Park City Life Magazine January February 2015

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The Best of Life at Altitude

Blaise Carrig Inside the Vail Resorts’ Takeover of PCMR

High Style

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Anna Germanidi

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What’s Up High Profile Five questions Faces Arts & entertainment shop outside the look home dining on the town back in the day

The People, Culture and Attitude

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Nothing compares to the rush of carving fat turns, gliding down a slope covered in fresh powder. And with adaptive equipment ready to go, Park City’s National Ability Center helps thrill seekers with physical limitations experience that excitement.

But it’s more than just skiing and snowboarding; we’re talking snowshoeing, sled hockey, biathlon, Nordic skiing, an equestrian program and more—much more.

This winter, with an over $100,000 grant from the US Dept. of Veteran Affairs, the NAC is reaching out to wounded veterans and their families. The nonprofit is also inviting more specialneeds students to learn snow sports, and while Park City Mountain Resort is still the NAC’s home base, expect more activities elsewhere. “We’re looking to increase programming at Deer Valley, Canyons and Brighton,” says Ellen Adams, program director.

The NAC is active all winter, including during the Sundance Film Festival when the mountains are quieter than usual. If you’re an NAC newbie, catch a screening, then hit the slopes. 435-649-3991, discovernac.org Imbibe and support the NAC at Red, White & Snow, celebrating all things wine, March 5–7. redwhiteandsnow.org Join NAC for the Halti Ability Snow Challenge, featuring local ski legends, at Park City Mountain Resort on March 23. discovernac.org/abilitysnowchallenge —Jaime Winston

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Snow sports for all

National Ability Center alpine athletes Jason Sauer and Anna Beninati participate in the adaptive Nordic ski program.

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contributors Vanessa Conabee, a Maine native, was a competitive Nordic skier at St. Lawrence University in New York before heading to graduate school in Chicago, but a spring ski trip to Park City convinced her Utah was where she belonged. Her writing has appeared in Catalyst, Park City magazine, and Witness: Utah Writers on Open Space (2013). Conabee is a mountain host at Deer Valley Resort and a Nordic coach for Park City Nordic. She and her husband Chris live in Park City with their three children.

Tony Gill is a freelance writer and editor with a passion for using language to connect with the people, environments and adventures that inspire him. His work has been featured in numerous magazines and online publications throughout the country. Gill came to Park City to spend an enjoyable winter in a tight-knit mountain community after graduation from Maine’s Colby College. That was eight years ago. Look for his arts and outdoors coverage on parkcitylifemag.com.

on the web

Stephanie Nitsch explores Summit County to discover the places and faces behind the highaltitude constituency. This issue’s stories on Anna Germanidi, Slamdance Film Festival festival director, and Lynn Fey, a supporter of Park City’s non-profits and world traveler, are two examples. The Pacific Northwest native is quick to call Park City home, even when she’s living or traveling abroad. Her work has also appeared in Bike, Forbes, ESPN and a slew of lifestyle publications.

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Visit Park City Life online for news on food, fashion and fun in the Wasatch Back, along with articles from this issue and everything we couldn’t fit in print.

Sundancing All of our Sundance Film Festival coverage, from film reviews to celeb interviews, is online.

Ski School Get back to basics with skiing and snowboarding—all of the info on Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month is online.

Then check out our story on Park City’s low-key winter sports (page 113).

Sorel Giveaway Kick off Sundance season with a new pair of Sorels. We’re giving a pair away.

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What’s up

After a bitter dispute, Utah’s lofty ski kingdom has new rulers. The ramifications for the community will unfold over the next year.

Darkness into Light

The pc ski industry’s feud ends in a big win for skiers.

By Vanessa R. Conabee

Park City’s skiing community has gone through the most tumultuous year in its history. An ugly dispute between Vail Resorts, backed by Talisker Land Holdings, and Park City Mountain Resort dragged through last summer with threats of eviction, a lawsuit and vindictive bullheadednessss. A shred of dark humor was found in the cataclysm that was triggered when a PCMR executive somehow forgot to renew PCMR’s annual sweetheart lease with Talisker: It’s been called “the ski industry’s most costly clerical error.”

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what’s up By summer’s end the nasty dispute hit bottom with national speculation that the iconic ski resort at the heart of Park City would be shuttered this winter—bringing economic catastrophe upon not only Park City, but Utah as a whole.

Then in September, Park City’s clash of giants climaxed dramatically with Vail buying PCMR for $182.5 million. In an exceptionally generous gesture, Vail kept most PCMR staff in place. (No word on the absent-minded PCMR executive) If that wasn’t surprising enough, a few weeks later, Deer Valley purchased the family owned Solitude resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon.

Park City, built on the foundations of a boomand-bust mining town, bounced back from the scare in a matter of weeks. Vail has showered money on the arts and charitable communities.

And, more to the point, skiers are seeing the outcome as an enormous opportunity.

As a result of the recent acquisition, Deer Valley pass holders will now receive four ski days at Solitude Mountain Resort, left.

New man on the mountain Blaise Carrig, president of the Mountain Division of Vail Resorts, will lead the largest ski resort in the United States after Park City Mountain Resort and The Canyons are linked as early as next summer.

Carrig, who spent nearly a decade in Park City from 1997–2002 as head of Canyons for American Skiing Company, says Vail is sensitive to the transformation looming over Park City. “Maintaining the quality of life with growth is one of the challenges. We take that responsibility very seriously as mountain stewards.”

Carrig will serve as president until August, when senior executive Patricia Campbell, chief operating officer at Breckenridge Ski Resort, will step in as part of a planned leadership succession. “We are a publicly traded company, so we are very conscious of strategic planning, and there had to be an exit plan,” Carrig said. After August, Carrig will continue as a senior advisor to Vail, providing strategic vision and direction to Chief Executive Rob Katz and Campbell until his retirement in 2017.

“I’ll continue to be very heavily involved in Park City, probably more so than other resorts, because of my history here,” Carrig said.

Raised in upstate New York, Carrig learned to ski at tiny Royal Mountain Ski Area in the Adirondack Mountains. “All it had was a T-bar. It was do or die—if you managed to make it up that T-bar, you could ski down,” he says. In 1979, Carrig began his career on the Ski Patrol at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, Vermont, ultimately working his way up to president and managing director. When Carrig left Vermont to join American Skiing Company in Park City in 1997, his family’s horses and goats came with

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him. “Part of the deal was that they had to move the goats,” Carrig jokes.

The goats, who have kept his wife’s horses company and provided the family with milk and cheese, have followed him across the country from Vermont to Park City to Lake Tahoe to Boulder, Colorado.

Carrig and wife Shelly’s three children attended Park City elementary schools and high school while he was director of Canyons.

“They really feel like they grew up in Park City—those were core years of their lives,” he says.

When Carrig was appointed senior vice president and chief operating officer of Lake Tahoe’s Heavenly Mountain Resort in 2002, his youngest son stayed behind with family friends so he could finish out his senior year at the Winter School, Park City’s elite high school for winter athletes.

The best part of moving back to Park City, Carrig says, is the weather. “My friends in Vermont aren’t going to like this, but I have to say it was really the weather and everything that went with it—the quality of the snow and bigger mountains. My wife and I have a term for it—we call it ‘nature’s Prozac’ because you wake up every day and it’s always sunny and you feel great. We’d both vacationed and skied in the West but once you live here it really hits you—the reliability of the snow and the big-mountain skiing. Particularly in a town like Park City, where there is a recreational ethos that is really the center of the social fabric—it’s a lot more prevalent here than other towns.”

Park City and Summit County have created a task force to anticipate and handle issues expected from the combining of PCMR and Canyons.

An important part of Vail’s role in Park City’s future, Carrig says, will be preserving the town’s identity. “In a community like this, the town is as much a draw and important part of the vacation as the mountain. We aren’t out to influence the character of town—there are issues to tackle and we want to be a positive partner for Park City and the county on those issues.”

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Vail’s Blaise Carrig wants to protect Park City’s character.

In a nutshell: Vail Resorts bought PCMR for $182.5 million in early September, ending all litigation between Talisker Land Holdings, LLC and PCMR. Vail has retained all PCMR employees in their current roles, so far. After PCMR President Jenni Smith resigned, Vail appointed Bill Rock, previous chief operating officer of Northstar California Resort, as the new chief operating officer of PCMR and Canyons Resort. Mike Goar will continue as general manager of Canyons Resort until he moves in August to Keystone Resort in Colorado.

Need to Know for Skiers: PCMR and the Canyons will operate separately for the 2014–2015 season.

PCMR is now part of the Epic Pass, the Vail Resorts season pass that features 22 ski areas.

All Park City Mountain Resort passes for the 2014–2015 ski season will continue to be honored and can be exchanged or upgraded for a season pass that will also be valid at Canyons.

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PCMR will still offer free night skiing to Epic pass holders.

PCMR will still sell Fast Tracks and Parking for the 2014–2015 season.

PCMR will continue to sell the 6 and under ski free season pass this year only. It will only have access to PCMR. Solitude will operate under the direction of the DeSeelhorst Family, as usual, for the 20142015 season.

Deer Valley Resort and Solitude Mountain Resort full season pass holders will receive four ski days at each respective resort.

What this means for the future: Vail Resorts has indicated they may connect PCMR and the Canyons via a chairlift in the summer of 2015, making it the largest ski resort in the United States with 7,000 skiable acres.

The success of the Epic Pass has spurred other resorts to create partnerships. After Vail Resorts added the Canyons to the Epic pass last year, Snowbird, Alta, Deer Valley and PCMR added skier days at reciprocal resorts.

Select Deer Valley staff plans to work alongside Solitude staff over the next six months to gain resort knowledge before taking full ownership of Solitude Mountain Resort on May 1, 2015. Deer Valley plans to continue allowing snowboarding at Solitude and keep the Brighton connection in place.

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Ultimately, Vail Resort’s acquisition of PCMR and Deer Valley’s purchase of Solitude should accelerate ONE Wasatch–the long discussed idea of connecting the seven central Wasatch ski areas using chairlifts and a network of ski runs.

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high profile

Making a difference in a small community Between skiing, cycling and doing good, Lynn Fey has deep roots in park city.

By Stephanie Nitsch

Lynn Fey packs a glass-half-full outlook that never runs dry. Lynn, along with husband Tom and her three children, moved to Park City more than 20 years ago, bringing with her an insatiable appetite for adventure and community philanthropy.

As a couple, Lynn and Tom have traveled extensively and worldwide. Racking up more than a million frequent flyer miles, it’s easier for Lynn to list the countries she hasn’t visited than the ones she has. (“I haven’t been to

Poland or Lithuania,” she freely admits.) Last summer, while cycling through Budapest together, Tom sustained a severe bike injury, requiring a longer-than-anticipated stay in Hungary. So with two extra weeks, Lynn flew in one of her daughters from the U.S. to explore the Central European country and celebrate Tom’s eventual discharge from the hospital.

Stateside, she’s likely to find adventure in other areas, having served on various non-profit boards like the National Ability Center, Park City Museum, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Kimball Art Center and Utah Heritage Foundation—just to name a few. And the 72-year-old is only just getting started.

On staying active I love to ski all over the place. I heli-ski. I’m older, but I ski with younger people because they love to do what I love to do. Tom and I love to take bike trips. We did Croatia last year and did 600 miles from Germany to Vienna. We love everything Park City has to offer recreationally.

On making a local impact In life, you have very few opportunities to truly make a difference. But in Park City, you really can make a difference in a small community. I feel amazingly fortunate to be part of the Egyptian, the museum, everything else. How many times do you have that opportunity? Very, very few.

On preserving Park City’s past I fell madly in love with the Historic District. I used to be a Historic District commissioner, so I was the one who adhered to all the [city] guidelines. We were the safeguards for the Historic District. We don’t have that anymore. There are lots of beautiful, historic homes that have been torn down and called a preservation. It’s not. It makes me sad.

On seeing the world from two wheels On a bike, you see the world in a different way. You go through all the little towns and have a coffee or a beer and stuff you just wouldn’t do when you’re flying or taking the train.

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Went to Africa. Lived with tribes for three months. Rode bikes down the coast of Vietnam. I’ve had some phenomenal adventures. PT is a wonderful profession because it allows you to travel.

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5 questions 1 what’s your favorite event at slamdance?

AG: The Filmmaker Welcome on the first day of the festival. Everyone in the room stands up and introduces themselves and their projects. It’s very intimate and we are all really excited for this journey to begin, which creates the best energy. This is the first time we get to put faces to all our favorite films and the hundreds of emails that were sent before the festival. I love getting to know all the filmmakers, who, by the end of the week, will be my close friends.

2 in what ways do slamdance’s films and festival culture differ from sundance?

AG: Slamdance is a smaller, more intimate community of independent filmmakers. All our films are selected from blind submissions. We don’t look at other festivals in order to find films, and we don’t care who you are, what you’ve done before or who you know. There are no early acceptances and everything is decided at the same time by our programmers, who are filmmakers themselves.

We’re a festival of discovery which means for most of our filmmakers, Slamdance is their first festival experience. And we’re very proud and excited to see many of our alumni move on to Sundance or other big festivals after Slamdance.

3 what are the three movies in your personal collection you watch the most?

anna germanidi

Reel talk with slamdance film festival’s new festival director

by Stephanie Nitsch

The Slamdance Film Festival has been a counter-culture option to the Sundance film scene since 1995, when Slamdance founders established an alternative celebration for the rejected filmmakers of Robert Redford’s marquee event.

(Remember when Sundance was the alternative film fest?) Entering its 21st year this January, upwards of 5,000 submissions will be weeded down to a manageable seven-day binge of independent cinema, screened at Treasure Mountain Inn. The prep work is a daunting undertaking for a small organization, but Slamdance festival director Anna Germanidi is unfazed by the prospect. The Los Angeles-based cinephile has spent over a decade immersing herself in film culture and production around the world. As she enters her first Slamdance as head honcho, we put her through the ringer with some of our toughest film questions, including, popcorn or Milk Duds?

4 Where do you go to escape the festival crowds?

AG: I go to Karleen’s Uptown Fare for lunch everyday. It’s next door to the Treasure Mountain Inn, where our festival offices are located, and has great homemade food, lovely people and a relaxing atmosphere. I love going over there to take a break from the festival madness.

5 what is your favorite movie snack?

AG: Popcorn, no butter. I love movie theaters and I love popcorn. These two go perfectly together, and there’s no better way to watch a movie.

Slamdance will be held Jan. 23–29. Visit slamdance.com for more info.

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AG: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Michel Gondry, because it’s an amazing story that I have a very strong reaction to every single time I watch it.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona by Woody Allen, because the moment the movie starts I want to be in Barcelona, and Penélope Cruz’s performance in this film is one of my all time favorites. Laurence Anyways by Xavier Dolan, because it’s not every day you find an almost three-hour movie you want to watch over and over again. Powerful, heartbreaking love story, absolutely beautiful cinematography and a soundtrack that gets my blood flowing.

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faces

Sam Harris Comfort food connoisseur

by Tony Gill

Park City has a tradition of culinary excellence and a culture friendly to those with budgetary restraints, but rarely have the two facets intersected. Sam Harris, a Parkite since age 4, aims to change that. The former competitive skier made a splash in 2011 when he opened Sammy’s Bistro, and he recently established his second restaurant, Bird and Barley, a few doors down. The catalyst for the new eatery was community driven. “We were doing a Fried Chicken Friday Special at Sammy’s,” he says, “and we listened to the overwhelmingly positive response.”

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Shaun Raskin Guide to the backcountry

by Tony Gill

The call of the mountains was too much to resist for Shaun Raskin. The New York native was drawn to Boulder, Colorado for college and ultimately to Park City where she pursued a career as a professional telemark skier. Raskin’s passion now lies in sharing her love for the outdoors with others. “I want to create experiences for clients where I can share with them a healthy, mindful mountain lifestyle.” In addition to guiding backcountry skiers with Park City Powder Cats, Shaun started her own outdoor wellness guiding service, Inspired Summit Adventures.

Randi Jo Taurel Yoga for local kids

by Tony Gill

The Park City Women’s Business Network 2013 Woman of the Year isn’t what you might expect. You won’t find Randi Jo Taurel in a power suit wielding a laser pointer. Her award-winning business is teaching yoga to children in the Park City School District. Taurel cites word-of-mouth support as key to her business’s success. “People here really lift up and support each other,” Taurel says. “Of course they’re healthy and active, but more than that they are open to trying new things spiritually and physically to find what works for them and their kids.”

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kirsten fox Wining and dining

by Tony Gill

If an “educational happy hour” sounds more entertaining than your typical high-brow wine-learning experience, then Kirsten Fox’s Fox School of Wine is for you. Fox, a California native, and her husband moved to Park City to raise a family and found the town very receptive to wine education and entertainment. Fox opened the school in 2008 where she and her colleagues now offer classes for all levels of wine aficionados. “It’s great helping people understand wine so they can be more confident at a restaurant, but the school is really about fun and tasting first.” Fox also works with restaurants like Grub Steak Restaurant and Butcher’s Chop House & Bar to improve their wine programs through the Culinary Wine Institute and is writing her second book, “23 Easy Ways to Screw Up Your Restaurant’s Wine Program.”

PC P ower Couple

Matt and Maren Mullin Making an impact in Park City’s art, homes and culture

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by Stephanie Nitsch

Matt and Maren Mullin are driven by managing their own businesses and sitting on the board of numerous local non-profits. Together, the 30-something-year-olds are one of Park City’s young power couples.

Maren always aspired to run her own business from a young age, and in 2007, she opened Gallery MAR on Main Street. “Connecting people with fine art in a gallery setting has been an ideal fit,” Maren says. “Art is a reflection of our time, of our memories, of our experiences.” And it’s a philosophy that she’s extended to other arenas such as Style MAR, a personal styling business for the fashion-challenged, or infused into the frequent fundraisers and benefits she hosts. “There’s always another business idea in the pipeline,” she says.

Matt is one of Park City’s top residential real estate agents. “Knowing why and how families use their homes in a ski town is kind of second nature to me,” says the Vail, Colo. native. Matt’s penchant for mountain sports—and all the gear that goes with it, has led to a new business—a hip take on leased storage space. Matt and a few partners launched ManCaves, off-site storage units for gear and toys that double as hangout spots for friendly gatherings.

The couple’s personal lives took a different direction after the birth of their 14-month-old daughter, Jane. “We spend our free time together as a family, hiking, exploring our town and, we hope,” says Maren, “taking Jane skiing this winter.”

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arts & entertainment OAR rocks out during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

Into the fire

Getting hands on at the Kimball Art Center’s ceramics studio

it might get loud

park city live is bringing music back to main street.

by Tony Gill

Park City’s Main Street is an epicenter of Utah nightlife. Between the plethora of bars, restaurants and clubs, the town is hardly lacking options for those seeking entertainment after hours, and the thoroughfare’s vitality during the Sundance Film Festival each January is staggering. Despite this, there was one niche that desperately needed to be filled: live music performances.

Park City Live opened its doors in 2011 with one goal, to “Bring live music back to Main Street,” according to marketing coordinator Jenny Reichhold. “The venue is just the perfect place to hold a concert. It has a decent capacity and the right atmosphere to bring in some bigger acts.”

There are numerous places in Park City to catch a live gig, but Park City Live is the only one with the scale necessary to deliver premier artists to Summit County. They’ve certainly succeeded in doing so, bringing in a diverse range of big-name performers such as Snoop Dogg, Stevie Nicks and The Foo Fighters. The range of genres is by design. “We aim

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for as much variety as possible when booking shows. Hip hop, reggae, jam bands, everything. We’ve been doing a lot of electronic show recently,” Reichhold explains.

Don’t expect the growth and development to stop any time soon, as the folks at Park City Live plan on marketing the venue as a premier location not just in Summit County, but throughout the Intermountain West. The venue has recently received upgraded production tools and capabilities, including the addition of an enormous LED screen to display large-scale, high-resolution images, further cementing its place as the locale’s foremost concert setting.

Of course, the highest-profile shows are booked during Sundance and other peak tourist times, but special attention is paid to the most loyal subset of supporters. “We love our locals,” Reichhold says. “We want to provide them with great performances throughout the year.” Keep a lookout for upcoming shows. Whatever your taste, Park City Live will have something right up your alley.

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“I love how sneaky ceramics can be,” Kristen McDermaid says while sitting in the Kimball Art Center’s ceramics studio. “Clay can be anything. There is very little difference between a fine art concept and something you touch that was made by someone’s hand. It’s a very intimate connection, and there’s a kind of beauty in that.”

McDermaid has a palpable and infectious passion for ceramics, and it’s hard to avoid being taken in when she speaks about the art form. She recently took charge of the Kimball’s studio after completing her master’s degree in ceramics at the University of Utah, and Kristen is now in charge of running all the Art Center’s ceramics classes. There are offerings for all ages and ability levels, from introducing young children to the imaginative process of creating something to teaching seasoned adults the finer point of mastering layers and surface textures. But every level of class is aimed at “getting more people exploring and playing with clay.”

The studio is open for people to come work on their own time, and McDermaid is regularly on hand to “facilitate creativity.” Access to the studio is included with classes, and for the DIY type, monthly memberships are available for only $35. The cost includes firing and glaze, and aspiring artists can get all their clay directly from the Art Center.

“We’re hoping to do a raku firing in the spring, where you pull the pieces out while they’re glowing hot, and then place them in a container with newspaper,” McDermaid says. “The flames produce an amazing finish. It’s like Las Vegas on a pot.”

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Snow Happy

Celebrate January’s Learn to ski and snowboard Month in Park City.

by Stephanie Nitsch

At 400 resorts across the country, January is Learn to Ski & Snowboard Month, an open challenge encouraging newbies to pick up a snow passion. Utah’s 15 ski resorts offer incredible ski or snowboard packages for aspiring snow sliders and more than 10,000 kids. “Humans were never meant to hibernate,” says Raelene Davis, Ski Utah director of marketing. “Our goal is to get kids off the couch during the winter.”

Biathlon Combine Nordic skiing with a rifle and you have biathlon, a popular international sport that has been slow to catch on in America. Soldier Hollow in Midway offers the only high-altitude biathlon venue in the US—a thrilling, one-of-a-kind course for biathletes of all abilities. “It’s very challenging from a physical and mental standpoint,” says Richard Hodges, executive director of Soldier Hollow.

“The mental calmness it takes to shoot accurately while your heart is racing [from skiing] is amazing.

It’s incredibly fun to do.” A modified course allows participants as young as six years old to sign up for a lesson in a controlled shooting environment. $35, adults; $23, juniors for a 1-hour lesson, rentals and ammo. Visit soldierhollow.com.

Skeleton If you love an adrenaline rush and facing danger eye-to-eye you’ve got the makings of a skeleton athlete. The G-Force Skeleton Fantasy Camp at the Utah Olympic Park is a crash course in skeleton sliding.

Visit ParkCityLifemag.com for more info on Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month, and turn to page 49 for info on the Park City Curling Club.

(Though we’ve been assured that actual crashes are rare.) Using the same elite curriculum taught by the US Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, participants can test their cojones on the UOP’s twisted ice track from the 2002 Games. With a few hours of training from an Olympic skeleton coach, you’ll learn to hurl down the high-speed track headfirst from the junior start (curve 6). “There’s only two places in the US that you can even do this,” says Val Fleming, UOP head bobsled and skeleton development coach. “To say that you’ve driven a skeleton sled is a unique experience, especially if you like the speed and rush.” $600 for a one-day introductory course; Jan. 3 or Feb. 14. Register at utaholympiclegacy.com.

Nordic Skiing A classic staple of mountain recreation, Nordic skiing is arguably winter’s oldest sport. With nearly 80 kilometers of groomed trails in Park City, most free to the public, Nordic skiing is accessible, affordable and downright fun—not to mention a great aerobic workout. “For folks who are winter minded, it’s the ultimate offset for alpine skiing,” says Patrick Coffey, director of the White Pine Nordic Center. “When it’s been sunny and cold for a week and the crud has been skied off of the hill, the Nordic track is firm, groomed and beautiful.” Start with an introduction to the classic technique before progressing to skate skiing, both of which are offered through the Nordic Center, seven days a week. $45 for a 1-hour lesson, track pass and rentals. For more information, visit whitepinetouring.com.

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The look

A world of fashion in 400 square feet Farasha boutique is more than that

by Mary Brown Malouf

Far asha boutique is small — only 400 square feet on Park City’s Main Street. But its tiny size holds huge possibilities. In fact, Farasha owner Vanessa di Palma Wright doesn’t quite define Farasha as a store, despite the racks of edgy outfits. “We’re really a fashion consulting company— we’ve been doing this for quite some time, but we haven’t promoted it that way.”

Farasha concentrates on emerging designers from around the world, offering a shopping experience totally different from other boutiques. An avid traveler, Wright sets aside time on every trip to meet with new designers. “I work with 75 showrooms, but there are so many more than I could stock at Farasha in the traditional way.”

Wright used to handle the wealth of goods by opening pop-up shops. Now Farasha functions as a permanent pop-up, rotating designers on display and even sharing the wealth with other retailers. “Some lines may not be the best fit for us but could work well for another retailer,” Wright says. So Farasha is a kind of wholesale showroom as well as a boutique. The concept worked well for Wright in Sun Val-

ley before she moved to Park City (She is working on similar projects in Jackson Hole and Europe).

Wright also consults with other locations, hotels and resorts, to set up pop-up boutiques. “Rotating designers in a store keeps it fresh and new, and creates an urgency to buy because the merchandise is only available for a limited time,” she says. “For new brands and designers, it gives them accessibility to target demographics and also gets them feedback, almost like a focus group, without a huge investment.”

Wright credits the Sundance Film Festival for giving Park City an international identity. “When I say I work from Park City, Utah, many people in Asia and Europe are bewildered.

Then I say, ‘home of the Sundance Film Festival’ and they know where that is. We started our pop-ups during Sundance and still do our best business during the festival.”

Wright also does photo styling (see page 78 in Salt Lake magazine) and produces runway fashion shows, so she sees herself not so much a competitor with other boutiques in town but as an ambassador.

“We all succeed together,” Wright says.

Vanessa di Palma Wright makes her fashion popup permanent.

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The room

logging on

stacked wood serves as art in a boldly designed park city home.

by Brad Mee

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For most of us, getting firewood involves pulling an armload of logs from a pile in the backyard.

No sooner do you bring some in than it burns down and you’re out trekking through the snow to fetch more. Designer Kristin Rocke had a better idea for her Park City clients Todd Mandel and Skylar Grey. As part of the design of their Promontory home’s dynamic living room space, Rocke created an eyecatching, 18-inch-deep metal clad niche in which she artfully stacked logs 14 feet high. “We needed something to balance the weight of the windows on the other side of the room,” Rocke says. Because pulling wood from the top of the soaring stack required a ladder and a dose of daring, the designer inset a small, easy-to-reach box within the box from which the homeowners can pull wood with ease. Mandel and Grey love Rocke’s stacked-log wall feature so much that they kept it even after converting their fireplace from wood-burning to gas.

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minutes from stardom

it’s location, location, location for this old town home

by Jaime Winston

It’s all about location for this early 1910 Park City home, which is only a five minute walk to Sundance Film Festival premieres at the Egyptian Theatre.

While the three-bed, two-bath home was renovated in 2007, it still retains its historic charm while offering dramatic architecture and exquisite finishes.

Entertain in the gourmet kitchen or hold your own Sundance hot-tub after party on the back deck. While it’s clearly smaller than other Old Town homes, it’s also just steps from Park City Mountain Resort’s Town Lift.

—For more info contact Heidi Gatch, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Utah Properties, 435-647-8023, heidi@BHHSutah.com 539 Park Avenue 1,729 square feet Listing Price $1,250,000

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Dining

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by mary brown malouf

One Big Night

Sparkle & Shine at Silver

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Silver gets shinier during Sundance. The swankiest restaurant in Park City—cobalt mohair walls adorned with silver chains, silver-rubbed floors, arty lighting, silver leather chairs—Silver is a natural setting for star-studded parties and is booked up from “A-lister” weekend, when the festival starts, all the way beyond the final awards night. “Our ‘can’t-say’ policy about famous guests is part of what keeps us popular with the Hollywood people,” says manager Shawn Hyer. But big entities like B.E.T., Comcast and the Human Rights Campaign that host their parties at Silver year after year guarantee a notable guest list. Still, the bar and lounge are open to the public most days. And even if you dine at Silver after the stars are gone, you’ll have a good time, worth wearing high heels if you’re inclined. Besides one of the coolest bars in town, Silver has a kitchen that keeps changing for the better. For instance, “We decided to invest in last summer’s bounty,” Hyer says. “We bought hundreds of pounds of tomatoes and canned them ourselves. We put up Utah cherries in brandy and preserved pears, peaches and corn. Our larder is stocked with kim chee we made. We’ll be able to pull out those summer flavors all winter long.” Silver’s menu changes several times a week, but some dishes, like baby octopus, venison carpaccio and brussels sprouts with pomegranate seeds, you can count on. Watch out for the short-rib ravioli with butternut squash, chevre and, a surprise plebeian touch, turnips. And the Niman Ranch pork cheeks with smoked shallots and bourbon apples. 508 Main Street, PC, 435-940-1000 ParkCityLife Jan/feb 2015

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Three Easy Places

So Not Main Street

1) Bird & Barley

3) Sammy’s Bistro

The L-shaped Bonanza Drive strip is becoming Plan B when it comes to eating out in PC. Never mind Main Street if you crave quick, delicious food. The latest addition to the food bonanza on Bonanza is Bird & Barley, a tiny place that specializes in fried chicken and beer. But such fried chicken! 1890 Bonanza Dr., Park City, 435-602-1170

Sammy’s could easily be dubbed “stick-toyour-ribs cafe”—that’s the specialty here. Even the salads are hearty and the specialties—vodka penne, roast chicken, mahi tacos, etc.—are a globe-trotting sampler of fill’er up plates.

1890 Bonanza Dr., Park City, 435-214-7570

Everyone who knows anything goes to El Chubasco for Mexican food–lacking any Main Street frills, the no-nonsense cafe serves cheesy (that’s a good thing) classics like enchiladas and tamales backed by a world-famous-in-PC salsa bar. 1890 Bonanza Dr., Park City, 435-645-9114

(See our profile on the owner of Sammy’s Bistro and Bird & Barley on page 107.)

Your Club for Your Life

Located just minutes from historic Main Street, Park Meadows Country Club is Park City’s only in-town country club. Our members enjoy private access to a renowned golf course, award-winning cuisine and spectacular views. And our newly introduced pricing program makes a membership more affordable than ever. Golf, Social and Dining Memberships available.

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CONTACT JOSH CARR, Membership Services Manager jcarr@parkmeadowscc.com 435.649.2460 x202

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On the Road

Road Island Diner The very cool vintage Streamline Moderne Art Deco diner has been established in Oakley for several years, but in the past the place itself (on the National Register of Historic Places) has been the main draw— food quality and service was erratic. Now the diner is being run by chef/restaurateurs Steve and Ginny Butler and the menu reflects their experience. Local lamb is used in the lamb sandwich, and besides the expected diner dishes like meat loaf and burgers, there is a beet and grapefruit salad and a hummus wrap that wouldn’t have made the 1939 menu. The diner is an obvious attraction in the summer when motorcyclists and car enthusiasts rally here, but even though the winter hours are shorter, there’s a coziness about a hot cup of coffee and a stack of buttermilk hotcakes that’s hard to beat. Winter Hours: Thursday–Sunday 8 a.m.–8 p.m. 981 W. Weber Canyon Rd., Oakley, 435-783-3467

For a complete list of our favorite Park City restaraunts, turn to page 148 of our Dining Guide.

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What are you craving? www.ParkCityRestaurants.com Your complete guide to Park City area dining

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on the town

Jans winter welcome Stein Eriksen Lodge, October 25 Photos by Carla Boecklin

1. Park City Ski Team Coach Dar Hendrickson dressed to impress at the Youth Sports Alliance’s sold-out gala, which helped support winter sports activities for youth in Summit and Wasatch counties.

2. Olympians Taylor Fletcher, Emily Cook, Derek Parra, Bryan Fletcher, Joss Christensen, Maddie Bowman, Devin Logan and Shannon Bahrke Happe 3. Guests enjoyed a seated dinner, auction and dancing, along with a chance to mingle with local Olympic medalists.

4. Founder of JANS, Jan Peterson, and Amanda Peterson 5. USA Luge Western Regional Program Director Jon Owen, 1988 Olympic team member 6. YSA Executive Director Aimee Preston and Event Manager Christy Dias

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1. The kick off gala for the Park City Kimball Arts Festival featured a fashion show styled by Vanessa Di Palma Wright from Farasha. Guests also enjoyed a reception, silent and live auctions, dinner and pop-up boutiques.

2. Ann MacQuoid, Geralyn Dreyfous and Val Chin 3. Larry Warren, Carol Murphy Warren and Randy Barton

late summersun dance party World Famous, August 30 Photos by Shauna Raso

4. #SocialMediaLyte Productions held the Late SummerSun Dance Party, featuring DJ Motiv8 with Krystyn Leigh Banks and Chris Cri$talz 5. Alma Neiswinter, DJ Motiv8, Scott Swaner, Joel Erickson

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1. Mayor Jack Thomas and his wife Margarethe enjoy Habitat for Humanity’s sold-out event, which raised over $100,000 to help bring people together to build homes, communities and hope.

2. Mercedes Betemps and Rodrigo Carasco, Habitat home owners 3. Mrs. Bryner’s second grade class from Morningside Elementary show off their drawings with the theme “With My Own Two Hands I Can...”

4. Kappie Bliss, Tracy Hausman

autumn aloft hot air balloon festival Above Park City, September 20-12 Photos by Paige Holmstrom

5. Karen Flinn, Monique Beeley and Kelley Coates prep to pack up a balloon after a flight.

6. Balloon owners from around the U.S. brought their massive hot air balloons to fly across the Summit County sky.

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park silly sunday market Historic Main Street, June 8-September 21 Photos by Lakota Gambill

1. Zach Baca creates balloon art for kids at Park City’s weekly open-air market and street festival featuring non-profits, kids’ activities, music, food and more.

2. Hannah Kanaan, Zac Tihey, Kim Semple 3. Musician Dan Flynn 4. The market took over Park City’s Historic Main Street 5. Artist Pamela Flynn 6. Hula hoop performer Jaecey Adams

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back in the day

AN up lifting Past

History of Park City Mountain Resort’s Jupiter Chairlift

By Stephanie Nitsch

When the experiment came to an end, resort ownership swapped hands a few times and Park City Ski Area began eyeing the Jupiter area for its skiing potential. So in the summer of 1976, Lift Engineering installed a new haul system at the base of Shadow Lake, opening access to some of the resort’s most acclaimed ski terrain on a powder day.

In a twist of irony, the inaugural season of the Jupiter Lift proved to be the driest winter in history, the resort unable to open until Jan. 5, 1977.

Nevertheless, Jupiter Lift was a sleek upgrade to Park City’s lift system, its angular and rigid architecture a hallmark of Lift Engineering’s “cutting edge” style that quickly became the chairlift design standard across North America in the 1970s and 80s.

Although Lift Engineering went bankrupt in 1995, the company’s resilient design was built for the long haul (pun intended), with many of their 200 fixed-grip chairlifts still in operation throughout North America, including Motherlode and Thaynes lifts at Park City Mountain Resort.

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Jupiter Lift was once cutting edge tech.

On any given powder day, snow-hungry skiers and snowboarders at Park City Mountain Resort anxiously wait in line to rip up the bowls and faces encompassing Jupiter Peak. As 136 double-seat chairs crank around the bullwheel, Jupiter Lift sags under the weight of its maximum capacity as 1,200 people per hour hitch a ride on its fixed-grip haul rope.

With the trend of high-speed six- and eight-seater lifts at resorts, these slow chairlifts are quickly becoming a relic of skiing’s history, but it wasn’t long ago that Jupiter Lift was the inspiration for modern chairlift design.

Like so much in Park City, Jupiter Lift has a link to the mining industry that predates any significant ski development. In 1968, a team of physicists from the University of Utah installed a half-million dollar subterranean science experiment in the Jupiter area. Scientists built a testing facility some 2,000 feet underground in an old Silver King Mine, to detect the presence of neutrinos, an elusive cosmic ray particle that could give scientists a better understanding of the universe.

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