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Show Wednesday, December 25, THE, PARK 1974 CITY tuni'allru Crunch! This word in the world of skiing is not heaUhy-- I -medically or economically. : i COALITION SNQW No4 Just For The Rich In the beginning, the resort received a great amount of publicity because of her innovations new glass-- e Broken bones, energy nclosed heated swimming crises, and now the economic pools and the first chair lift in crunch . . theres always, the world. Yes, Sun Valley something to plague skiers, did attract the wealthy but Ifeing the hearty group because of these new conskiers are theyre going cepts, and because during downhill faster and more this period the. cost of travel to the individual was so high often than ever before. But what about a ski resort only the wealthy had the that has had the reputation means to visit an exclusive for nearly 40 years of being area such as Sun Valley, THE ski resort for the rich Idaho. And its true that many of could it go downhill Just as fast in a year when dollars the rich continue to vacation will .be watched like last in Sun Valley year-roun- d the Kennedys, the Du Ports, years cents? The opinion that Sun Valley the Fords but so do the is a playground reserved for Joneses, the Smiths and the the wealthy has been popular Johnsons," as stated in Ski for 39 years, and is just as America Cheap" about two popular today as it was in the years ago. So how does a resort relate middle thirties when Sun to was guests on the highest level Valley designed by the Union Pacific Railroad to be of excellency and, at the the last . word in ski same time, lend itself to an economical family vacation resorts. Even today, Sun Valley is spot? The Duchin Room in the described as the "grande dame" of Americas ski Sun Valley Lodge isT. the resorts or still a status perfect setting for a guest to discover a pearl in his spot. Oysters Rockefeller (which occurred only a few months ago), and is me of the few ticket, States boasting a United Chef of the Chaine, the free skiing than lessons, worlds oldest gourmet and summer society. Suers ' seeking the most travelers elegant resort experience have and always will find themselves traveling to Sun Valley. But so will the budget-minde- d skiers. . numerous inexpensive or free Most activities. entertainment spots do not have a cover charge; no charge for saunas or heated swimming pools; and ice skating, bowling, and sleigh rides are jdst a few dollar-s.An- d there is no additional cost for Nordic skiing and equipment for one out of six days of lift tickets offered iu all the Alpine ski packages. But the greatest savings of all Sun Valley offers to everyone Baldy Mountain, where the skier does not hear his lift ticket ticking away while he stands in line. Sun Valley was designed to ski! Because the basics of . yi another package is available and includes a condominium with kitchen for seven nights and a six-da-y lift ticket beginning atfl08.50. For those who think there is more to a ski vacation than eating, sleeping, and skiing, Sun Valley's village boasts skiing in Sun Valley (lift tickets, lessons, and equip-- . ment rental) have not increased in price over the past year, the potential guest interested in an ecomomical ski trip must be concerned only with accommodations and meals. Ski packages, restaurants within the village of Sun Valley offering everything from fondue to enchiladas, and the thoroughly Western town of Ketchum just one mile away solve the problem. Learn to Ski Weeks in Sun Valley offer a skier seven-nigh- ts y lift lodging, a six-da- Transportation BUSES: & from Alta BART half shuttlobus sorvos ovory hour; all Snowbird lifts, parking aroas, and Snowbird Contor; Gray Lino Bus(521-7066 times dally from operates Snowbird to Olympus Hills, Downtown SLC, the Airport, and back. PARK CITY: Lewis Bros. Stages(359-867- 7 or provides service 8 times dally from the Airport & Downtown SLC to Park West, Park City, and back; also provides daily service to & from Alta A Snowbird, as well as on call limousine. PARK CITY TRACTION CO.: Local cir1 culating shuttlebus operating 7 PM, serving Park City Resort, the condominiums, and Main Street. By Phil Jones " from Snowbird & ovory half hour. SNOWBIRD: Shuttlobus Io Director of Park City ' Shuttlebus to ALTA: HOW five-daof ski lessons, parties, and races, beginning at $184. For those who are more interested in resort restaurants in the Page? 0) 4-- Ski School and Resort Operations 649-857- 0) GLM Over the past few years, most skiers have come to recognize GLM as standing for Graduated Length Method. Beyond the fact that GLM deals with the teaching of skiing on short skis with a progression to longer skis, there is a lot of confusion as to what exact form GLM takes. The main reason for this confusion is that there are two basic GLM approaches the Taylor Direct Parallel and the Basic Christy. Respectively, these two are considered the radical and conservative approaches to teaching GLM. Before I go any further, I want to stress that both approaches are good, and they both work. In fact, whatever approach to GLM is used, it is by far better than anything that has yet been introduced to ski instruction. Now, for some of the differences in the two methods and why Park City, as most Western ski resorts do, utilizes one over the other. AM-1- CAR RENTALS: AIRPORT & Avis( 521 -- 4477); SLC: DOWNTOWN Budget(322-5583- ); National(359-773- 1 In addition, Avis has an Park City(649-8611Airways has an office In Park CHy(649-8080- ); and Hertz has an office at Snowbird(742-3- 1 99). office In ); TAXICABS: ALTA CAB SERVICE: by request after 6 PM each evening; check with Alta ). or the Gray Line Lodge (742-3500) Photos And Its mute and ominous prophecy, than threat, It sank from sight before it set. A chill no coat, however stout, Of homespun stuff could quite shut Weaving Exhibited At Snowbird A portent seeming less out, by Charles Weber and weaving by Patricia Bacon is currently on display at the Cliff Lodge at Snowbird. Recipient of a grant from the National Parks Service, As a Ms. Bacon says, fibersmith, I feel there is an dull bitterness of cold, the circling That checked, mid-veirace in the sharpened face, Of By Dewey Tofson of Quiet Sports told. The craning of the snow-storI wonder if kids growing up in win- The wind blew east; we heard the ter climates still, around Christ- roar mastime, have to stand up and Of Ocean on his wintry shore, recite . verses of John Greenleaf And felt the strong pulse throbbing Whittiers Snowbound .in school. I there ... ran across the poem recently, and Beat with low rhythm our inland air. reading it evoked a flood of childhood memories. Back to Meanwhile we did our nightly nervous shuffling of feet, eyes glued chores, to the floor, stutter, stammer, singBrought in the wood from out of song recitation. Back also to days of doors, heavy snows, snowbound, and what Littered the stalls, and from the we did together as family or friends mows to pass those slow leisurely days and Raked down the herds grass for the nights. Id like to wish everyone a cows: Merry Christmas with a portion of Heard the horse whinneying for his n, life-blo- od m intimate vegetable fiber, !h,..eacb piece,. 1. explore, fiber and form as a tool of expression and a statement of strength. Ms. Bacon has attended and exhibited at shows and juried fairs throughout the sharply clashing horn on horn, Impatient down the stanchion rows The cattle shake their walnut bows ; While, peering from his early perch Upon the scaffolds pole of birch, The cock his crested helmet bent And down his querulous challenge The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gaveatnoon A sadder light than waning moon. Slow tracing down the thickening sky sent. -- six-foote- rs. (Next: the Basic Christy approach) ). Local on call taxi service throughout Park City and Park West, and limousine service to Salt Lake CHy and the airport, by resorvation(649-8567- ). PARK CITY TAXI: BROS. STAGES: Serves Park Alrportf Down- town SLC; also provides service to A from Park City & Park West to l from Alta Snowbird; limousine service on call(359-867- 7 LEWIS City ' I Park West to or 649-8570- from ). northeast Mr. Weber and Ms. Bacon taught together in a small school district in upstate New corn; And, powerful relationship between organic form, and natural animal and -- Snowbound: and between Alta x Park City(561 3496). UTE CAB: Serves all ski resorts to A from Airport; also provides service between Alta A Park City(359-7799- ). YELLOW CAB: Serves all ski resorts to Afrom Airport(521-2100- ot ot (521-7060- MURRAY CAB: Serves all ski resorts to x from Alrport(355-5555- ) . S.A.W. TRANS.: Serves Alta A Brighton to A from Airport; also provides service ot An exhibit of photographs A hard, Taylor Direct Parallel of you may be familiar with Clif Taylor. Many Theres no doubt that Taylor is the father of GLM as he was the first person to recognize the value to a learning skier and an instructor of a sawed-of- f ski. As a matter of fact, the first skis he experimented with were just that sawed-off- . The Taylor method has four steps:, from a three-foski to a four-foski, and ski, to a five-fothen to While the Taylor method offers skiers parallel skiing ability the first day, it does have a drawback in its inability to teach the skier how to ski various terrains and snow conditions. Its approach is based on learning how to parallel ski in the lessons and then going out and applying that to the various terrains and snow conditions encountered on the mountain. This is often an extremely hard transition for the inexperienced skier to handle. . York. Mr. Weber started taking pictures during a year of study and travel in Europe in 1971. Upon . returning to teaching, he began in- tegrating photography into his work, especially with migrant children. A graduate of the State University of New York, the photographer is noted for his ability to capture mood and feeling in his subjects which give his photographs warmth and depth. The work of the two artists can be viewed at the Cliff Lodge until January 18th. Sun Valley Opts Not To Sponsor Pro Team Sun Valley Company Inc., announced that the resort will not sponsor the Rossignol-Solomon-Dynast- cording to Roger Beck, director of marketing, Sun Valley Company Inc. Because of this action, Sun Valley Compaiiy felt the contract would not be in the best interest of the resort. ar pro ski teams this season. Although it had been stated earlier this season that the teams would be sponsored by Sun Valley while competing on the World Pro Skiing circuit this 1974-7-5 of season, the multi-yecontract was not signed by this resort because two of the racers had signed with a European ski resort, ac to support professional ski racing and will open our doors to possible negotiations at a later date, Beck said. We regret the termination with negotiations Rossignol-Dynasta- We will r. continue ar Ski Area Information day pass, 6 chairlifts, rope rentals at Snowpine Lodge; tow; Instruction available through the Ski School. ALTA: $6.50 X-- C X-- C BRIGHTON: $5 day Instruction School. pass, 4 chairlifts; through the Ski X-- C available PARK CITY RESORT: $8.50 day pass, 8 races every chairlifts, gondola; PM on A 12:30 at Wednesday Saturday the Nastar run; at rentals Wolfe's, NASTAR X-- C Tlmberhaus, QuietSports; Instruction available through the Ski School, Tim-berha- QuietSports. PARK WEST: $7 day pass, 4 chairlifts; rentals at area; Instruction available through the Ski School. X-- C with Craig There they were near Barcelona. The Swiss racer was was the Grand Prix Rudi Wyrsch. It of Spain, and it was back in 1961. The Giant Slalom had been run on Saturday. Karl Schranz was first. Rudi was second, and Jean-ClauKilly was third. Arid, the racers had very strict orders for Sunday mortop-seed- ed de Eventually, he developed aluminum stilts, and they are still holding him up as he delights the Pied Piper Ski School at Mt. Snows PipervUle. v Attschul Were you to take the kids up to Mt. Snow, they could enter his special on ski Pied Piper Challenge Races characters, then authority note the time, a few years ago, in every Saturday at 12:30 PM. There, B 06 ton, that Rudi decided to get a litRudi foreruns an easy course on tle attention for his appearance at stilts, and kids who beat his time get the New England Ski Show. He a gold medal, and those who dont managed to get himself on the get a silver one. Everyone wins. Walter Cronkite Evening News as he Rudi told me that the best way to turn the kids off to skiing is fra: parenskied north casually face of the Sheraton Boston Hotel. ts to be pushy. Kis automatically Currently, he is on the road telling decide they dont like skiing when people about a delightful new the pressure is on. They have a childrens book by Rosaly .Bass seventh sense. Dont teach them imcalled The Big Tall Man on Skis. mediately. Just let them flop around Rudi, who can normally be found and have fun. Not one to be without an opinion of skiing in top hat and tails on hero of clothboUnd the tins is good dd skisport, Rudi is worried stilts, book about a little boy who spends about where were heading. Years ago, the breed of skiers all his time drawing pictures of this on a much more personal level. were on man skis. tall big were dedicated. They skied the take They Eventually, boys parents him to Mt. Snow, and he becomes hard and they played hard. No one Rudis special friend. Its a fun little cared how they were dressed. Now, everything is based on gift fra the kids (big or little), and if You go on bookstore have doesnt glamour. it, just your send a check for $5 to Big Tall Man ski vacations, and you never meet a , ed -- ning behavior. Since this was a highly religious country, they were told to either be seen in Church, or if not, for goodness sakes to stay in their rooms. Rudi couldnt handle that because he wanted to personally inspect the slalom course. So, down to the cellar he went, and he climbed out the window. The lodge was at the base of the mountain, so Rudi climbed from tree to tree till he got to the course, confident no one was watching. When he began checking the gates, he heard a noise. With a start, he turned and broke into laughter. You guessed it. He had company. on Skis Book, P.O. Box 210, PeterKilly. They didnt like . borough, New Hampshire. Jean-Claud- e so they casually the set-uwhole course. the rearranged Usten. Skiing has its share of characters, but Rudi Wyrsch, who hangs his top hat at Mount Snow, them all. ViTinont, Slmuld you question my supreme p, Rudi has been doing normal things like skiing on stilts since he first began amusing the small fry at Jiminy Peak back in 1968. His first set collapsed in 30 seconds, but the next pair went for a full two minutes. pre-packag- country in the downhill race at Megeve, France. There was tins shortcut, see, that really looked inviting. The only problem was it involved skiing through the terrace of restaurant. Rudi and debated the situation and the fear the restauran-teu- r might snitch on them to the French skiers. Well, that didnt turn out to be too much of a hassle, since the French racers had skipped on their lunch tab the day before and the fellow was more than willing to cooperate. So, the next day, the restaurant owner carefully arranged his tables and Rudi and Willie managed to dash through the shortcut on the at 70 terrace at lunchtime miles per hour. And then there was the time .. . Oh, just keep your SKI TIPS ups I a mid-mounta- in Willie ... ... X-- C SNOWBIRD: $8 day pass, 3 chairlifts, NASTAR races tram; every Thursday A 1 PM on at 2:30 Big Emma run; X-- C Sunday rentals at Tlmberhaus. Emergency Information HOSPITALS COTTONWOOD HOSP., 5770 South 3rd East, SLC HOLY CROSS HOSP., 1045 262-346- 1 328-917- 1 322-57- 61 East 1st South, SLC SAINTS HOSP., 8th Ave. and C, SLC LATTER-DA- Y PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSP., 320 12th Ave., SLC ST. MARKS HOSP., 1200 328-906- 1 268-71- 11 East 39th South, SLC UNIVERSITY HOSP., 50 North Medical Dr., SLC ...582-371- 1 ed SKI PATROLCLIN1CS soul. Skiing is a great family sport. A husband can get to know his wife better and vice-versIts a real chance to give the kids some special attention, too. 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