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“Not long ago over lunch Chad and I discussed the fine points of the origin story—was the year 1954 or 56 when he first saw the mountain, was he in a car, as Chad and I thought, or on a motorcycle, as the folks at the Sundance Institute contended?”
“Nearing Salt Lake City, he turned off the main road and wandered, basically following an impulse—an impulse that, it turned out, would change everything.”
“As for Redford, he turned his back on L.A.”
“Sometimes it would seem that he was making movies or taking TV roles just to fund the resort.”
“It would seem a ludicrous fiction.”
“There was a good reason for this: he was trying to stave off tract housing on the mountain.”
“He has found this place accidentally, while driving home to L.A.”
“He will discover that the mountain is called Timpanogos and that people of that name lived nearby five hundred years ago.”
“Though he had only learned to ski as an adult, and then trained and improved for Downhill Racer, he skied fast and paid for it with broken noses and collar bones.”
“You could argue that almost everything in his life would grow out of the place: Art, family, nature, activism.”
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“Article continues after advertisement The first time he sees it, a chord is struck inside him.”
“He is and always will be a creature of movement and before he knows it his feet are taking the lead, rushing forward, climbing upward, wanting to somehow create an intimacy with this giant.”
“He has no inkling where his life will lead him.”
“He worked alongside a local builder and the builder’s son, planning out the house himself.”
“It is being absorbed in something larger than himself.”
“Something thrilling and wild, jarring and huge.”
“From the start this was a place of strange coincidences, and Redford would soon learn that Timp Haven, and the land around it, was owned by the family of Omer Stewart, the same Omer Stewart who was one of the only professors who inspired him back at the University of Colorado.”
“I lay in bed and thought about it.”