Salt Lake Diversions

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About an hour's drive from Salt Lake City, Utah is the ski resort of Alta, a former mining town, nestled within the Wasatch Mountains. Skiing and other winter alpine pursuits take place well... Read allAbout an hour's drive from Salt Lake City, Utah is the ski resort of Alta, a former mining town, nestled within the Wasatch Mountains. Skiing and other winter alpine pursuits take place well into mid-spring. The relatively new ski lift is one of the longest in the western US. Som... Read allAbout an hour's drive from Salt Lake City, Utah is the ski resort of Alta, a former mining town, nestled within the Wasatch Mountains. Skiing and other winter alpine pursuits take place well into mid-spring. The relatively new ski lift is one of the longest in the western US. Some ride the lift not to ski down but to glance at the view from the 1,500 foot summit. Bein... Read all

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James A. FitzPatrick

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Friedl Pfeifer

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Virginia Guernsey Huidekoper

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(as Virginia Guernsey)

George Watson

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(as Mayor of Alta)

Ab Jenkins

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Narrator: In the lofty Wasatch Mountains of Utah, about an hour's drive from Salt Lake City, is the popular resort known as Alta. And its variegated snow fields provide an excellent locale for the invigorating sport of skiing, at an altitude that rises to over ten thousand feet above sea level.

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Sobre las olas (Over the Waves)
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Music by Juventino Rosas
Played when the boat on the lake is first shown

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Salt Lake Diversions (1943)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Another pleasant entry in MGM's TravelTalks series. This time we travel to Utah where we start off at the Alta Ski Resort, which at the time wasn't as big or popular as it is today. We learn that Alta use to be very popular due to mining but once it dried up everyone went away except for the Mayor who stayed on trying to figure out another way to bring people in. We learn that the place is 10,000 feet above sea level and FitzPatrick brags about the ski lift that takes people 1500 feet in only 20-minutes. When then travel to Salt Lake where we learn we can't sink due to the 27-perfect salt level. That's pretty much all this episode offers but the visuals are so beautiful that they alone will keep you entertained. The ski resort certainly had some great shots due in large part to the mountains and the beautiful snow on them. The lake too was pretty to look at the Technicolor really brings this out. Fans of the series will know what to expect and this is yet another winner.