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Solitude Mountain Resort Summit Chair
Summit Chair, Solitude Mountain Resort. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Summit Chair, Solitude Mountain Resort
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Solitude
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Solitude.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Solitude Mountain Resort is a ski resort located in the Big Cottonwood Canyon of the Wasatch Mountains, thirty miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Before the resort map
The linked local overview does not preserve a clear account of Solitude before modern tourism.
This edition leaves that part of the timeline open rather than mistaking the first surviving sporting reference for the beginning of the place.
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2015
A route reaches Solitude
During the summer of 2015 under the new leadership of Deer Valley Resort, Doppelmayr constructed a new high speed detachable quad to replace the existing Summit double chairlift, with a new alignment.
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FEMA - 5750 - Photograph by Andrea Booher taken on 01-31-2002 in Utah
FEMA - 5750 - Photograph by Andrea Booher taken on 01-31-2002 in Utah. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- FEMA - 5750 - Photograph by Andrea Booher taken on 01-31-2002 in Utah
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
1986
Winter becomes organised
DeSeelhorst became the resort's sole owner in 1986 and implemented an aggressive renovation project, including the 1989 construction of Utah's first express quad chairlift, Eagle Express.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Solitude is recorded at 40.620° N, 111.592° W. Its catalogue reference reaches 3,048 metres. A modern resort map compresses terrain, exposure and access into a diagram. This exhibition keeps the underlying contour visible so the place does not become only a list of facilities.
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Solitude Mountain Resort Summit Chair
Summit Chair, Solitude Mountain Resort. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Summit Chair, Solitude Mountain Resort
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
TODAY
Solitude now
The Solitude Nordic centre, nestled between the Solitude and Brighton ski areas, offers a variety of nordic sport opportunities, including snowshoeing, skate and classic cross-country skiing.
THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Solitude Mountain Resort Summit Chair
AOD.US.SOLITUDE.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
FEMA - 5750 - Photograph by Andrea Booher taken on 01-31-2002 in Utah
AOD.US.SOLITUDE.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Solitude Mountain Resort overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.