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Show Volume XVII Issue XIV The Ogden Valley news Page 11 January 1, 2010 Park City Mountain Resort Announces Opening of Utah’s Only 22’ Superpipe Park City Mountain Resort announces to advanced features including five jumps the opening of the Eagle Superpipe, Pick ‘N Shovel and Jonesy’s terrain parks on Thursday, December 17, 2009. “The cold temperatures we’ve received over the last few weeks have been great for snowmaking, superpipe,and terrain park building,” said Jeremy Cooper, terrain park manager for Park City Mountain Resort. “We’ve spent endless man hours building the pipe and park over the last few weeks to provide the best possible product for potential Olympians who will use our pipe as a training ground for the 2010 Winter Games.” Park City Mountain Resort’s Eagle Superpipe is the first and largest Superpipe to open in Utah for the 2009-2010 season. The historic pipe, where U.S. athletes swept the men’s podium and won gold in the women’s event during the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002, will entertain the masses with Olympians again. The US Snowboarding Grand Prix makes its final stop at Park City Mountain Resort for back to back night competitions January 22-23, 2010, after which the winners will be crowned and the 2010 US Snowboarding Olympic halfpipe team will be named. More information on the US Snowboarding Grand Prix is available at <www.pcride.com> Pick ‘N Shovel terrain park, located at the base of the resort, will have intermediate ranging from 30’ to 50’ and up to ten jib features. Jonesy’s terrain park, located off the Bonanza lift, will be suited for beginner to intermediate terrain park users and will include ten features. Along with the new parks opening, the PayDay terrain park will remain open with jib features for the remainder of the season. The PayDay jib park will be lit for night skiing. The resort is scheduled to have 13 of 15 lifts open, with the other two lifts following closely behind. For terrain updates please visit <http://parkcity.typepad.com/ ride_park_city/> About Park City Mountain Resort Park City Mountain Resort, the most accessible mountain resort in North America, is located in the heart of Park City, Utah and is only a 40-minute drive from the Salt Lake City International Airport. With 3,300 acres of unspoiled terrain, the resort offers groomed Signature Runs™, bumps, powder, trees, eight peaks, nine bowls, four terrain parks, and the Eagle Superpipe. Park City Mountain Resort was once again ranked a top-five resort by the readers of SKI and Transworld Snowboarding magazines and a top-10 ski resort in North America by Conde Nast Traveler. For more information, visit www.parkcitymountain.com or call (800) 222-PARK. TRAIL cont. from page 1 risk of avalanches by posting that. No one is opposed to [Powder Mountain’s] economic gains, but we don’t want to take away the public’s rights either.” Bischoff made a motion to deny closure of the trail. Zogmaister seconded the motion with the addition that Powder Mountain work with Weber County engineering to restore the trail. County Engineer Curtis Christiansen stated that Powder Mountain was legally required to obtain permits before proceeding with the amount of excavation that has already been undertaken. These permits were never applied for or obtained. Ken Bischoff stated, “What Dearden says rings true. This doesn’t have to be one way or the other. This could be settled with a partnership. It doesn’t seem right to close the trail to public use. I oppose taking away from the public their use.” Commissioner Jan Zogmaister added, “I also have concerns with taking away the public’s rights. I don’t think we want to limit or reduce access to the trail . . . . Signage is also important. That responsibility is also with Powder Mountain. I would encourage it. I think there is also a way to mitigate the The picture at right shows a portion of the Wolf Creek trail after having been graded and widened by Powder Mountain personnel. A few large trees were felled, and native oak and shrubs plowed over and uprooted along with natural flora and fauna that provided a sturdy trail and shady canopy over large sections of the pathway. Photo courtesy of Alan Wheelwright of Eden. Office hours minimum 3 days a week. 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Snowstorm Leaves Utah Ski Resorts Primed for the Holidays A massive winter storm moved in from the Pacific just over a week ago and dropped unreal amounts of snow upon Utah ski resorts, instantly transforming the state’s ski areas and locking in conditions for the all-important Christmas holiday period. Brighton was the storm’s big bread winner, scoring 48 inches from the storm as snow fell at a rate of two to four inches per hour. “This is just the storm we were waiting for to get the season off on the right foot,” said Bob Bonar, President of Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort. “What a difference a storm makes,” echoed Krista Parry, director of marketing and communications for Park City Mountain Resort where over two feet of new snow was logged. “It just takes one big storm, like this one, to get the mountain in excellent shape.” Indeed, many of Utah’s ski and snowboard resorts are now at or near full operation. And just in time to sweeten conditions for Christmas, another significant statewide snowstorm was moving into Utah right before Christmas. Free Avalanche Awareness Class at Snowbasin Resort January 9-10 The Snow Safety division at Snowbasin will host a “Know Before you Go” avalanche awareness class on Saturday, January 9. The class will be held in Earl’s Lodge at the Utah ski and snowboard resort near Ogden, and will begin at 6:30 p.m. There is no charge for the hour-long class, which will be presented by G.R. Fletcher and Frank Waikhart of Snowbasin, and Craig Gordon of the Utah Avalanche Center. As a follow-up to the class, Snowbasin Ski Patrol will lead a field day the following morning. Those who attend the class on Saturday are invited to meet at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, January 10 at the bottom of the ski area’s Needles Gondola. Ski Patrol will guide a twohour practical session on the mountain where they will talk about control work at Snowbasin and safe backcountry travel. Proper backcountry gear and safety will also be discussed. There is no charge for the mountain session with the purchase of a lift ticket. “Our patrol is available as a resource to guests on our mountain,” said Waikart, a patroller at Snowbasin. “This outreach effort is intended to enhance guests’ skiing experience. We will provide tools for skiers to explore their own boundaries safely through education.” Reservations are not necessary to attend. Ring in 2010 on the Slopes of Powder Mountain Powder Mountain will extend night skiing hours on December 31 to 12:15 a.m. so that New Year’s revelers can count down the beginning of 2010 on the slopes. Night skiing will open at its regular time of 3:00 p.m. and the schedule for the free shuttle service will be adjusted to accommodate New Year’s Eve guests. Children are invited to participate in a glow stick parade at 9:00 p.m. A special $30 New Year’s Celebration package will be offered to the first 300 guests who purchase online at <www.powdermountain.com/mtn_new_years.php> It will cost $20 for children 12 and younger to attend. The package includes a pasta dinner at the Timberline Lodge, night lift pass, and party favors. Powder Mountain season pass holders may purchase the dinner package for $10. Those interested in skiing only may choose to purchase a night lift pass at the regular price of $15 for adults and $12 for 7-12 year olds. The Sundown Lodge and the Powder Keg restaurants will extend their operating hours until midnight, allowing guests to order off the regular menus as well. Powder Mountain Announces New Marketing and Public Relations Director Powder Mountain Resort Management, LLC has announced the promotion of Dave Jessup to the position of Marketing and Public Relations Director. Jessup began his career at Powder Mountain over 18 years ago as a lift operator. He has progressively accepted greater responsibility over the years including managing Powder Mountain’s Terrain Parks and Events for the past 11 years. He also spearheaded the creation of the Powder Mountain Conservancy and Sustainability programs. In addition to his new duties this season, Jessup will continue to oversee Powder Mountain’s Terrain Parks and Events. Jessup has been a resident of Utah since 1990. He graduated from Weber State University in 1998, and spends a good amount of his free time reducing litter in his community. He and his wife have adopted six miles of highway in Ogden Valley, and helped initiate the “Pickup 3” anti-litter campaign at Powder Mountain. CONSTITUTION cont. from page 3 Under this power, commonly referred to as the “Commerce Clause,” Congress claims it can regulate virtually anything, and, as one can readily see, it has done so. Jefferson argued that “regulate” simply means “to make regular,” that is, to keep the states and others from interfering with the regular movement of goods between merchants across state lines. Understanding that these three legitimate powers of Congress are limited and narrowly defined by the Constitution, WE THE PEOPLE are able to challenge our representatives when thy are abusing them. Finally, if any lesson is clear from this history, it is that the federal government will never check its own power. On the contrary, history has proven just the opposite; it will continue to take liberty, and thus property, whenever and from whomsoever it wishes. Only WE THE PEOPLE can hold them in check; however, we have to understand those enumerated and restricted powers outlined in the Constitution. The Founders did not give us a perfect system of government, but they did give us one that they intended would keep power diffused between the states and the federal government and further diffused within the federal government itself. Our Constitution was not written in order to right every wrong. It was not written to allow every federal do-gooder and busybody to impose his or her notion of clean living, safe working, or pure thinking on individuals. It was written to keep governmental power diffused, to restrain the government from interfering with the Natural Law, toward one solitary goal: The freedom of the individual in his or her pursuit of happiness. becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on, until the bulk of the society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, and unable to enjoy the fruits of its labor. Public debt is followed by oppressive taxation that has always led to economic stagnation. Another area of abuse is the government’s power to control commerce. Regulating commerce between the states makes sense because one would ask, “Which state should control the commerce if more than one state is involved? “ A legitimate question to be sure. It is important to appreciate that every single federal regulation was designed to provide “fairness,” “reasonable prices,” “safety,” “competition,” “higher standards,” etc. Unfortunately, over a century of experimentation in governmental intervention, to achieve these seemingly desirable goals, has, more often than not, had the opposite effect. The very fact that deregulated industries are thriving and serving the public more efficiently and at lower prices than before is a solid economic fact that both government and the public are finally beginning to realize. Take, for example, the airline industry. After deregulation (and subsidizing) only those airline companies survived that were efficient and using time-tested and proven methods of operating a profitable enterprise. Sure, many airline companies struggled after deregulation; some even went under. Decades of eating out of the public trough created dependency and when the trough was taken away, it was very difficult for many to return to being self sufficient. |