Site: Utah Olympic Oval, Kearns.
Costs: Adults $4, children $2; skate rental $2.
Hours: 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday, and noon to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Season: Open year-round except May.
Details: (801) 968-6825, www.saltlake2002.com

DOWNHILL/SUPER-G/NORDIC COMBINED
Want to know what it feels like to be America's latest skiing star Daron Rahlves, one of the favorites to claim the downhill gold in 2002? If you're an advanced intermediate skier, simply take the Snowbasin Resort lifts more than 9,000 feet above sea level to the top of the Olympic downhill runs in the mountains northeast of Salt Lake City and get busy.

The start shoots you into high gear and onto one of the two separate but intertwined runs. It's steep - in some places about a 35-degree pitch. You'll encounter double fall lines that tend to pull you off course and big-air hot spots. The course just keeps going, and the bottom just keeps on dropping out from under you. This is where Rahlves and other brave souls will compete in the downhill, an event all about speed and daring; the super-G, a shorter downhill with more gates; and an event that combines the two.

Imagine racing down that very same mountain, the way the pros do it, at 70 miles per hour after it's been watered and iced. At that speed, skis tend to take flight. Guess there's a good reason why the nets along the course are 30 feet high.

Site: Snowbasin Resort, Huntsville.
Cost: 2001-2002 season ticket prices are $48 for adults, $23 for kids.
Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Season: November to April.
Details: (801) 620-1000, www.snowbasin.com

CURLING
Tuesday night at The Ice Sheet at Ogden, the Olympic curling venue, is league night. And while club members compete, newcomers try their hands at "throwing stones."