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Show 8 A Emery County Tuesday, November 14, 1995 Progress SPORTS "Greatest snow on Earth" awaits skiers for 1995-9- 6 season The Utah Ski Association offers the following information about skiing in Utah for the 1995-9- 6 season: Alta Ski Area- - Alta's Collins Lift has been upgraded, with Yan designing new, more comfortable chairs. Other efforts include revegetation at the Alpenglow Restaurant, trail grooming (particularly at the Albion base), tree planting and grading on the "So Long" run off the Supreme Lift, and tree planting in the Glory Hole area. The Albion Day Lodge received a face lift with new stucco and additional restrooms and lockers. The Wildcat Ticket Office was remodeled with an automatic central door to enhance the efficient flow of the ticket sales operation. Brian Head Resort- - Brand new this season will be the addition of the Family Adventure Park located among the easier and intermediate terrain adjacent to runs off the Navajo Chairlift. The park will feature a terrain garden, tree pathways, and other on-sadventures for the entire family. Also new at Brian Head this year will be a completely ski school format that will incorporate programs mid-mounta- in ki panded ticket sales windows, new lockers and lots of new restrooms along with Brighton Mountain Sports and Rentals, which features all new ski and snowboarding rental equipment for the 1995-9- 6 season. Brighton will also shed more light on three new trails, (advanced), "My-O-M- "Win-tergree- y" n" (intermediate) and "Tantamount" (intermediate), for a total of 18 night skiing runs. Brighton is celebrating 60 years of great skiing and continues to offer values to skiers and snowboarders throughout the year. Deer Valley Resort- - More than $7 million in improvements were made at Deer Valley Resort in preparation for the 1995-9- 6 season. The Snow Park Lodge restaurant, ticket office, ski school, locker and changing areas, ski rental, child care, basket and ski check, parkingski drop-ofretail and office space areas have been expanded by a total of 40,000 square feet in order to better serve guests. Snowmaking capacity has been increased on each of the resort's f, three mountains, and Deer Valley will offer guided snowcat skiing tours of its planned expansion area, Em- highlights $2.5 million in with "adventure" themes. pire Canyon, which features mountain improvement at Brian Head will offer lessons 1,220 vertical feet of double Park City this year. New snowon the latest in ski technology, blue and black diamond runs making has been added along parabolic skis. The parabolic with steeps, chutes and open King Con Ridge and the Tempbowls. Visitors can preview and tation Run, increasing Park skis, which are hourglassshaped, help improve skiing ski the terrain of Empire CanCity Ski Area's snowmaking and offer an entirely new snowcat by yon purchasing capacity by 20 acres and mak-ing- a sensation. Furthermore, rides for $5 per person per ride. total of 420 acres of skiing the ski school will offer lessons The new area, which will ex- terrain covered with machine-mad- e on Fat Skis for instruction on pand Deer Valley's skiable tersnow. With the addipowder conditions, and several rain by 640 acres, is expected tional snowmaking on King new family ski programs. Two to be open for skiing Con Ridge, the ski area can new sports shops are opening in the 1996-9- 7 ski season. provide excellent early-seaso- n Nordic Valley Ski Moun- skiing conditions in the King on the mountain, one at Giant Steps and the other at the tain- Most notably new at Con area and provide another Navajo Lodge. Rental service Nordic Valley this year is a route to the summit from the this year will offer Fat Skis, new logo and a name change base of the mountain, via the parabolic skis and Sled Dogs from Nordic Valley to Nordic Eagle triple chair. Other imBrian Valley Ski Mountain. The provements this season include (the latest Head is also offering an early-seaso- n name change reflects the area's the Plaza at the Snowboard Park adjapromotion of the fact that they ski area base, renovation of are an alpine ski area. Skiers the skier's information center cent to the Giant Steps Chairlift, and an increase in events at the resort will notice all new in the plaza and completion of trail signs this season as well the and competitions for both skiEmployee Building which ers and snowboarders to enjoy. as the creation of the "New is located just south of the upSnowcat access to Brian Head Nordic Ski School" which ski parking lot near the base of Peak will continue this season area sources say has some se- per the resort. as well. cret new programs in store that Snowbasin- - Snowbasin will Resort-Brighto- n include competitive pricing and be the site of the men's and Ski Brighton is proud to welcome programs involving the local women's Downhill and Super skiers with its brand new day schools. G during the 2002 Olympic lodge, the Brighton Center. The Park City Ski Area- - In- Winter Games. In preparation $2.2 million Center houses ex creased snowmaking capacity for the Games, plans are underway to start cutting the runs and install a new lift in the on-slo- new double chairlift, will be up and running for opening day of ski season. The the 1995-9- 6 addition of this double chair will not only expand the resort's beginner and intermediate pe lift-serv- snow-skate- John Paul area of the mountain. Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort- - Baby Thunder, a ter-rai- n, but will increase ed . ). Fishing at Lake Powell is fair with some excitement DWR Gillnets were recently pulled at Joe's Valley Reservoir and the results support the charge g for a predator. There's a growing population of Utah chubs in the reservoir. Chubs are not found in any of the drainages connected with the reservoir, and there's no historical evidence that they fish-eatin- were ever there. Illegally stocked, these chubs are now competing with rainbow trout ? life-sty- altogether. Solitude Ski Resort- - Improvements at Solitude this ' year include the announcement of the opening of the first overnight accommodations at the. resort. Along with a variety of one- - to condos, skiers will find the Creekside at Solitude Restaufeaturrant, open g baked over ing and fresh pastas. specialties Also improved this year are increased snowmaking capabilities which now cover five lifts and 18 runs at the resort; a face lift for the Sunshine Grill and the Roundhouse Restauand a rant at d new children's ski school area! And don't forget, as of last year, Solitude opened their new day lodge, the Last Chance Mining Camp. three-bedroo- m snowbird's vertical rise to 3 ,240 feet. Baby Thunder also augments Snowbird's uphill capacity by 1,200 skiers per hour. Snowbird is also introducing the KIDS STAY FREE program this year. The program is simple- - up to two children (12 and under) ski all chairs free with each adult who purchases chair or tram ticket. an y (Add $10 per child for the tram; no black ouUperiods; no lodging requirements). Plus Snowbird will be adding a new trail off the Chikadee bowl for beginners and a kids' snow playground. To make all of Snowbird's new additions more accessible for everyone, the resort is installing a new com- Sundance- - Sundance has retired the old Navajo and Mandan lifts and added a new quad lift which includes downloading to the mountain base. Also, this season Sundance will puterized ticketing, system welcome all-da- which will ensure prompter service at the ticket office. For skiers with pre-pai- d tickets, it year-roun- d, wood-burnin- mid-mountai- n; troll-theme- world-renowne- Total Quality Skiing, teaches skiers how to learn and improve performance. White Pine Touring- - White Pine now has 20 kilometers of groomed trails for diagonal and skiing. skating They offer guides and equipment sales and rentals, including snowshoes. cross-count- different type of experience to look forward to in the park this winter. Not to leave skiers out of the fun, Wolf Mountain is also creating a separate skier's terrain park in which everyone is welcome to play. The park includes bumps, gates and other fun challenges for all snow-slider- for food. Splake may be the answer. "We have a unique opportunity here," says Kevin Christopherson, southeastern region aquatics manager for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. "We have a large population of splake. The literature indicates that splake over 16 inches are So we thought if we could keep a good number of larger splake we could control chubs biologifish-eater- s. le cally."' A cross between ch : ch : lake trout and brook trout, splake are becoming a predominant fish eater in several reservoirs in Utah. But, they do not begin feeding on smaller fish until after their second year. "We want to protect those fish until report instructor Jerry Warren as director of skiing for the 1995-9- 6 season. Jerry's program, By Emily Kofford Rodeo club reporter ST. GEORGE- - Some of the members travelled to St. George last weekend to compete for points. It they reach 16 inches," Christopherson explained. "That's when we think they will switch to a fish diet and do the most good. So the regulation is a normal limit of trout, but all splake under 16 inches must be released." Splake, rainbow trout, and cutthroat trout are all actively feeding at Joe's Valley Reservoir. Try trolling small rapalas and spinners. Many reservoirs were first constructed to hold water for irrigation use. Fish were added for recreation or established themselves from the streams. If that water supply is grained too low, or used up, fish perish. Working with irrigation companies, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources buys conservation pools in reservoirs to protect fish. "A conservation pool is a legal purchase of water rights in an irrigation storage reservoir owned by an irrigation company," s. Rodeo Ski d ry Wolf Mountain Resort- Changes at WolfMountain this year includejncreased grooming and snowmaking,, as well as enhancement and updating of the snowboard park. Snowboarders will have a new and Wildlife briefs By Wayne Gustaveson writer Fishing at Lake Powell is winding down for the year, but with water temperatures in the 60s, there is still some good bass fishing going on. Feeding periods are shorter. Bass have plenty of feed with shad and sunfish around every bush. So, for serious catching to happen you must make a good presentation with a lure that interests the fish. Best i baits now are those that can invade the bass hideout and not require a long chase. One lure that works well under ; these circumstances is a slowly retrieved spinnerbait that bumps branches and limbs as it crawls over and around brush. The standard grubs,jibs, and spoons catch their fair share but, the spinnerbait is more weedless and can go more places without hanging up. Water temperatures at Lake Powell have been ideal for striped bass. If a big striper had a thermostat he would set it for 64 degrees F. This should be the peak week for striper activity before they go deep for the winter. One drawback is that abundant shad have made feeding easy for stripers and they have not had to work hard to find food the past, i month. The schools have broken down into small groups. Fish are randomly scattered. They feed quickly and easily. Boils still happen, particularly at Hite and Piute Farms, but there is not much consistency. Just be ready for action when schools are encountered and make the best of it, , One piece of information that may help is that stripers have grown compla- - living in this luxurious,: easy cent. They can be conned into eating one big fish instead of 10 little ones. Anglers at Piute Farms have been doing well on huge plugs fished just beneath the surface. The Bomber Long A Magnum are working Redfin or where Zara Spooks are being ignored. You might try digging out the biggest lure in the tackle box and try for a big striper. Water temperature is still in the range that allows you to catch catfish and bluegill too. Fishing is mostly fair inter?' spersed with some moments of sheer excitement. eliminates the ticket office stop said Dale Hepworth, southern region aquatics manager for the division. "That company can do whatever they want with the water. If we purchase part of that as a conservation pool, was beautiful weather down there for the first time in a long time, and f it won't be drained." If the water level drops too low, it would freeze solid during winter months, or at least not hold enough oxygen to sup-- . port fish. By holding enough water in reserve, fish will make it through the winter season, offering some ice fishing opportunities and, of course, provide better summer fishing. "The best opportunities have been a win-wi- n situation with irrigation companies and sportsmen," Hepworth added. "The irrigation company needs the funds and help with repair work and, in the process, the reservoir or lake can be enlarged for storage and 'there's a pool for fish." Funds to buy these conservation pools come from federal money now, but, with the new Habitat Authorization all anglers and hunters will be required to buy starting in 1996, more projects will be possible. Recently, a portion of the Provo River was adopted as part of the Adopt-a-Waterbo- dy program. Otherwise known as the Stream Team, concerned (Continued on Page 3B) . everyone enjoyed themselves. : There were a few plac- - f ing in the top 10. Now they will have to do good I for two more weekends to place in the Dixie series. Friday, Clinton Coyne placed fourth in the team roping with Sevier part: ner Haley Nielson, Brock ji Truman placed third in the calf roping. Emily Kofford placed ninth in the goat tying. Kendra Gunter was fourth in goats, and Casey Miller was fifth in the saddle broncs. Ryan Anderson took third in cow cutting. Other results were un- ; available. On Saturday, Josh Wilson and Angie Gilbert got f second in the team roping. Casey Miller cap-- : . i tured first in the saddle broncs, and Kendra Gunter placed in the breakaway. Ryan Ander-- ; son was third in cow ! i |