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