Deer Valley installed the final lift of its Expanded Excellence plan this week as the parts for the Hail Peak Express lift were flown into place by helicopter early Wednesday morning. 

“We’re getting really excited for winter,” said Garrett Lang, senior director of mountain operations at Deer Valley Resort.

Hail Peak is the 11th new lift in Deer Valley’s East Village expansion since 2024. The new lift will open seven runs and 200 new acres of beginner, intermediate and advanced terrain. With the addition of Hail Peak, Deer Valley now has 32 lifts in operation throughout the resort.

The seven new runs off Hail Peak will feature a mix of beginner, intermediate and advanced groomed terrain. Lang compared the area to Flagstaff Mountain, for people familiar with the western side of the resort.

Deer Valley adds to its collection of over a dozen Doppelmayr high-speed detachable quad lifts with the Hail Peak Express. The new lift can move 2,400 skiers per hour through its 86 carriers. The slightly smaller Neptune Express can move the same number of people with 74 chairs, and the longer Pioche Express lift moves 1,800 people per hour.

The chairs on Hail Peak Express, along with the other lifts in the east expansion area, are designed to be more comfortable with higher backs and smoother suspension. 

Its proximity to the East Village parking lot makes Hail Peak a great candidate for early morning runs or as a location to start out the ski day before exploring the rest of the mountain. Parking at the East Village lot is free all day in its 1,200 spaces. Lang said the resort’s complimentary trams will run from the parking lot near the lift to transport skiers closer to the hub.

The installation of Hail Peak marks a milestone in the resort’s expansion. After three years working on mountain developments like its new lifts, the resort will now focus on finishing the East Village and Park Peak lodges. 

“We’re excited for, hopefully, a great snow year so we can really showcase what we have to offer and what this expansion is truly capable of,” said Riley Elliot, communications manager at Deer Valley Resort.

The resort has plans for the rest of the mountain, but there’s no set timeline on when those developments would start.

Alterra Mountain Company, Deer Valley Resort’s parent company, announced on Sept. 9 its investments for the 2026-27 season across all resorts total over $350 million. The improvements to snowmaking systems and the addition of the Hail Peak Express lift are the primary focuses this season at Deer Valley.

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Deer Valley Resort has been working hard this summer to prepare for the winter season, with most projects centered around the resort’s east side.

New lifts and snow guns have been installed at Deer Valley since terrain expansions began in 2024, and construction has started in the East Village area, which will feature luxury hotels, retail and dining.

Garret Lang, senior director of mountain operations, said there isn’t one project he’s most excited about, but instead a large number of small improvements across the resort. 

“(There are) little perfections from last winter,” Lang said. 

Lang called the tasks a “punch list” that they’ve been working through all summer. On that list is adjusting the grade of certain runs around the mountain, moving trees and managing erosion. 

“The punch list is going to make operating so much easier and make things better for our guests,” he said. 

The mountain operations team has made significant improvements to the Redemption run this summer. Snow guns were moved for better placement and to optimize snowmaking conditions. The run has been widened, too. 

Lang said Deer Valley added two new snowcats this year, bringing the resort total to 33.

“(This will help) keep up the groomed terrain Deer Valley is known for,” he said.

The Hail Peak Express will be installed mid-September and will be operational at the start of the 2026-27 season. Hail Peak will add seven new runs and 200 acres to the resort’s total 4,500 acres this season. With this addition, the resort will now have a total of 32 lifts and the capacity for 932 acres of snowmaking.

After the initial 2024 expansion, the Hail Peak area was one of the first to have ski runs cut into the mountain, so Lang is looking forward to the area being skiable this year. 

Construction on the Park Peak and Deer Valley East Village Lodges has been moving quickly this summer, too. Both lodges are planned to open for the 2027-28 season. 

Each lodge is being designed with gondola storage space underground. The cabins will be detached from the lift for temporary storage overnight or during large storms. This will also allow easier access for cabin maintenance. Lang said this system was inspired by European standards for gondola storage. Special gondola cabins are designed for food transport to the Park Peak Lodge, as well as freight loading areas near the regular gondola access points.

The goal is to have each building “dried in” before winter, Lang said, meaning the external work will be completed to the point where no plastic or temporary coverings are needed around the buildings. Construction will continue through the winter on the interiors of the buildings. 

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Shred for Red, the annual ski fundraiser for Blood Cancer United, will be back in 2027. Registration for fundraising participants starts Sept. 1, the first day of Blood Cancer Awareness Month. 

This year’s fundraising goal is $450,000. Event organizers spoke of the importance of this event and the impact the funds will have in helping the organization’s research and advocacy work for Blood Cancer patients. 

Austin Simon is the adventure series director for Blood Cancer United and has a personal connection to the organization’s work. Her mother-in-law beat lymphoma twice, Simon lost her grandmother to multiple myeloma and she is currently going through cancer treatment herself.

“Our mission is to cure blood cancer and to improve the quality of life for patients and their families and having direct family members that have been touched by blood cancer makes me mission connected,” Simon said. 

Dr. Robert Winn, Deer Valley’s former chief medical officer, started Shred for Red after his wife was diagnosed with leukemia, with the help of Olympian and leukemia survivor Bryan Fletcher and Blood Cancer United. At the time, the organization was called the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. 

Every year since then, people have fundraised for the organization, with the effort ending in a Deer Valley ski day. 

“It really fits into the mission because it allows people to be on the mountain and do something in person, but it also gives them the opportunity to bring honor to people who have gone through treatments, and the memory of people who have passed away,” said Shelby Rogers, the Shred for Red event manager. 

Rogers, who also manages the Climb 2 Cure event, is connected to the organization’s mission through her grandfather, who passed away from lymphoma. 

“Our mission, when we were founded in 1945, was really to fund incredible research because there were no cures at the time,” Simon said. “Our mission has evolved. We recognize not only do we need to find a cure, but we also need to be there to support our patients and their families. We also need to advocate for them so that they’re having access to the most amazing treatments.”

Erin Stone and her family, who live in Holladay, have experienced the significance of the organization’s advocacy directly. Stone’s son was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 5 and a half years old. 

Leukemia accounts for 40% of all childhood cancer diagnoses. Stone explained the treatment cycle for pediatric leukemia takes more than two years. She said some of the medications during her son’s treatment cost thousands of dollars for a single dose. Over the course of long treatment, this adds up to what can be insurmountable for many families. 

Last year, Blood Cancer United provided Utah families with $1 million in financial assistance. And in the past decade, the organization has contributed $2 million to statewide research projects. The 2026 Shred for Red event raised $300,000, only half of its goal. This year, snow conditions will be better, and the event will be earlier in the season, so organizers are hoping they’ll meet, if not exceed the goal. 

Teams and individuals can fundraise for Shred for Red. There’s a tiered goal system, and participants are required to meet their goal to attend the event. Rogers explained this is set so the organization can fund the event itself as well as raise money for its mission. 

After registration, participants will meet with Rogers one-on-one each month to strategize their goals.

“We definitely want this to be a fun experience for people, not something that feels like another thing they have to do,” Rogers said. “So we try to make it fun.”

Rogers said she has fundraising guides with social media posts, email and text templates and phone scripts to help people get started. 

“If it’s not easy, call us,” Simon said. 

Every year, Shred for Red spotlights someone in the community with blood cancer as an Honored Hero. Not all of the fundraiser participants have a direct connection to blood cancer, so the Honored Heroes can help people understand the experiences and impacts it has. 

At the 2023 Shred for Red event, Stone’s son was the Honored Hero. She said participating that year helped their family make connections with people across the country who were experiencing the same thing as them.

“Once you get started with it, you’re hooked. You want to feed into that community of support and love and common goals and wanting to support the mission,” she said. “It’s really a special thing.”

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Six governors are expected to appear in Deer Valley shortly, highlighting a lengthy list of attendees planning to gather for a conference touching on wide-ranging issues important to the region.

The Western Governors’ Association annual meeting is scheduled at Stein Eriksen Lodge from June 30 until July 2. The Denver-based organization’s attendee list includes:

• Utah Gov. Spencer Cox
• Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon
• Hawaii Gov. Josh Green
• Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo
• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham
• Colorado Gov. Jared Polis

Doug Ford, the premier of the Canadian province of Ontario, is also scheduled to attend. The Western Governors’ Association said no members of President Trump’s Cabinet are expected.

The organization indicated the meeting will include the release of a report covering energy in the region. The report is anticipated to include recommendations for federal policies regarding the planning, financing, developing and deployment of energy projects, according to the Western Governors’ Association.

Cox, the chair of the group, is also scheduled to end his chairmanship. Green has been tapped to become the next chair during the gathering.

The attendee list late in the week indicated just over 400 people planned to travel to the event. The list includes numerous figures from state governments, corporate representatives and representatives from the not-for-profit sector. The pharmaceutical, banking and energy sectors are among those that will be represented. Park City Mountain owner Vail Resorts is sending a member of its government-relations team, according to the attendee list.

The Park City municipal government said it does not have a role in the meeting.

Some of the sessions include topics like the superabundance of energy, security in the innovation economy and student literacy. Tom Schultz, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service, is slated to deliver a keynote address and participate in a panel discussion.

The gathering is scheduled toward the beginning of a stretch of summer that is expected to be busy. The conference closes two days before an Independence Day holiday that could be especially crowded with it falling during a three-day weekend for many and with the nation celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

It will be the fourth time Park City has hosted the association’s annual meeting, following gatherings in 1995, 2009 and 2013.

The general public may purchase tickets to the gathering. More information is available on the organization’s website, westgov.org.

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Park City High School seniors are chipping away at their last few weeks of classes and homework assignments as they prepare to board the chairlifts at Deer Valley Resort on June 5 in what may be the school’s most unique graduation ceremony.

“I don’t think a lot of people realize how privileged we are to graduate at a really nice ski resort that people from all around the country fly in to visit,” said Elle Warburton, Class of 2026 president. “I think that’ll be really cool and different, and we’re probably the only class that’ll ever be able to do that.”

Warburton is one of many Student Council members who help plan and coordinate graduation activities in addition to prom, which is open to juniors and seniors. Student Council also works with the district’s elementary schools to facilitate the annual walkthrough of seniors’ alma maters, which is scheduled for June 4.

The Class of 2026 had a different planning process than students in previous years, though. Ongoing construction work on Dozier Field mandated the district shift graduation to another location — the Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater at Deer Valley — so students have had less discretion than normal.

But the Student Council has still been able to make an impact on the graduating class and administered a survey to seniors asking them to nominate their favorite teacher to read students’ names as they walk across the stage next month. Seniors overwhelmingly nominated Joanna Andres, a social studies teacher who was named the Utah Teacher of the Year, and Debra Alcox, a math teacher who is retiring at the end of the semester.

Grace Squibbs, a Student Council member and the senior vice president, said the Class of 2026 is special because it’s a tight-knit group, which makes their impending separation after graduation bittersweet.

“I’m still best friends with my two best friends from elementary school,” agreed JJ Eggleton, who handles public relations for the Student Council. “We’ve known everyone for so long. I think it’s the people in Park City that I am most grateful for and what I love most about this school.”

Warburton felt similarly, saying that she realized as she was writing her speech for graduation that she could name every student in the Class of 2026 and wouldn’t consider any of her fellow seniors a stranger.

“We’re nestled in the mountains, so it’s different, too,” Squibbs said. “We don’t really hang out with other schools, which can have pluses and minuses, but at the end of the day, it makes us really close with each other and even with our teachers.”

All three students said if they could give advice to incoming freshmen, it would be to get involved and eagerly participate in events, even if it seems cheesy. They said that whether it’s playing a sport, being on Student Council, joining a club or another extracurricular activity, it’s important to find and foster a connection to the school community.

“It’s what you make of it,” Eggleton said. “It’s not about what you do or if you’re the best or if you’re in the most clubs.”

Squibbs agreed with Eggleton and said the hardest part of getting involved is showing up.

“Participating in spirit days, coming to Make-a-Wish events, coming to the movie nights we host, it takes a lot of work on our part, and I do think the hardest part about doing it is getting there,” she said. “Once you’re there, anyone who comes has so much fun. I really encourage people to bring a friend, don’t think they’re too cool, show up in a crazy outfit and have fun.”

Park City High School’s graduation is scheduled for 5 p.m. on June 5.

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The Western Governors’ Association is scheduled to hold its annual meeting in Deer Valley this summer, a gathering that will bring a political crowd to Park City in the days before the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

The event is slated from June 30 to July 2 at the Stein Eriksen Lodge. Gov. Spencer Cox is the chair of the association, which involves states from the Great Plains westward. The Denver-based association said up to eight governors usually attend the annual meeting. The total attendance typically reaches between 300 and 400, including the gubernatorial delegations, federal officials, lobbyists and the entourages of presenters. The general public may purchase tickets.

An agenda and speaker lineup had not been finalized by the middle of the week. The association said Cabinet members are usually selected to deliver keynote addresses.

The event offers an opportunity for attendees to delve into a range of policies important to the West and the Midwest. Some of the topics expected to be addressed include agriculture, energy, healthcare and workforce issues.

“I’m excited to host WGA’s Annual Meeting in Park City this year. Beyond its natural beauty, Park City is a powerful example of how economic strength and environmental stewardship can go hand-in-hand. That balance will be reflected in many of the important policy discussions we’ll have at the meeting and is an ideal that I think we, as governors across the West, can help model for the rest of the country,” Cox said in a prepared statement to The Park Record.

A draft agenda posted by the association includes:

• Opening remarks by Cox and the executive director of the Western Governors’ Association midday on June 30.
• A July 1 session regarding policy and business, with Hawaii Gov. Josh Green being featured.

There is also a series of receptions, breakfasts and dinners on the agenda. Several panels covering unspecified topics were also listed.

The attendee list by the middle of the week included numerous corporate representatives and business groups. A representative from Park City Mountain owner Vail Resorts was listed. The Colorado-based firm has mountain resorts across the West.

Park City has hosted the association’s annual meeting three times, in 1995, 2009 and 2013.

The 2013 event, held during the Obama administration, included remarks by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, an address by the late energy executive T. Boone Pickens and comments by Gary Herbert, who was the governor of Utah and the chair of the Western Governors’ Association at the time. Rob Bishop, then a U.S. congressman whose district included the Park City area, also appeared.

The organization, during the 2013 gathering, released a document that outlined a vision for energy production. Energy was an overriding subject that year, and the document called for the U.S. to move toward energy security, for the West to become a leader internationally in new energies and for infrastructure for energy distribution to be established.

The event this summer will likely add to the buzz in Park City that week. The gathering of governors is planned from Tuesday to Thursday. The event ends two days before Independence Day, usually a busy holiday in the community. This year’s Fourth of July celebrations in Park City could be especially jammed with 2026 being the 250-year mark for the nation.

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The organizers of a gathering of governors from the West planned in Deer Valley this summer said President Trump will be invited to the event.

It seems unlikely he will attend, though.

The Western Governors’ Association said an incumbent president is sent an invitation to each of the annual meetings. However, it said a seated president has never attended.

Each member of the president’s Cabinet is also invited annually. Some of the Cabinet members usually are in attendance each year, according to the association.

The event is scheduled at the Stein Eriksen Lodge from June 30 to July 2. The president at that time would be expected to be preparing for the Fourth of July celebration in Washington, D.C., as the nation marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

If Trump were to attend the Deer Valley gubernatorial meeting, he would be the fourth incumbent president to visit the Park City area. President Clinton visited twice on vacation, President George W. Bush traveled to the community on a fundraising trip and President Biden appeared to raise funds.

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Tuesday marked 99 years since Heber City resident Ted Crittenden was delivered into the world in his grandmother’s Hoytsville home. There weren’t any hospitals nearby at the time, he explained. 

The soon-to-be centenarian celebrated the milestone by riding the Deer Valley East Village’s 10-passenger gondola with a handful of his five children, 36 grandchildren, 95 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.

The 142-cabin gondola opened last autumn. Each of its 40 towers was flown in by a Chinook helicopter. It rises 2,570 feet over the course of the nearly 3-mile journey at 1,400 feet per minute.

Ted was impressed. 

“It’s an absolute miracle of engineering. To get all those poles and all those cables? I can’t believe it,” he gushed.

The gondola ride was facilitated through Ted’s son, Kendall.

Kendall is a Wasatch County Councilor and works regularly with representatives from the Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA), which has a foothold on development in the Deer Valley area. MIDA representatives came up with the idea because Ted is a World War II Navy veteran.

Ted was a 14-year-old student at North Summit High School during the attack on Pearl Harbor and signed up for the draft with several classmates three years later.

After turning 18, he joined the Navy and was shipped off to a boot camp in San Diego. That was in March 1945, six months before the war ended. 

When they arrived at the boot camp, Ted got quite a hoot out of the city boys’ gorgeous locks being shaved off.

“They wasn’t careful about it. These long curls would drop in their lap. It was quite funny,” he laughed.

After intensive training, Ted was loaded onto his first ship with an estimated 1,500 other soldiers.

As the ship traveled under the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Pacific Ocean, seasick crewmates were “puking everywhere.” Ted was unfazed.

About 18 days later, the ship made it to a U.S. base on the island of Guam, which had been recaptured from Japan the year prior. 

That was where Ted was stationed when the United States dropped its first atomic bomb on Japan in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

“All we heard was that there was a terrible explosion. We had no idea the magnitude of it,” he said. 

At the time, he simply couldn’t believe that one bomb had destroyed an entire city. 

After Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces in September, ending the war, Ted stayed in Guam for 17 months, working his way up to a third-class petty officer. 

Following that, he was stationed on the destroyer USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692), which embarked on a goodwill tour in February 1947 that began in Australia. 

“Oh, they did a hoorah there. They had a big paper that says, ‘The fleet’s in. Ladies, make the most of it,’” Ted recalled. 

The food in Australia was a marked improvement from the Navy diet of potatoes, beans and Spam. Ted and his crewmates also found weevils wriggling around in the bread they were served on multiple occasions.

“We used to hold it up at the light and pick them out, but pretty soon, we didn’t give a crap. Protein,” he joked. “A little cream or butter or something on them, and they went down just fine.”

Navy life was anything but glamorous. That was best exemplified by the hazing seasoned soldiers put rookies through the first time they crossed the International Date Line. 

Ted was forced to crawl through a garbage chute. Then, the onboard dentist “sprayed a bunch of crap in (his) mouth,” and his crewmates dunked him in a tub of water suspended on the side of the ship. 

There were elements of Navy life that were more breathtaking: watching flying fish gliding alongside the bulkhead using their batlike wings, and ginormous jellyfish dancing in a bay in China.

Ted’s service also took him to the Philippines and Japan before he left the Navy in January 1948.

Afterwards, he moved back to Hoytsville and quickly fell in love with his first wife, Pauline Brown, who later died following health complications related to a respiratory disease in 1983. 

Ted irrigated land for Pauline’s father, who was a Holstein cow breeder, and met her when they were both actors in a community play held by their Latter-day Saints ward. 

That thespian spirit never quite left Ted. He also acted in live performances as a Salt Lake Temple ordinance worker for 16 years. He knew almost all the parts of the performance — “even Satan” — which has since been replaced by a video.

Ted calls himself a jack of all trades, with a career and hobbies that have taken him on all sorts of adventures in Summit County. He lived in Hoytsville and Kamas most of his life until moving into Spring Gardens Senior Living in Heber City in January, where he lives with his second wife, JoAnn.

He worked for Mountain Fuel, the predecessor of Enbridge Gas, and was the head custodian at the Summit County Courthouse, roles he held for about a decade each.

He was also a small-time bobcat trapper and taxidermist. He even de-scented two skunks for his children to keep as pets. 

Fly fishing is his passion, and he even wrote a few articles with fishing advice for The Park Record.

He’s always been an artist, as evidenced by the doodles on postcards he sent his mother while he was in the Navy. He also got into photography in recent years and crafts his own frames from barn wood.

He was a milkman for 17 years and stumbled in the role of first responder several times while walking his route. For example, when a car went off the side of a hill, killing two parents and leaving their two children injured, he was the first on the scene, performing first aid.

Another time, a muscular man fell out of the top story of a bar, splatting on the ground. His friends remarked that he wasn’t much of a bouncer. That’s right, Ted is also an amateur comedian if he can find an audience that will endure his jokes.

His advice to younger people is simple: “Don’t have calluses on your ass. Get up and do something.”

Kendall’s suspicion is that his father has made it to 99 because he’s always been physically and mentally busy.

Ted’s daughter, DeAnn Witt, said her father would always do three miles of his milk route at the crack of dawn before coming home for breakfast. 

His mantra was, “You don’t get breakfast until you’ve earned it.”

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The Park City Fire District is shedding more light on an incident involving a submerged car in a pond in lower Deer Valley earlier this month, including life-saving actions taken by a good samaritan in the neighborhood.

The incident was reported around 7:40 p.m. on Oct. 3 near Snow Park Lodge when a neighbor told dispatchers that they had seen a car with one person inside enter the pond, spurring the emergency response, according to Park City Fire District Chief Peter Emery.

“It’s October, so the water’s not warm. They get in the water, get to the car and stand on top of it,” Emery said. “I don’t think there’s any world where we are able to identify where this car is without that bystander.”

Emery estimated that the car was 20 yards from the shore. The pond was deep enough that the bystander was in water up to their midsection, even while standing on top of the vehicle, he said.

“Our firefighters walk in, and I think they’re basically up to (their necks) in water, and they dive into the water to break the window, grab her and pull her out of the vehicle,” Emery said. “From start to finish, from the dispatch call to having the patient out of the water, it was about eight minutes.”

He praised the efforts of the Park City Police Department, Summit County Dispatch and AirMed for the agencies’ work to determine the car’s location, assist in rescuing the vehicle’s occupant and for rendering CPR and medical services.

“We have this Hot Load program that we developed probably six or seven years ago with AirMed, where the goal is to have the helicopter on the ground before an ambulance gets there, and they keep the helicopter running,” Emery explained. “It’s to minimize scene time. We have one of the faster times in the state because we really focus on this and that came together on this call. This individual who went into the water is home right now because of all of these components.”

Ashley Lewis, one of the district’s two assistant chiefs, referred to the bystanders and first responders’ actions as examples of true heroism. Both Lewis and Emery said they’d never seen first responders risk their lives underwater to save someone in such a tense and fast-paced scenario.

“Speaking for everyone that works in this building, we are so proud of our Park City firefighters,” Emery said. “They went above and beyond. We’re proud of our partnerships with all of these agencies. It’s just an incredible story, and everything went well. On top of that, this individual’s home, and that’s the part that makes this so incredible.”

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Deer Valley Resort is bringing back its Summer on the Deck series for a second year, offering live music, barbecue and scenic views every Thursday starting June 19 at the Deer Valley Café deck overlooking Pebble Beach. In partnership with Mountain Town Music, the weekly event will also have live entertainment. 

“There is no better place to have lunch than the café on that deck in the summer,” said Jacob Musyt, Deer Valley’s vice president of food and beverage. 

The lunches are planned from noon to 3 p.m., every Thursday through Aug. 28, and along with good food and live music, there will be paddleboarding on the pond available through Park City Stand Up Paddleboarding. 

After trying the events out last year, the barbecue series was started as a way to bring more locals out to the seasonal restaurant space, and this summer’s return will build on its success. According to Musyt, the programming is more intentional this year, with live fire grills adding to a cook-out atmosphere.

In addition to the regular Thursday schedule, Deer Valley will expand the event on key weekends, such as the Fourth of July and Pioneer Day. 

“Fourth of July weekend, the 4th through the 7th, we’ll also be doing the barbecue every day with live music,” said Carolyn Allen, the resort’s director of food and beverage.

Musyt added: “We’ll lean into the holidays, when people are not working, or just try to celebrate what’s going on in Park City. … We may increase programming around the Kimball Arts Festival when there’s a lot of people in town.”

With more preplanned programming and their newly expanded beach area, Musyt said the series is aimed at creating a vibrant community hub for both locals and visitors.

“The ethos of the café is community,” Musyt said. “We look at that restaurant as a community staple. Our No. 1 guest is from the community. What do they want? What are they looking for? How do we make them happy? And how do we get them to keep coming back? They’re the ones that keep that business alive.”

That’s why they’ve picked Thursdays for the events, anticipating that more locals will be looking for casual lunch plans mid-week, rather than destination guests visiting for a long weekend.

“We want to be able to do some fun things when we need it and be able to take care of our guests,” Musyt said. “The Thursday is something new and fresh, something our locals can come in and experience.”

The event is designed to be family-friendly, too, and Musyt said they’ve expanded their retail offerings at the cafe to include more kid-focused adventure gear, like binocular packages or insect hunting kits.

For more information on this summer’s series and the participating musicians, visit deervalley.com/things-to-do/activities/summer-on-the-deck.

Deer Valley’s Summer on the Deck Music Lineup:
All performances scheduled noon-3 p.m. 

• June 19 — Mel Soul
• June 26 — Shannon Runyon
• July 10 — Aspen Anonda
• July 17 — Nate Robinson
• July 24 — Reid Jarvis
• July 31 — Che Zuro
• Aug. 7 — Hana Kamler
• Aug. 14 — Will Baxter
• Aug. 21 — Steven Bosco
• Aug. 28 — Teresa

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