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Show Wednesday, December IS, 1974 THE PARK CITY Major Expansion winter park ajm m COMPETITION STIFF FOR BERTHS ON EUROPEAN TEAM With only two more races to determine the three competitors who will be selected to travel to Europe December 17th, members of the U.S. Cross-Countr- y Ski Team are anxiously preparing for the December meet at Snowmass in Aspen, Colo. The competition for the three spots is stiff, as indicated by the results of the team's first race of the season at Cooke City, Mont., December 7th. Although Ron Yeager of Durango, Colo., won the Center Winter Parks second base area this one serving the new Mary Jane trail network--wi- ll feature a new ultramodern commercial and convention center, according to Winter Park officials. Designed by Fritz Benedict Associates of Aspen, the commercial center will house and all commercial 14-I5-th operational units necessary for the functioning of the Mary Jane at Winter Park olo.) ski facility. Completion date for the center's mens first phase is Hie Winter Park Ski Area, already one of Colorado's largest ski com- half-doz- en plexes, will increase in size by approximately 65 percent over the next two years, according to plans revealed by Winter Park officials. Winter Park Board of Trustees Chairman Gerald Groswold announced that Mary Jane at Winter Park, the name of the new $5 million dollar ski development, will add 18 trails, 4 lifts, 100 acres of glade skiing, 250 acres of trail skiing, and a second base area to the Winter Park existing facilities. Winter Park is owned by the city and county of Denver an and operated by autonomous ' Board of Trustees. Trail cutting and . con- struction of roads into the Mary Jane Bowl was started during the summer as well as preliminary stages of lift and commercial center con- struction. The entire project is expected to be completed by Christmas of 1975, officials said. The Mary Jane complex will lie directly south and toward the crest of Berthoud Pass from the present Winter nor easily accessible from Winter Park facilities, has not been open nearby to skiing for several years. The trail will be widened and reopened as part of the new Base project. facilities. Park elevation of the Mary Jane According to Winter Park will be 9,440 feet, while the officials, a high proportion of elevation at the highest the Mary Jane trails will be of skiable point will be 11,025 the advanced and 33 percent to be feet. The Mary Jane derives its intermediate, and 7 percent name' from an old mining to be beginner. claim of the same name Hie higher proportion of which encompasses a large Mary Jane trails geared portion of the land upon toward the advanced skier which the second base facility will blend nicely with the will be constructed. After existing Winter Park trails, placer mining operations on which are weighted in favor the property proved un- of the intermediate and productive, mining efforts beginner skier," Groswold ceased and the acreage was said. He also pointed out that Not only will the Mary Jane purchased in 1929 by the Colorado Arlberg Club. The attract a larger crowd of Club, composed of prominent advanced skiers to Winter Denver citizens and outdoors Park, but the new trails will enthusiasts,' constructed a pull a large number of skiers lodge on the property and away from existing Winter procedBd to cut the Mary Park facilities, thus reducing jane Trail, believed to be the ' lift lines and crowd-- s first ski trail cut in Colorado. throughout the entire The run, not served by lifts Winter Park complex." advanced-intermediat- -- e, '- - SEASON By Dewey Tofson of Quiet Sports I am still amazed at the diversity of ski touring. One day last week, a few of us were skiing up the road to Mirra' Lake in the Uintah National Forest, racing on level stretches for lengths of maybe four miles; and the next day, on the same skis, down the Resorts Keystone and Treasure Hollow runs from the top. These are two extremes that most people wouldnt enjoy, but it indicates once again the flexibility of the equipment and technique. Im not that interested in racing, but I do see its value in the discipline to the strict student of technique. To attain the necessary increase in tempo, one must slow every movement to a stop in his mind, pick it apart, study it, understand the order of' motion in relation to each other, and put it back together in a smooth flow of rhythm. On the other hand, shooting down an Alpine run on skis with no edges and with bindings loose at the heel is not what most people would call enjoyable either. But what a thrill . everyone, conducted with professional equipment and people. would like to try some showshoeing, winter cam- full-da- y Cooke City." This competition in Aspen this weekend will be even more intense because the U.S. team members will be competing against four leading members of the Finnish national team along with leading collegiate and divisional skiers from the Rocky Mountain region. The Finn entrants include Juhani Repo, winner of the 50km at the 1974 Finnish Ski Games in Kuntola, , (Lahti, and Hilkka who won the 10km at the 1974 t Holmenkollen. The two are in the U.S. with M training r- teammates Arto Koivisto ,and Jiisa Suilkonen. , Leading the battle for a trip to Europe, where they will join three. other U.S. Ski Team members and coach Marty Hall, are Yeager; Tim Caldwell, Putney, Vt., who was second at Cooke City; . 1.) marked the first race of the season at Snowbird. NASTAR races will be held each Thursday and Sunday at 12:30 PM on 12th, Big Emma run. Chris Haines,' Anchorage, AAlas., who was third; and Race registration begins at 9 AM mi race days at the Information Booth, First Randy Kerr, Auburn, Maine, who finished fourth. WMnen working for the opportunity to compete in Europe are Hinkle; Tammy Valentine, Wenatchee, Wash., third at Cooke City; and Margie Richter, Anchorage, fourth. Terry Porter, Concord, Mass., who placed second behind Hinkle at Cooke City will not be entering the Aspen races due to semester finals at Middlebury College. Those not selected to leave Europe will compete in a race at Vail, Colo., December 17th before heading East for a series of races in New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. A race scheduled at Keystone, Colo., December 18th has been canceled. Level, Snowbird Center. NASTAR Snowbirds program has finished in the top ten nationally for the last two years. The 1973-7- 4 season saw Snowbird in 6th place nationally in total racer participation. NASTAR racing allows skiers of all ages and abilities to compete for gold, silver, and bronze medals on giant slalom courses set at 82 ski areas throughout the United States. . DONT Pollate Eastern races begin at Hanover, 20th. N.H., December ,. AND VERMONT contest to determine the Due to insufficient snow as a y skier top junior cover in Park City and at in the world today. Grand Targhee, Wyo., the In womens competition at Western Holiday Classic has West been relocated at Mission Orsa, Martha Rockwell, demonstrated Lebanon, N.H., Ridge and Crystal Mountain that she is recovering from a in Washington, it was anminor injury as she leg nounced by assistant U.S. in the 7.5km third placed team Karen director alpine The event was won by race. Korfanta. The Western Sweden's Meeri Bodelid with Holiday Classic will begin Canada's Shirley Firth at Mission Ridge with a second. Rockwell was slalom and giant slalom for placing winmen and women December only 30 seconds off the ning pace. Larry Martin, On December had some another slalom and giant Homer, Alas., in the senior men's slalom for men and women problems 30th in will be held at Crystal 15km and dropped to won which was race the by Mountain. Eastern 30 are scheduled to 1974 world km championof Thomas Magnusson begin the season with the Sweden. Eastern Holiday y Head ' U.S. Classic, a slalom and giant coach Marty Hall is pleased slalom, at Bromley and with the progress the three Stratton in Vermont, U.S. Ski Team members have December 1922nd. been making. The training is going welir Hall reports. Weve had great tracks and The Holiday Classic meets mark the opening of the good snow. Kochy is really going strong. Hes already domestic alpine competition circuit for the season. All U.S. skied 1,400 kilometers (over Ski Team members not 900 miles). All three skiers racing in Europe will enter are certainly off to a solid the meets, along with leading start on the season. Were divisional skiers. National confident that we'll continue team members plan to enter to show the ' Europeans that the Holiday Classic meet in Americans can challenge them in their respective regions. Following the races in Salen, U.S. Ski Team members the U.S. contingent will head are well prepared to begin the to Seefeld, Austria, for 10 to days of training mi the 1976 season, according 12 Olympic tracks. and men Korfanta. Eight women recently completed an eight-da- y training session at Mt. Bachelor, near Bend, Ore. They were coached by special U.S. coaches Martin NEW X-- TRAINING FILM Burger and Danny Craig and AVAILABLE cross-countr- 1. th com-petito- rs cross-countr- cross-country- The U.S. Men Drexel. grabbed three of the top 10 places in the combined rankings there to prompt alpine team director Hank Tauber's comment that the U.S. Ski Teams chances at the 1976 Olympics are good. All our racers need now is to be given the time to I develop," Tauber said. think well have a good chance of winning a couple of the six Olympic races. Nelson, whose 20th in the giant slalom December 7th earned her a seventh in the combined, bettered Austria's Annemarie Moser-ProeU- s seventh place finish with a fourth in the downhill. The Lutsen, Minn., racer's fourth was her second best World Cup downhill finish to date and also the second best U.S. women's downhill finish in the nine years of World Cup competition. Only Nelsons win over Proell in 1974 stands better in the U.S. record ." C A1 Team Smart, manager .assistant coach. and .. ir.i.i- i j. The camp at Bachelor went very well, Korfanta reports. The snow conditions were very good and the skiers were able to train all three disciplines. With all the great training weve had this fall, the Holiday Classic races should be an exciting beginning of an outstanding racing season." - :f . KOCK UNDEFEATED IN ROCKWELL EUROPE. THIRD Bill Koch claimed another victory in European crosscountry racing on December 8th by topping the field in the junior mens competition at Orsa, Sweden. The win was the 19year-ol- d Guilford, Vt.. native's third in a row, and he was looking forward to his stiffest competition of the young season on December 15th at Salen, Sweden. Thomas Wassberg, who won the 1974 European Junior Championship 15km in which Kock placed third, will be entering the race at Salen. It will be the first matchup of INTERNATIONAL CROSS- - COUNTRY the rest of Park City o WASHINGTON and Wassberg since February, and the Swedish press is hailing the meeting Koch A grant from the U.S. piympic Committee has provided funds for the ' U.S. Ski Team to produce a new film on ski cross-count-ry technique. U.S. coaches Marty Hall and Steve Williams prepared the book. I had hoped to win, 19 Nelson said, but I made two mistakes. If I had skied better, I could have won. I'm disappointed at finishing fourth, but it's a good start for the season, and I feel I'm in good form and year-ol- d confident about the next The races. Women's World Cup moved to ' Cortina dAmpezzo, Italy, for a downhill and slalom on December 1913th. Mumford, who has never raced in Europe before, was excited to earn her first World Cup points in her first World Cup WOMEN'S DOWNHILL 1 Wiltrud Drexel, Austria 4 Cindy Nelson, USA 10 Kim Mumford, USA 27 Susie Patterson, USA 38 Lindy Cochran, USA 48 Leslie Smith, USA 1:25.74 1:26.78 1:27.79 1:29. 07 1:30.25 1:31.33 MENS GIANT SLALOM 1 Piero Gros, Italy 24 26 28 30 Greg Jones, USA Cary Adgate, USA Geoff Bruce, USA Andy Mill, USA Did not finish: Ron Biedermann, USA Karl Anderson, USA gate. - Sylvain womens coach (times not ORSA, SWEDEN DECEMBER 8th, 1974 NATIONAL COOKE COOKE CITY CITY. X-- C INVITATIONAL MONTANA DECEMBER 7th, 1974 MEN'S JUNIOR 15KM 1 Bill Koch, USA 2 Claes Miord, Sweden 3 Burt Bullock, Canada 4 Kent Ostensson, Sweden 5 'Martinson, Sweden available) WOMENS 7.5KM 1 Meeri Bodelid, Sweden 2 Shirley Firth, Canada 3 Martha Rockwell, USA 4 Sharon Firth, Canada 5 Lena Banck, Sweden :w drugssundriesUSpostofficefree open daily 9am -- 7pm tel.742-2376Snowbi- rd, local delivery Utah Larry Martin, I had ' (special Sylvain toffl me to surprise all those guys down there, so I burned it. In the men s giant slalom training film, which is in color and 16mm. In the December 5th, the U.S. men film, Hall describes various finishers all improved on techniques used by. top their start positions, led by national and international Greg Jones, Tahoe City, skiers. Each USSA division Calif., who placed 24th. Andy has a copy of the film, which Mill was the top U.S. skier in may be rented by contacting the mens downhill December the respective division. 8th, finishing 24th to earn a Additional copies may be sixth in the combined ranks. purchased for $80 by con- Jones was seventh in the tacting Linda Hingher, U.S. combined, and Cary Adgate Ski Team, 1726 Champa, of Boyne City, Mich., was 10th overall. Denver, Colo. 80002. Naturally, we would have preferred to win one of the races, Tauber Commented, but we have to be realistic and not expect too much at NELSON, MUMFORD this early stage. We realize STAR IN ENCOURAGING that we have little chance of U.S. WORLD CUP START winning right now because Hie U.S. Ski Team is off to most of the team has had so exa very encouraging start on little international the World Cup circuit with perience. Our racers are not Cindy Nelson taking a fourth in the least discouraged with place and Kim Mumford their results here. They know earning a 10th in her first they are all technically exWorld Cup race at Val tremely good skiers and in DIsere, France. Hie event top condition. I am sure we was the downhill December will do even better as the season progresses." 4th, won by Austrias Wiltrud Dao-Len- MENS 15KM snowbird pharmacy start. hoped to be in the first 15 today," she said, so I am really happy. I loved the course, and I could hardly wait to get into the starting 1974 equip- housekeeping who and all Park West U.S. SKIERS READY FOR HOLIDAY CLASSIC IN WORLD CUP CIRCUIT VAL DISERE, FRANCE DECEMBER $2 k camp at NASTAR 649-890- This weeks special ment rental offer is for Resort employeesdess have had their turn) Resort employees. good conclusion to an outstanding three-weetraining Thursday, December ping (cabin or snowcave), full moon skiing, or high country ski touring, you can make arrangements through us at the shop or call really pleased to see how close the SNOWBIRD BEGINS NASTAR i were We times were," commented special U.S. coach Steve The race was a William system. Snowbirds if you can do it I do it to treat myself occasionally (riding a gondola up a mountain instead of climbing) as well as for practicing my telemark and parallel turns. That leads me back to somewhere in between and beautiful general touring; through the trees, up old mining roads, along winter rivers, and down virgin snowfields. Ski touring the Uintah National Forest and Primitive Area is our specialty. I cant imagine being this dose(20 miles through Kamas or Woodland) to something as grand and wild as this and not taking advantage of it. We would certainly Ml like to ski Yosemite or Yellowstone National Parks, so why not right out our back door? Weve worked with the Forest Rangers on permits for this as well as sites for a system of snowcaves and warming huts a days ski apart for overnight ramping. Hie main objective of Quiet Sports is to offer a full realm of winter sports activities within the experience and financial reach of heels. be served by an inshuttlebus terconnecting - race at Cooke City by over a minute, only six seconds separated the next three places leaving at least one of the two mens berths on the European team wide open. The women's 5km race in Montana was won bv another Colorado, Twila Hinkle of Frisco, but the three other U.S. Ski Team members entered were right mi her for Christmas of 1975. A completion date for the entire center has not been established. Some of the operations to be contained in the building include Ski Patrol facilities, ski shop, Ski School offices, public locker room, nursery, bar and lounge, offices, and cafeteria. Exterior features will include' three large decks and a clock tower. Hie center and other ski facilities will be served by three parking lots. . two-lev- el The specially-designe- d cafeteria will be furnished with movable partitions to enable the rooms to serve also as a convention and meeting facility, during both summer and winter. Present plans also call for the two Winter Park bases to projected THE OLD AND NEW AT WINTER PARK DOTTED UNE8 Ofi THE LEFT SIDE OF THIS PHOTOGRAPH INDICATE THE FOUR NEW DOUBLE CHAIRLIFTS THAT WILL SERVE MARY JANE AT WINTER PARK. THE WHITE TRIANGLE INDICATES THE APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF THE MARY JANE COMMERCIAL AND CONVENTION CENTER. EXISTING WINTER PARK SKI RUNS ARE SHOWN TO THE RIGHT, WHILE THE PROPOSED MARY JANE RUNS ARE NOT INDICATED. Ski Team Report SCTEAM Winter Parks Second Base To Contain Commercial Project At Winter Park Page? COALITION USA T3E CONCERNED |