Word: utah
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Jeremiah Johnson pretends to be the saga of a tall, tough mountain man who takes tetuge items civilization in the Utah wilderness Sydney Pollack, hailed for They Should Houses Don't They". directed: he cast his old friend. Robert Redford, in the title tole Redford comes to the mountains a young creenborn, enters the tutelage of an old grizzly hunter named Bear Claw, and gets roped into wilderness domesticity when an Indian code of honor forces a wife upon him. Civilization does catch up: a cavalry detachment enlists him to help rescue a party of settlers trapped high...
...severely miscast. Fresh-faced and eager, he is certainly not about to eat any Crow livers, so Redford's Johnson becomes a kind of chivalrous Indian fighter, compelled to slaughter Crows because they killed his family. Thus compromised, the movie still has some virtues. It was photographed in Utah, and the landscapes of fall and winter are regally beautiful. In fact no one seems to fill the screen as well as the mountains, save for Stefan Gierasch, whose performance as a rapscallion mountain man named Del Grue is joyous and exceptionally inventive...
...advanced practitioners, a whole new style of baroque skiing has developed. Known as "free-style," "exhibition" or "hot-dog" skiing, the form emphasizes acrobatic stunts rather than downhill speed. Hot-doggers build up repertoires of twists, turns, spins and somersaults. Four Utah ski resorts will sponsor hot-dog exhibitions this season. Last winter 110 hot-doggers got together at Waterville Valley, N.H., for the second annual Eastern Regional Exhibition Skiing Championship. The winner tooled off in a new Chevrolet...
They cannot be run for quick profit, either. Ted Johnson, onetime manager of a ski lodge at Alta, Utah, last year opened Snowbird not many miles away. Johnson and his principal backer, Texas Oilman Dick Bass, have dumped $17 million into Snowbird, including $2,250,000 for a Swiss-built aerial tram that carries 125 people at a time up an 11,000-ft. incline to the main peak. The tram, most capacious of its kind in the world, is started and stopped by a computer. Johnson and Bass do not expect to be in the black for another...
...some of the world's best skiing. "Powder" snow, the best of all, is often hip-deep in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah. The snow is more granular and less plentiful in the East, where the air is wetter and the mountains smaller than in the West. Eastern slopes are also icier and thus harder to negotiate. Yet skiers who practice on this Eastern "boiler plate" learn of necessity to dig their ski edges deeper into the hill and tend to have better control. The quality of the snow at most European resorts lies somewhere in between the West...