GIScience 2008 International Conference in Park City, UT </head> <BODY BACKGROUND="deep.gif" VLINK="yellow" LINK="yellow" TEXT="#FFCCFF"> <font face=verdana,arial,courier,sans-serif> <center> <a href="../index.html"><img src="../header2.gif" border="none"><img src="../lil_head.gif" border="none"></a><br> </center> <h2 align="center"> GIScience 2008 International Conference in Park City, UT <br><br> <a target="new" href="http://www.giscience.org/">More Info on GIScience 2008</a> </h2> <b>Click on thumbnails for larger image</b><br><br> Page 1 | <a href="index2.html">Page 2</a> | <a href="index3.html">Page 3</a> <p><br> <table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/1.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/1.jpg"></a><br><br>On the way to Utah, we are passed on I-84 enroute to Utah by members of the "Brother Speed Idaho" motorcycle gang. </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/2.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/2.jpg"></a><br><br> </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/3.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/3.jpg"></a><br><br>The nav system in my new Mini Clubman </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/4.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/4.jpg"></a><br><br>Nearing Salt Lake City area from the west, encountering the Wasatch Range.... </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/5.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/5.jpg"></a><br><br> </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/6.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/6.jpg"></a><br><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/7.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/7.jpg"></a><br><br> </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/8.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/8.jpg"></a><br><br>In Park City, Utah for the GIScience 2008 conference. Park City was the host of freestyle skiing, snowboarding, and bobsled/skeleton/luge events for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, and is also known as the host city for the annual Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the U.S. </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/9.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/9.jpg"></a><br><br>Views of Park City from my hike up trail near our hotel.... </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/10.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/10.jpg"></a><br><br> </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/11.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/11.jpg"></a><br><br>Easy to see the ski runs from this shot taken in September. </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/12.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/12.jpg"></a><br><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/13.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/13.jpg"></a><br><br>A Park City TV truck, an all-terrain vehicle that goes up to the ski and snowboard areas to shoot footage of the U.S. national ski and snowboard teams. </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/14.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/14.jpg"></a><br><br>2002 Olympic Games Welcome Plaza in Park City </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/15.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/15.jpg"></a><br><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/16.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/16.jpg"></a><br><br> </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/17.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/17.jpg"></a><br><br> </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/18.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/18.jpg"></a><br><br>The plaza includes the official posters from all the prior winter Olympic games. My favorite games of the past were in Lillehammer, Norway in 1994... </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/19.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/19.jpg"></a><br><br>...and of course the memorable games of 1980 where we witnessed the "miracle on ice" with our hockey team winning gold against all odds. </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/20.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/20.jpg"></a><br><br>The Utah Olympic Park outside of Park City, which served as the venue for the ski jumping and sliding events (bobsled, luge, and skeleton) at the 2002 winter games. </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/21.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/21.jpg"></a><br><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/22.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/22.jpg"></a><br><br>Ski jump ramps at the Utah Olympic Park. </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/23.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/23.jpg"></a><br><br> </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/24.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/24.jpg"></a><br><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/25.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/25.jpg"></a><br><br>The Alf Engen Ski Museum at the Utah Olympic Park </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/26.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/26.jpg"></a><br><br> </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/27.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/27.jpg"></a><br><br>A sculpture of an American bison in the ski museum featuring the autographs of famous Olympians... </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/28.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/28.jpg"></a><br><br>...such as Brian Boitano, 1988 Olympic gold medalist in men's figure skating </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/29.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/29.jpg"></a><br><br>... and Picabo Street, 1988 Olympic gold medalist in the women's Super G, and 1994 Olympic silver medalist in the women's downhill. </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <a href="Pages/30.html"><img border="0" alt="" src="Thumbnails/30.jpg"></a><br><br>One of the development coaches of the U.S. Bobsled team gives a talk to a visiting group of school children in the ski museum. </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>