62 40 pc 45 28 pc 50 30 pc 44 33 pc 48 31 pc 63 39 pc 57 29 s City Des Moines Detroit Dover Houston Honolulu Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis Nags Head New Orleans New York Norfolk Saturday Hi Lo W 49 29 s 43 32 pc 54 43 r 62 39 s 82 70 s 63 44 s 71 51 s 82 66 pc 37 28 s 60 49 r 59 48 pc 50 38 r 62 47 r Sunday Hi Lo W 47 25 pc 44 31 pc 49 36 r 66 47 pc 81 68 s 65 47 s 71 51 pc 77 57 pc 37 22 s 54 43 sh 61 47 pc 43 38 r 56 41 sh City Oklahoma City Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Providence St. Louis San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle Tampa Washington, DC Saturday Hi Lo W 57 32 s 73 58 c 52 41 r 73 47 pc 49 39 r 51 34 r 49 30 r 66 37 s 70 52 s 61 55 c 51 45 c 73 61 c 55 48 r Sunday Hi Lo W 57 29 pc 70 50 s 45 37 r 72 50 pc 43 31 r 43 35 r 53 29 s 68 47 pc 70 55 s 60 52 r 51 46 r 71 52 s 49 40 r City Auckland Bangkok Barbados Beijing Berlin Buenos Aires Dublin Frankfurt Hong Kong Jerusalem London Montreal Saturday Hi Lo W 73 59 sh 88 73 pc 85 78 pc 36 22 pc 33 24 c 80 63 s 51 38 r 34 26 s 71 62 pc 63 46 s 43 39 r 37 21 c Sunday Hi Lo W 75 61 pc 89 75 sh 84 77 pc 46 21 s 31 28 c 86 64 s 45 38 pc 36 34 sn 71 60 s 61 42 pc 49 37 pc 31 25 pc City Moscow Oslo Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome San Juan Seoul Sydney Tokyo Toronto Warsaw Zurich Saturday Hi Lo W 26 13 c 23 21 sn 37 35 i 93 77 s 51 32 pc 83 76 pc 36 25 s 79 71 t 48 39 s 40 28 pc 34 26 c 33 23 s Sunday Hi Lo W 18 9 pc 28 24 sn 48 40 pc 92 77 s 52 45 pc 84 73 pc 39 28 c 85 71 sh 52 45 pc 38 31 pc 31 23 sn 41 31 sn Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. |