| Show Extra Tony Burns BurnsI I Contributing Writer Deep powder snow scenic beauty and easy access lets the ski resorts serve more people than any other canyon use With the amount of snowfall and the general interest groWing growing growing grow groW- ing the demand for enlargement enlargement enlargement enlarge enlarge- ment of the ski resorts is getting getting getting get get- ting greater Under the current Forest Service Plan the existing resort boundaries could holdup holdup hold holdup up to an additional skiers in Little Cottonwood Canyon and 2900 skiers in Big Cottonwood This is a 46 percent in increase rease over current current- population The provides for modification of the resorts not enlargement and does not allow any more parking parking parking park park- ing to be built on forest property More people can fiton fit fiton fiton on the slopes but their cars wont A couple of the resorts already already al already al- al ready are working on plans to modify but only Solitude has final plans They have a two- two phase plan Phase one contains contains con con- a detachable quad chairlift chairlift chairlift chair- chair lift which is a a. high speed mini tram and also two n new w regular chairlifts to be constructed constructed constructed con con- this coming summer Phase two concerns a new base facility to be built sometime sometime sometime some some- time in the near future y |
