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Show FEBRUARY slver Junction Mercantile BINGHAM JUNCTION ANTIQUES and COUNTRY STORE “You Can't Sell From An Empty Wagon” Articipation Galleries Original, Limited Editions, Sculpture, New Artists, Framing, Etc. °A. Friberg eJ. Bama °* H.F. Sellers °B. Dolittle (801) 649-8654 558 Main St. « P.O. Box 715 Park City, Utah 84060 PARK CITY 1996 REPORT Deer Valley Offers Cat Skiing In Empire and Daly Canyons hat has been the locals secret in Park City for decades is now out of the bag — skiing in Empire and Daly Canyons. But while locals have had to hike for the powder there, Deer Valley ski resort is now offering an easier way — ski cats Although Empire and _ Daly Canyons have always been private land, locals have been welcome to ski there Gf you didn’t get caught by sheriffs deputies on a bad day). But Deer Valley, who plans an expansion in the canyons, including chairlifts, says locals are still free to hike the area for crosscountry skiing. If that isn’t your cup of tea, you can now buy a ride on a cat. With a valid Deer Valley lift ticket, cat skiing is available at $5 per ride, Wednesday through Sunday. Advanced skiing ability is a minimum require- ment and one round-trip run is expected to take one hour. Because cat skiing is now offered in the canyons, Deer Valley is conducting avalanche work there. Signs will be posted at canyon entrances when the area has not been cleared for avalanche safety. Deer Valley officials ask crosscountry skiers to obey the signs. @ photo courtesy of Deer Valley School’s Out for Winter ts called The Winter School. But you won't find anyone there, save "Headmaster Bonnie Bower. That’s because all 17 students are out skiing, snowboarding or ski jumping. It’s like this: at The Winter School, student athletes study all spring and summer and fall and then Call The Matthews REMAX Network @ Park City . But going to high school is almost impossible when you are serious about your dream.” While its students get off to to have fun all winter, the remainder of the calendar year is a lot of work. Each class is 1-1/2 to 3 hours Bower, who helped Bonnie Bower long. And students can found the school three expect three hours of homework each years ago, beams with pride as she night. Teachers all have degrees in the explains that the second graduating subjects they teach and the school class finished up work this fall — all adheres to the stringent International four of them. Bacheloreate standards. If you like considering student-toBR: notes that The Winter School teacher ratios, you can’t beat The is more demanding academically Winter School, she explains. This past than Utah public schools. “This curacademic year, there were 12 faculty riculum will get you into any college in members for the 17 students: it’s the country.” almost 1:1. And as the headmaster Tuition at The Winter School is explains, the schedule is rigorous and $6,000 per year, which is reasonable prepares students to enter the top colfor a private prep school, Bower leges and universities in the country. noted. “We’ve kept the tuition at that The Winter School is the outrate because we want to make it availgrowth of the Park City Ski Team, able to as many as possible. Most ski which for years has been coached by academies are twice that (expensive).” Bob Marsh, and now includes more The Winter School has plans to than 80 kids, 18 and under. grow to up to 200 students. In the The challenge always has been coming spring — the beginning of the how to prepare would-be Olympians year at The Winter School, Dr. Kay for the US Team. But another chal- ers. So’s the dog! 801-64-REMAX winter ics and the demands of a good education,” Bower explained. “Our students are the kids that see themselves in the starting gates of the 2002 Winter Games further their skills as competitive ski racers, ski jumpers and snowboard- Dependable | HTC Trustworthy e. Sz, take “This was our solution to the demands of competitive, winter athlet- M Working Team David For You & Jane 14 Days A Week 1500 Kearns Blvd., Suite E-200 Office: 64-REMAX Fax: 647-0023 Home: 649-3556 lenge, which is just as demanding, is how to get the young athletes educat- Wright will take over as headmaster. Wright is the former commissioner for ed while they are spending so much time on the slopes. Down through the years, Marsh has depended on tutors. But several Education in Pennsylvania and served as an undersecretary of Education in the Reagan Administration. She years ago, he got together with Bower and other interested Parkites and founded the Park City Ski Education Foundation. And in 1993, the group gave birth to The Winter School. 12 presently heads a private school girls in Philadelphia. Bower said the new for arrangement will allow her to concentrate on her forte — the business aspects of running the academy. @ |
