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Show Snow Continues as Business Picks Up 1 i i several days in advance. ' People j are still apprehensive about ' making any long range plans," he said, "but it looks as if the ' weekend of the 12th (March) will be the biggest yet this year." The almost surprising appearance appear-ance of snow allowed both resorts to firm up plans for a variety of late winter activities including the Jill St. John Celebrity Weekend scheduled for April 10 thru 12 at the Park City Resort. The almost surprising appear- 4 ance of snow allowed both resorts 4 to firm up plans for a variety of late winter activities including the f Jill St. John Celebrity Weekend scheduled for April 10 thru 12 at the Park City Resort. At Park West, the first Dwaine Brown professional dual grand prix slalom races have been scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week. $2,000 in cash prizes are offered in this week's race sponsored by Solomon. Other activities are detailed elsewhere in the Park Record this week. Both resorts maintain that they will stay open as long as there is snow and if the old timers are correct, there will be ample skiing well into June. "What doesn't fall in November, December, January or February," most life long residents agree, "will fall in March, April, May and June." Park C ity is beginning to look a lot more like a ski town this week alter its former desert golf-spalike appearance was burried under a deep blanket of snow. Snow fell practically every day last week adding doens of inches to a sparsely covered mountain; reminding everyone that after all it is February and that there are at least two months of skiing left in this very singular season. It seems everybody in town went skiing sometime during the week and both Park City and Park West Resorts recorded their busiest days so far this year. Park City reported over 10,000 skier days during the week; still less than half of last year's 18,500 figure but over three times the previous week's 3,000 total. At Park West 3,000 skiers skied Sunday and the sight of a full lot with cars parked clear out to the highway served to lift dampened spirits immensely. Also Jupiter Bowl, the pride of Park City's powder entusiasts, was open for the first time this week drawing thousands of skiers to its highly publicized slopes. Although weekend conditions left something to be desired, skiers didn't seem to be affected. Hundred mile an hour gusts brought temperatures down to a biting minus 40 with chill factor on Saturday and when the weather cleared Sunday the mountain was covered with a shear layer of salt and dust carried in from the Great Salt Lake by Saturday's gale. To the picky skier conditions were like skiing a sand dune but to everyone else they were unparalleled unparal-leled and excellent. Fortunately the sand was deeply burried Tuesday by a strong pacific storm front and the National Weather Service is forecasting major storms on Wednesday, Thursday, also on Saturday and Sunday. Apart from record days at the ski resorts, restaurants, lodges and shops also posted sharp increases in business activity with more bright weeks apparently ahead. Tom Hanson, director of the Park City Central Reservation Office, says that cancellations have virtually stopped and reservations have definitely increased. Hanson doesn't forecast the town being fully booked in the near future, but is optimistic about the influx of reservations coming primarily |
