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Show Wednesday, December THE PARK CITY 11, 1974 com Page 9 Alta Lodge Employee Skiing Restricted SNOW By RACERS RETURN Twelve of the world's top ski racers will represent Sun Valley this season on the World Professional Skiing circuit. A team comprised of everyone from last year's second fastest racer. Italian Renzo Zandegiacomo. to French ski racing's three l musketeers. Auger t, Patrick Russel, and Jean-Noe- Henri Duvillard arrived in last week. The team will represent Sun Valley in 12 races throughout the United States and Canada before returning "home" for the final pro race in this country. the Lange Cup. March 29 Sun Valley GPCC Employees all the employees skiing, it would wipe out the mountain," stated Greater Park City Company President Warren King in a special meeting called for With Resort employees Friday, December 6th. Basing his statements on the possibility of a small four-inc- h snowfall, Mr. King asked employees to hold off skiing for pleasure until such time as the Resort receives a major snowfall assured that guests can ski safely and comfortably. Mr. King described the mountain as having many runs in excellent shape at the top, but the lower part of the mountain as a broken chain". "We have up to two feet on top, but at the bottom theres only three inches over dirt, said Mr. King. Asking for understanding on the no employee skiing policy, Mr. King said that 3 and there are no customers, there no jobs and no skiing for anyone. He emphasized that the decision was only temporary and that the Resort would get employees on the mountain as soon as possible. Reporting on his Thursday inspection of the mountain. Mountain Operator Phil Jones said that with one more storm the Resort would be in business. "We are damn close to opening," said Mr. Jones. We will open 24 hours after the next major storm." are RESORT OPENS The Greater Park City Company opened its ski area for business on Monday, December 9th. Only the upper portion of the mountain is being used for skiing, and skiers have had to make the trip up and the trip back via the gondola. Skiing is restricted to paying customers only, and GPCC employees are not allowed to use the mountain for recreational purposes until snow conditions improve. Resort officials are reporting a base. Cross-Countr- Team's domestic schedule was held in Cooke City on December 7 8th. In - the announcing change. coach special Steve Williams noted that conditions on the trails at Big Sky were not promising, so the races were transferred to Cooke City, where the team had been training for two . weeks with excellent conditions. y The 13 U.S. Team members at Cooke City had been completing two workouts each day to prepare for the weekend races. The U.S. skiers faced a strong j challenge in the meet from ; four top Finnish competitors - who joined than at Cooke cross-countr- y ; : Cross-Countr- City on November 30th. The guests included Juhani Repo, winner of the at the 1974 Finnish Ski Games in Lahti, and Hilkka Kuntola. who won the at 10km the 1974 Holmenkollen. Joining them were a coach and competitors Ato Koivisto and Liisa Suilkoncn. Following the Montana races, the Finns traveled to Aspen, Colo., with the U.S. y Team for two races at Snowmass December Other Colorado races include one at Vail on December 17th and one at Keystone the next day. The Finns will also join the U.S. team in meets in Vermont and New Hampshire before returning to Europe December 22nd. Cross-Countr- h. The the Sun Valley Pro Team were guests of honor at an in- formal fund-raisin- held to benefit the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation junior racing teams. Prizes presented by the pros to included pairs of Rossignol and Dynastar skis. Look bindings. Scott poles and goggles, and Salomon travel and ski bags. More than 600 residents of the Sun Valley area attended the party to welcome the pros home and to wish them luck World Pro on the 1974-7- 5 Skiing circuit . Representing Sun Valley this season will be Eberhard Schmalzl. Otto Tschudi, Henri Duvillard. Alain Penz, par-tygoe- rs Augert, Roger Renzo Zan- GALS TO REPRESENT SUN VALLEY 12 members of the 1975 assistant coach Severud, and the Canadian officials have done a fantastic job of preparing the hills for our training. The jumpers plan to get in a large number of practice jumps at Banff before moving to Thunder Bay, Ont .. December 20th for training on the 70-- and hills there. The jumpers will be joined in Banff by the U.S. Nordic Combined Team, which has been training y at the U.S. National Training Center in Snowball Leslie Ruscitto. a nine-yea- r Sun Valley resident, is a former racing coach for the Sun Valley junior ski team. Slip finished 14th nationally in '74. Leslie docs not confine her freewheeling antics to skiing, but also competes in the offseason in moto-cros- s events on her cycle. Karen Huntoon. Brandon. Vt.. is a formidable mogul competitor, placing high in the Eastern, Western, and Rocky Mountain Championships. She is also the 1974 mogul event World Chamn pion. A former Sun Valley ski instructor, Kathy Brock is as agile in the aerial events as in ballet, ranking overall in the first five in the Eastern. Western, and Rocky Mountain Championships, ami the overall winner at the Freestyle Alpenfest event g e, U.S. Jumping Team arrived in Banff on December 1st for training on the 60- - and hills. We have over a foot of snow on the jumps, says ap- parties, and student assemblies, racers on degiacomo. Patrick Russel. Eddie Reich. Pierre Pouteil-NoblWhit Sterling, and Jacques. Quenot. y First Meet Relocated Finnish After numerous public pearances. Rossat-Migno- Cross-Countr- I)uc to limited snow at Big Mont., the first comy petition on the U.S. 30th. Jean-No- 26-in- ch Sky. -- Four of the most sizzling female freestyle stars will represent Sun Valley this season at contests in major U.S. ski areas and Cervinia. Italy. Happy to call Sun Valley their home are Leslie Ruscit-to- , Karen Huntoon, Kathy Brock, and Pat Whitcomb. To Perform Skiing contest. She is also a former coach at Airborne" Eddie Ferguson's freestyle ski camp. Pat Whitcomb. 26, is a PN-Scertified ski instructor. She is tall and graceful, excels in ballet, and placed well in the Eastern, Western, and Rocky Mountain Championships. She is the Alpenfest Freestyle Ballet Cham- A pion. Sun Valley's own freestyle and ballet tournament, the lhil Jones H: 3(1 Director of Park City Ski School and Resort Operations EQUIPMENT With your body hopefully getting into shape, spend a few minutes and do likewise with your equipment. Get everything out of storage poles, boots, and skis. More than likely, youll find everything caked with a layer of mud from last years jaunts through the spring puddles. Clean all the mud off everything. As you do, inspect the baskets on your poles. Hot, dry summers are really hard on rubber, and if its beginning to deteriorate, replace the basket. Better now than when you lose it while skiing! Do a thorough job on your boots. After cleaning your skis, spray some silicone on the bindings. Its also a good idea to have the bindings checked to make sure the release is still set right. This is especially important if your skis have been bouncing around in or on your car for awhile, since much jarring will change the important thing to realize in cleaning your boots and bindings is the part that friction, or the lack of it, plays in the proper release of your binding. Any dirt on either the boot or ski will cause greater friction and could well cause the binding to not release in a serious fall . An Junior Mints Challenge, 22 - 23. will feature For appearances sake, clean the tops of your skis and put on some spray wax. If youre so motivated, fill any gouges in the bottom of your skis, flat file, and then hot wax. Othercompete side by side, with facan added critical timing wise, take them to one of the ski shops and have tor. them do it. Better performance from your skis is In the original "do your own thing" sport, the gals are well worth the nominal cost. taking the initiative to do it Another important thing to remember is that if their way: They began last have new boots, you should have your old binyear with the formation of you their own governing body and dings readjusted since the outside lengths of boots February a new wrinkle in the spoil a dual mogul competition. Women mogulbusters will circuit the World Hot Dog Ski Association with about 45 women competing, many former U.S. Ski Team members. Prizes on their newly-founde- d circuit have risen from the first year's token $10,(XX) to a healthy $54,000 for the 1974-7- 5 tour, a very real indication that lady hot dogging is catching on like wildfire. vary. To get your equipment into top shape takes very little time and is time well-speto protect your safety. nt BY-PA- SS 1 -- 7pmtel.742-2376Snowbird, Ski Movies at Snowbird Ski movies are shown every Mixuluy night in tlx Snowbird Confer e n e e R nom. Snowbird Sunshine" and Warren Miller's "Color of are featured Skiing" regularly along with a variety ot other presen- tations. The movies lxgin at PM aixl admission is $1 7 . Stabutiks Bring Snow Tlu stabutiks ceremonies which luive lxen taking ilacc at the Goldminer's Daughter Dxlge al Alla for the last two weeks have apparently prixiuced results. Stahutik rites are a combination of a little iiocus-xcu- s and a lot of bourlxxi, and are designed to bring snow. Standing and facing the mountain, participants place their leit hands on top of their heads and wish for snow while drinking a combination of orange juice and Ixiurbon. The liquids are separated in a large hourglass-typtainer with the bourixm e con- on top and the ornage juice in the bottom portion. Stabutiks ceremonies have been known to cause avalanches in tlx past, but it was feared that livers would fail before tlu snow fell this season. Mountain realty P.O. BOX 736 - PARK PHONE (801 ) 649-989- CITY - UTAH 1 84060 or 8581 cross-countr- Park City. November 17th. Utah, since snowbird pharmacy open daily 9am PM. will The presentation feature "Tlx Mechanicals" by William Shakespeare, selections of contemporary poetry. "Act 111 of Othello" Inby Sliakespcarc. and une-ac- t a by play fancy". Thornton Wilder. Refreshments will lx available, and everyone is encouraged to attend what sluiuld lx a very enjoyable evening. ROAD READY RONPURDOM CRAIG MASTERS Mount Superior drugssundriesUSpostofficefree kjj Alta Izidge Players present "a short evening's entertainment" at Snow bird's Plaza Restaurant Conference Room on Wednesday. Decemlxr llth at Th will hQw Suiit'aUcu Idaho-bor- Players local delivery Utah Mt. Superior When slides, as it does every winter, and blocks access to Alta from Salt Lake City, skiers sit in their cars at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon, or at home, cussing nature and the road department, in that order. This winter, with road crew cooperation, access to Alta via the bypass road will be possible even if Superior does come down. The road has been redesigned and much of the has been steep grade eliminated. It has been widened and, best of all. blacktopped to make snow removal easier and faster. Prior to the building of Snowbird Resort down canyon, the road, which was built as a summer exercise by the Utah National Guard engineers, was used rarely in the winter since it was rarely plowed. Even then only drive vehicles could make it along the one-wa- y route. Snowbird took about half four-whe- the road and. since it has-bee-n past the Cliff Lodge to the south side of the canyon. Alta visitors should take the No. 4 exit to2 Snowbird to get on the RamI ton Road. On September 24th. State; Salt I.ake County. Salt Lake City, and Alta official dedicated the road which hopefully will be made, available every time ditions under Mt. Superior! and Hellgate make it inj possible to use the upper road. |