Salt Lake Tribune | 1999-01-19 | Page 31

OnO-K CAMPING Store those /y WINNER'S CIRCLE kip ?if01 K ip Pitou is the new president of Ski Utah, the arketing arm ofthe Utah Ski and Snowboard Association. Pitou, a New Hampshirenative who lived in Utah from 1980-95, comes to Ski Utah from GETAWAYSfii niingion Bay W interisatimewhensleeping | bags are stored in basement | corners. Makecertainthe; not stored in their stuff sacks. That the Seattle-based K2 Bike Inc., where he was presidentand chief operating officerfor four years. “Iam excited to be taking on a new challenge and I am par- seeps the warmthout of them. It is ter Olympics and the ongoing development of the state’s snow-sports industry,I can’t think of a better time to be here.” Pitou lives in Park City with his wife, Abby, a graphic designer. He has two grownchildren anda St. Bernard. Saturdayfora field trip to Farmington Bay andthe Antelope Island Causewayto see what the winter birdlife is like. Call Ray Smith at 530-7: better to store them hungorlaidout | loft, helping ensure warmth oncold | wet spring campingtrips. | on shelf. This will preserve the ticularly excited to be back in Utah,” said Pitou, a Canadian-certified ski instructor andthe brother of Olympic skier PennyPitou. “Between the 2002 Win- Js" the Great Salt Lake AudubonSociety Raa pean OF | U1 WHERE IS IT? If you canidentify where this winner. § OUTDOORS TheSalt LakeTribune | A WEEKLY GUIDE TO |U TAH O04, RECREATION ® ANN LANDERS, C-3_ @ HAPPENING TODAY, C-3 ™ COMICS, C-4 m TELEVISION LISTINGS, C-5 TOESBAY ™@ WEATHER, C-6 JANUARY 19, 1999 TOM WHARTON 20O02 Tutorial: Sixth in a Series A quiet yearonhill for wildlife issues Always a premier eventat the Winter Games because ofits global popularity, ice hockey has bs rekindied American YSentusiasn following The Positions 4 Unless shortened by penalty, each team hassix players on the ice — the center, two forwards(or the U.S. women's gold medal at wingers), two defensemen and a | | Naganoin 1998, Byall appearances, the upcoming Utah Legislature could bea quiet one for state parks and wildlife enthusiasts. Gameplayed on ice is world’s fastest BY BRETT PRETTYMAN THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE To some observers, hockey There are the usual “housecleaning”bills. | One, for example, wouldgivefree fishing licensesto the blind,disabled andfoster chil dren understate care. Another would do awaywith a requirement that cougar and bearhunterspurchasea smallgamehuntinglicense. Instead, a simple permit wouldbe required. Still another wouldgrant falconersa threeyearcertificate of registration that matches a similar federal permitinsteadof a yearly lookslike a complicated sport. While the lines andcircles on the ice may be penta and g, hockimplesport “Canadians invented it— how tough can it be?” said Utah Grizzlies President Tim Mous: e as Americans need to give ourselves credit that we can understand the game.If you can cheer when the puck license. goes in the opponent's net and boo whenit goes in ours, you General fundingforthe Division of Wildlife Resourcesis not expectedto change substan: tially from the $3 million the agencyreceives. Hunters and anglerswill continue to provide the major revenue for wildlife management. Butthere is alwaysthe possibilityof a surprise. are anexpert.” But mostfans are not content to watch a game whose intrica- cies they do not understand With that in mind, andthe fact that Salt Lake City will play host to the biggest hockeytournamentin the worldduring the For example,a fewrurallegislators may push the idea of legalized “hunting” on elk ranch something Division ofWildlife Resourcesoffi-z 2002 Winter Olympic Games, hereis a primer on oneofthe Legislature wouldevenconsider peiraee slaughter should be offensive to Utah hunters. Onelegislator is considering a bill granting anglers accessto fishing streams that run through private lands. While this might help anglers reach someprime fishing water formerly off limits, it mayraise private-property-rights issues. Nothingtooexciting is expectedtoaffect other forms of Utahrecreation. Onebill would increase the amountofcontri bution from the motor-fueltax to the Off-High way Vehicle Accountfrom $600,000to $1 million. That wouldgive aboost totrail-enhancement projects and snowmobile grooming for the increasing number ofUtahoff-highway-vehicle enthusiasts. Another would clarify the authorityof the BoardofState Parks andRecreationto close someportions ofstate parksto protect public safety, watershed,plants andwildlife. Theoneparksbill that could generate some interest, shouldit appear, would beoneto adopt a flat tax on off-highway vehicles and boats. Insteadof paying property tax based on the val ueof a vehicleorboat, owners would pay the samefee. That might soundgoodat first, butit could meanthe owner ofa $100,000 houseboat would paythe sameas a person who ownsan $800 fish ing boat. This has thepotential of subst lowering thetax bill on the expensivecra Icing the Vocabulary Hereare a few termsthatwill smooth your skateinto Olympic hockey knowledge: the offensive, they work the comers,try to set up the center or complete plays spearheaded opposing winger Defensemen — They are the I Defensemenare usually bigger players with the ability to skate Puck prior toa — Starting play by or shoulderto slow or stop an who are opponent who has the puck, _olher in one of five face: Not allowed in women's games. circles on the rink. feing — When offensive or. 1 goal ling backward as well as they do forward. On the offensive they ! stand just inside the opposing zone keeping the puckinside and helping to set up the forwards. Goalie Heis the lastline of defense betweenthe opponents and the net. A goalie must have lightning-fast reflexes and the agility of a catif he is to stop player(s) crossing the blue line before the puck. The puck must SS Oo 4 Puck from within his or her ‘(own zone across the _, defensive zone nee a ‘ \ He 1 each attacking player can legally Ay s goal zone enter the offensive zone. eee haven ee ¥ Women's sticks are thinner in radius at the handle and the on m i PE AF ) ' Ai it 1 h > 1 ' 1 The Olympic ice hockey fink posesa greater women's 1 afmen's city parks to fundparks acquisitions and recreationalfacilities, Hailburton deseribed the game with pleasure [on] the play mane ! Blades are the same. dler Hailburton, In a subsequent book called Attache, ee 1 blue line 1 control The first written recordof the sport came in 1836 in the book Clockmaker, by Thomas Chan he pla i ee f_f {} game“ice hurley eee ete sharpshooters from Sticks As part 1 goalie's last line ofdefense. scoring on him. kes chased a rubber ball ‘oundthe i d called the Offside — An al —_stick is on the ice.It'sillegal. Body Check — Using the hip dropping the puck between two pass the blue biine before an man-to-man coverage of their Themost interesting natural-resources dyr ic in this 's slature may be the increas There appearsto be a good chance C ongress could fully fund the d and Water Conse! tion Fund, givinga place forstate, county last two players to handle the by him. On defense,they provide whileincreasing thecost ofregistering a small boat. i upport for preserving open spacesin urbanareasandsaving ranches and agricultur al landsin Utah's rural counties This sentiment goes hand-in-hand withseveral federal initiatives designed to dothe same thing. world’sfastest sports HockeyHistory:Theorigins of hockey can betraced to Windsor, Nova Scotia, where students of Canada’s King’s Col lege in the late 1700s began playing the Irish field game of hurling (originallycalled “hurley") on ice. The boys using challengefor the U.S. men because itis larger than therinks that National Hockey League teamsand a nongamewildlife and education progra: Matching fundswill likely be needed to tap into those new potential federal revenues. Expect to see a push by parks and wildlife offi Cials in 2000,if not sooner, to find a sourceof permanent funding to preserve Utah's quality of And, ofcourse, the potential for surprise is ways there. panren for example, the mea surethat becameProposition 5 came out of nowherein the middleofthesession. Are any similarsurprises on the horizonthis ‘Tom Wharton welcomes e-mail at [e-mail] at ground, with games at basein thefields, or hurley on thelong pond ontheice.” The name hockey apparently evolved from a Col. Hockey, an officer stationed at Fort Edward in Windsor. His troops played ice hurley, and eventually the sport becameknownas “Hock ey's game.’ The ball eventually becamea wood block and in 1877, some one cut a rubberball and made the first puck. About the same time, teams began forming. The sport eventually workedits way south Ive hockey debuted in the Olympic mes in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium. Canada, of course, won the gold while the United States ned silver, led by Hall of Famep college teamsplay on. Women's teams have Moose oss of an adjustment becausethey practice ‘on Olympic-sized rinks, States ThddAd The Salt Lake repe: medalists in 1 24 in Chamonix See HOCKEY, Page C-3 of that effort, a new “Teaming With Wildlife"* proposal could be funded by outer continental-shelf oil-drilling revenues,giving Utah as muchas $6milliona yearto f student King's yelpin’, hol lerin’ and whoopin’ like mad Trip to Lehman Cavesfeels like space exploration BY SKIP KNOWLES THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE BAKER, Nev. Want to buy makes anyone feel like a space explorer Fewvisitors enter without being acheap ticket to anotherplanet? Lehman Caves in Great Basin Park, just overthe Utah-Nevada bi order, is as close as a visitor will come to step ping on Mars, Stooping, side wiggling and squeezing throughthe ong nar row passages between open caverns awed by a spectacular array oftex tures, contours, shapes and patterns underground. ‘Twenty-odd miles of jaw-dropping silence and beauty were carved from natural limestonestarting more than 550 million years ago when most of Utah and Nevada were covered by a warm shallow sea. Now, a wild world awaits, just $4 and three hoursfrom the Salt Lake Valley Lehman Caves are among the most decorated” in the country, This is the truest cave experience a person can expect without being a full-blown spelunker crawling through the Earth. This is not a place for the claustro. phobic ‘Tours lasting 60 to 90 minutes and running a half-mile underground are the norm, Big stalactites often connectto stalagmites on thefloor by pencil-thin “straws,” Where twohave Unlikethe unending openspacesof touchedfor a long time, a massivecol such famous caves as New Mexico's Carlsbad Cavernsor the barren look of more mammoth caves elsewhere, visitors herewill feel they are truly umnupto 24 feet long canbe formed. Bizarreshields loomlike solid stone satellite dishes. ‘They are rare in SecLEHMAN CAVES, Page C6 .