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Show B-2 Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 6-8, 2019 The Park Record Champions get best of elements rec report Snowy conditions don’t deter giant slalom boarders WHITE PINE NORDIC CENTER White Pine Nordic Center’s 3K, 5K, farm loop, practice area and dog loop are open for cross-country skiing. For rental and course information go to whitepinetouring.com. BEN RAMSEY JEREMY RANCH GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB The Park Record Jeremy Ranch’s Nordic trails have opened for the winter. For rental Selina Joerg now has two of the most prestigious medals in alpine snowboarding. A year after winning an Olympic silver medal in giant slalom in the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, she added a world championship gold in the same event in Park City. On Monday, the 31-year-old German defeated Natalia Soboleva of Russia in the final head-tohead giant slalom race on Picabo’s run at Park City Mountain Resort. Constant snowfall throughout the day under a cloudy sky created tricky conditions for the racers. Joerg and her fellow competitors raced around the course’s gates in tracks that had formed banked turns in the deepening snow. However, the biggest challenge wasn’t the snow on the ground, but rather the flakes in the air. “We couldn’t see how the snow really was,” Joerg said. “Over the last day, there came a lot of snow. I think all of us prefer more hard conditions, but today it was a little bit soft. But visibility was the hardest thing.” She said it was frustrating to see the snow fall after days of bluebird training runs, but it didn’t dampen her excitement to earn a medal, and neither did the exhausting effort of preparing for and winning a medal the season before in the Pyeongchang Olympics. “It was not hard to refocus,” she said. “When you are once on a podium in a big event, you know how the feeling is, and in some ways you know why you information, ticket prices and track conditions go to TheJeremy.com. PARK CITY MOUNTAIN RESORT Park City Mountain Resort has opened for the winter. For information on upcoming events and winter ticket prices go to parkcitymountain.com or call 435-649-8111. Park City Mountain is a host venue for the FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships. For information regarding upcoming events go to 2019worldchamps.com. DEER VALLEY RESORT Deer Valley Resort has opened for the winter. For information on winter activities and ticket prices go to deervalley.com or call 435649-1000. Deer Valley is a host venue for the FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships. For information regarding upcoming events go to 2019worldchamps.com. UTAH OLYMPIC PARK Utah Olympic Park has started its winter programming, including guided tours and bobsled rides. For a complete list of winter hours and rates, visit utaholympiclegacy.org. SOLDIER HOLLOW Soldier Hollow’s tubing hill and Nordic skiing runs are open for the season. For programming go to utaholympiclegacy.org or call 435654-2002. BASIN RECREATION Basin Recreation maintains a busy trail maintenance schedule during the winter months, grooming over 17 miles of trails for cross-country skiing, walking, biking, and more. A grooming report can be found at basinrecreation.org. For trail information or maintenance concerns, email Phares Gines at phares@basinrecreation.org. MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION The Mountain Trails Foundation grooms Round Valley for cross-country skiing, fat bike riding and snowshoeing. For trail information, including maps and conditions, go to mountaintrails.org. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Dmitry Loginov gets familiar with the snow on Picabo’s run, dragging a hand through a turn at Park City Mountain during the snowboard parallel giant slalom on Monday. Loginov, a Russian athlete, won the gold. are training so hard, because it’s just an amazing feeling to be on a podium.” She said hearing the German national anthem play at the base area as she stood with a golden snowflake around her neck was exactly what every athlete hopes to experience. “To stand on top today was amazing,” she said. “It was a hard day but it was not a problem to focus after the Olympics last year.” Soboleva took silver, followed by Ladina Jenny of Switzerland in third. The conditions were no better for the men’s competition, in which Dmitry Loginov of Russia took first. The 19-year-old said it was incredible to move up from the junior level and take a medal at the World Championships. “I still can’t believe it,” Loginov said through a translator. “It’s like I’m in shock right now. I was planning to win the medal, and it happened, but tomorrow will bring the feeling.” He defeated Tim Mastnak of Slovenia in a head-to-head race. In third place was Stefan Baumeister of Germany. He defeated Vic Wild of Russia, who had competed in Park City before. Wild raced for the U.S. national team until it cut funding for alpine snowboarding in 2010. After that, he married Russian snowboarder Alena Zavarzina and started competing for Team Russia, where he has distinguished himself. In 2014 he won the gold in both slalom and parallel slalom when Russia held the Olympics on home soil in Sochi. For Wild’s success, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented him with the Order for Merit to the Fatherland. Wild said it was good to be back in Park City, where he briefly lived before moving to Russia. “I was surprised, actually, to see the town” he said. “The downtown is even more done up for Sundance, so it’s extra nice. But this place is doing well.” He lives in Moscow now, though he said he prefers to spend his time training outside the city — in Sochi or around Europe. As for competing in the States after moving to Russia, he said he wasn’t thinking about it much. “I’m here to do my work,” he said. Which, he said, is similar to how the snowboarding community regards his switching national teams. “Obviously, the governments don’t get along very well right now, but I can’t control that,” he said. “It doesn’t really matter to me. ... Everybody in snowboarding is like, ‘Dude, you’re the man, well done. A smart move.’” The Russian team had four competitors in the semifinals. Wild said the team has only gotten stronger since his success in Sochi. “I think I kind of created some monsters,” he said jokingly. “I didn’t really know it until pretty recently, but once they saw that — once they saw me win they were like ‘Oh, we can do that, too. Now they believe. We have four very strong riders here and any one of us can win any of these races.” UINTA-WASATCH-CACHE NATIONAL FOREST in the Uinta Mountains east of Kamas. For information, visit fs.usda. gov/uwcnf for more information. ROAD STATUS Guardsman Pass, Wolf Creek Pass and the Mirror Lake Highway have closed for the season. For more info, go to fs.usda.gov/uwcnf or call 435-783-4338. For more information on seasonal road closures go to udottraffic.utah.gov. STATE PARKS AND RESERVOIRS For information such as water temperature and current conditions TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD at Jordanelle and Rockport state parks, visit stateparks.utah.gov. For Selina Joerg races in the snowboard parallel giant slalom competition at Park City Mountain Resort on Monday. The German competitor took first. information on the Echo Reservoir, call 435-336-2247. The 1. Selina Joerg, Germany. 2. Natalia Soboleva, Russia. 3. Ladina Jenny, Switzerland. 4. Melina Bykova, Russia. 5. Maria Valova, Russia. 6. Annamari Dancha, Ukraine. 7. Carolin Langenhorst, Germany. 8. Sabine Schoeffmann, Austria. 9. Patrizia Kummer, Switzerland. 10. Ramona Theresia Hofmeister, Germany. Weather WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Mostly cloudy, a bit of snow; colder A little snow at times in the morning Some sun, then turning cloudy Clouds with snow in the afternoon Cloudy with snow or flurries possible Winds: WNW 7-14 mph Winds: W 6-12 mph Winds: S 7-14 mph Winds: SSE 6-12 mph Winds: S 7-14 mph 24°/10° 22°/3° 30°/14° 31°/20° 33°/18° Temperatures: High for the week ................................ 45° Low for the week ................................. 11° Precipitation: Total for the week .............................. 1.09” ACCUWEATHER UV INDEX TM Ogden 29/16 Elko 28/1 Salt Lake City 30/19 SUN AND MOON Wednesday ...... Thursday .......... Friday ............... Saturday .......... Sunday ............ Sunrise 7:31 a.m. ......... 7:30 a.m. ......... 7:29 a.m. ......... 7:28 a.m. ......... 7:27 a.m. ......... Sunset 5:49 p.m. 5:51 p.m. 5:52 p.m. 5:53 p.m. 5:54 p.m. Moonrise Moonset Wednesday ...... 8:42 a.m. ......... 7:42 p.m. Thursday ........... 9:11 a.m. ......... 8:39 p.m. Friday ............... 9:37 a.m. ......... 9:38 p.m. Saturday ........ 10:04 a.m. ....... 10:36 p.m. Sunday .......... 10:31 a.m. ........ 11:37 p.m. Full Last Craig 27/-1 Park City Provo 32/16 Price 29/11 Ely 23/-3 Richfield 28/9 Moab 37/20 Cedar City 26/1 Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Wednesday’s highs and Wednesday night’s lows. Grand Canyon 28/5 Feb 12 Feb 19 Feb 26 Grand Junction 36/17 Farmington 37/18 Page 40/23 New Aspen 27/6 Cortez 31/8 St. George 41/19 MOON PHASES First Evanston 17/5 24/10 Wendover 34/15 Mar 6 NATIONAL CITIES City Albany Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Boston Buffalo Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus, OH Dallas Denver Wednesday Hi Lo W 39 34 r 25 18 c 71 61 c 46 40 pc 38 33 s 38 32 i 73 64 c 37 32 c 62 55 r 51 39 r 58 49 r 77 60 t 30 -1 pc A storm system will slowly move east Wednesday and Wednesday night, bringing snow across the region. There will be a few rain showers from southeastern Arizona into New Mexico. The storm system will move away from the area Thursday, allowing clouds to give way to partly sunny skies. A couple of snow showers will linger in the Colorado mountains. ROAD CONDITIONS REGIONAL CITIES Logan 25/14 Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. The higher the AccuWeather UV Index™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Shown is the highest value for each day. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 High; 11+ Extreme. 1. Dmitry Loginov, Russia. 2. Tim Mastnak, Slovenia. 3. Stefan Baumeister, Germany. 4. Vic Wild, Russia. 5. Zan Kosir, Slovenia. 6. Lukas Mathies, Austria. 7. Edwin Coratti, Italy. 8. Dario Caviezel, Swizerland. 9. Jasey Jay Anderson, Canada. 10. Oskar Kwiatkowski, Poland. Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019 REGIONAL FORECAST FIVE DAY FORECAST FOR PARK CITY ALMANAC Park City statistics for the week ending Feb. 4 Men’s snowboard giant slalom results: Women’s snowboard giant slalom results: The Heber-Kamas Ranger District maintains trails and campgrounds City Aspen Boulder Butte Colorado Springs Elko Ely Evanston Flagstaff Gallup Grand Canyon Grand Junction Gunnison Idaho Falls Jackson Hole Mesquite Missoula Ogden Page Pocatello Provo Pueblo Reno Rexburg St. George Salt Lake City Spokane Sun Valley Tahoe Twin Falls Yellowstone Wednesday Hi Lo W 27 6 sn 31 3 c 7 -16 sn 46 10 pc 28 1 sn 23 -3 pc 17 5 sn 25 7 sn 34 11 sn 28 5 sn 36 17 sn 15 -3 sn 23 7 c 18 -2 sn 45 26 pc 15 -4 sn 29 16 c 40 23 sn 28 14 c 32 16 sn 54 11 pc 38 11 s 23 0 sn 41 19 sn 30 19 c 24 8 pc 25 -1 c 29 4 s 28 13 sn 12 -15 sn Thursday Hi Lo W 17 -6 sf 21 10 pc 14 -3 pc 26 10 pc 26 6 pc 26 4 s 14 -2 pc 34 4 s 33 5 pc 33 6 s 30 10 pc 11 -21 pc 16 -1 pc 13 -11 pc 45 27 s 17 3 pc 27 9 pc 40 22 pc 24 9 pc 29 8 pc 35 5 pc 40 18 pc 16 0 pc 40 21 s 31 14 pc 25 18 pc 18 3 pc 34 13 s 30 15 pc 8 -17 pc Interstate 80: Periods of snow Wednesday into Wednesday night will lead to snowcovered and slippery pavement. US-40: The pavement will be snow covered and slippery Wednesday into Wednesday night with on-and-off snow. TRAVELERS FORECAST Travelers can expect slower-than-normal traffic and some travel delays Wednesday into Wednesday night across much of the region with periods of snow. Travel conditions will slowly improve Thursday as the storm moves off to the east. WEATHER HISTORY The “Blizzard of ‘78” was in its early stages on this date in 1978. A prolific snow producer, it dumped 14 inches in Baltimore, 16 inches in Philadelphia and 18 inches in New York City. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019 WORLD CITIES Thursday Hi Lo W 44 36 r 28 23 c 77 54 pc 55 42 r 42 39 r 51 35 r 77 62 pc 44 9 r 64 25 r 60 30 r 64 27 r 61 26 c 21 8 pc City Des Moines Detroit Dover Houston Honolulu Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis Nags Head New Orleans New York Norfolk Wednesday Hi Lo W 34 23 i 38 33 i 45 40 pc 79 68 c 81 69 c 49 31 pc 56 39 s 79 67 pc 24 18 sn 55 51 pc 77 66 pc 42 38 r 61 53 pc Thursday Hi Lo W 24 -4 sn 53 25 r 55 44 r 72 42 t 81 67 pc 48 31 s 60 40 s 80 68 pc 20 -7 sn 61 52 pc 77 53 pc 47 42 r 72 58 pc City Oklahoma City Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Providence St. Louis San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle Tampa Washington, DC Wednesday Hi Lo W 67 30 c 79 59 pc 43 39 r 57 36 c 55 47 r 42 32 s 53 50 r 79 63 c 57 42 pc 55 40 s 37 22 pc 79 62 pc 52 49 pc Thursday Hi Lo W 35 17 pc 81 59 pc 53 46 r 57 37 s 61 39 r 40 38 r 53 13 r 69 39 t 62 42 s 55 45 s 41 26 c 81 62 s 64 55 c City Auckland Bangkok Barbados Beijing Berlin Buenos Aires Dublin Frankfurt Hong Kong Jerusalem London Montreal Wednesday Hi Lo W 81 61 pc 91 79 pc 85 77 pc 33 15 pc 43 33 c 85 67 pc 49 38 sh 44 31 c 76 69 pc 62 51 sh 52 43 r 19 15 c Thursday Hi Lo W 73 61 c 93 80 s 84 78 pc 29 18 s 44 37 c 89 71 s 46 42 c 46 38 sh 76 69 sh 57 41 sh 51 45 sh 34 31 sn City Moscow Oslo Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome San Juan Seoul Sydney Tokyo Toronto Warsaw Zurich Wednesday Hi Lo W 27 17 sn 27 21 sn 51 46 r 81 75 sh 59 37 pc 85 71 pc 50 23 pc 83 72 pc 51 43 r 29 24 i 36 29 pc 39 25 s Thursday Hi Lo W 28 21 c 32 27 c 51 44 sh 85 76 t 57 40 s 84 72 pc 33 12 s 83 73 s 61 43 c 39 33 r 42 31 s 44 33 pc Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. |