Thats great! Thanks for sharing
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> On Jul 5, 2019, at 11:09 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I don’t think so.
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> Here is the newspaper article:
>
> Snowbird opens for skiing on Independence Day for only the fifth time in 48
> years.
> By ALISON BERG
>
> The Salt Lake Tribune
>
> Snowbird • For Paul Fejte, getting to ski on IndependenceDay captures the
> holiday’s meaning: a celebration of freedom.
> Fejte and his wife, Denise, drove an hour-and-a half from Eden to experience
> their first Fourth of July ski excursion, marking their 102nd day on the
> slopes this season.
> “It was for sure worth the wait and the line,' he said.
>
> Fejte combined his love for skiing and patriot is by wearing a tall
> red-and-white striped hat atop his red white- and-blue curly wig. He also
> wore a red-white and- blue coat with his father’s “professional ski
> instructor” pin, to honor his father’s 50 years as a ski instructor.
>
> He joined about 3,500 other skiers and snowboarders to spend the holiday on
> the slopes of Snowbird,
> and it was a rare treat.
>
> “Snowbird has been open for 48 years and it’s only happened five times in
> those 48 years,” said Brian Brown, Snowbird communications manager. “It’s
> about every eight to 10 years that we get to do this.”
>
> Brown said Snowbird received about 711 inches of snow this year, 200 more
> inches than their average snowfall.
>
> “From the beginning of December, it started snowing and it didn’t stop
> snowing until the end of April,” he said.
>
> Snowbird shifted from being open for winter sports every day to only weekends
> in late May. Last week, Snowbird executives decided they had just enough snow
> to mark the end of their season on the Fourth of July. None of Utah’s 12
> other resorts was open. “We always pride ourselves on having the longest
> season of all the resorts in Utah, so to be open on the Fourth really just
> kind of cements that,” Brown said.
>
> The resort sold limited tickets, and by mid-morning they were sold out and
> prompted the resort to share a message on social media asking people to who
> weren’t at the resort to “refrain” from coming. And although there was enough
> snow to ski some runs, those that were open were expert terrain.
>
> This season, Utah resorts had a record snow year. All 13 surpassed their
> averages; four broke accumulation records. It was welcomed after last year
> was one of the worst for snow in state history, which required resorts to do
> more snowmaking— and that significantly increases operating costs.
>
> Most patrons wore red, white and blue items Thursday, along with themed
> costumes and other festive outfits traditional for the last day of the ski
> and snowboard season. “It’s fun up here because it’s like a mixture of the
> last day shenanigans and Fourth of July stuff,” said James Perri, of Sandy.
> Perri skied at Snowbird the last time it was open on July Fourth — in 2011.
>
> “One of the best parts is, there’s a couple places you have to ride through
> dirt to get to the other patches, so a lot of people will stop and hike and
> stuff,” he said.
>
> David Weinstein, a new Salt Lake City resident from Chicago, said he had
> never dreamed of being able to ski in July, but he has held out hope since he
> moved to Utah.
>
> “We’d been preparing for this for months,” Weinstein said.
> Others said the decision to ski was spontaneous but still a “bucket list”
> item they were happy to check off.
> “Just being able to say that you can do it. That was a big check off the list
> for me,” said Anthony Garcia, of Sandy. “Being able to do this just once made
> the line worth it.”
>
> The ski run was open for five hours, and most participants said they waited
> from one to three hours in line but felt the experience was worth the wait.
> “It’s just a unique experience. Not very often you get to ski this late in
> the year,” said Patrick Ferrara, of Salt Lake City.
>
>
> From: Ryan Hill
> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2019 8:51 AM
> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Snowy day in July
>
> No way, thats so awesome! Thats one of my all time favorites. Did Alta open
> as well?
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> Ryan Hill
> Operations Manager
> Amplex Internet
> (419)837-5015 Ext 1047
> www.amplex.net
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> On Jul 5, 2019, at 10:48 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Snowbird opened for skiing yesterday.
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