| Show 1 It 1 Si 4774t AS s -4 rt -1- A A 1 1 :4 j s !i s t4 1 i" - 1 ebow T r7-1-- 7 et: Lila : A s ‘ 4j01 woom MONDAY February I — ilis-1- 44 --- 4 i!j r id Recreation Desk: 23722070 4 r te: 0 ‘444-41 -"it 1 iFt00 1 ft 41"4) — - t 1 t : t 1 nr 4 i C8 1992 7 N f I ' - z 4 : Veteran Ice Climber Knows Incredible Feeling of Fear ''' 4 1 i t 1 1 i 4 -- I i 'i d i N By Craig Hansen ‘ i THE SALT LAKE v 14 a I - I t i1 I t Marc Twight first experienced fear on a peak called Nanga Par-ba- t in Pakistan Twight has a long list of impres- - ' ' I r 'M' I 'C) sive mountaineering and ice climbing accomplishments but if you ask him about the zenith of his fear he will relate the Nanga t story He was with four climbers attempting the Rupal Face of this peak one of the world's 14 tallest As has become his style they were climbing fast and light — at the end of alpine style The weather turned bad The climbers found themselves in the middle of a huge bowl with the only retreat down the same funnel couloir they ascended They were rappelling when the avalanche began The four climbers were hanging by one ice screw — one sliver of metal screwed into the ice wall Snow boomed down the couloir in heavy waves All they could do was huddle in their parkas and wait for the ice screw to fail and dash them to their deaths thousands of feet below That climb is one time Tvvight used a rope and climbed with companions Most of his climbs have been solo and without the security of a rope "If I take a sleeping bag it is almost like I am assuming I will have to bivouac and use it" Twight said "If I take a rope I am just preparing to rappel off" Twight is a firm advocate of bridge burning and creating the mental pressure for success and not allowing for failureHe will present his own brand of success at a slide show in the U of U Behavioral Science Auditorium Thursday at 7:30 pm Although Twight 30 was born in Yosemite National Park and lived for a time at Mount Rainier he was 20 before he began a relentless pursuit of technical rock and ice climbing Now he lives in Chamonix France One advantage to his solo efforts is the speed with which he can accomplish the climbs In the ( : i Par-ba- - I 2 ' J'' - - - ( r ' k 1 1 '' V -- - '''' i I I ' I - - -- '— - 1 I - -- tr- r i 1 ot it 1 avant-gard- - - — i - " - - 1 t - I t - ' I vo rd':- I ) or '" I - ' P ! I ' " P - tt- - i - 1 - : - ' " ' 1 - - - I 4 ' ' t 1 ' 1 - 1 j ' t e - - I Jeff lilred'The Salt Lake Tribune I Siav 1 i Frank:in Idaho takes to the air in annual Atlealson Tr-Mill- Hogs Back snowmobile hill climb above Wellsville er 1 1 Snowmobilers Cllirn Dairy Farmer's Hill 1 1 I I i : I Ry Craig' Hartsell :r 1 brush-covere- d FUR — At first the Intl was simply sieep and gnarly Rot by time 2Tt) snowmoks hail gnawed away at it for it was much of the weekend more dirt than snow Such 'vas life at the annual Tri1Mstler 1 Zack Hill Climb in Cache County For many sledders the hill climb is the culmination of years of snowmobiling Totthe tiny hamlet of Wellsville the second- annual hill climb is an attraction which rivals the annual Founders Day 1 ie I i I Open-Modifie- held-recentl- 1 The Wellsville race is only one a number of western events which aOract many of the same competitors Other events are hold at Meeker: Colo: Jackson Wyo and Sheridan Wyo ICH climbers were divided into eight power classes The drag race offered competition for sledders with an engine size of less than Mice and an open class Millville's Kim Ropelato riding a tricked out Polaris RZ 700ce snowmobile sped and of 1 1 i I stock class King of The Hill honors have formed Team Flash and Crash Ropelato estimates he has $20000 invested in his modified electronic-fuel-injecte- d snowmobile "We're geared to run this stuff at 80 MPH We gear for mega power and thrust and it will do it straight up a telephone pole" Rope tato said of his modified machine's power Scott Murray an electrician from Clearfield has been snow- - fl LI 1 14 l1 oor tuoul 1 ' 1 i By 1 e Gives Kurt Kragthorpe i r "Itsamo at4 ' '41!fr' :'"'"''''s""""'"' it a quick drive to 2100 South in Salt Lake City home of Par T Golf the indoor simulator produced by Utah-baseOptronics Ltd This version of Spyglass Hill — or Pinehurst Pebble Beach and others — is not the real thing but is reasonably close thanks to a sophisticated computer system Optronics is even staging a first r world tournament for Snow MPAS on the ground the temperature was in the 20s and the air was thick Depressing? No kidding Good thing Spyglass Hill Golf Club had an opening for a twosome that afternoon Nothing like a round of golf to tweak through the inversion d ! llaching Spyglass Hill called two-playe- 2 ) 4 si 2 ti Ii $ 1 Gary Bigham wa- Marc Twight climbs French terfall route named Desperado a and the northeast ridge of Lane Peak in Pakistan He was also in a group which pioneered a new north face route on Mount Everest In Utah Twight said he enjoyed climbing the thin version of a formation called Post Nasal Drip in Provo Canyon and a route called Automatic Control Theory in Santaquin Canyon "I lift weights and run hills to stay in shape" said Twight "I have short periods of intense effort and then I rest Thirteen days is the longest time I have ever spent on a mountain "It is a conscious effort — how much strength do I have left In the mountains it is a hard equation 'Am I strong enough to go to the summit?' I have probably retreated off more things but I have tried more things on a higher Rockies ft— ''" 7r : ' AtO"I''''"t - - I '' :7- :- S0 ' : ' ' - 1 i:PeAwr21 01 - Jeff MiredThe St Lake Tritnine h's Official List of Birds Dates Back to Ancient Times Chris Gibbs Hyrum takes advantage of his snowmobile's power to ascend the challenging Hogs Rack 1111 Climb course L-ta- ation and premium gas to get the most power from his machine Logan's Kirk Williamson used trick fuel to push his 6707ce machine to victory in the open drag race According to Gnehm- a member of the organizing committee finishewho earned two s- plans are already underway for next year's event mobiling since 1974 "I've got about four of them snowmobiles but only one racing sled I have raced on grass in the summer and I have done some ice ovals but I like snow" Murray said Murray did come back to win Mice drag race the His machine is ported and piped and he runs a combination of avi less-tha- n top-thre- By 7 1 13-ho- See Column 3 with sporadic records throughout the interior It remains unrecorded west of the Rocky Mountains except for California On Jan 15 Craig Kneedy and I observed an adult lesser black backed gull preening on a snow bank near a Salt Lake landfill in the midst of a flock of 15000 Califonna and gulls Many migrants pass through Utah in spring and fall and occasionally a flock of these regular transients attract lost stragglers On May 18 Peter Paton a graduate student studying shorebirds on the Great Salt Lake discovered an unfamiliar strikingly rich chestnut colored shore bird feeding among a flock of 30 western sandpipers The curlew sandpiper a Eurasian species that may breed in small numbers in Alaska is only rarely seen in North America An interior spring record of See 6 Column 2 Bird pictures picked and painted on rocks and canyon walls by e C-1- Ella Sorensen SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE Photograph of the holes are projected onto the screen and three overhead cameras measure the speed angle and spin of the ball off the club The computer measures the flight and projects the bouncing ball onto the screen The distance of the shot is flashed on the scoreboard followed by a description of what's still ahead teams this year with local qualifyat ing scheduled for March close to 300 sites followed by regional tournaments and the finals in Salt Lake April "The Incredible Golf Machine as the Par T system is advertised allows golfers to play an round with standard clubs and balls hitting from a mat and putting- on an artificial surface Pomaraine Jaeger " 4007N" " " Paul Lehman Loon Yellow-Bille- d Golfers Place to Escape Winter for 1A K2 TRIM NE 4 - " Ropelato and David Shepard Jackson Mont who won the N a weather can change in a blink and the ability to move quickly reduces the time Twight is exposed to the ravages of mountain weather Some of his solo routes include: The Marsigny Route on Les Droites above Chamonix France Weeping Wall in the Canadian Sk prizes" climb' 1 ' 4 ' high alpine world mountain oi - ( ton-tune- d ! 1 t com- bination of plastic paddles and metal picks as long as two inches These were attached to the snowmobile's tracks The riders also wore plastic body armor in case they fell off and one of the traemachines ran over them "We need a little more snow: But it seems no matter how much snow we have we always get down to the dirt" Ropelato said "We have the world's best hill climbers here and we are a to pay out a little over $19000 in t300-fo- 4 4 1 d he said Most competitors used a parade An estimated 3000 spectators watched man and machine chalclimb to the lenge tthe 1 top of the ridge on the Kerr family dairy west of town "I raced in six classes including the ophill drag race" said WelIsville's Vern Gnehm who usPd three different snowmobiles "I' do a lot of trail riding hut even then I like to hill 1 1 bounced his machine throtigh the snow and over hillside to become King of The Mountain He won the Divisions: and "I have won King at Jackson in both stork and Wyoming modified divisions and both mod and stock at Omak Wash before I've been competing- since 1985 r ride three times a week when I'm not working on these" LAKE TRIBUNE W ELLSV 1 00° e ij 2 Native Americans provide man's earliest written record of birds in Utah A 1776 description by the Escalante expedition of cliff swallow nests in the Uinta basin is the oldest recorded bird sighting by Anglo explorers These were the beginnings of Utah's state bird list a list of all birds scientifically documented as occurring within the state's borders By the end of 1990 the list of birds accepted by the Utah Ornithological Society tallied 380 species Surprisingly six new species were added in 1991 The lesser gull a European species is suspected of having a small breeding population somewhere in North America They occur in winter in the east ring-bille- black-backe- d d C-- - 2CM1 GIA1171 11Ae - 4 r w And right now take advantage of special financing or get up 0 saa aal e'- ) to $2C00 cash back on select models e - i ("Ne 5 All 'i 4'a i w ) ' oak- - up to work 100 qtattantei tt We twe (miti reoloeemente Aceoptott he AL intAtrante eateneniet We cltqt1 directly with your insuranee ca 1 1 of four insurinto dcAuclible 0 F ) ‘4:7-— — rlit 1 ' ' -- : V I 4 4a4-618- 1 ?T LS Ci Own GAG plus ta-- t Itc e Ate' ti - " 4mri it A at ' I 10 i ' ' ta drive Fehome amen ermine kw lunt 906 down and I 49 a month But nutty thet smeetai imew opportunity to experitnwm yoor own PAqicAt entifi Vietwoary '29 1991 !atm z ' - des) ch az 411 — - 3 All makos & morfrio h pripd in Volidtert Audt otehe BMW & Moteskleq - - ummtv A Drot:510N A-- 1 llwa fa a t '4 rv611 10mo eraaa-la- l laRag o eltr ormr tm maditimal aletan tal-- 1 OF cirJALrry GLAS: A4 4- Lr:24 SP 01 :1 77 01 ta V for 4 abaR : dab LI Prmo 1:0- - CAll I fif 1 oro -rrl trey mohilo ooPtvr fram Olden to :- :- C-4E- L TIERS k EI-01t:'"L- obwinkim State 0 :' - I 22E0 ''' A A111 i i 4 4-- 11 :f!!4 rt 4ii iii A2401 woo re A 4'111td ON L V ILIL 211 la 01 oP nut) a rem thin ymt ran :4 iii--44 5 ' SO °Ken Gar Mitsubishi 'Fr" 117 I LOOvED T"LITTER 1992 DUICZ LESABR7 e01 - r!fr ovQk o 'Lao 0 0 r p 1r 4s Ak11144 I0 taw vti la ir tan( An awar1 lalat TAti ag wv- - ilaer tiwIbr e !'r - riqwwfit nwr a A1--- ol " 7ie 1irt11 0 11 aate t10114 5300 SO STATZ e I I PFR 4 ‘—1 MONTH OM orwt ek awl 4AAetmouaturAms rffiert rpttnow rrquirod ay 4"c ?r ') A- - -- r4 pHoo 7 t 4 Lo rvo1- - anr1 get hy mytwt 110 roweVe otIn mot rthIstury 4 t401 1 4 262-231- 1 a I i t A T 9 fi) - 0" - ' |
