Roaring Fork January 2017

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Lifestyle Letter

Caring for Mind, Body & Spirit in Winter

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hat's a body to do in the cold?" That's the question that writer Genevieve Villamizar asks this month. Because there's a "Colorado native" sticker on my car's bumper, I've known the answer for years.

As a child, I always asked for the same gift for my November birthday. "Make it snow so I can ski!"

This year, Ullr didn't quite deliver by my deadline. But now, Sopris is mantled in silver, and I know just where to go to get my mind, body and spirit fed.

I could jump on RFTA and travel 31 miles up the valley.

Considering all that I learned last year, Aspen is a pretty good place to start. Last year, my ski-lift conversations included a stimulating talk with an atmospheric researcher from Australia, a discussion about Japanese politics and a virtual tour of Latin America. After watching the moves of several skiers wearing metallic capes that swung in time with their slope-side samba moves, curiosity got the better of me. I wedged myself into a six-pack with the caped crusaders and asked about their costumes. "It's Carnaval, of course!" they told me. Rio de Janeiro's festival, rooted in Portuguese history and Catholic culture, dates back to 1723, and each samba school's dancers tell a story... But it's a little different in every Spanish-speaking country...

But for spiritual sustenance, any chairlift will suffice! I have always loved to sit in silence, my body warm and glowing from its dance down the slopes. I forget about my to-do list. Forget about finances, politics, the folly of mankind. All that exists is this moment, in all its fleeting perfection. The wind, the tracks of snowshoe rabbits, the shadows of spruce. They paint the snow with patterns that could have been made with a Japanese shodo brush. What does this kana character say? Perhaps it signifies mindfulness. Perhaps it's a haiku written by Matsuo Basho, Japan's famous Edo-period poet.

Maybe it's this one: Winter solitude – in a world of one color the sound of wind.

I think it's Genevieve, rather than Matsuo, who knows winter best. Winter's world is not one color. Genevieve sees "pearlescent apricot". My painter's eye traces skies that grade from cerulean up to cobalt blue. The snow diffracts with sparks of gold, alizarin red, quinacridone violet and sap green.

Yes, Aspen is lovely, but you don't have to go there to pursue the "Aspen idea".

It's true, Genevieve. In this valley and this season, you don't even need a ski pass to nurture the mind, body and spirit. All you have to do is put on your puffy, walk outside, observe intently and praise creation.

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Publisher’s Letter

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Good Times

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Around Town

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Water & Woods

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Page Turners

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Artist’s Palette

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Lifestyle Calendar

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Parting Thoughts

20 Best Bets for Bookworms

Recommended Reading from Glenwood’s Book Train

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Publisher’s Letter

Meet the Charles Barkley of Indoor Golf

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lthough I live in the heart of Ski Country USA, I have never been shy about saying that I’m not a cold-weather enthusiast.

During my younger days, I did enjoy snowmobiling in Minnesota, which necessarily means frigid temperature and howling winds. But now that there’s a bit of snow on my roof (see portrait photo) I have been working out ways to translate my favorite outdoor summer sports—golf and fly fishing—into winter pastimes.

Every fly fisherman has taken an unexpected dip after stepping in the wrong place. In summer, that’s a bracing experience. In winter, freezing water temperatures will put a quick end to the whole trip. In addition, handling flies can be a challenge. The required fly sizes, #20 to #24, are so small that you'd be tempted to buy a pair of “readers” even if you don’t wear glasses! But then you’d have problems: You'd have to put on readers before tying on the flies. You’d have to juggle the readers, handle those thin, monofelt tippets, and tie those tiny little flies all while wearing special cold-weather fishing gloves—or have very cold hands!

Oh well, there’s my other love: golf. Because booking a trip to a warmer climate winds up costing about $1,000 to $1,200 a trip, I usually find myself watching people play golf in shirtsleeves under palm trees while local temperatures hover around 10 degrees outside.

Solution? Get creative! I bought a 10-foot golf net that’s normally staked up in the backyard. When I told my wife I planned to set it up in our upstairs family room, she looked at me in disbelief.

But it ought to work, right? There are just a few requirements: 1. Ceilings over 10 feet. Check!

2. Plenty of room for a full driver swing. Check!

3. Plastic whiffle golf balls. Got ‘em! (But see requirement 4.)

4. Fresh spackle and a can of exact-match touch-up paint. (The occasional, errant golf shot does take a chunk out of the wall) Check!

5. A very tolerant wife with a sense of humor. Check!!!!!

I got all this together and tested the indoor golf. And here’s my advice. If you other anti-cold weather types can’t meet all these requirements—especially Requirement 5 about the beautiful wife with a sense of humor—forget the whole idea!

Me? I’m 5 for 5, and I can add just a bit more advice: Don’t forget the most-used term in golf: Fore! (Meaning duck!) In winter, "fore" might be translated as “forehead.” (It’s good to know how to duck when the ball decides it’s playing pool, rather than golf.)

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Good Times

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Around Town

AROUND TOWN

BIRDS, MASTODONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

mid-valley public/private partnership that put the project together, RealAmerica President Ronda Shrewsbury Weybright said that Basalt Mayor Jacque Carpenter Whitsitt, who drove all the way to Denver to present the project to the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA), "put the project over the top" in competition against other projects vying for funding.

Jaime Gomez, chief operating officer of CHFA, noted that while Denver's housing crunch tends to get all the headlines, Colorado's "mountain valleys are the place where affordable housing is needed

Each winter, Wilderness Workshop, the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES), and Roaring Fork Audubon co-host a popular Naturalist Nights speaker series. Offering free presentations on topics ranging from wildlife biology to geology and from climate science to environmental policy, the series runs for 10 consecutive weeks starting in January. Lectures take place on Wednesdays at the Third Street Center in Carbondale and on Thursdays at ACES. On January 4 and 5, the series opens with April Long, stormwater manager for the City of Aspen, who will present “Mimicking Nature: Engineering for the Environment.” Long's presentation explores how local engineers have created features such as bioswales, rain gar-

the most." Mike Kosdrosky, executive director of the Aspen-Pitkin

dens, green roofs, and engineered-wetlands to slow water down and

County Housing Authority (APCHA) praised the project for turning a

allow it to sink into the soil or to be absorbed by plants, rather than

"vacant hapless site" into a prime example of the "benefits of regional

speeding away over hard, man-made surfaces.

cooperation." The Town of Basalt and the Roaring Fork Transportation

On January 11 and 12, Stephanie Lukowski, a paleontologist for the

Authority (RFTA) both contributed funds to the project, and APCHA

Snowmass Ice Age Discovery Center, will present “Beyond Mastodons

is serving as a partner to make the project exempt from property

and Mammoths: The Latest Scientific Understanding from the

taxes. Basalt Mayor Jacque Carpenter Whitsitt noted that it took more

Snowmass Ice Age Discovery”. Lukowski will take an in-depth look

than three years to put the project together, and laughingly said that

at the geologic history of the Ziegler Reservoir and its fossils, plants

presenting to CHAFA was a bit daunting, "like facing friendly fire."

and animals. Ziegler Reservoir was featured in a recent paleo-environ-

The groundbreaking, sponsored by RealAmerica and the Basalt

mental reconstruction which will be used to explain how, in the past,

Chamber of Commerce, kickstarted construction for units which

Ziegler's ecosystem altered to respond to climate changes.

should be ready for occupancy in 15-18 months. Equipped with bal-

On January 18 and 19, John Marzluff, PhD, professor of wildlife science at the University of Washington, presents “Welcome to Subirdia” and looks into the surprising diversity of bird life in suburban habitats.

On January 25 and 26, Jeff Luckas, a research integration specialist at the University of Colorado Boulder, presents “Warmer—But to What End? The Past, Present and Future Climates of the Roaring Fork Valley.”

Learn more about Naturalist Nights at WildernessWorkshop.org.

BASALT BREAKS GROUND ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING A crew of dignitaries hoisted seven golden shovels on a gray December day to break ground on 56 affordable housing units in

conies, ski lockers, and washers and dryers, the units will be both ADA compliant and pet-friendly.

DOROTHEA FARRIS HONORED WITH HISTORICAL SOCIETY AWARD Mt. Sopris Historical Society (MSHS) recently tapped Dorothea Farris for its third annual Hattie Thompson Award. MSHS Executive Director Beth White explains that the award recognizes a local woman who is "bold, industrious and daring and who possesses a true love of the land." Farris, a former teacher and a community activist, is a founding member of both the Thompson Divide Coalition and the Colorado West Elk Loop Scenic Byway.

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active member of both the Mt. Sopris Historical Society and the Thompson

that stalled out and went belly up in the 2008 economic downturn.

House Museum board of directors. Farris served 12 years as a Pitkin County

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Commissioner and 19 years on the Aspen school board. She also served on

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the Colorado Wildlife Commission. She was a board member for the National

advantage of federal Low-Income Housing Credits. After praising the

Association of Counties and the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority.

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Lately, Farris has focused her volunteer work on the 130-year-old

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Water & Woods

Locals Celebrate

Thompson Divide Lease Cancellations BLM CANCELS 25 OIL & GAS LEASES IN AN AREA CALLED "TOO SPECIAL TO DRILL"

Big crowd at Thompson Divide barbecue; photo by Randy Wagner.

ARTICLE JUSTIN PATRICK Sunrise in Thompson Divide; photo by Jon Mullen.

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W

hen local communities were first alerted in 2004 to leasing in what we now call the Thompson Divide, this incredible landscape didn't even have a name.

Now, it’s known nationwide because of what the people of the Roaring Fork Valley have done to protect it. The coalition that formed to rally to the Thompson Divide’s defense included local ranchers like Bill Fales, who runs Cold Mountain Ranch outside Carbondale, sportsmen like Casey Sheahan, former CEO of Patagonia Inc., and those whose livelihoods depend on tourism, like Jim and Sharill Hawkins. The couple owns the Four Mile Bed & Breakfast, which is located along Four Mile Road, the heavy haul route to the Thompson gas fields.

Eventually, the towns of Glenwood Springs, Carbondale and Aspen all took stands against the oil leases, and the Pitkin County Commissioners also filed a legal action. In a testament to the diversity of the effort, Garfield County, arguably the political opposite of Pitkin County, signed on in support of protecting the Thompson Divide as well.

Zane Kessler, executive director of the Thompson Divide Coalition, noted that “oil and gas is a big payoff for a small few.

Everyone else loses. Hunting decreases.

Recreation decreases. People don’t go

backpacking in a gas patch.” A study commissioned by the Thompson Divide Coalition and conducted by economic firm BBC Research & Consulting of Denver showed that recreation, grazing, hunting, and fishing in the Thompson Divide generate $30 million annually and support 294 jobs.

“People in this region,” says Wilderness Workshop staff attorney Peter Hart, “have seen what oil and gas development can do to the land. Areas just outside of the Thompson Divide have been sliced and diced with new roads and well pads. Those areas have been transformed from quiet rural landscapes to busy areas with lots of industrial traffic.”

Wilderness Workshop discussed the Thompson Divide victory in its bi-annual newsletter, Wild Works. “There’s so much to say about this decision and all the hard work that got us to this point, but the most important thing we can say is this: we are immensely grateful for all of the time, energy, and work that this community and our great partners have put into helping us achieve this momentous victory. Thank you, thank you, thank you!”

While the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) canceled 25 illegally-issued leases in the Thompson Divide, its plan also backtracks on protections the BLM had proposed to apply to other leases—some of them inside the

Aspens in the Thompson Divide in autumn; photo by John Fielder.

Divide and others stretching to the western edge of the White River National Forest.

In a joint statement from seven environmental and civic groups, Peter Hart said, “We support BLM’s cancellation of 25 leases inside the Thompson Divide. The agency has abandoned its earlier proposal to protect the East Willow, Mamm Peak and Battlement Mesa areas. Much of Thompson Divide’s value is tied to the integrity of the surrounding landscape. BLM can’t just sweep those lands into the rubbish bin.”

Because oil and gas drilling threatens important wildlife habitat, pristine roadless lands, public water supplies and the Thompson Divide itself, more than 99 percent of the 100,000-plus public comments asked BLM to protect all of the illegally leased lands. The

public "gets it" that all of the areas illegally leased are part of a single functioning landscape supporting wildlife across the region.

Wilderness Workshop is joined by Earthjustice, the National Wildlife Federation, the Wilderness Society, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Western Colorado Congress in its concern over BLM’s failure to properly address the rest of the illegal leases in the White River National Forest.

“While it’s wonderful that this will protect certain areas, this plan would also bring oil and gas development into one of America’s last remaining wild places,” said Amy Mall, senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “This forest provides prime habitat for wildlife, unspoiled roadless lands,

and drinking water for millions of people.

The federal government should be protecting America’s national forests, not selling them to the highest bidder.”

“Municipal water resources in Garfield County seem to be under siege,” said Rifle resident and Western Colorado Congress member Leslie Robinson. “Any community that depends on the Colorado River and its tributaries for drinking water is at risk as more drilling is approved in our watersheds. Residents of Rifle, Silt, Battlement Mesa and Parachute find it problematic that the BLM may validate dozens of leases in our watersheds without even the minimum protections. The agency owes residents proper protection.”

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Page Turners

IT’S HIBERNATION SEASON RECOMMENDED READING FROM GLENWOOD’S BOOK TRAIN

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THE SEASON'S PICKS FROM THE BOOK TRAIN

ARTICLE CAROL O'BRIEN Favorite Cold-Weather Classic: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing.

You can appreciate how cozy and comfortable you are while reading this definitive account of Shackleton’s heroic survival. He and his crew became icebound for over a year in Antarctica.

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Sammy the Cat.

inter. While many in the valley look upon this season as one for the slopes, sleds and ice skates, others revere it as a quiet time for reflection and solitude. Welcome to January: the holidays are over, springtime is a distant dream, and evenings are still long and dark. What to do? Crank up the wood stove and settle in with a book. When paired with your favorite spot on the couch and the warmest wool socks in the house, nothing beats a good page-turner on the coldest nights of the year.

If you’re wondering what titles to pick up, the Book Train in Glenwood Springs is always bursting with ideas. A fixture of the downtown small business community since 1976, the independent bookseller has weathered a myriad of challenges over the years—from economic recessions to the rise of e-readers and Amazon.com. The Book Train remains a beloved favorite of tourists and locals alike.

“I think that an independent bookstore is really important, especially in a small town,” says Book Train Manager Carole O’Brien, who has overseen the shop’s day-to-day operations for 12 years. “Our job here is to provide a wide variety of information and entertainment. If we don’t have a well-educated and well-read community, the community suffers.”

From children’s books to independent releases, award winners and regional non-fiction works by local authors, O’Brien

says the Book Train seeks to fill its small space with as many diverse genres and topics as possible. What can’t be found on the shelves can be ordered, and all eight Book Train staff members happily offer tailored suggestions and recommendations.

“We have one staff member who loves memoirs, another who loves history and another who loves all things outdoor-related,” O’Brien says. “And I read pretty much anything I can get my hands on. But my downfall is science fiction and mystery. Our staff has an amazing depth of knowledge, and we’re here to help you find that perfect book—one specially recommended for you. Amazon.com can’t offer that personal connection.”

For magazine fanatics and notecard lovers, the Book Train has that ground covered, too. They also have a cat.

“That would be Sammy,” O’Brien laughs.

“Everyone loves him.”

As times change and evolve, O’Brien hopes that the Book Train will remain a safe haven for information and ideas—a community gathering place where our varied cultures and opinions can be fed by the literary, the challenging and the thought-provoking.

“I think a free exchange of different opinions and ideas is really important,” she says. “A bookstore is so much about the First Amendment— and we hope to keep it that way."

Great Reckoning by Louise Penny. If you are a fan, you will be excited to read this 12th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. If not, rush out and get the first book, Still Life. While the town of Three Pines in Quebec is cozy and its inhabitants are quirky and delightful, murder is none of those things.

Buzzy New Independent Release: The Sellout, a novel by Paul Beatty. This multiple prize-winner, including this year’s Man Booker Prize, is scathingly funny AfricanAmerican satire that can be (and probably should be for many) uncomfortable to read.

Our African-American narrator has been summoned before the Supreme Court for trying to reinstitute slavery in his now-disappeared California town.

Best New Fiction: News of the World, a novel

by Paulette Jiles. This National Book Award Finalist is a gem. Set in north Texas immediately after the Civil War, it tells the story of Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an itinerant public reader of newspaper articles. The Captain is tasked with delivering a ten-year-old rescued captive (from the Kiowa) to her remaining family.

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Winter B E Y O N D A S K I PA S S

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grew up with hard-core, bone-deep, cold, wet winters.

A formative memory is from my father’s grad school years: University of Iowa, my sisters and I were in grade school. His classes started earlier than ours, leaving us to navigate our mile-long walk alone. Styling full-on snowsuits and puffy moon boots, we were still always cold.

One wicked morning, we battled deep snow and bitter winds. Huddling in the Myrtle Creek culvert, never wanting to move again. Hands numb, face frozen, I closed my eyes and checked out. I was 8 years old.

I have no idea what prompted us on.

That last 1/4 mile could’ve been an Everest parody, three miniature Michelin girls, post-holing step by step to the top.

When we accepted our perfect attendance awards at the end of the school year, the principal laughed into the mic, sharing our “love” of school—coming, even, on a snow day!

Childhood years in southern Cali and Arizona predestined me to feel most alive, brown-skinned and barefoot.

“Endless summer” is a life-long dream, especially come September, as cooling days grow darker and shorter.

Historically, heading into the clench of Rocky Mountain winters, a ski pass has sustained my sanity.

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WINTER BEYOND A SKI PASS (CON TI N U ED)

I haven’t had one every winter, though.

People seem stunned the winters I don’t.

“What’s the point of living in Colorado without a ski pass?!” they wonder.

When you don’t have that choice and still view yourself as mountain girl, you make it work. And anything we do while braving sleet, snow and sub-zero temperatures has a bit more of an edge to it than sunny-day pastimes.

Years ago, it occurred to me I could run in the winter, too. It’s proven to be sublime; as easy as slipping out the door.

Honestly—that’s what it feels like—as though you got a hall pass somehow, and can just sneak off. Kick cabin fever to the curb, get high and feel amazing for the whole day.

It’s in the instant that ungodly blue skies sear your retinas. It’s the craw of a raven shattering the very air. It’s the flash freeze of nose hair as you find your first breaths and the rhythmic crunch of Yak-trax with each footfall. It’s your muscles warming and the wonder of stripping layer after layer in January, your sun-starved skin reveling in

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fresh air. It’s outrunning the doldrums and feeling freedom.

I don’t feel so free when friends make ski plans I can’t join. It feels crappy, frankly.

Not for me, no thank you. Who else can play with me today?

Cross-country skiing is super social and one of my favorite ways to spend a winter day. It’s almost smugly self-indulgent and ridiculously simple.

We can roll out of bed as we wish, lounging through the morning over fresh coffee and whatever (divine) breakfast we’re inclined to work off…and when we feel like it, we head out. Fifteen peaceful minutes sailing up a gorgeous county road puts us on the trail.

Stepping out of the car and straight into skis, I like it. The first stretches and deep breaths often wind up giggles of excitement: Fresh air! Exercise!

Incredible views! We rarely get to take in low-elevation scenery, at slow speeds, way up close like this: dense feathers of silver sage drifting against the pearlescent apricot of scrub oaks in drifts of white

and blue snow—combinations, hues and textures impossible to find in the summer.

It always makes me wish I were some kind of artist, to be able to capture or recreate it all somehow: the delicacy and detail. How can you not marvel over the perfection of ice crystals shining from the umbels of a chamisa seed; the interplay of sun and shade through creamy aspen stands? There is so much to see and sense. I forget the awesomeness of this.

Cross-country skiing with friends holds the intimacy of a midweek lunch date.

As we sweat up hills and cool off on the downs, we can ski closely, covering all the bases of our lives. Winter isolation loosens its grip. Deep re-connections unfold, the threads of our families and circles interweaving again, despite the slowing and closing down typical to winter.

And winter picnics—an art unto themselves.

To find a sunny hole somewhere is bliss; breaking open the backpack, heaven. What’s your beverage of choice? A thirst-crushing micro? A hot, foamy dirty chai? Add a wedge of good cheese, some apple slices;

throw in a hunk of homemade smoked sausage… and a sunbaked nap for dessert.

"Relaxed." My in-road to winter has been finding ways to do that.

And I don’t mean chunking out on the sofa reading novels all day.

In a previous issue of Roaring Fork Lifestyle Magazine, I wrote about the ‘flow state.’ In a contradiction of sorts, physical outlets like skiing, running, climbing, playing—necessary, healthy, high-energy activities—can bring rise to the flow state, where we’re so lost in the accomplished practice of something, we’re in a state of ease and often, joy.

My argument against winter for years has been “I don’t like how my body feels. It’s so freaking cold, my body’s always so tense. I don’t like the pucker factor!”

Originally, skiing was my sole fix to mainline the Rocky Mountain high, breaking the stagnant, shackles of house-bound winters. But what about when I couldn’t ski?

Friends.

It took friends, and more gear, and a willingness to explore old things in new ways and new things the old school way.

But all this took me a lifetime to hone in on.

I watched my 6-year old daughter bike to school through snow and ice for the first time ever this winter. I was so freaking proud of her, happy for her. It has been my goal to launch this little mountain girl into all four seasons, carried on the gas of her own gusto.

That morning, she filled her tank with her favorite breakfast.

Drank warm tea. She layered up, right down to her new, violet balaclava. No cold drafts sneaking through anywhere. She was so stinking cute, like the Stay Puff marshmallow guy, her helmeted head bobbling on her tiny body, just tooling along on her miniature bike.

I warned her, laughing, so as not to scare her, “You will wipe out!”

And I set her up for success. “Just don’t make any sudden moves: break slowly, turn slowly and you just might make it. But be ready for it, and if you do, hop right back on!” We cycled so slowly I actually toppled and I definitely froze…but it was worth it. No wrecks. No tears.

I was surprised to discover she was one of only eight kids that biked to school that day. Her cheeks were rosy and her smile was fantastic.

I do happen to have a ski pass, the first in seven years. She’s been skiing for three, though, so I can’t wait to surf some greens and blues with her.

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Celebrating 50 Years of Skiing

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he year 1966 saw the introduction of Star Trek, The Monkees, Batman, the Toyota Corolla, Twister, AstroTurf, Doritos and Wite-Out. Making its debut on the Colorado scene was a new ski area, now known as Sunlight Mountain Resort. Glenwood Springs’ hometown winter resort is celebrating its 50th year of operation this season and it’s still beloved by locals. Tom Jankovsky, the general manager for Sunlight Mountain Resort since 1985, says, “We welcome everyone to help us celebrate and come along for the ride.”

SUNLIGHT’S EVOLUTION

In the mid-1960s, local winter sports enthusiasts determined that the terrain on Compass Mountain, with its views of Mount Sopris and the Elk Mountain Range, would make an ideal ski area.

Locals pooled their money to build a lodge and some very basic facilities. On December 16, 1966, a single chairlift hauled riders up to a few trails on 420 acres.

In its first year of operation, the Sunlight Ranch Company tallied 15,000 skier days.

Part-time employees and volunteers supervised the base and subcontractors managed ski rentals, food service, and the ski school.

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was changed to Ski Sunlight in 1981 after the US Forest Service approved plans for expansion.

In 1987, the Tercero lift was installed to access 45 more acres on the upper mountain, topping out at an altitude of 9,898 feet. Six years later, Sunlight Extreme opened with 12 new black and double-black diamond trails. Snowmaking was introduced in the mid1990s, providing more consistent conditions. Topping 100,000 skier visits and adding summer activities prompted the name-change to Sunlight Mountain Resort in 1996.

COLORADO’S MOST AFFORDABLE SKI TRIP

Now with 67 trails covering over 680 acres of terrain and a vertical drop of over 2,000 feet, Sunlight Mountain Resort offers exceptionally diverse slopes. The terrain features everything from cruisers to heart-stopping steeps. Sunlight Mountain’s Extreme challenges all experts. With a pitch of 52 degrees, the Heathen is one of the state’s steepest trails. Sunlight is also home to one of Colorado’s longest trails, Ute, a cruising beginner slope that winds more than 2.5 miles from summit to the base. For boarders,

there are two terrain parks. Base facilities house a restaurant, bar, equipment rental, retail shop, ski and snowboard education center, and children’s center.

Sunlight is known for its reasonable prices; Sunlight's $63 adult lift ticket is half the cost of its glitzy neighbors in Aspen and Vail.

With the ever-popular Ski/Swim/Stay package, kids under 12 years of age ski free with every paid adult. Rates start at $99, including lodging, lift tickets and Glenwood Hot Springs Pool passes.

WHAT’S NEW?

Sunlight’s Lodge was improved with a redesign of the kitchen and cafeteria last season. This year, Sunlight invested in all new ski and snowboard rental equipment. The new line features the latest technologies in rocker tips, lightweight construction, and all-mountain performance. New state-ofthe art tuning equipment will maintain those sharp edges.

Inside the rental shop, non-slip flooring and innovative storage systems are in place. More than 150 day-lockers have been replaced in and around the Lodge.

50th Birthday Party Events • Jan. 6: Skier Appreciation Day. This fundraiser has been going on for 30 years and benefits United Way Battlement to the Bells. Lift tickets are just $20. There will be plenty of music and giveaways.

• Jan. 8: Student/Teacher Appreciation Day. Local educators ski or ride free, and students pay only $20 for a lift ticket.

• Jan. 13-14: Dynafit Heathen Challenge - Colorado Ski Mountaineer Cup (COSMIC) Race. Sunlight started this signature, backcountry ski-mountaineering race in 2009.

It features pro, amateur and beginner courses. Top performers qualify for the United States Ski Mountaineering Association (USSMA) National Finals.

• Jan. 29: United States Ski & Snowboard Association (USSA) Young Skiers League. A skills quest race is held on the Joslin and Dotsero racing courses.

• Feb. 4-5: Ski Spree. The perennially popular Ski Spree

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS

weekend will feature a 1960s throwback theme with groovy

To commemorate its 50th birthday, Sunlight worked with local videographer Chris Tribble, owner of Versatile Productions in Carbondale, to create a series of short documentaries that depict locals with personal ties to the resort. Don Vanderhoof and Floyd Diemoz, who were instrumental in creating Sunlight, tell stories about how it was developed. Self-described “powderhound” Russ Brown, now 60 years old, grew up skiing at the resort. He says he plans to ski there 40 more years. To watch the documentary series, visit the video link on Sunlight's website.

Limited-edition 50th anniversary skis and snowboards have also been designed to commemorate Sunlight’s anniversary. They were created by Meier Skis, which originated in Glenwood Springs and is now based in Denver. The boards are made from Colorado beetle-kill pine trees, so each one has unique woodgrain pigmentation. The snowboards are patterned after Meier’s best-selling, award-winning Quick Draw design; graphic artist Gina Sheldrake of Weldon Designs in Glenwood Springs created the cool retro look. The skis are available for $599 plus shipping; the snowboards sell for $499.

It’s not a party without beer, so Glenwood Canyon Brewing Company has crafted a special Sunlight birthday brew modeled after a German Helles Lager. Master Brewer Todd Mallory says Helles has a straw color and is “mildly hopped” with German Noble hops. It finishes with a smooth malty character. Try a pint before it’s gone.

Sunlight Mountain Resort has that retro vibe. Faithful Glenwoodites are loyal sentinels. Generation after generation have strong ties to this place. Kids learn to ski here. Families spend time together. Friends gather on the sunny deck.

Everyone smiles. Maybe that’s why they call it Sunlight?

tunes and tie dye. Oversized dollar bills will be hidden all over the hill during both days for the Mountain Treasure Hunt. Those collecting the most cash can win stellar prizes like a 2017/18 season pass or a limited-edition Sunlight 50th-anniversary snowboard by Meier. On Saturday, thrill seekers can enter the Need-4-Speed Race. After the slopes close, they can warm up with spicy samples at the ANB Chili Cook-Off. This is a fundraiser for Sunlight’s Learn to Ski clinics such as its 4th Grade Program and Learn To Shine.

• Feb. 18: International Freeskiers Association Jr. Big Mountain Regionals. This Big Mountain Competition, held on Sunlight's legendary East Ridge, features some of the hottest young skiers and riders in North America.

• Mar. 3: Defiance Challenge. Teams test their endurance by tallying up the most laps in the 10 hours from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Mar. 4: Sunlight Safety Day. Focusing on skin cancer prevention, detection, and treatment, this event honors Brad Lanpher, a longtime Sunlight skier who lost his life to melanoma. Sales of discounted 2017/18 lift tickets will benefit the Melanoma Research Foundation.

• Mar. 16, 18, 25: Yard Sale! Spring Music Series. The Sunlight retail shop is holding a slopeside tag sale with blowout deals on gear and apparel. And there will be lots of live music.

• Apr. 2: Sunlight Slushy Cup Pond Skim. Crazy skiers in ridiculous costumes launch across an icy pond, vying for a 2017/18 season pass.

Here’s to another 50 years!

For additional details, go to SunlightMtn.com.

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Artist’s Palette Sake set by Fumiko Nagai.

CERAMICS EXHIBITION

GROWS FROM JAPANESE ROOTS

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he diminutive Japanese lady often passed the bearded American guy in the clay studios of the Anderson Ranch Art Center. Soon, the two potters began to acknowledge one another with a smile and a slight bow.

Next, they began to talk about their craft, about East/West cultural differences, about hand-made ceramics. Since both artists draw on the legacy of Japanese pottery, a history that reaches back more than 12,000 years, there was much to explore. Many conversations, many cups of tea and several years passed as an artistic partnership began to flower.

About a year ago, Frank McGuirk had the temerity to ask Fumiko Nagai about assembling a two-person show with him. She agreed and, as seemed appropriate, their mentors, Takashi Nakazato and Doug Casebeer, were asked to endorse the idea. The mentors’ support led to a discussion about a “theme” for the still-to-be-arranged exhibition. Initially, McGuirk suggested an East-West theme, including both utilitarian work and some sculpture from each artist. After giving this notion some thought, Nagai flatly declared: “I make pots for food drink flower.”

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FRANK MCGUIRK & FUMIKO NAGAI AT ANDERSON RANCH

the grand prize in Modern Pottery by the Japan Pottery Association. His works are highly prized for their light, sensitive shapes and luminous use of glaze. A chawan (tea bowl)

by Takashi Nakazato can fetch hundreds of thousands in yen.

Douglas Casebeer, McGuirk’s teacher, is the associate director of the Anderson Ranch Arts Center. As Anderson Ranch’s Artistic Director of Ceramics, he also chairs its Artists-in-Residence Program.

Casebeer teaches, lectures, builds kilns and exhibits his art worldwide. He received his BFA and MFA degrees in ceramics from Wichita State University and Alfred University in New York.

MEET THE POTTERS THEMSELVES

Japanese-style pouring vessel

by Frank McGuirk.

This declarative statement pretty much ruled out sculpture! It also implied that the show’s cultural content would be inherent in the work—an idea very much in keeping with the spirit of Japanese ceramics.

JAPANESE INSPIRATION AND TECHNIQUE

Over the millennia, Japan developed a great variety of superlative ceramic styles with associated throwing, glazing, decorating and firing techniques. Japan officially reveres its artists, supporting them and designating the most distinguished as “Living National Treasures.” So it should come as no surprise that Japan continues to be a source of learning and inspiration for ceramic artists worldwide.

The development of Japan's ceramics might well have stopped at utilitarian and purely decorative ware had it not been for the tea ceremony.

Beginning in 16th century, the Zen-influenced tea ceremony created a taste for rustic, simple,

asymmetrical pottery. These same aesthetics are much in evidence in the works shown in “Food Drink Flower”, a major exhibition that opens at the Carbondale Clay Center on January 6.

“Food Drink Flower” features the works of both Fumiko Nagai and Frank McGuirk, but also draws deeply on the work and inspiration of the two mentors who have been most instrumental in teaching Nagai and McGuirk.

MEET THE POTTERS’ MENTORS

Takashi Nakazato, Nagai’s teacher, was born in 1937 in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, Japan.

He is the fifth son of Taroemon Nakazato.

Taroemon was the twelfth of a long line of master potters in the Nakazato family, all direct descendants of master potters who made wares exclusively for the prefecture’s Matsuura lords until the Meiji Restoration of 1868. After studying pottery-making in his father’s workshop, the 24-year-old Takashi was awarded

Fumiko Nagai makes functional ware such as dishes, cups, bowls and vases by throwing clay on a Japanese-style kick wheel. She first trained as an apprentice to Takashi Nakazato, and from 2012-15, she worked as Takashi’s assistant. Nagai and Nakazato have traveled across nine countries to participate in workshops and demonstrations and to make their own ceramic pieces. Fumiko graduated with a degree in liberal arts from International Christian University in Tokyo. She now works most of the year in her own studio in Japan.

McGuirk is a full-time studio potter who works in his private studio near Carbondale.

McGuirk completed the full undergraduate curriculum in Ceramics at Colorado State University and worked as a potter in the 1970s.

Frank then went on to earn a PhD in psychology in 1974. In 2006, he realized a long-held ambition by returning full-time to ceramic work. He makes hundreds of utilitarian pots each year. Many of McGuirk’s recent works are displayed in private and corporate collections. Many of his ceramic pieces are functional, but some pieces are sculpture, inspired by architecture. Frank has also taught ceramics at the Carbondale Clay Center in recent years.

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FOOD DRINK FLOWER EXHIBITION

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Come enjoy the opening of works by ceramicists Fumiko Nagai and

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Fumiko makes functional ware such as dishes, cups, bowls and vases by throwing clay on a Japanese-style kick wheel. Frank, who has

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taught at the Carbondale Clay Center, owns a local pottery studio.

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Parting Thoughts

W

e are naturally wired to help each other.

That may be the most exceptional trait of our species. Our collective history is defined by a shared ancestral memory of cooperation, collaboration, empathy and assistance. Things fall apart when we forget that.

Over the last hundred years or so, things have fallen apart. Today, we’re literally drowning in cheap, toxic junk—and it’s killing us. Self-serving corporate interests have claimed everything and everyone as a means to profit, at any cost. That’s the bad news. The good news is that all at once, we are remembering that we are strongest when we work together. And there is a revolution stirring.

I’m a professional organizer, and I’m a part of that revolution. I help people to simplify so they can focus on the things that matter most: who we love, what we do, how and why we live. Because everything else is just stuff.

A New Year’s Resolution:

NEED LESS. LOVE MORE. ARTICLE EVAN ZISLIS

I think our stuff is the key to saving the world.

Because we are so tied to things that come from globalized economies, how we choose to engage in the material world has huge implications on everything else, including the health of our planet and the sustainability of our species. When we mindlessly consume junk, we support industries that do harm. When we buy what I call 'the toxic, the cheap, and the too much', we inadvertently support those who don’t mind putting corporate interests above sustainable life on this planet.

My daughter is six years old, and that future is simply unacceptable.

When I’m working with clients, it’s my job to inspire families to connect the dots between their clutter and the impact that stuff has on a global scale. Sometimes it’s difficult to see.

Behind closed doors, it’s easy to feel isolated; we forget the impact we have on the world.

Part of my work is helping people to move their clutter along to those in the community who need basic household goods just to get by.

When I remind my clients about local families—single mommies, working two and three jobs, struggling to make ends meet, trying so hard to be good parents and contributing members of the community—something changes.

Suddenly, there’s a shift that elevates our collective purpose.

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driven by a singular motivation: “How can I help?”

Jane Goodall says, “You cannot get through a single day without making a difference in the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” When we bring a new level of consciousness to our consumerism, and we ask ourselves what we really need—it changes the impact we have on the world.

The New Year and, indeed, every new day, offers us an opportunity to need less and love more. When we thoughtfully consider what we really need, where that stuff comes from, what toxic chemicals went into the manufacturing of those things, what slave wage conditions some teenager in Malaysia had to endure for us to get bigger discounts at big box supermarkets—we have a daily opportunity to contribute to the global solution.

When we support local second-hand economies, we contribute a viable inventory to small business owners and help make valuable items inexpensively available to those who can’t afford to pay full retail. Thrift stores, food pantries, faith-based charities, local agencies, and organizations are eager to share your excess stuff with those struggling to survive the day—for both local families in your community and those far away you will likely never know.

We can simplify our stuff, get organized and save the world. What we do makes a difference, and what we do today has the potential to create lasting, positive change, for all of us. It starts with needing less and loving more. That's the secret to a better life.

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