THE DIGS 44 CHAMBERS

MY FIRST SEASON OF SKI BUMMING WAS A BIG ONE. THE 83-84 SEASON. SEEMS LIKE WE SKIED POWDER EVERYDAY FOR MONTHS. BUT EVEN EPIC SEASONS COME TO AN END. THEN COMES SUMMER. SUMMER WAS THE SECRET SEASON IN PARK CITY. BY BEST RECKONING, NOT MORE THAN 1000 PEOPLE LIVED THERE THROUGH THE SUMMER. THE TOWN WAS MOSTLY RAMSHACKLE, WITH SOME MODERN "IMPROVEMENTS" HERE AND THERE. BUT WE LOVED IT JUST LIKE IT WAS. INTIMATE AND FUNKY. HOUSE PARTIES SEEMED TO BE THE PREFERRED MODE OF GETTING SOCIAL. THE PARTY PICTURED BELOW WAS HELD AT "THE DIGS", 44 CHAMBERS. JUST ABOVE WHERE THE MINE ROAD (MARSAC AVE) AND HILLSIDE COME TOGETHER ABOVE OLD TOWN. IT WAS A CLASSIC OLD MINER'S SHACK/SKI BUM PALACE. IT'S STLL THERE. BUT WHAT REALLY MADE IT SPECIAL WERE THE THE PEOPLE WHO GOT TOGETHER THERE. A MIXED BAG, TO BE SURE, BUT ALL GOOD NUTS. MY KIND OF NUTS. I CHERISH THOSE TIMES I SPENT WITH THEM. (Please forgive the condition of these images. They were scanned from slides which were stored under the worst possible conditions for more than two decades.)