Picto Diary - 23 to 28 April 2023 - Mountain Town Characters

Above: Deer Valley, Last day of season. 23 April 2023.
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Bishop, Guzzi, Kathy, Smooth.

Smooth (Mark Manus) has been a well known part of the Utah ski scene for forty years.

Above: Silver Lake Lodge, Deer Valley. 23 April 2023.
My temporary office.

Above: Deer Valley, UT. 23 April 2023.

Big Stick ski run, my last run of the season at Deer Valley.

Above: Iron Canyon, Park City, UT. 23 April 2023.

Skis in garage nearing end of season. I've used all these skis this season. Stockli Lasar AX, Stockli Lasar SC, and Kastle MX 88's.

Above: Park City Mountain Resort, Utah, April 2023. Caught up with Park City's foremost diehard skiers. TWO3, GUZZI, and Title. Guzzi is a pretender to joining John Hainey as Park City's main ski character. No one...NO ONE of his age (78) gets more vertical in a PCMR season than TWO3. No one NO ONE...has had an annual PCMR pass every year since PCMR opened 59 years ago than Title. These are true skiers in every sense of the word!

Above: Home Run. Park City Mountain Resort. 24 April 2023.
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Park City, UT. beyond.

TIMDT Visit to Pulmonologist - 24 April 2023

Note to our kids:

Saw pulmonologist Scholand yesterday (24 April 2023). Results after starting medication were good, with no deterioration since last test several months ago.

Granny uses O2 at night, gets tired quickly. She attributes periodic diarrhea and stomach cramps to meds side effects.

Her appetite is erratic. Sometimes nothing tastes good, other times she eats well. She attributes appetite variability also to medium side effects.

Dr. Scholand was generally encouraged. We take it day by day and are glad that Granny remains interested in doing stuff. She likes working on the Ivins home.

Dad

In Memoriam - Ken Brody

Dear Section I Classmates:

I am very sorry to report that your classmate Kenneth Brody died on March 26, 2023, at age 79, after a long illness.

Here is his obituary:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/kenneth-brody-obituary?id=51493032

Ken volunteered in several capacities for HBS and the University, including reunion fundraising, the Harvard Committee on University Resources, and vice president of the Harvard Club of New York.

Kind regards,

Linda Kush
Communications Coordinator, Alumni Marketing & Communications
Teele 530F
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field

Above: Hidden Splendor ski run. Park City Mountain Resort. 25 April 2023.
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Coup de Poudre.
No friends on a powder day.
5 inches new. Another April surprise. Really, these April powder days are not longer surprises. You can always count on a late season snowfall.
Only skied six runs, but under these conditions, 2x calories per run. Feel good about my performance, skills and stamina. Miners Camp break with Guzzi.

Above: Larry (Larry the Legend) Goshgarian. Miners Camp Lodge, Park City Mountain Resort, 26 April 2023.
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Larry the Legend has been in Park City working around and living in the ski scene since 1974. He is from Chicago and is a descendant of the Armenian diaspora post World War I. It is a tossup whether Larry the Legend or John Hainey is Park City's main ski character. I rode a lift with Hainey at Deer Valley earlier in the year. Both Larry the Legend and John Hainey are loved and deservedly respected by all Parkites. Mountain towns are morphing into upscale suburbs. If for no reason other than affordability, ski bums and ski characters, both of which have been essential to maintain the unique, funky flavor of skiing, are disappearing from our habitat. Park City is blessed with ski-characters like John Hainey, Larry the Legend, and the upcoming Mike Sonzini. If you're lucky enough, you'll get to ski with one of them!

Above: Mike Sonzini, Miner's Camp Restaurant, Park City Mountain Resort, Park City, UT. 26 April 2023.

Mike is pretender to becoming Park City's main ski character. He skis and snowboards both Park City and Deer Valley. He works at Aloha Sports and Deer Valley during ski season. Mike is a native Utahn, who when he's not skiing over 160 days a year (remember there's Mt. Hood and Beartooth pass open all year) is motorcycling on one of his four Moto-Guzzis in some obscure desert in the American west.

Above: Bill Gray. Miner's Camp restaurant. Park City Mountain Resort. 27 April 2023. 72 09 671.
Park City Ski Characters Series. Bill Gray. 35 years head PCMR Ski Patrol. 45 years on the Patrol. 48 years worked for PCMR. Ski note: Amazing final week at PCMR. Today quintessential blue bird spring skiing. I hit perfect soft snow windows on the Queen, Muckers, and Dynamite. Hung out with PCMR diehard Ski personalities at Miners Camp break. Bill Gray, Richard Southam, Mike Sonzini, and Larry Goshgarian. Saw from the lift the legendary Park City character, John Hainey, skiing below. Informed that other sk legends, Tom Oliver and Jerry Wilhelmini, were skiing today, but they left early and didn't come to break. Talk on the lift: All very happy with final bonus week at PCMR. Only two lifts operating (Crescent and Silverlode), but still a ton of good skiing on ample grooming.

Above: Richard Southam (Title). Miners Camp Restaurant, Park City Mountain Resort, 27 April 2023. Park City Ski Characters Series. Richard has had an annual PCMR Ski pass each of the 59 years Park City Mountain Resort has been open.

Above: Sprinter. Iron Canyon. Park City, UT. 27 April 2023. It is very important to remember not to toss your ski poles too hard onto the queen bed in the back of the Sprinter.

Above: Silverlode Lift. Park City Mountain Resort. 28 April 2023.
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Coast Guard George waves to Stockli and The Commodore, former buddies at the discredited, outlier coffee group at Park City Roasters.

Found perfect snow windows on the Queen, Muckers, Prospector and Waterfall.