Park City Life May June 2015

The Best of Life at Altitude

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Answers Scott Kelly Tapping into your innate wisdom

Zafod Beatlebroks

The artist behind Park City’s famous Fish Car and more

Get In The Game:

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The People, Culture and Attitude

contents 118 high profile Ski Utah’s CEO talks about linking resorts and the famous “powder clause.”

120 5 questions Scott Kelly changes the ways Parkites look at life.

122 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Music and drinks at O.P. Rockwell, Park Silly Market’s return and more

127 Faces Artist Zafod Beatlebrox, the Pink Elephant Coffee couple and a body painter

131 What’s Up photo courtesy park city area restraunt association

Managing Park City’s latest growth spurt

Taking it to the Street

Park City kicks off summer with the ultimate al fresco / jaime winston

Summers are for flip flops, road trips and dining outside.

And Savor the Summit, Park City’s annual open-air dinner party and one of Utah’s signature al fresco experiences. Coinciding with the summer solstice, Savor features 20 local restaurants and chefs serving tables that run down the center of Main Street. Raise your glass to old friends (and new ones you’ll meet at your table) as you enjoy delightfully summer-y

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fare. Once you’ve savored your meal, stroll toward Heber Avenue for the Spirit Garden, where you can sip wines and enjoy live music in the alpenglow. As the sun sets and the street lights flicker on, you’ll realize why this is Utah’s quintessential warm-weather dining event.

Join the party on June 20 at 6 p.m. Make reservations with one of the participating restaurants and get more more info at parkcityrestaurants.com.

134 outside Hitting the bike trail

136 THE LOOK Savvy style advice, from workout to night out

138 HOME A function-forward kitchen in Deer Crest and a luxe nature retreat in Kamas

140 back in the day Meet Park City’s Orange Blossom Softball Team.

142 on the town Photos from local galas, festivals and more

147 Dining Savoring the Summit with Bill White, three bars to visit and last-ditch tacos

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editor’s letter The Best of Life at Altitude

President/Publisher

Margaret Mary Shuff EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Mary Brown Malouf Editor

Vanessa Conabee Managing Editor

Glen Warchol WRITING AND EDITING C0NTRIBUTORS

Tony Gill, Brad Mee, Jaime Winston copy editor

Stephanie Warnick Art Director

Scott Cullins designers

Taryn Nielsen Ethan Zagorec Marks Staff Photographer

Adam Finkle contributing photographers

Carla Boecklin, Bryan Pearson, Shauna Raso, Natalie Simpson Art department interns

Will Tuddenham, Jarom West Director of operations

Damon Shorter Production manager

Park City is People Locals define the city’s character

At our recent l aunch party for the expanded issue of Park City Life, I looked around the crowd of business, hotel, restaurant, gallery and boutique owners and readers gathered at the well-appointed Main & SKY and considered that every one of the faces I saw had a unique story—a passion or sport or talent or season that led and kept them in Park City—and equally involved in its future.

The direction Park City takes moving forward (see “What’s Up,” page 131) is a hot topic of conversation, with issues of affordable housing, transportation, One Wasatch (read Ski Utah President Nathan Rafferty’s take on the issue, page 118) and Mountain Accord occupying center stage. Everyone has an opinion—realtors, lift attendants, bus drivers, city officials, athletes, retirees and young professionals alike—and while it can’t be said that any one proposed solution has met with overwhelming approval, there is a universal truth upon which everyone agrees. Park City’s character is found and founded in its people, and without that fascinating blend of artists and musicians (see “A&E,” page 122), financiers and restaurant workers, the town quickly loses its appeal. Enjoy the human mix around you (see “Faces,” page 127), and as Park City continues to redefine its future, engage in the process—listen to community radio, read a variety of media sources, vote, attend community meetings and simply talk to your neighbors. Park City is changing fast, and if you blink you might miss it.

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Down the Hill Silver, Drafts, Edge Steakhouse and The Farm will be at Tastemakers, SLC’s two-day progressive dining event. Find tickets and info at tastemakersutah.com.

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History Buffs

Park City’s colorful past comes to life at Park City Museum. Read about the museum’s latest and upcoming exhibits online. (And meet the Orange Blossom Softball Team on page 140.)

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Resorts United

Nathan Rafferty, CEO of Ski Utah, talks linking Park City’s resorts with others / vanessa conabee

The concept of ONE Wasatch, linking seven ski resorts together along the Wasatch Range, isn’t new. People have been weighing in on the pros and cons of dropping lines and putting in lifts for the past 30 years. But Vail Resort’s acquisition of Park City Mountain Resort, followed by Deer

Valley’s announcement that it had purchased Solitude, has given the possibility tangible momentum. Nathan Rafferty, President and CEO of Ski Utah, the marketing firm of Utah’s Ski and Snowboard Association, is leading the drive.

Pushing the seven-resort link We’re taking the lead on ONE Wasatch. I facilitate monthly meetings between the GMs of Utah ski resorts and talk with them almost daily. Our job is to educate people and encourage the conversation. Our opposition will say that the reason it hasn’t happened is because it’s a bad idea, or that it’s about water, but the real issue is land use. And also, it’s really complicated. Getting seven resorts to agree on a plan that involves capital projects including $5 to 10 million chairlifts—that’s going to take a lot of negotiating. Our goal isn’t to put as many chairlifts as we can up the Wasatch. It’s introducing a new experience to Utah, where you can ski from PCMR to Mineral Basin, and that’s an opportunity for an entirely different kind of skiing. winding road to the top I grew up in Utah (Salt Lake City) and attended the University of Arizona in Tucson. The idea of skiing as a career hadn’t occurred to me until I spoke to Jody Morrison (now City Recorder) at a Warren Miller ski show. I interned with Ski Utah and worked as a mountain host at PCMR before coming back to Ski Utah as their public relations director, eventually taking over as President and CEO in 2005.

Off-season fun on a motorcycle Last year I traversed across the Atlas Mountains to the Sahara during the Merzouga Rally, a six-day off-road motorcycle race through Morocco. I’m headed back for round two this October.

here comes the world We’re going to see a lot of change, and that’s hard for people.

Utah is not going to remain a walled-in garden. We’ve seen over half of our 14 resorts change ownership, and that isn’t because the owners are struggling to get out of the business, it’s because everyone wants to be here. The real issue isn’t getting people to visit, it’s how to manage growth, and that’s a good problem. My parents taught me to leave something better than I found it, and if I could do that with our industry, I would view that as a success.

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photo provided by Chris Pearson/Ski Utah

The famous “powder clause” We wrote a “powder clause” into the employee bylaws that states that if more than a foot of snow falls overnight, the staff can play hooky as long as they work half again as many hours as they took off.

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5 Questions 1 What is Insight-Out Transformative Coaching?

SK: Everyone has innate wisdom. Most people don’t know how to tap into it and that’s what I help them do. When something comes from within, we have a better chance of following that wisdom. When you have a clear mind you have more insights, less stress, higher performance and increased productivity. When we feel calmer inside, our chemistry changes and we are able to heal ourselves and improve performance.

2 What techniques or strategies do you teach to help people tap into their innate wisdom?

SK: Strategies and techniques create a busy mind and cloud our ability to connect with our wisdom.

I facilitate transformative conversations to help people find answers without giving them a long todo list. Beyond to-do lists is a place of clarity where people can see what is really most important and allow those insights to influence their decisions.

When people see that health and well-being are innately theirs—that it’s nothing they can go out and earn, buy or achieve—everything changes.

3 Can you share some practices you are working on at home?

SK: We have two boys. Parenting is an inside out job. Parenting with a quiet mind provides the best environment and opportunity for kids to connect with their own wisdom and well-being. This helps them find self-confidence, creativity, security and ultimately happiness.

4 Where did you find inspiration for this kind of coaching style and philosophy?

Scott Kelly Tapping into your innate wisdom

by Vanessa Conabee

Tr ansformative life coach Scott Kelly offers an intuitive approach to wellness, which combats an industry overwhelmed by contradictory practices and information. Kelly helps clients identify how their thoughts and consciousness are responsible for their life experience. A Connecticut native, Kelly was an NCAA soccer player at the University of Vermont before he became an expert class mountain bike racer. He is certified in positive psychology and functional diagnostic nutrition and is also a board certified athletic therapist and neuromuscular therapist.

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SK: After studying the methods of Pransky and Associates and Paul Chek and the C.H.E.K Institute, I changed my approach to working with the whole person rather than isolating a specific area of injury. It was really a shift in looking at how the body is designed to heal itself, and recognizing that there is a huge state of mind component to wellness and performance.

5 Who are your clients?

SK: Most people are sick and tired of being sick and tired, of having aches and pains and problems within their relationships. They’ve tried a hundred different diets or performance programs, and get overloaded when they try to apply them. I’ve worked with athletes, Olympians, corporations, couples and individuals who want to live, work, perform and play from their zone of genius.

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The lounge at O.P. Rockwell offers several intimate spaces to speak easy.

Speakeasy and Carry a Big Band O.P. Rockwell brings a traditionally new spin to Main Street nightlife / tony gill

“We want to help people escape, to make them feel like they’re being romantically transported,” says Jacob Hall, manager and head bartender at O.P. Rockwell. It’s an ambitious goal, particularly when Hall aims to achieve it by offering creative cocktails and live music.

Hall and his colleagues find magic in the classic composition of expertly crafted traditional cocktails, but there is significantly more than a well-dressed beverage behind the unique brand of escapism offered at Park City’s newest cocktail lounge and music hall.

O.P. Rockwell is the collaborative vision of four owner operators, Scott Thompson, Craig Eddins, Darren Piccolo and Chris Mautz. “There are certainly plenty of options for grabbing a drink in Park City, but we wanted

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to fill a niche and complement the nightlife scene,” explains Mautz. The resulting fusion is best described by Hall as “a place where you can get a properly made Manhattan and be blown away by an amazing show at the same time.”

The owners aimed to develop a venue capable of booking national touring acts without sacrificing the type of engaging concert experience people expect in Park City. O.P. Rockwell’s venue holds 400 people, which is “a great middle ground,” Mautz says. “It’s intimate, but still high energy enough for a great variety of shows.”

Diverse musical offerings serve to provide a wide audience spectrum with a dynamic concert experience that suits Park City’s manifold personalities. It helps that Mautz and Piccolo are also coowners of The State Room

photos: left and opposite, provided by o.p. rockwell; left inset, by richard mcblaine photography

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in Salt Lake City, and have found that bands are pleased with the opportunity to play at two venues in the area. Acts that have already played at O.P. Rockwell this year include the MarchFourth Marching Band, a dynamic group that combines visual performance art and acrobatics with their music, which includes Colin Hay (of the Australian band Men at Work) as the lead vocalist.

Apart from the musical performances, the true cocktail lounge experience is a huge part of what O.P. Rockwell aims to provide. “You can judge the type of place you’re at by the way they make a Sazerac or an Old Fashioned,” Hall says. “Does the bartender muddle the cherry and orange? We try to stay true to the booze by complementing and emphasizing the spirit in the drink, not hiding it.” Just because O.P. Rockwell is committed to the art of traditional cocktails doesn’t mean the bartenders are afraid to explore new boundaries. “In just the first couple months, we had six different drink menus. We want to keep our bartenders creative,” Hall explains.

The meticulously curated drink menu at O.P. Rockwell aims to set new standards for the type of beverages people can get in Utah and provide an epicurean adventure that has been conspicuously absent in Park City.

Micky and the Motorcars play at O.P. Rockwell on May 2. Find more of the Main Street venue’s summer concerts at oprockwell.com.

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Get Silly on Sunday

Summer in park city means the return of the silly market / tony gill

for local artists and an entire block for nonprofits on 7th Street,” says Kimberly Kuehn, cofounder of the Silly Market.

The Silly Market is home to one of Utah’s largest beer gardens and a Bloody Mary station sponsored by Ogden’s Five Wives Vodka that features over 30 different ingredient options. If that catches your interest, stop by in August for the Beer Festival featuring an array of local brews. “It’s a really popular event with a lot of local beer, lemonade shandies and all sorts of great people,” Kuehn says.

As always, the Silly Market is a zero-waste market, so you can be sure that you’re not only supporting great local

Park Silly Sunday Market cofounder Kimberly Kuehn and her family are regulars at the market.

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photos provided by Park Silly Sunday Market

Appetizing scents and mellifluous sounds fill the air in equal parts on Main Street on Sundays during the summer.

The vibrant sensory experience means one thing: The Park Silly Sunday Market is back. The Silly Market has become one of the beloved summer institutions in town, and for good reason. It’s the quintessential showcase of local artists, farmers, chefs, musicians, artisans and nonprofit organizations.

This year’s Silly Market will be the biggest yet, providing the perfect venue to engage and interact with the town’s personalities. “We’re having an expanded farmer’s market with more local farmers, 115 new bands from all over Utah, free booths

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artisans, but you’re also behaving sustainably.

“Last year we recycled 7,345 pounds of trash.

That represents an over 89 percent diversion rate from landfills,” Kuehn says. Put another way, the 162,000 people who visited the Silly Market in 2014 generated only 16 bags of trash.

With free live music, new vendors every week, and activities to suit any taste, the Silly Market offers attendees the opportunity to make the event their own with each visit. The Silly Market runs every Sunday from June 7 through Sept.

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The Reel Experience

Park City Film Series returns to the Jim Santy Auditorium / tony gill

Whiplash (pictured below), are testament to how the organization keeps the lights shining on authentic film experiences when Sundance isn’t taking up residence on Main Street.

Miles Teller (left) and J.K. Simmons (right), who won the 2015 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Whiplash; Above: Katharine Wong, executive director of the Film Series, introduces a movie to a sold out crowd.

In June, the Film Series makes its return to the Jim Santy Auditorium.

Moviegoers will be able to enjoy the comforts of an extensive renovation that includes enhancements to the theater and the addition of green elements to the Park City Library that will see the building certified LEED (Leadership in Environment and Energy Design) silver.

The Film Series will cohost a series of events to celebrate the reopening of the building in June, but there are also plenty of events to look forward to this May. Screenings include The Secret of NIMH, for the Books 2 Movies Program on May 2; The Book of Life for the Dual Language Immersion Film Program on May 9; and Dogs on the Inside, a documentary about a program partnering abandoned dogs with prison inmates, presented on May 14 in partnership with the Friends of Animals Utah and Canines with a Cause. Check out parkcityfilmseries.com for more info.

Mountain Town Music Few things are better than the abundance of musical performances on tap when summer hits Park City, and Mountain Town Music is the de facto skipper of the town’s sonic vibe.

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Mountain Town produces more than 200 community concerts featuring all manner of performers, styles and genres in venues around Park City. Wherever you are in Summit County and no matter your predilections, Mountain Town Music has a live show for you.

This summer’s concerts feature a lineup of incredible shows throughout the week, many of which are free of charge.

The annual Jambalaya Event takes place on May 30. The Grand Valley Bank Community Concert Series on Wednesday nights kicks off on June 17 with a show by Stranger Band at Deer Valley’s Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater. Thursday evenings bring the noise to Newpark Amphitheater starting June 15 with The Congress, while the Friday night shows in Peoa’s Woodenshoe Park get started a few weeks earlier on June 5.

Saturdays are reserved for taking in national acts, while also taking in the view from the hill above Canyons’ ski beach.

For a full lineup of events, visit mountaintownmusic.org.

photos: left, Scott Cullins: above left, courtesy sundance institute; top right, courtesy park city film series

The Park City Film Series is Utah’s year-round curator for the independent film community. Recent screenings, including Academy Award winner and 2014 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner

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Zafod Beatlebrox The artist behind Park City’s famous Music Taxi and more

by Tony Gill

The Peoa home is a menagerie of imaginative, functional art. The kitchen cabinetry incorporates hubcaps and the bathroom features tile panoramas. Zafod Beatlebrox’s abode is impressive enough, but the scale of works he produces in his workshop is sensational. His prolific creativity has yielded a collection of unique art cars, including a 40-foot motorized Pilot Fish that he built for Burning Man and rolls in Fourth of July parades on Main Street.

Other manifestations of Beatlebrox’s perspective include functional art installations, for clients public and private, and a previous venture as owner/operator of Park City’s famed Music Taxi, which treated passengers to live musical performances in a van replete with Christmas lights. (Most of you won’t need to be told that Beatlebrox’s name is a riff on the two-headed character in Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.)

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Muffy Davis

Three gold medals and still striving

Even among the immensely talented population of athletes in Park City, Muffy Davis’ accomplishments stand apart.

Davis moved from Sun Valley, Idaho, in 1999 to train for the 2002 Winter Paralympics, where she would go on to win silver medals in three disciplines: downhill, super-G, and giant slalom.

Davis remained in Utah after the Olympics. “I love the culture.

There’s so many great people and such amazing access to recreation,” she says. “Also I met my husband, Jeff, while training at the National Ability Center.”

Though Davis retired from winter competition in 2002, she found further remarkable success in handcycling, going on to win a stunning three gold medals at the 2012 Paralympics in London.

She hasn’t ruled out a return for 2016 in Rio, but Davis is currently focused on spending as much time as possible with her daughter, Elle, and finishing her memoir.

Jennifer Mulholland Bringing health-conscious Parkites together

The Park City community is filled with people who make conscious choices that lead them to live healthy lives, but New York transplant Jennifer Mulholland didn’t see adequate channels for these blooming personalities to connect with one another.

Mulholland founded Happy Healthy Human Beings (H3BE) in 2012 to “provide wellness hubs both in the cloud and on the ground,” she says. “We blend technology and human interaction into positive platforms for lifestyle sharing.”

When not organizing H3BE WellBEing Collaborative Events, Mulholland can be found living the healthy Park City lifestyle, along with her husband, Kristian, and their two children, aboard their skis or SUP boards.

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Sammie Bartko Your body, her canvas

On her first encounter with face painting, the myriad of possibilities of the art form leaped out at artist Sammie Bartko.

Her first plunge was face painting at children’s birthday parties and at public events like the Park Silly Sunday Market. Soon Bartko turned to participating in conventions and competing in body and face painting competitions around the country. Now she’s bringing fantasy and fan-favorite characters to life through full body painting and gaining a fan base of her own.

A resident of Heber since 2006, Bartko and her friend Denise Heidorn are currently working to create a breast cancer survivor body art calendar, due out in 2016. “Each survivor tells the story they’ve been through,” says Bartko. “We take their vision and use it to find empowerment and self healing. It’s about helping people feel whole again.”

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Mitch and Kelley Baker Giving Park City its fresh coffee

“You hear people say, ‘I love the way coffee smells, but I hate the way it tastes.’ There’s a disconnect there, and I think they just haven’t tasted proper freshly roasted coffee,” Mitch Baker says. Mitch and his wife, Kelley, are the owners of Pink Elephant Coffee Roasters, the fledgling artisan coffee company based in Midway. The Bakers relocated to Park City from a small town in Ohio where they had begun experimenting with roasting their own coffee. “There were a lot of burnt beans at the beginning,” Kelley admits, but the intervening years have seen the Bakers learn to extract the distinct character of each bean.

The Bakers carefully source all of Pink Elephant’s single origin coffees from growers around the world, from Tanzania to Costa Rica. Their meticulous selection process sees Mitch and Kelley working with trusted suppliers to ensure the green coffee beans are of high quality and that the coffee they sell helps to provide a sustainable livelihood for coffee growing communities.

Mitch and Kelley saw a desire in the community to support locally crafted producers and have made it their mission to provide a better cup of coffee to the Park City area. “We roast in small batches and are constantly checking our inventories so we can provide the best quality,” says Kelley.

Pink Elephant Coffee is available at the Market at Park City, and can also be purchased this summer at the Heber Valley Farmer’s Market and the Park Silly Sunday Market.

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Park City City Manager Diane Foster and Summit County Council Vice Chair Roger Armstrong across from the The Parkite luxury condos and retail project on Main St.

The Future is Now

Park City’s high-stakes Monopoly game

By Vanessa Conabee

Anyone who has shied away from Main Street in the last few months is in for a double-take—a sleek new façade has replaced the hulking Main St. Mall, with further reworks-in-progress commencing down the street. And unless you managed to avoid last December’s infamous Black Monday Traffic Jam, it’s painfully obvious Park City is going through another growth spurt.

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what’s up Multiple renovations and the worst traffic jam in 20 years are very real reminders of what change can look like as a community undergoes rapid transformation, but what is harder to see is how Park City is struggling to maintain that small-town feel so treasured by locals.

Park City’s future is hapArmstrong pening now.

“In the old days, there wasn’t much zoning,” explains Summit County Council Vice Chair Roger Armstrong. “Nobody had much to say about it because it looked like it would stay a sleepy little town forever.” So leaders in Summit County and Park City have to deal with people who own property that already has permitting land-use approval in place. “We have to manage those rights and manage that growth in positive ways and have vision and foresight for what we permit in the future.”

“It’s obvious to everyone that Park City’s dormant days are over. The town is growing in every direction and the challenge now is how to manage that growth and plan the future,” Armstrong says.

“Providing middle-income, attainable and affordable housing and reducing congestion are priorities,” City

Haven’t We Met Before?

Driving down State Route 224 towards Main Street, you see the change happening as you pass the curb-and-utilities work and the signs with architects’ renderings that foreshadow large-scale construction. Some Parkites regard “development” as a pejorative. But most recognize it as inevitable.

Park City has always been about the booms; it’s a town with mining heritage, after all. When the 2002 Winter Olympics came to town, the trepidation was palpable. Would the injection of outside capital rob the town of its charm?

Turned out, no. Too many people love the town’s diversity and historical integrity to let growth spin out into rudderless “progress.” Now, with history as its guide, Park City can move forward with optimism wrought from prior success.

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“It’s obvious to everyone that Park City’s dormant days are over.”

–Roger Armstrong Manager Diane Foster says. “We know these are critical issues going forward, and we are going to have to invest significant additional money and time. Not only will these issues [if not properly dealt with] hurt our community, they will hurt our economy.”

Balancing economic growth against quality of life isn’t anything new, but if you aren’t following the action closely and perhaps even getting involved, you may see a transformation Foster that will break your heart. To help you jump into the ongoing debate, we offer a speedy version of Summit County Monopoly.

Your first decision: Are you the race car or the shoe?

Get in the Game City officials promised, “Park City won’t be Anywhere, USA,” when they drafted the 2014 General Plan, a longrange strategy for growth. Development is “an opportunity to continue the unique brand that is Park City,” according to the guidelines created to protect, preserve and enhance by emphasizing open space, recreation and tourism.

Residents can attend open meetings to guide the effort to define what growth will mean.

“When people are engaged and attend these meetings they can give us input that we can go back and consider, and then there isn’t profound disappointment when we pass the plan,” says Summit County Council Vice Chair Roger Armstrong.

“This is an open and transparent process.”

But don’t expect finding balance to be easy. “It’s almost like a multi-level chess board,” Armstrong says. “We have to

look at each neighborhood and what they look like now and how populations will continue to increase to determine where we want to affect growth.” In February, the Park City Project for Deeper Understanding discussed growth issues. Of particular concern was a plan for better transit linking Summit, Wasatch and Salt Lake counties. The proposed transportation alternatives, including light rail, tunnel connections, rapid-transit buses and a commercial air connection, not surprisingly, failed to satisfy the majority of panelists.

“Almost everything was related to transportation and housing,” says the Rev. Charles Robinson of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, a facilitator at the event.

“Are we going to be a corporate front that pretends to be a town or are we going to hold on to a different mix of people and incomes?”

Monopoly Park City Edition

More houses. More hotels. As Summit County grows, will property become as crowded as the famous greed-driven board game, destroying what makes it special?

The Parkite

Hyatt Place

333 Main St. (Main St. Mall)

(Hwy 224, south of Park City Nursery)

Long seen as an underperforming asset, the $15 million remodel resulted in an updated façade with boutique shopping curbside (Lululemon, Ugg, Gorsuch and Robin’s Jeans) and 15 high-end residences above.

Collecting rent: Ken Abdalla

A 100-plus unit resort hotel with gift shop and restaurant. Under construction.

Collecting rent: PCH Investors/Hyatt

HYATT PLACE Location: Hwy 224

Main and SKY 625 Main St. (The Sky Lodge)

The anchor of the new SKY campus (SKYSilver and SKYStrada are across the street), Main & SKY offers 33 luxury suites and residences above two new restaurants, Haven and Tavern; a roof top venue Horizon; Nikara boutique and Sugati Spa. Collecting rent: Ken Abdalla

The new film studio and mixed-use creative campus, slated to house a movie-studio complex, hotel, entertainment center, international film school and digital media center, is still under construction.

Collecting rent: Greg Ericksen

The Park City Film Studio Location: Quinn’s Junction

Treasure Mountain Development (Hillside along Town Lift)

Development rights were secured in the ’80s, but discussion of the disputed parcel, seen as upward of 1 million square feet, have been ongoing.

Collecting rent: Sweeney Family

Rio Grande 820 Park Ave. (Rio Grande Building)

Ten luxury ski-in/ski-out residences and commercial space adjacent to the town lift, still under construction.

Collecting rent: Rory Murphy

Rio Grande

Park City Film Studio (S.R. 248 and Quinn’s Junction)

move to a temporary space before settling on a permanent location.

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Park City Heights (S.R. 248 and Quinn’s Junction approx)

A new residential development of 276 market-rate units and work-force housing. Still in planning phases.

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SKYSilver and SKYStrada 632 Main Street (in the restored Silver Queen Hotel)

Renovation of the historic Silver Queen hotel includes luxury condominiums and a penthouse above an organic restaurant on the ground floor.

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Kimball Residences and Shops 638 Park Ave. (Kimball Art Center)

Redevelopment of a historic building into commercial and residential space with a 2,500-square-foot addition on the roof. The Kimball Art Center will

Silver Creek Village (Hwy 40/Silver Creek)

This 240-acre residential and commercial development will entail 939 multifamily units, 351 single-family units and 50,000 square feet of neighborhood commercial space, 10 community parks, civic spaces and a community garden. Still in planning phases.

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Meet the Expert “Whether it’s snowboards, mountain bikes or skateboards, I’m into anything I can get my hands on that can be jumped on the way downhill. I’ve always been pretty myopic that way,” Steve Duke says. Duke, a Utah native, is the man behind the explosion of development at Canyons Bike Park. He started riding bikes briefly in the mid ’90s, but it wasn’t until 2009 when he and a few others made the internal push at Canyons to develop a modern bike park that he got back into the sport.

The Gears are Turning

Taking aim at the growing two-wheeled obsession / Tony Gill

The muffled ripple of rubber tread tearing at hard-packed dirt and the rushing wind are the only sounds you hear. The intoxicating feeling of weightless acceleration accompanies you along rolling terrain through groves of aspen trees. Suddenly, as you glimpse through the forest, a remarkable mountain vista unfolds in front of you.

When you examine the experience, it’s readily apparent that mountain biking is the direct summer­ time analog of skiing. So it’s only natural that the sport is undergoing an awakening in Park City to join its snow-bound brethren.

Park City was designated the first-ever International Mountain Bicycling Association gold-level Ride Center, thanks in large part to 400 miles of interconnected trails near town. “We’re exceeding a million uses of the trail system each year. It’s like a national park,” says Charlie Sturgis, head of the Mountain Trails Foundation. “There’s a lot of great advocacy going on to help build new trails to further disperse recreation.”

Trail expansion plans include a number of exciting developments, such as the WOW Trail, connecting trail systems from Midway to Deer Valley and the rest of Park City, and the proposed 7 Resorts Trail,

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which would connect all seven of the ski resorts in the Cottonwoods and the Wasatch Back without adding any mechanized infrastructure.

Bike rentals and retail sales are up, and the resorts in town are capitalizing on the economic boom. Canyons Resort worked with Gravity Logic, the group responsible for building the world famous Whistler Mountain Bike Park, to complete the new Downhill Course, which is the top-rated venue among the Utah Downhill Series race locations. Canyons is also hosting the Scott Enduro Series on July 18, where locals have the opportunity to race alongside the pros.

Lest you think the rise in progressive gravity designs is only for experts, Canyons has programs for beginners who want to give the more adrenalinefueled aspect of the sport a try.

It’s the era of the mountain bike in Park City, and it’s never been easier to get involved. May is Mountain Trails’ membership month, featuring a special event on May 21 that includes discussions about trail development, a raffle, refreshments and a screening of the film One Revolution, an inspirational documentary following Paralympic medalist Chris Waddell’s unassisted ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

“Back then bikes all had these horrible V-brakes.

Finally I got a decent bike and realized there was this other aspect of mountain biking where you don’t have to climb hills every time you want to go down. I could ride chairs and hit jumps all day, just like in the winter.” Duke had been managing terrain parks in the winter for years, initially at Brighton and then at Canyons, and he wanted to expand his passion and expertise into the summer realm. “We wanted to build these progressive, flow-style trails that weren’t available in Utah. I’ve worked with a lot of great people, and we’ve been able to build on a master plan that has helped get a lot of people of all levels into the sport.”

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IT’S ALL IN A DAY

Fitness guru Helen Golden offers style advice on

After wrapping up a workout at the MARC, Helen Golden makes a couple of style adjustments and is set for business or a glass of wine.

Just Like That

A Couple of essentials that work double-duty Pace Pusher Top: Lightweight fabric, thumbhole sleeves and zipper pocket make this a go-to top for workout or weeknight, $78; Black Capri Exercise Pant: No fuss, versatile crop is perfect for the gym or cafe. Sweat wicking fabric and four-way stretch stays in great shape; hidden pocket in waistband for key or card. $72, Lululemon, Park City

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Fitness tr ainer Helen Golden wakes up at 4:30 every morning, but readily admits to hitting the snooze button. What gets her moving is a special concoction she refers to as “my apple cider vinegar cocktail”—warm water, local honey, apple cider vinegar and lemon juice. Golden meets with clients or teaches classes (spinning, TRX or Pilates) from 6 a.m. to noon, providing fitness programs for a dozen clients including master athletes, women that want to stay fit during pregnancy and “everyone else in between.”

Her “uniform” is based, of course, on comfort and movement, but the active wear she favors works doubleduty, consisting of a number of interchangeable pieces that transition from gym to grocery store to drinks out with friends. “I wear capri tights right below the knee for yoga, Pilates, and spin, and then switch out from sneakers to flats and throw on a sweater or light hoodie.”

A fitness veteran of over 26 years, Helen has honed her regimen by balancing three components: cardio, strength and flexibility. But for those of us that weren’t blessed with this former military officer’s “show-upand-do-it attitude,” which earned her the nickname “Heltopae” (a play on her middle name, Pae), Golden suggests finding fun activities or classes and perhaps engaging a friend. “Any class that combines two or three of the elements is going to have success. If flexibility and strength can be combined in one activity, like Pilates, or strength and a high-intensity in another activity, such as boot-camp, it will yield results.”

Golden’s fashion and beauty regimen is based on the tenets of style meeting function. “If it needs to be ironed, I’m not buying it, and I do not do dry cleaning.

But if I have a dressier occasion, like meeting friends for a glass of wine, I like to dress up a cotton top or cami with a cardigan or scarf—I have a great scarf that can also be worn as a shawl that’s really versatile.”

After a busy morning teaching classes or working out with clients at the MARC, Golden freshens up with tried and true staples—Life Science face wash, Lip Vitamins lip balm, Maybelline Great Lash mascara and Revlon Photoready BB cream—and then throws boots or a sweater on over her capris, runs a little water through her hair and is on her way.

For more information about Golden’s fitness services, visit helengoldenfitness.com.

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going from the gym to the Bistro. / vanessa conabee

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The Room: GET REAL An industrial look that means it / brad mee

In Deer Crest, designer Cody Beal creates a function-forward kitchen that combines industrial and modern design elements with remarkable results. Here’s how he pulled it together.

Architect: Kevin Horn of Horn and Partners Architecture Contractor: Craig Mogul of Germania Construction Interior design: Cody Beal (above) of Dunker Beal Interior Design

A 60-inch Blue Star range and stainless steel hood anchor the back wall and help to establish an industrial style. An 11-inch deep apron-front sink is formed from a sheet of commercial grade stainless steel. Above, micro-ribbed glass cabinet doors, framed in anodized aluminum, provide semitransparent views of the upper cabinets’ contents.

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FUNCTIONAL FLOOR PLAN

“We wanted to provide the configuration and tools a professional chef would require,” says Beal of the modestly sized kitchen’s layout and equipment. The front wall integrates into the built-in buffet, while the back line performs like one in a commercial kitchen.

Floor-to-ceiling marble— including a simple stone baseboard—clads the walls.

DECKED-OUT ISLAND

Mies Brno counter stools pull up to the three-inch thick slab of Calcutta marble topping the Parsonsstyle island. Refrigerator drawers equip one end while a waterfall plane of wire-brushed oak dresses the other. Stainless steel forms the remainder of the feature. A prep sink adds functionality, and Holly Hunt pendant lights glow above.

AUTHENTIC MATERIALS

Marble, stainless steel, wire-brushed oak, glass and walnut shape the room’s edited palette of honest, hardworking materials. “The homeowner didn’t want a ‘don’t use, don’t touch’ look for the room, so we chose materials with living finishes that scar, patina, stain and show use,” Beal says. The forms are straightforward, and profiles clean-lined.

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REal Estate: kamas cabin refined living in a natural setting / jaime winston

Nature meets luxe at Victory Ranch, a 6,700-acre getaway to solitude owned by real estate company Sterling Bay. Victory Ranch members can fish a four-mile stretch of the Provo River, tee off at an 18-hole golf course and escape the everyday in pristine surroundings. You can take in the view from the 559-square-foot deck of a Willow cabin, which spans the second level.

The Willow is just one of several models buyers can have built at Victory Ranch. Inside, you’ll find a living space with a 19-foot vaulted, exposedbeam ceiling and panoramic windows framing Deer Valley and Jordanelle photos courtesy victory ranch, by mark maziarz

Reservoir. The Willow includes three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, and can be customized to include a fourth bedroom. And if the oversized deck isn’t enough party space, the property also includes a large flagstone patio for entertaining guests outside.

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A League of Our Own

The Orange Blossom Softball Team / Vanessa Conabee

After the first softball tournament was held in conjunction with the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, sports teams became the rage, and a number of Park City businesses supported a growing number of leagues. The women’s Orange Blossom Softball Team was sponsored by the Orange Blossom Confectionery, a candy shop located at 438 Main St., now the home of Flanagan’s Irish Pub and Restaurant. With a sit-down soda counter in the front and drinks and dancing in the back, the confectionery quickly became a local hot spot, providing a convenient place to celebrate or unwind after games. A good time was had on and off the diamond—a closer look at the photo of the Orange Blossoms reveals part of a dance floor, jukebox and illegal slot machine.

Perhaps winning isn’t everything.

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photo: Park City Historical Society and Museum, Judy Lingman Snow Collection

Left to right (standing): Virginia Benerak, Evie Davaich, Faye McKissick, Inez Berry, Katie Lingman, Virginia Halverson, Wanda Greenwood, unknown, Ella Adamson, Annabelle Hewitt, (kneeling) Judy Lingman

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1. Laura Linsey, Mark Tetzlaff, Fredman Teixeira and Marcela Ferrinher pose by a car from Strong Audi, which was displayed in front of Main & SKY for the launch party for the new Park City Life magazine.

2. Mike Leibsla, Erin Evans, Tiffany Fox raise their glasses to Park City Life. Drinks for the evening were provided by Vida Tequila, Just Organic Juice, Squatters and Wasatch Beers and Main & SKY. 3. Vince Bough 4. Jude Grenney, Vanessa Di Palma Wright 5. Terri Gentry, Mar Mullin

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1. “Fresh Dressed” director Sacha Jenkins speaks with DFS Artistic Director James Faust at Sundance Film Festival’s An Artist at the Table, an annual celebration of Sundance artists and the art of storytelling.

2. Lucy Walker, director of “The Lions Mouth Opens” from Sundance 2014 3. Michael Cerveris, performer in Broadway musical “Fun Home” 4. Actor and comedian Kevin Pollak 5. James Faust 6. Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, composer for 2015 Sundance film “Stockholm, Pennsylvania”

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1. The FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, held on the White Owl ski run at Deer Valley, had its share of thrills and spills. In this photo, Mykola Puzderko of Ukraine, tumbles down the run. Qi Guangpu of China led the men’s competition, while Ashley Caldwell of the United States took first place in the women’s competition.

2. Ashley Caldwell, Kiley McKinnon and Xiaoxue Shen take the podium.

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1. Kim Farrant, Hugo Weaving, Joseph Fiennes, Maddison Brown, Meyene Wyatt, Nicole Kidman, Lisa Flanagan and Sean Keenan at the premiere of “Strangerland” 2. Kathryn Hahn at the premiere of “The D Train” 3. “Last Days in the Desert” producers Producers Julie Lynn, Wicks Walker and Bonnie Curtis 4. The Egyptian Theatre, where many premieres were held 5. James Marsden and Jack Black at the premiere of their film “The D Train,” which follows an overly enthusiastic head of his high school reunion in an attempt to wow his friends by bringing one of the school’s most famous alums with him

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Chimayo-by-theSea theme at 2014 Savor the Summit

Al Fresco

The Big show

bill white savors the summit all year / Mary Brown Malouf

Without a doubt, Park City’s big food moment is the annual Savor the Summit dinner. At a table that stretches all the way down Main Street, diners enjoy food and drink from Park City’s finest restaurants, each one in charge of its own guests, but all connected.

And without a doubt, the star of Savor the Summit every year is Bill White. Bill White practically invented fine dining in Park City, and though many other great restaurants have followed in his wake, he still operates some of the most famous: Wahso, Chimayo and Grappa, all on Main Street, and Windy Ridge Cafe, Windy Ridge Bakery, Sushi

Blue, Ghidotti’s and Billy Blanco’s elsewhere around town.

All Bill White restaurants are different but one thread holds them together—a carefully conceived and often wildly imaginative décor. It’s this same over-the-top visual element that makes his tables at Savor the Summit so sought after. The truth is, in a good dining experience, ambiance is nearly as important as food. And few provide ambiance like Bill White, in his restaurants or under the early summer skies in the middle of Main Street. Chimayo, 368 Main St., Park City, 435-649-6222; Wahso, 577 Main St., Park City, 435-615-0300; billwhiterestaurantgroup.com ParkCityLife m ay / j u n e 2 015

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Three sips

What’s your poison? These bar stops can supply it.

1) Local Beer: Park City Brewery

Imagine that four of your most laid-back, outdoors-loving friends discover they have seriously impressive brewing skills, and you’ll have a sense of what the guys behind Park City Brewery are about—good times, good vibes and great beer.

Meet Hud Knight, a North Carolinian; Jeff Petway, a Georgian; and Scott and Jeremy Ray from Kentucky, who happily call Park City home. Hud, Jeff and Scott became friends when they began working together. “Southern boys always kind of migrate together,” Hud chuckles.

Jeremy joined his brother, Scott, out west when the group decided to start their own brewery, an idea that was born in 2012 and realized in the fall of 2014. Jeremy utilizes his degree in biology as the operation’s chief brewer (it’s a yeast thing), and he’s been honing his craft for eleven years. “We wanted to set up the brewery so we could have something that would keep us here forever,” Hud says.

Park City is proud of its differences and supportive of all things local, so Park City Brewery eschews traditional marketing in favor of grassroots methods. “With big brands, the focus is on trying to make things seem authentic,” says Jeff. “We don’t have to fake anything. Everything we’ve done is authentic. The outdoors are what we live and breathe, and we wanted good beer that speaks to that.”

Initial offerings sport names like Breaking Trail Pale Ale, Last Pitch IPA and Water Brown Ale (named for the gnarly “boogie water” rapids of western rivers.) They’ve chosen to forgo bottling in favor of easily recyclable cans, which are also easier to pack if you’re backcountry skiing or climbing mountains. Park City Brewery premiered at Maxwell’s Park City in March, where it was met with enthusiasm. “People really love walking in and seeing local offerings on the shelf or on the taps,” says Drew Congino, the bar manager at Maxwell’s. “It’s huge.”

“We’re not trying to be everything to everyone, “says Hud. “We’re just serving the community we’re in.” —Adrienne Knight

Ron Wedig takes the plunge at Boneyard’s Wine Dive.

2) Bottle or Glass: Wine Dive

Boneyard Saloon & Kitchen is kin to Park City classics No Name Saloon and Butcher’s Chop House, and you can see the family resemblance in the high-protein menu (barbecue, beef and burgers), rustic décor and extensive beer lists. But Boneyard has expanded the genre by adding the Wine Dive. This is not a swirl ‘n’ sniff, oenophiliac Euro-bar; it’s got the laid-back mountain atmosphere that is the soul of Park City (except during Sundance). The menu specializes in wood-oven pizza, charcuterie and flatbreads. The wine list features sippable and quaffable wines to pair with the food or enjoy on their own. Park City has lots of beer joints, but wine bars with the same kind of unpretentious atmosphere are hard to find. This one fills the bill. 1251 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-649-0913

3) Juicy Cocktails: Tavern at Main & Sky

Hud Knight can frequently be found testing product at Park City Brewery.

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This space has had a lot of names over the years, but now it’s simply called Tavern, which describes the function it’s always served, whatever the name. Snack food, from the expected (like tater tots) to the unexpected (avocado fries?), and a wide range of beverages to wash them down with is what’s on the menu here, but pay special attention to the artisan cocktail menu. Many of the drinks are made with JOJ—Just Organic Juices—which add a shock of fresh flavor.

(JOJ and Main & Sky are owned by the same people.)

Try the Grapefruit-ini (Bombay Sapphire, Pama Pomegranate liqueur and JOJ’s Great-fruit Mint, a combo of grapefruit and mint) or the LemonAID (Bacardi Lime, Domaine de Canton and JOJ Lemonaid.) 201 Heber Ave, Park City, 435-658-9425

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Alberto’s is located on Bonanaza Drive, just off of Kearns Boulevard.

The Midnight Taco

Alberto’s

late night at last / Tony Gill

Quite a few late Park City nights have ended at the bottom of Main Street in dismay with the realization that while libations are readily available, food is pretty much inaccessible. The restaurants that line Main Street close at a civilized hour. But sometimes late night in Park City reaches back to the town’s rough-edged roots and ends up a step beyond civilized. Alberto’s is waiting and has no pretensions about the food being “authentic,” “regional” or “artisanal.”

After a day of hard play in the mountains and bars, you just want something substantial, preferably with meat and melted cheese. Thankfully, Alberto’s is superbly filling the niche with satisfying Mexican-American fare that’s available well past the witching hour. It’s open around-the-clock, six days a week (closed Sundays), and its Prospector Square location means it’s convenient to stop in for an Adobada Burrito fix, no matter where you’re heading next—or when.

1640 Bonanza Dr., Park City, 435-602-1146

For a complete list of our favorite Park City restaurants, turn to page 178 of the Salt Lake magazine Dining Guide.

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