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Show Resort Making Snow Park City Resort officials decided this week to launch a major snow-making effort geared gear-ed towards the payday area in order to open the lower runs for night skiing, and provide a skiing access off Treasure Mountain. At present, only selected upper runs are open, and skiers must ride the gondola down from either the Summit House or Angle Station at days end. "It's something we should have started a month ago," commented Ski Corp. President Ray Johnson with reference to manufacturing snow for his sparsely covered mountain, "but hindsight is 20-20 and reports indicated that it would snow any day,. We just decided that it was time to stop waiting for snow and start making our own." The Resort, traditionally blessed with heavy Utah winter snows, has never invested in extensive snow making machinery, machin-ery, and is forced to rent most of the equipment necessary to their ensuing effort. Mr. Johnson John-son estimated that the project will cost in excess of $50,000 including the rental of a number of large compressors and powerful hydraulic pumps. Water will be drawn from the golf course lakes, pumped up the mountain and forced through the compressor, sending send-ing a Fine mixture of air and water out onto the slopes, freezing as it falls to the ground. Mr. Johnson indicated that he expected to see significant results by Friday. After Payday is skiable, their attentions will be turned to First Time and Three Kings. Park City Municipal Corporation Corpora-tion is assisting in the operation, and has offered to provide excess fire hoses on hand to aid in the production of snow. |
