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Renewal in Utah
By Alison DaRosa
pring is the season for Shorter, fatter parabolic skis make a world There are 11 ski resorts within an hour’s
renewal – a time to blos- of difference, skier friends promised. Boots drive of the Salt Lake City airport – and
S som. aren’t the torture tools they used to be; to- they get an average of 500 inches of snow
day they’re custom molded to fit your feet annually, plenty for good spring skiing. I
It’s what led me to Utah. That and the – and even can be equipped with battery planned a couple of nights at three differ-
promise that skiing is a heck of a lot easier
these days than it was 20 years ago, when powered heaters. Ski instruction is better ent resorts – Alta, Deer Valley and Sun-
too, pals pledged: kinder, gentler and not
dance – figuring I’d have plenty to keep me
I’d last hit the slopes.
taught exclusively by teen-age dare devils. happy if skiing didn’t work out.
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