The early morning sun rising over the High Uintas cast shadows onto the rock-hard corduroy. A feeling of joy came over me as I set an edge in the snow, linking arcs down the frozen mountainside. It’s springtime in the Wasatch!
It was O-Dark-30 as the patrollers climbed on board a shiny gondola cabin at the base of the new Treasure Mountains ski area. Coffee in hand, plus a copy of the day s Salt Lake Tribune newspaper to while away the time, they settled in for the long ride to the top of the ridgeline 11 minutes to the angle station, another 11 more to the summit.
Treasure Mountains officially opened to the public at 9 a.m. on Dec. 21, 1963, with much fanfare. Mayor William P. Sullivan cut the ribbon, declaring the resort open and ushering in “a new economic era for historic Park City.”
o mess that up. But, on those post-powder days, you remember those 10 days, when my legs were burnt out from the powder and I just wanted to cruise some steeper stuff and make a bunch of turns, Park City Mountain had some lovely black diamond runs all groomed and ready for me.
CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN RESORT With Mount Rainier staring back at eye level, hardy Seattle and Tacoma business and civic leaders stood at the summit of Crystal Mountain on winter days in the mid-1950s, ent