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December 26, 2005
New Breed of Seeker Arrives In Utah In Search of The Promised Land
Any Salt Lake City grammar school student will tell you that when Brigham Young first set eyes on the barren, wind-swept valley where his followers would make their home he said: "This is the place."
He actually said: "It is enough. This is the right place. Drive on," but that open-to-interpretation statement has been truncated over time. More than 150 years later, however, planeloads of modern-day seekers land each day at Salt Lake City International, ski bags in tow.
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Park City Region Tops in Growth Of Winter Guests
Underscoring Utah's visitor growth came word that Summit County - home to Deer Valley, Park City and The Canyons - "led western mountain destinations with a 16.1 percent jump in retail sales tax" during the first nine months of 2005, according to Ralf Garrison, Director of MTRiP, which tracks the destination mountain travel industry.
The county showed "an even more impressive 26.5 percent increase in lodging tax, which is the best public indicator of the destination leisure travel," Garrison said.
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Tremblant Strike Forces Freestyle Venue Switch; Chamber Plugs Non-ski Fun
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The strike at Mt. Tremblant Resort in Canada has forced a change of venue for Freestyle Grand Prix scheduled for Jan. 6-8. The Intrawest resort announced last week that it could not host the event because "there have been major delays in preparing the competition site."
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Board Thefts Prompt Beefed-Up Security At Tahoe Resorts
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Is Boreal Mountain Resort especially prone to snowboard thefts? A Tahoe-area newspaper says "yes," quoting a Nevada County sheriff's deputy as saying his department leaves crime reporting forms there "because there's too many of them for us to respond to all the time. We'd never get away from the place."
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Correction
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n our Mountain High article (IR 12/12) we quoted Karl Kapuscinski as saying the resort's 500,000 average annual skier days were the most in California. That should have been Southern California.
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December 12, 2005
Mountain High: New Owners, More Acres for California Urban Legend
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With all the deals taking place in recent months involving new owners at established ski and snowboard resorts, the purchase in July of Mountain High by its general manager, Karl Kapuscinski, along with Valor Equity Partners almost got lost in the shuffle.
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Kettlers Hammering Out a Deal for Hidden Valley
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The Kettler family's search for a suitable new owner of Pennsylvania's venerable Hidden Valley Four Season Resort has been narrowed down to one potential candidate, according to a resort spokesman.
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Owners, Skiers Offer Solutions To "Slope Rage"
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