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Show B-2 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, December 19-21, 2018 Parkites taste success at Dew Tour rec report Area athletes earn six podium finishes in Breckenridge 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. Park Record staff PARK CITY MOUNTAIN RESORT Park City athletes featured prominently over the weekend at the Dew Tour ski and snowboard competition in Breckenridge, Colorado. In women’s ski superpipe, Parkites Devin Logan and Brita Sigourney took third and fourth. Rachel Karker of Erin, Ontario, took first (87.33), followed by Calgary-born Cassie Sharpe (84.67), then Logan (71), who took silver in halfpipe at the Sochi Winter Games in 2014, and Sigourney (68.33), who took Bronze in halfpipe at the 2018 Winter Games, and sixth in halfpipe at the Sochi games. In a press release, Logan said she found an advantage in the competition on the modified superpipe, which had features that she usually found on the slopestyle course. “You have the natural pipe in there, but playing with the tombstones and the regular jump landings cater to a slopestyle background,” she said. “I Park City Mountain Resort has opened for the winter. For information 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, while its Nordic skiing runs are set to open on Saturday. For programming go to utaholympiclegacy.org or call 435-654-2002. BASIN RECREATION COURTESY OF DEW TOUR/JAMIE WALTER Alex Hall competes in the slopestyle ski finals at the 2018 Dew Tour in Breckenridge, Colorado. Hall, who has close ties with Park City, was part of three podium finishes. think my experience helped and we had a lot of fun. I’m stoked to land on the podium.” Park City was also well represented in the men’s slopestyle competition, where former Park City High School student Alex Hall took second in the ski slopestyle competition (184), behind Evan McEachran, the Oakville, Ontario native who led the event. (187.34). Henrik Harulaut of Åre, Sweden, took third (181.67). McRae Williams, the 2017 World Champion and Park City native, took David Wise advocates for ‘pipe style’ 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 Dew Tour spurs ski and snowboard halfpipe debate 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 in- ANTONIO OLIVERO formation, including maps and conditions, go to mountaintrails.org. Summit Daily WASATCH-CACHE NATIONAL FOREST Breackenridge, Colo. – David Wise’s halfpipe past consists of two Olympic gold medals and four Winter X Games gold medals. But it’s halfpipe’s future he’s worried about. After the 28-year-old finished in third place behind his American teammates Alex Ferreira of Aspen and Aaron Blunck of Crested Butte at Sunday’s Dew Tour modified superpipe competition, Wise was as candid as can be about where halfpipe riding goes from here. “Pipe skiing and pipe snowboarding is getting a little bit stagnant,” Wise said. “And, 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 information on the Echo Reservoir, call 435-336-2247. The as riders — as somebody who has been in the sport a long time — I can kind of see a lot of resorts are having a hard time building pipes. They are expensive. Twenty-two-foot pipes are really hard to build. So we are staring at what could be the end of our sport. But if we start making these courses fun and making the general public want to get in there and ride it and have fun, then that’s going to give the sport a lot more longevity. I look at it as, this is good for all of us.” “Call it ‘pipestyle,’” Wise later added. “That’s going to be our new buzzword.” Where does the halfpipe go from here? That’s the common refrain this week at Breckenridge Ski Resort among the prominent athletes and figures at the heartbeat of snowboarding and freeskiing’s park and pipe community. In fact, Wise — who finished with a score of 84.67 — wasn’t the only freeskier on Sunday’s modified su- perpipe podium who threw out the idea of having more creative runs. After Ferreira landed his winning 90.00-point run through the modified superpipe, he said in an interview on the Dew Tour television broadcast that he would like to see 50 percent of International Ski & Snowboard Federation World Cup halfpipe competitions have modified features. Ferreira won his second consecutive Dew Tour via a run that consisted of a huge double-cork 1260 with a mute grab in the pipe. A week after winning at the Copper Mountain Resort Grand Prix, Blunck earned that second-place score of 86.00 despite struggling with speed coming out of the flattened bottom of the pipe. He hit the tombstone takeoff from the side, stomping his transition into the hip hits at the bottom of the course. “It’s nice to see you have to Weather Park City statistics for the week ending Dec. 17 WEDNESDAY Temperatures: THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY High for the week ................................ 47° Low for the week ................................. 11° Precipitation: Total for the week ............................. 0.12” ACCUWEATHER UV INDEX TM Clouds and sun with a snow shower around Plenty of sunshine Mostly cloudy with afternoon snow Partly sunny Mostly cloudy Winds: W 6-12 mph Winds: S 6-12 mph Winds: SW 6-12 mph Winds: W 4-8 mph Winds: SSW 4-8 mph 39°/23° 45°/29° 40°/22° 32°/16° 35°/23° Ogden 42/28 Elko 44/21 Salt Lake City 45/29 SUN AND MOON Wednesday ...... Thursday .......... Friday ............... Saturday .......... Sunday ............ Sunrise 7:45 a.m. ......... 7:46 a.m. ......... 7:46 a.m. ......... 7:47 a.m. ......... 7:47 a.m. ......... Sunset 5:01 p.m. 5:01 p.m. 5:02 p.m. 5:02 p.m. 5:03 p.m. Wednesday ...... Thursday .......... Friday ............... Saturday .......... Sunday ............ Moonrise 3:03 p.m. ......... 3:42 p.m. ......... 4:28 p.m. ......... 5:23 p.m. ......... 6:26 p.m. ......... Moonset 4:05 a.m. 5:13 a.m. 6:23 a.m. 7:32 a.m. 8:37 a.m. Ely 46/19 Last New First Dec 22 Dec 29 Jan 5 Jan 13 Craig 36/12 Park City Provo 42/23 Price 44/24 Richfield 45/24 Moab 46/22 Cedar City 51/23 Aspen 31/14 Grand Junction 44/23 Cortez 47/18 St. George 59/33 MOON PHASES Full Evanston 33/20 39/23 Wendover 43/22 Farmington 50/23 Page 54/32 Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Wednesday’s highs and Wednesday night’s lows. Grand Canyon 54/20 NATIONAL CITIES City Albany Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Boston Buffalo Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus, OH Dallas Denver Wednesday Hi Lo W 37 25 s 18 8 c 56 46 pc 45 30 s 41 32 s 42 33 s 54 41 pc 48 40 pc 51 41 pc 47 37 s 47 37 s 60 46 r 51 23 pc Please see Halfpipe’s future, B-3 A storm system will move through the northern Rockies Wednesday with onand-off snow. There will be strong and gusty winds, mainly over the mountains. The Great Basin into the Southwest will be mostly sunny with a ridge of high pressure in control. Tranquil weather across the entire region Thursday as the high pressure expands northward. ROAD CONDITIONS REGIONAL CITIES Logan 37/20 Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. 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. get creative,” Blunck said of the modified course. After the competition, Wise said he often is asked why the American team is so dominant in freeskiing and snowboarding events. To the prolific veteran, he thinks it gets to the core of their on-snow ethos. He said the U.S. riders have “the rebel spirit,” and are “here to do things differently than everybody else.” Wise said he’d even like to have a massive loft-jump feature at the top of a modified pipe course in the future, similar to the high-air elements seen in BMX and motocross competitions. “I’m just going to mic drop,” Wise said. “Let’s do more of these. Let’s have a circuit of more creative courses. Because we love halfpipe — I love halfpipe. That apex that you get when you go straight up in the air and you are holding that grab, that weightless Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018 REGIONAL FORECAST FIVE DAY FORECAST FOR PARK CITY ALMANAC 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 31 14 sn 50 29 pc 37 16 sn 51 22 pc 44 21 pc 46 19 s 33 20 sf 54 22 s 53 17 s 54 20 s 44 23 pc 32 3 sn 36 22 sf 36 14 sn 64 35 s 41 25 sf 42 28 pc 54 32 s 40 22 pc 42 23 pc 59 18 s 56 31 pc 34 20 sf 59 33 s 45 29 pc 43 35 c 37 23 sf 54 25 pc 44 25 pc 28 12 sn Thursday Hi Lo W 38 15 s 53 38 s 39 25 pc 49 24 s 45 28 pc 51 29 s 38 29 s 57 26 s 54 19 s 58 25 s 45 23 s 28 0 s 35 23 s 32 15 s 64 41 s 37 28 pc 44 30 s 52 33 s 41 28 s 43 29 s 53 18 s 59 40 pc 33 22 s 60 38 s 47 34 s 44 32 c 37 26 pc 53 34 pc 46 29 pc 32 17 s Interstate 80: A few snow showers will be around Wednesday; watch for slick spots. Some spots will also have strong winds. US-40: Watch for slick spots Wednesday with a few snow showers in spots. Some places will have gusty winds. TRAVELERS FORECAST Travelers going to the north and east can expect some travel delays Wednesday with periods of snow leading to snow-covered roads in some places. Strong winds, mainly in the mountains, can create a hazard for vehicles. WEATHER HISTORY Dry weather is usually in the cards at Las Vegas, Nev., but a rare heavy rainstorm hit the city on Dec. 19, 1984. Local flooding deposited silt in area drainage ways, requiring subsequent spadework. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 WORLD CITIES Thursday Hi Lo W 43 36 pc 13 5 c 53 45 r 52 51 r 49 42 pc 46 38 pc 55 51 r 44 31 r 49 39 r 48 37 c 48 38 r 60 38 s 51 31 s City Des Moines Detroit Dover Houston Honolulu Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis Nags Head New Orleans New York Norfolk B w seventh (164.66). Hall also helped Faction skis take second in the team challenge, and took first in the ski streetstyle competition, followed by Parkite Colby Stevenson in second and Alex Bellemare in third. Wednesday Hi Lo W 52 33 c 43 34 s 47 33 s 66 52 r 78 67 pc 67 44 s 75 52 s 78 71 pc 40 31 c 48 44 pc 65 54 r 42 34 s 50 41 s Thursday Hi Lo W 41 25 c 45 37 sh 51 50 r 65 44 s 79 70 s 65 48 s 75 53 s 81 65 t 36 25 c 58 56 r 59 45 r 45 44 pc 61 55 r City Oklahoma City Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Providence St. Louis San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle Tampa Washington, DC Wednesday Hi Lo W 57 39 c 75 62 sh 45 32 s 70 45 s 45 33 s 41 28 s 58 41 pc 67 49 s 70 50 s 60 48 pc 52 46 sh 73 64 sh 50 37 pc Thursday Hi Lo W 55 32 s 72 59 r 48 47 r 74 47 s 50 40 r 49 41 pc 46 30 r 64 41 s 70 53 s 57 51 pc 54 39 r 72 60 r 51 49 r City Auckland Bangkok Barbados Beijing Berlin Buenos Aires Dublin Frankfurt Hong Kong Jerusalem London Montreal Wednesday Hi Lo W 72 62 c 92 75 s 85 79 pc 48 22 s 38 35 r 76 64 c 46 42 pc 42 39 r 74 69 pc 58 45 s 50 43 pc 31 24 pc Thursday Hi Lo W 70 62 r 92 76 s 85 77 pc 45 22 pc 42 38 sh 79 63 t 47 43 pc 44 42 sh 75 70 s 51 44 sh 50 45 pc 37 31 c City Moscow Oslo Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome San Juan Seoul Sydney Tokyo Toronto Warsaw Zurich Wednesday Hi Lo W 16 12 c 32 30 sn 50 42 pc 88 78 pc 56 46 pc 84 71 pc 44 28 pc 75 71 t 57 43 s 42 30 c 28 21 c 39 35 r Thursday Hi Lo W 16 9 c 33 27 sn 49 46 c 92 80 pc 59 41 r 85 74 pc 47 30 pc 86 70 t 55 43 pc 41 35 c 29 27 sn 44 36 sh Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. |