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Today’s slalom may be Vail native’s final chance at Olympic medal By Geoff Mintz Mountaineer Staff Writer Vail’s own Sarah Schleper has been flying under the radar of the national media; nevertheless, she’s the U.S.’s best shot at a medal in the women’s slalom today. Schleper has never won an Olympic medal, which was one of the motivations for her return to professional ski racing after a two-year hiatus to recover from an ACL tear and care for her newborn son Lasse. The stars need to align for the 31-year-old, but that’s the way things

have been going for the U.S. Team, which has earned an unprecedented eight medals at these Olympics. Sarah’s dad Buzz said he thinks she’s peaking at just the right time, coming off two FIS slalom wins in Jackson Hole last week, in which she beat out several World Cuppers, including a handful from the dominant French technical team. At the events in Jackson, Schleper crushed the first race beating out Nastasia Noens of France by well over a second. And in her second race of the day she beat out Tessa Worley, (who has a World Cup win this season,) by

nearly .3 seconds. While Schleper has won individual runs on the World Cup and taken the podium in a handful of Europa Cups and NorAms, last week’s back-toback wins marked the first of the season for her. In today’s slalom, the key for [See SCHLEPER, page 18] RIGHT: Sarah Schleper of Vail speeds down the course yesterday during the second run of the giant slalom at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia. AP photo.

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Stocks backtracked from an early plunge Thursday but still closed lower on concerns about lingering economic weakness in the U.S. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 53 points after having fallen 188. Treasury prices, like the dollar, rose as investors sought safety. An unexpected rise in first-time claims for unemployment insurance made for a sour mood in the market. Dow Jones Industrials Close: 10,321.03; Standard&Poors 500 Index: 1102.94 —2.30; NYSE Index: 7013.45 —17.22; Nasdaq Composite Index: 2234.22 —1.68; AMEX Composite Index: 1834.21 —18.72

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Rep. Charles Rangel, the most powerful tax-writing lawmaker in Congress and a 34-year veteran of Capitol Hill, acknowledged yesterday that an ethics panel has accused him of accepting Caribbean trips from a corporation in violation of House rules. At least four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus who were [See THE UPDATE, pages 10-12]

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The fellas from Frogs Gone Fishin’ just bought a new RV, Bertha, and they’re shoving off for a big Midwestern and Sothern tour that coincides with the release of their new album “Actual Natural” – but not before they throw one more rager at Finnegan’s in Avon tonight. The funky jam band, originally Denver-based, now Vail-embraced, is planning album release parties all over the country while on their 15-city tour this spring. But they say everyone in Vail should get ready for the biggest release party of them all when FGF comes home in May. “It feels great to be done with the album, although waiting for the release is always an anxious process. A lot goes into producing an independent disc after tracking, so we are still very busy,” lead guitarist Trevor Jones told the Mountaineer yesterday. The spring tour will travel throughout the Midwest, also touching down in Louisiana, Tennessee and Georgia. They’re especially excited to play three shows in Chicago and break into some new markets. “Touring is interesting because it involves hours and hours of tedious boredom followed by a couple hours of intense excitement during the show,” Jones said. “I’m excited to find out what life is like when we are able to stand up on the road in our new RV. This could open a world of possibilities for us.” The band says the best part about touring is meeting [See FROGS, page 19]

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Local was not wearing a beacon By Brent Gardner-Smith Aspen Daily News Aspen local John Joseph Kelley was killed in a large avalanche Tuesday afternoon while skinning up a slope at 11,000 feet near the backcountry Lindley Hut, which is 4.5 miles above the Ashcroft ghost town and 16 miles from Aspen. Kelley, 60, was on a ski trip to the Lindley Hut with a small group of “close friends and family” when the avalanche occurred. Officials said Kelley triggered the avalanche and that he was not wearing an avalanche rescue beacon at the time. He was buried 3 feet deep in avalanche debris and could not be found by other members of his party. Rescue dogs were flown into the site Wednesday morning to locate Kelley’s body. The sheriff’s office did not identify the members of Kelley’s group, but said the group included Kelley’s sister and a woman who was either his wife or his longtime girlfriend, according to Alex Burchetta, assistant public information officer with the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office. Kelley, a carpenter, had once worked at the Ashcroft Ski Touring area for several years in the crosscountry rental shop and as a sleigh driver. “He was a good guy,” said John Wilcox, who runs the Ashcroft ski touring area and the Pine Creek Cookhouse. On Wednesday morning, Kelley’s body was located by rescue teams

using dogs and flown by helicopter to a staging area at the Ashcroft ghost town and then driven in an Aspen Mountain Rescue vehicle to Aspen Valley Hospital at about 10 a.m. The Pitkin County coroner found that Kelley died of suffocation with multi-system trauma as a contributing factor. Officials said there were eight people, including Kelley, on the hut trip. Kelley and five other members of the group were thought to have traveled to the hut on Monday. Two other members of the group climbed toward the hut Tuesday afternoon and reached the area just after the avalanche occurred a little after 4 p.m. Kelley was using climbing skins and skis to ascend the slope when the avalanche occurred, said Hugh Zuker, president of Mountain Rescue Aspen and a sheriff’s deputy. Calling for help One of the two women in the party who had arrived just after the avalanche on Tuesday afternoon skied back down to the Pine Creek Cookhouse to contact authorities. The sheriff’s office received a call at about 6 p.m. that reported an avalanche and a missing person. Other members of the hut party searched until dark for Kelley in the debris field using probe poles, Zuker said. After dark on Tuesday evening, Mountain Rescue sent four team members to the Lindley Hut on

skis, and staged a search effort using snowmobiles, but ceased vehicular search at nightfall. At 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, a group started boot-packing a helicopter landing area near the avalanche zone. Mountain Rescue had arranged the night before for Doug Sheffer of DBS Helicopters of Rifle to assist in the body recovery, along with three teams of ski patrollers and trained avalanche dogs. The helicopter made three trips from a helicopter staging area at Ashcroft in to the avalanche zone to insert the dog teams, which found Kelley’s buried body. Three members of Kelley’s party who “needed to get out” were then flown to Ashcroft by helicopter, Zuker said. “Doug Sheffer was an amazing resource,” said Zuker. “It would have cost us a lot more time and effort and blood and sweat if we didn’t have him around here.” Zuker also was grateful for John Wilcox’s assistance, including opening his home as a staging area for the effort. The remaining members of the hut trip party skied out Wednesday morning to Wilcox’s house and then came out via snowmobile, reaching the Ashcroft trailhead at about noon. Exercise Caution in the Backcountry “To whatever extent you are familiar with something, it requires that much more discipline and care,” Zuker said. “It’s really important that people stick to the basics in terms of safe avalanche travel. Number one, read the reports. The danger was high. And it is important to always use backcountry safety techniques. Have a beacon. Have a shovel and probe. And travel appropriately in groups by not exposing the entire group to a possible hazard.”

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WWII vets of 10th Mtn. Div. speak at Ski Museum By Dawn Witlin Special to the Mountaineer In the winter of 1942, the fledgling soldiers of the 10th Mountain District carved Camp Hale from the Eagle River’s headwater valley in six months time. The camp, capable of housing 18,000 people, was at the time, the fourth largest town in the entire state of Colorado. At a special presentation Wednesday night at the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum in Vail, World War II 10th Mountain Division veterans Dick Over and Earl Clark regaled a packed to the floorboards crowd with their experiences as one of the first soldiers to train at Camp Hale. The beginnings of the equipment used at the Army camp were the great-grandfather prototypes of everything to do with skiing used nowadays, but extremely primitive. “Skis came in two sizes, 7 foot and 7 foot six,” said Over. “You had a pair of leather boots which were awfully heavy … you had to hike and climb and ski and march all with one boot. It wasn’t easy.” There were 14,000 soldiers trained in the 10th that year, 8,000 men were given skis and the other 6,000 were on snowshoes. “Your training was always with your legs directly over your ski and always with your pack on during training,” said Clark. The soldier’s packs, or rucksacks, weighed 90 pounds and were designed by the Sierra Club. The rucksacks went everywhere the soldier did. The soldiers, who were mostly plucked from ivy league colleges in New England, were responsible for building the world’s longest T-bar ski lift at what is now Ski Cooper, then known as Cooper Hill. “The T-bar is exactly that,” said Clark. “You don’t sit on it, it hits you on the rump and takes you up the mountain.” Another unusual aspect of life at Camp Hale was the cohabitation and training of the 3,000 mules which greeted the college students turned soldiers when they arrived to build the camp. “There was not a single vehicle in the entire inventory of the military that was designed to go over snow, so they came in very handy,” said Clark. “There’s something quite different from a Dartmouth skier and a Missouri mule. There was a lot of ‘Oh, my god, what did I get myself into?’ ” Over was just 17-years old when he enlisted in the division. He trained at Camp Hale for two winters and three summers before serving as a Signal Corp officer stationed in the Aleutian Islands.

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10th Mountain Division veterans Dick Over and Earl Clark led a historic tour through the life of a mountain infantry soldier at Camp Hale at the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum in Vail Wednesday night. Here they stand with a giant hickory ski worn by the soldiers of the 10th.

Clark was recruited after demonstrating excellent mountaineering skills in the Grand Tetons and served in Italy before retiring at the rank of colonel. Clark survived the Battle of Riva Ridge, for which Vail’s longest ski run is named, during which 10th soldiers scaled and captured a series of mountains in the Italian Alps, pushing back the German troops. The terrain tested the specialized training of the 10th, who shined where others had failed. “Italy became a battle ground of one million men facing each other,” said Clark. “In 48 hours we captured two German defense positions. You may notice that my right arm is a little longer than my left … that comes from patting myself on the back.” Post war, Over noted, almost every one of the nation’s 64 major ski areas were either constructed, founded, managed, or instructed by the 10th Mountain Division veterans. “What we learned in those four to five years on that mountain is in our lives to this very day,” he said.

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Business steady, so far Numbers indicate local economy is holding even By Randy Wyrick Mountaineer Staff Writer Steady is the new up, and business around the valley is steady with last year. Travelers are showing up at slightly higher numbers, and spending about the same amount of money. Like everyone else, we’re hanging in there. Take the recent President’s Day weekend, for example. Rubber tire tourists cleared the Eisenhower/Johnson Tunnel to the tune of about 46,500 cars per day. “It means we were busy, but it doesn’t mean we were swamped,” said John Wilson, who helps run the tunnel for the Colorado Department of Transportation. Last year they saw 44,000 cars a day. A non-holiday weekend day sees about 38,000 cars clear the tunnel. “That’s about average for that holiday,” Wilson said. “As long as everyone remains safe, things move smoothly.” On the other hand, if you have a minor fender bender, you can slow traffic down from miles. Emergency vehicles have to come, even if it’s no big deal, Wilson said. Airport at pre-recession levels At the Eagle County Regional Airport, passenger numbers are about 10 percent ahead of last year, said assistant airport manager Chris Anderson. December was up 3.6 percent over last year with 800 additional passengers over last year. January was down 4.1 percent, 1,900 passengers. So far, weekend flights are pretty full coming in, Anderson said. “We’re happy to see numbers strong,” he said. The increase puts airport traffic back at pre-recession levels, according to the passenger counts. The 2008-2009 numbers were off 2.7 percent. That was barely a dent for that year, since airlines had reduced capacity by almost 8 percent. Besides, it could have been Sun Valley, Idaho, which was off 28 percent last year, and is having an equally rough time this year. Apparently, steady is the new up

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Local students give and volunteer in West Africa By Dawn Witlin Special to the Mountaineer The Davis brothers are proud to have a strong tradition of giving running through their family tree. Their 89-year-old great-grandmother Cathy Douglas has volunteered in the Vail Valley for more than 45 years. Their grandmother, Mary Ellen Anderson, has been a docent of the Denver Art Museum for more than 25 years. The family further nurtured their charitable roots last month when 11-year-old Todger, 13-year-old Quin, mother Carey and Mary Ellen visited the West African village of Geoul, located in the region of Senegal. The family brought art supplies and soccer balls to the village elementary schools, which they had collected on behalf of a Denver based non-profit “Friends of Geoul.” The charity has provided aid to the area since 2005. Carey, director of admissions at Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy, reflected on the conditions of the Geoul classrooms as they shared the arts and crafts. “Some of the kids had never seen paint before,” she said. “They didn’t have running water, they used traditional chalk boards.” Soccer is the most beloved pastime of the village children and the Davis brothers came prepared. Todger, a fifth grader at Red Sandstone Elementary and Quin, an 8th grader at VSSA, both collected 40 soccer balls to give to Geoul elementary schools before the trip. “The kids spent a ton of time just playing soccer, hanging out in the street with all the kids when they weren’t in school and some of them weren’t ever in school,” said Carey. “I was really excited to see the boys just go with the flow...I think they observed a lot of interesting things,

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Quin and Todger Davis (in the Pepsi shirts) are pictured here donating soccer balls to children in the West African village of Geoul.

but I think they felt comfortable being there.” The Davis family roomed with a host family during their weeklong visit in a home without windows, which they shared with 16 other family members and dozens of chicken. “Every morning we ate hot chocolate and bread and for lunch and dinners we had rice platters with vegetables and cooked meats, shared from a large platter,” said Carey. “We made a joke of it, saying ‘Oh good, let’s have more rice,’ but the boys were definitely ready to have a Chipotle burrito.” The group communicated with villagers through Carey who speaks fluent French, gleaned from living and attending elementary school in West Africa. She returned nearly every year since to visit her father and taught kindergarten in Africa from 1994 to 1995. “I think one of the most interesting things about going there was

you said hello to everybody, you were always saying hello and engaging people,” said Carey. “It was quite refreshing actually because there is an automatic sense of community.” Quin and Todger immersed themselves in Geoul’s native culture, finding children who were the same age, but lived very different lives. “All of the people are extremely nice and put everyone else before themselves,” said Quin. “I expected it to be pretty bad, but not as bad as it was, how the buildings look half built, but I didn’t expect the people to be so loving with everything that they’ve gone through.” Two years ago, Mary Ellen took the boys on a trip to experience the culture of Turkey, and with the spirit of their West Africa trip being charity, their next adventure will be historically themed, said Carey. “How fun would it be to have the All-American road trip?” she said.

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Minturn’s Boxcar Daisies is quickly becoming one of the area’s most intriguing musical groups. Comprised of singer/songwriters KT Homes and Elli Gauthier, the powerhouse duo takes listeners on a mesmerizing journey – sometimes whimsical, sometimes somber but always heartfelt. Playing soulful originals and the occasional covers, their sound is timeless and yet relevant to the times; think early jazz vocals with just a handful

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Giving no ground, President Barack Obama and Republican leaders fought forcefully for their competing visions of historic health care reform yesterday in an exhausting, often-testy, live-on-TV debate. Far from any accord, Obama signaled the Democrats were prepared to push ahead for an all-or-nothing congressional vote. The marathon, 7½-hour session did reveal narrow areas of agreement on the topic that has vexed Congress for months and defied U.S. leaders for decades. But larger ideological differences overwhelmed any common ideas, all but cementing the widely held view that a meaningful bipartisan health care bill is not possible as time grows short in this election year. Party officials said March is probably the last chance to act. It has been more than a year since he proposed his overhaul, which would be important to virtually all Americans in remaking the way they receive and pay for health care. The version he embraces, basically tracking legislation passed by the Senate, would expand health coverage to some 30 million people who lack it and stop insurance companies from dropping people for questionable reasons or denying coverage to people who have certain illnesses.

“Nobody can tell me that during the last two years the Taliban did a single thing for you,” Gov. Mangal reportedly told hundreds of tribal elders and other men and boys, who applauded politely. “Can you tell me they built a school? A clinic? Helped the poor? Built roads? Fixed the canals?” According to the Journal’s report, the Afghan authorities and their international backers see the Marjah offensive—the biggest in the country since 2001— as a test of the effectiveness of U.S. President Barack Obama’s troop escalation, and of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s pledge to crack down on corruption.

CNN health care poll shows little support for health care bill

Although the overall health care reform bills passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate are unpopular, many of the provisions in the existing bills are extremely popular, even among Republicans, according to a new national poll reports CNN. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday indicates that only a quarter of the public want Congress to stop working on health care completely, while nearly three quarters say lawmakers should pass some version of health care reform. According to CNN, Twenty-five percent of people questioned in the poll say Congress should pass legislation similar to the bills passed by both chambers, with 48 percent saying lawmakers should work on an entirely new bill and a quarter saying Congress should stop all work on health care reform. “Many provisions of those bills are popular, particularly restrictions on health insurance companies,” CNN Polling Director Keating Holland, was reported by CNN saying. “Roughly 6 in 10 would like a bill that prevents insurers from dropping people who become seriously ill or denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions. Seven in 10 favor requiring large and mid-sized companies to provide health insurance to their employees. Those proposals are popular among Republicans as well as Independents and Democrats. A cap on medical malpractice awards – something on the GOP’s wish list that is not in the current legislation – is also popular.”

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Top Marine has a different opinion on DADT

The Marine Corps commandant said Wednesday that the ability of U.S. troops to fight and win wars must trump other concerns as the nation considers whether to let gays to serve openly in the military. In testimony before a House committee, Gen. James Conway said he supports a Pentagon assessment to determine how to lift the ban. But he also suggested that civil rights ultimately would have to take a back seat if it meant tampering with the military’s ability to protect the country. “That’s what they have been built to do under the current construct and I would argue that we’ve done a pretty good job bringing that to pass,” he told the House Armed Services Committee. “My concern would be that somehow that central purpose or focus were to become secondary to the discussion,” he said. President Barack Obama has pledged to change the policy, saying it unfairly punishes patriots who want to serve their country. Congress would have to agree, and it’s unclear whether Democrats would have enough votes to pass the legislation.

With bankruptcy looming, cussing tops California agenda

Californians had better start watching their mouths. The state Assembly passed a resolution Thursday that would establish the first week of March as “Cuss Free Week” throughout the state. If approved by the Senate next week, the measure would take effect immediately. The resolution includes no enforcement mechanism and is simply meant to promote greater harmony and connectedness, said Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, a Democrat from La Canada Flintridge and coauthor of the measure. “I’ve always wondered why we behave differently when grandma is watching than when we’re on our own,” said Portantino, who owned up to his share of four-letter words. Portantino said the California Legislature — known for imposing strict clean air and clean water laws — is the first state legislative body in the nation to consider a statewide profanity-free week.

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Despite calls to free or destroy the animal, SeaWorld said yesterday it will keep the killer killer whale that drowned its trainer, but will suspend all orca shows while it decides whether to change the way handlers work with the behemoths. Also, VIP visitors who occasionally were invited to pet the killer whales will no longer be allowed to do so. “We’re going to make any changes we have to to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Chuck Tompkins, chief of animal training at SeaWorld parks, said a day after a 12,000-pound killer whale named Tilikum dragged a trainer into its pool and thrashed the woman to death as audience members watched in horror. Talk-radio callers, bloggers and animal activists said Tilikum — which was involved in the deaths of two other people over the past two decades — should be released into the ocean or put to death like a dangerous dog. Tompkins said that Tilikum would not survive in the wild because it has been captive for so long, and that destroying the animal is not an option either, because it is an important part of the breeding program at SeaWorld and a companion to the seven other whales there.

PETA turns to Tiger

According to the Orlando Sentinel, animal-rights group PETA plans to unveil within the next few weeks a “cheeky spay-and-neuter” billboard featuring Tiger Woods — without the golfer’s blessing. “The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals is searching for a local advertiser to put up a billboard in Windermere, which will include an image of Woods and text: ‘Too Much Sex Can Be a Bad Thing .... For Little Tigers Too. Help Keep Your Cats (and Dogs) Out [See THE UPDATE, page 12]

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A 1939 comic book in which Batman makes his debut sold at auction Thursday for more than $1 million, breaking a record set just three days earlier by a Superman comic, Heritage Auction Galleries said. The Dallas-based auction house said the rare copy of Detective Comics No. 27 sold for a total of $1,075,500, which includes the buyer’s premium, to a buyer who wished

to remain anonymous. The consigner wanted to remain anonymous as well. “It pretty much blew away all of our expectations and now it’s the highest price ever raised for a comic book,� said Barry Sandoval, director of operations of Heritage’s comics division. A copy of the first comic book featuring Superman, a 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, sold Monday for $1 million in a sale between a private seller and a private buyer, with the transaction conducted by the New York City auction site ComicConnect.com. “We can really say that Batman has nosed out Superman, at least for now,� Sandoval said.

Seinfeld and the art of parking in NYC

The New York Police Department is investigating why a Bronx police placard was displayed in comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s car. Seinfeld spokeswoman Elizabeth Clark Zoia on Wednesday said the performer wasn’t aware of the parking placard, which belonged to Seinfeld’s longtime driver, a retired police officer. She says the driver became concerned for Seinfeld’s safety when he arrived with the comedian to the studio where his new show is being filmed and found a crowd outside. She says the driver apparently posted the placard briefly so he could escort Seinfeld inside. The spokeswoman says Seinfeld is sorry and takes responsibility for the incident, which won’t be repeated. She says the driver won’t be fired. Police say their records indicate the paper placard had been turned in at the end of 2007, and they’re investigating. —Update stories, unless otherwise cited, appear courtesy The Associated Press

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Birkie in full swing

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Schleper will be putting together solid back-to-back runs. (Slalom consists of two runs, with the best aggregate time determining the winner.) In Lienz, Austria, with the fastest second run, she proved she could ski faster than everyone else on the World Cup. It just needs to be a little more consistent. “I’ve been skiing really well in slalom. This result is more than I could hope for. I’m so close to the podium,� Schleper said after that race. “In slalom you’re always recovering from mistakes. So, to put a clean run down that was aggressive and fast ... there’s just a lot more involved. When everything lines up, it’s great.� Women’s Tech Coach Trevor Wagner said Schleper’s success was a matter of putting all the pieces together over a period of time. “Last year she had all the ingredients, but she just didn’t have the mileage with that technique,� Wagner said. “With last year underneath her belt everything is coming together now. We started working on her technique again and building on what we had before, but more modern technique. Now she’s comfortable with it and it’s all coming together.�

 Vail’s Lindsey Vonn also plans to ski the slalom today with a hard, plastic brace protecting her right pinkie, which she broke during a tumble in the giant slalom

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Sarah Schleper of Vail speeds down the course yesterday during the second run of the giant slalom at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia. AP photo.

Wednesday. She’s “a ball of hurt right now,� says her husband, Thomas. The first run of today’s slalom is scheduled for 10 a.m. local time.

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ural� were written and performed. “The time we spent out on the road was a valuable tool in recording the new album,� guitarist/vocalist Andrew Portwood said. “There is a deeper pulse, warm melodies, more grit and distortion on the new album. We have been experimenting with some new sounds and movements.� At their live shows, Frogs Gone Fishin’ will never play a song the same way twice, and that attitude of perpetual development carries over into the studio. Portwood says a song is much like a good story; it has a beginning, middle and end, with a twist somewhere along the way. “Sometimes if we are hung up on a song or section, we’ll play it in live performance to hear it in a different setting, or we’ll try something new with the chorus or bridge.� Putting it all together, an album is like a picture taken in time, Portwood said. “It is where we are in our lives and gives the listener a way to connect with our emotions and visions.� Recording in the 21st Century Traditionally, record labels spend hundreds of thousands financing an album. Before personal computers, a band would spend months in a studio getting everything right and then spend the rest of their musical lives paying the record label back for their “generous� down payment, explains Jones. Although recording has gotten cheaper thanks to the modern technology, finding a financier and someone who truly knows how to run the software remains a challenge. The record industry used to have control over recording costs, but now it is much more cost effective to release an album independently and still get world-wide distribution with iTunes and other internet outlets, says Portwood. The new Frogs Gone Fishin’ album “Actual Natural� will be available next month on Mountain Size Records. Their current record Tell Me True is available on iTunes and at your local record shop. Check out their tour schedule at frogsgonefishin.com They’ll be previewing several of their new songs tonight at Finnegan’s at 9 p.m. Frogs Gone Fishin’ returns to Colorado May 8 to host KZYR’s Party for the Planet.

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4 Bedroom/3 bath unfurnished. Pellet stove- pool on property.

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2 offices (1,034 and 708 sqf ) can be combined. $35 psf, underground parking, location in Lionshead, pool, fitness center, front desk, ski in/ski out.

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Luxurious Mountain Living The Iverson Team 274 River Ranch Road § $1,195,000 5BD/6BA § Web ID: M25175

Kathy Iverson 970.569.2112 kiverson@slifer.net www.ArrowheadAtVail.com

Matt Iverson 970.569.2104 miverson@slifer.net www.VailSkiHomes.com

Aspenwood 312 § $779,000 2BD/2BA § Web ID: M29161

Service, Integrity, and 40 years of Combined Real Estate Knowledge in the Vail Valley

Nestled against a beautiful hillside and boasting magnificent views, this residence features an open floorplan, 5 Bedrooms, and is steps to world-class skiing and golf.

Property has prepaid the $48,000 special assessment. This 2 BD, 3BA ski in/out large condo has attractive furniture package & easy walking distance to B.C. Village.

508E East Arrowhead Drive

1522 Square Feet

Suzi Apple, Gateway Land & Developement

John Warnke, Hoffman West Real Estate

970.376.5417

Lots of Updates, Combined with the Fabulous Charm of 1908

Historic And Updated - Five Bedrooms on a Large Lot - Bromwell School

740 Marion Street

130 Gaylord Street

Susan Matthews Fuller Sotheby’s International Realty

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5 Bd spacious home w/fenced yard for privacy, cul-de-sac location, amazing storage and bonus rooms, convenient location to fine dining, skiing, golf, and shopping are all just out your front door. www.bossow.com

Possible Short Sale. 3BD/2.5BA, 1784 sq ft, 2-car garage. The long front porch is perfect for enjoying a cup of coffee on a lazy summer morning.

Great 5Bd/2Ba Family home w/room for all. Parking for your TOYS or RV. LARGE shed in the back yard. Part. finished family room and 3rd Bath in lower level. All material for completion included. NO HOA 138 Spring Circle

970.688.4843

970.391.3191 or 970.376.0466

11,026 sf masterpiece, insp by romantic style found in Italian mtn villages. Stone terraces overlooking Spring Creek, 2 acres of open space, unrivaled outdoor living.

#327 Kiva Lodge, 1520 Sq. Ft.

802 Beard Creek Trail

50 Spring Creek

970.949.1902

Charming and Traditional with great space in an amazing location.

40 Garfield #F

$374,500

Susan Matthews Fuller Sotheby’s International Realty

John Warnke, Hoffman West Real Estate

970.949.1902

802 Beard Creek Trail. Modern mountain luxury. 5BR, multiple stone verandas, fire pit, large rec room, wine cellar, elevator, & gorgeous views from every room.

John Warnke, Hoffman West Real Estate

$1,375,000

970.949.1902

2BD, 3 BA, Completely remodeled. Excellent location in the building. Ski in/ ski out location. Easy walk to Beaver Creek Village.

$969,000

#328 Kiva Lodge, 2057 Sq. ft.

Offered at $949,000

$1,895,000

3 BD, 3BA Large 3rd floor 3 bedroom end unit on one level with views north and west. Ski in/ski out building, easy access to Beaver Creek Village.

$4,675,000

Suzi Apple, Gateway Land & Developement

970.376.5417

$9,500,000

Suzi Apple, Gateway Land & Developement

970.376.5417

$1,050,000

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303.388.7200

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105 Price Place

Now $333,000

$649,000 Tracy Bossow, Prudential Colorado Prop.

Ken Rue or Dari Laidman Keller Williams Mountain Properties

$249,000

Exceptional Home! Den, family room, separate living area, finished basement/ gameroom, 2 master retreats, hot tub, deck, & fenced yard. Low taxes & no HOA.

Beautiful 5 Bedroom, 4.5 bathroom Willowstone Home. 2 car garage, fenced yard for toys, Huge walkout guest suite, Hot tub on the deck.

4 Bedroom, 3 Bath + Office, 3 Car Garage, Irrigated Horse Property, Up to 4 Horses.

New 3BR 3Ba SF homes. Featuring Lake Creek views, hardwood floors, stone FPs, & large covered deck. www.gatewayland.com

605 Price Lane

90 Willowstone Place

$749,000

709 Edwards Village Blvd

Merced Cervantes, RE/MAX Vail Valley

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303.388.7200

$424,500

970.987.1962 or 970.766.7331

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