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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. ....
Deer Valley Resort is celebrating its 40th season in operation this ski season. This is the fifth and final article in a series covering Deer Valley from Park City’s mining era through the resort’s early… ....
Park City Museum researcher A 1996-1997 ski season map and guide for what was then known as Wolf Mountain. The terrain is now the Canyons Village side of Park City Mountain Resort. Park City Historical Society & Museum, Sandra Morrison Collection People have been skiing in Park City since at least the 1890s. Skiing was a local affair for a while, but as mining on our mountains became less profitable, we used our mountains to build skiing into Park City’s business. The first ski jumps were made on the Creole Mine dump on the hillside west of Old Town. In 1937 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built three ski runs, a ski jump, a toboggan run and a warming shack in Deer Valley. After World War II, Otto Carpenter and Bob Burns installed creative homemade lifts to take advantage of these ski runs. They called it Snow Park. That tiny resort closed in 1969 and re-opened in 1981 as Deer Valley Resort. In 1963 United Park City Mines used its patented mining land to ....