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Lifestyle Letter

Sweet, Sweet Summertime

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here are exactly 1,439,552 fantastic things to do outside in the Roaring Fork Valley this month. I, your editor, did the dirty work for you and counted.

Of course we have hiking, rafting, rock climbing, fishing, golfing, jogging, and all the other sports and physical activities we love— but what about festival frolicking, market strolling, rodeo gawking, sidewalk chalking, creek dipping, bird watching, cloud counting, wildflower hunting, hamburger grilling, or the all-important afternoon ice cream eating? (That can actually be an extreme sport unto itself; try finishing a cone in the heat without any drips on your shirt.) All of these activities increase the tally, too.

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Caitlin Causey, Bridget Grey, Suzanne W. Kirch, Kate Lapides, Amelia Potvin, Nicolette Toussaint, Geneviève Joëlle Villamizar CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS

Charles Engelbert, George Hendrix, Klaus Kocher, Lisa MacDonald,

The point is, the possibilities for outdoor fun are just about endless right now. The Roaring Fork Lifestyle issue in your hands hopes to become your guide to a small percentage of these, with details on some of the most entertaining events, happenings, and activities the valley has to offer in June. Whether big crowds, live music, and high-octane festivities are your thing or whether you prefer the more subdued pleasures of art walks and trail restoration, our writers have a little something to pique just about everyone’s interest.

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And what about the days when the offerings are too plentiful, and they leave you twitching with indecision? Well, we’ve got a piece on that, too; be sure to read “Snowline,” this month’s highly relatable Parting Thoughts essay by a valley local who discovers that sometimes the in-between is simply enough.

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Good Times

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Around Town

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Publisher’s Letter

Building the She-Shed

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utdoor fun can mean different things to different people. The Roaring Fork Valley offers unlimited activities for locals and tourists alike. I personally prefer golf and fly fishing—every weekend could be filled with just those two activities if I had the choice. And I mean choice, because my wife had other plans for me this spring. After three years of asking for a potting shed, she finally put it at the top of her (read: my) list.

She prefers to call it her “she-shed,” and that label has very serious meaning. It means that ONLY her potting items are stored in it. She made it very clear that no major yard tools, lawnmower, weed eater, hedge trimmer, or wheelbarrow will be allowed inside.

Mind you, this is not some prefab shed. My son and I have been building it from the foundation up. Let me rephrase that; my son is building it. He just allows me to cut pre-measured marks on the boards and then hand them to him for assembly. Our last five weekends have been busy and we could be building it faster, but this is design on the fly since change orders from The She-Shed Boss come in frequently.

These change orders can sometimes create heavy discussion. We like to refer to our conversations at a higher-than-normal volume as “discussions,” so that people don't mistake them for arguments.

The next point of interest is the budget. I step back and say, “What budget?” The dollar amount we set originally has thus far been doubled. How does anyone build a house today when I look at the material costs of a simple potting shed and am shocked?

I hope I have racked up a summer’s worth of brownie points, so I am cashing in a few this weekend. The temps are supposed to be in the sunny 70s, so golf is in my plans. I just ordered the next round of materials so fortunately for me, delivery will not be for another week. This means my weekend is clear—pending no more change orders from The Boss, of course.

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Good Times

Festival las Americas

On Cinco de Mayo, the Roaring Fork Rotary Club ("Club Rotario") hosted its annual Festival las Americas in Carbondale's Sopris Park. The bicontinental cultural celebration and scholarship fundraiser featured live mariachi, dancing, beer garden, kids' area, and food from local vendors. PHOTOGRAPHY BY KLAUS KOCHER.

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Good Times

CMC 50th Celebration: Uncle Jimmy's Pig Roast

Colorado Mountain College (CMC) continued its 50th anniversary festivities in late April with a celebration at the Spring Valley campus. College faculty and staff, community leaders, alumni, and students gathered for a fun-filled afternoon, which included feasting on a roasted pig donated by the Nieslanik family. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHARLES ENGELBERT.

Members of the Nieslanik and Quigley families, who are some of the original Spring Valley land donors Connie and Jim Calaway were among the 50th anniversary sponsors acknowledged at the event. who gave hundreds of acres for one of CMC's first two campuses.

CMC President Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser, former Executive Vice President Lin Stickler, and former Jim Nieslanik was among the ranchers President Dr. Bob Spuhler braving the elements to The Colorado Mountain College brand. who participated in a branding ceremony. celebrate the college’s 50th anniversary.

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St. Stephen Catholic School Spring Gala

Glenwood's St. Stephen Catholic School recently held its first annual Spring Gala Masquerade Ball fundraising event. Masqueraders enjoyed cocktails, live music, dancing, and appetizers from Food Network star Susie Jimenez. Proceeds benefited the school, which strives to provide competitive tuition for students from Aspen to Rifle. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREA PALM-PORTER.

Celebrity chef Susie Jimenez and Doug Oliver.

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RODEO SEASON KICKS OFF JUNE 1

Backpacks can be checked out for seven days, and should be returned to the same library branch. In 2016, Garfield County Libraries loaned these backpacks 162 times and many residents used them to visit local state parks at Harvey Gap, Rifle Gap, and Rifle Falls. While a Colorado State Parks pass costs $70 per vehicle per year, the "Check Out State Parks" program allows people to explore public lands for free.

REGISTRATION OPEN FOR ANNUAL GLENWOOD CAR SHOW Gather your motor-loving friends because registration is now open

It's the place to be on Thursday nights! The Carbondale Wild

for the 14th annual Glenwood Springs Car Show, scheduled to be

West Rodeo rides into town once again on Thursday, June 1 and

held this year on July 28 and 29 in the Glenwood Springs High School

continues every following Thursday, rain or shine, through August

parking lot. Cost is $20 for your first vehicle, $10 for your second,

17. Spectators will be treated to the thrills and spills of cowboys and

and free for your third. The event, hosted by Vicco's Charcoalburger

cowgirls of all ages competing in bull riding, ranch bronc riding, barrel

Drive-In and Valley Cruisers Car Club, will feature classic cars, vin-

racing, and mutton bustin'. Slack starts at 6 p.m. and the performance

tage snowmobiles, and motorcycles during this summer weekend of

begins with the Grand Entry at 7:30 p.m. All events take place at the

fun, food, live music, and prizes. Vehicles can be registered ahead

Gus Darien Riding Arena on Catherine Store Road.

of time or even on the day of the show. Follow Valley Cruisers Car

Kids aged three to 10 years old can participate in the calf scramble, which requires a wristband and a parent’s signed waiver. Fantastic

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concessions include BBQ, popcorn, nachos, and sno-cones, but guests are welcome to bring their own picnic baskets. New in 2017 are covered bleachers on the east side of the arena, a new announcers' stand, and a new sound system. Tickets are available at the gate for $10 each or $30 for a carload of up to six people, but reduced-price tickets can also be purchased at the Roaring Fork CO-OP in Carbondale. Find the Wild West Rodeo on Facebook or visit CarbondaleRodeo.com.

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CHECK OUT STATE PARKS WITH FREE LIBRARY BACKPACKS

In the Roaring Fork and Crystal River valleys (including Marble), discounted home energy assessments are available this summer and fall through Energy Smart Colorado at the Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE). The cost to residents is just $100, but is valued at $400.

The hugely successful "Check Out State Parks" program is back

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some immediate energy-saving upgrades such as LED light bulbs,

backpack with binoculars, guidebooks, and a seven-day free pass to

water heater insulation, and programmable thermostats. Radon and

any of Colorado's 42 state parks. Each library branch will have two

carbon monoxide testing is also included along with infrared test-

backpacks available: one that can be reserved ahead of time, and one

ing to identify air leaks and a report listing recommended improve-

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INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN GROUP COMBINES ESTABLISHED REAL ESTATE EXPERTISE AND TECHNOLOGY

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ELEVATING CUSTOMER SUCCESS ARTICLE BRIDGET GREY

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ollaboration: It’s a big part of what Integrated Mountain Group does.

Founded by Roaring Fork Valley resident of more than 20 years Scott Key and a team of longtime local professionals, the company is delivering comprehensive services to the local community with more than a century of combined experience in real estate.

The group’s four divisions—Integrated Mountain Properties, Management, Financial, and Maintenance—cover the needs of anyone wanting to purchase a home or investment property. Think expertise in residential and commercial property sales and leasing, Homeowners Association management and property maintenance, bookkeeping, and financial services combined with state-of-theart technology and systems—all under one roof.

Roaring Fork Lifestyle recently spoke with Key, a retired Fortune 500 CEO, about the business and how its innovative approach brings a new level of value to residents interested in the complex and dynamic local real estate market.

Lifestyle: Real estate in this area is a uniquely challenging business. Why create a new company in this field?

Key: This is one of the most attractive places in the world from almost every perspective. I have had a chance to run a global enterprise with properties in more than 30 countries with technology, systems, and talent that allowed us to do incredible things in some amazing places.

This was our motivation in creating Integrated Mountain Group. We saw an opportunity to bring deep talent and local expertise together with technology and customer-oriented processes to help property owners and investors more effectively achieve their goals.

Lifestyle: Tell us about some of the key players within Integrated Mountain Group.

Key: The company founders are either native to the area, or are longtime locals. Juliann and brother Jim Gornick are entrepreneurs, born and raised in Glenwood Springs. Juliann is our CFO and she heads Integrated Mountain Financial.

Jim leads Integrated Mountain Maintenance.

Todd Leahy, managing broker for Integrated Mountain Properties, has been in valley real

Full Landscape Design and Installation estate for decades, as well as local government. Todd is currently the mayor pro-tem of Glenwood Springs. Scott Dillard is one of the valley’s most successful brokers. Bob Johnson, executive vice president of Integrated Mountain Management, has more than 24 years of experience in the area. Bob holds a Community Association Management (CAM) license, and is our Homeowners Association specialist who also serves on the Roaring Fork Schools Board of Education. Mike and Suzanne Henry also have established experience in commercial and residential property management. It’s an incredible team!

Lifestyle: How does each of the company’s four divisions serve various customer needs?

Key: We offer a wide range of real estate services. For example, our Integrated Mountain Properties division focuses on commercial and residential property sales and leasing business, as well as investment properties. Integrated Mountain Financial provides

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Sunshine, music, a maze of merchant booths, laughter, locals, tourists, and fried food galore: Nothing says “summer in Glenwood” quite like Strawberry Days. Now celebrating its 120th anniversary, the festival has brought family-friendly fun and excitement to locals for generations.

This year the event kicks off in Sayre Park on Friday, June 16 and continues through Sunday, June 18. Festivalgoers can expect the return of annual traditions such as continuous live entertainment, Family Fest, a beer garden, arts and crafts fair, community parade, and food court (funnel cakes, gyros, and turkey legs, oh my!).

Friday night festivities are not to be missed, with the highly anticipated crowning of Bighorn Toyota Miss Strawberry Days 2017 at 5:30 p.m. Stick around for a threehour rockin’ time warp with Colorado’s best ‘80s cover band, The Goonies, from 7-10 p.m.

On Saturday morning at 10 a.m., one of Glenwood’s most treasured community spectacles, The Strawberry Days Parade, will bring the masses to Grand Avenue as floats roll through downtown. Expect a host of familiar faces, happy kids, and maybe even a splash from a water soaker or two. After the parade, be sure to grab your free strawberries and ice cream in Sayre Park before they’re all gone. Then it’s time to shop, eat, play, and enjoy live entertainment including Saturday night headliner The Freddy Jones Band at 7 p.m.

The festival concludes on Sunday, with activities and entertainment going strong until early evening. Or, if the kids are up for some last-minute thrills, check out the Strawberry Days carnival in the Glenwood Springs Mall parking lot, which runs June 14-18.

The Black Lillies. Photo: Courtesy of the band

FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION Time to break out those American flag t-shirts hiding in your closet. The City of Glenwood Springs invites the community to mark your calendars early for the town's annual Fourth of July celebration, held this year on Tuesday, July 4 from 5-10 p.m. in Two Rivers Park. Also scheduled in the park that day is the Lions Club 4K Walk/Run beginning at 8 a.m., which benefits the club’s scholarship fund.

The evening’s celebration is expected to attract a crowd of some 2,500 locals and tourists celebrating their patriotic spirit. All are encouraged to walk or bike to the event, or park at Glenwood Springs High School where a free shuttle service will be available. For the safety and enjoyment of the crowd, please leave personal fireworks, pets, and glass items at home. Smoking will also be strictly prohibited at this family-focused celebration, and alcohol will not be served.

Eventgoers can enjoy games, crafts, swag gifts, food from local vendors including hamburgers and hot dogs from the Lions Club, plus live performances from Denver’s high-energy musical group Mannequin the Band at 5 p.m. and Symphony in the Valley at 8 p.m.

After dark, a dazzling display of low-altitude fireworks is scheduled to begin at 9:20 p.m. Expect plenty of ooohs and aahhs.

SUMMER OF MUSIC What’s better than lounging on a picnic blanket in Two Rivers Park on a clear midsummer evening, listening to fabulous live music and visiting with friends and neighbors? The Summer of Music series continues for its seventh season in 2017, sponsored by the City of Glenwood Springs and other local partners.

Running rain or shine every Wednesday from June 28 through August 2, openers begin at 6:30 p.m. and headliners go on at 7:15 p.m. Free five-star people-watching also runs throughout the evening, as any in-the-know local will tell you.

Exciting musical acts from the 2017 lineup include Denver’s top vintage jazz band Joe Smith and The Spicy Pickles ( June 28), Afro-Cuban rockers Battle of Santiago ( July 5), Americana band The Black Lillies ( July 26), and Grammy-winning bluegrass musician Peter Rowan (August 2). Jazz Aspen Snowmass students and local favorites Whiskey Stomp ( June 28 and July 12, respectively) punctuate the lively roster of openers.

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Providence Apothecar y owners Chrissy Lee Manes and John Lee.

HEALING WITH PROVIDENCE APOTHECARY'S OUTDOOR YOGA CLASSES AND MORE ARTICLE SUZANNE W. KIRCH PHOTOGRAPHY SYDNEY ZEPP

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lmost a decade of designing blast-proof building interiors in faraway Iraq, from her office in Denver, was a challenge for Providence Apothecary co-owner Chrissy Lee Manes. It was distant—as a project, as a place, and from immediate interactions with people. Wanting to shift her career to something closer in all regards, Manes, a certified herbalist and holistic healthcare practitioner, and her husband John Lee, a Ph.D. candidate in geochemistry, chose to move in the fall of 2013 from Denver to downtown Glenwood Springs. Since opening their small business that year, they have successfully redirected their skills and passions and built a customer-centered shop that offers not only teas and tinctures for health and healing, but also a variety of outdoor classes ranging from yoga and Tai Chi Chih to guided herb walks in the area.

The Apothecary is located on Cooper Avenue, just around the corner from The Pullman restaurant in the heart of downtown Glenwood Springs. Students meet there on Saturday mornings in the summer before heading outside to practice yoga at nearby Veltus Park, with its quiet location on the Roaring Fork River. According to co-owner Lee, moving yoga out-of-doors is a good reminder that its calming, healing effects are meant for life beyond the mat.

Sisters and Apothecary yoga instructors Whitney and Lucy Roginski have both experienced outdoor yoga. For them, practicing outside can be distracting at times, but

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overall the inherent sights, sounds, and smells help develop a deeper connection with nature. Their fellow instructor Erin Dowd adds, “The unevenness of the ground is actually beneficial for utilizing all the muscles in varied ways, and can assist in keeping us more balanced.”

Another bonus that Manes noticed last year involves having outdoor class members meet at the Apothecary and stroll down to the park together; she found that it encourages conversation and develops a sense of community. Those interested in this activity are welcome to meet up with Dowd at the Apothecary on Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. However, if your weekends are already booked or if yoga is not for you, then there are other options.

One of those is the Tai Chi Chih class that will be offered every other Tuesday afternoon, beginning June 13 from 4-5 p.m. during the new Glenwood Market at Sayre Park. Tai Chi Chih is a more streamlined form of Tai Chi, which Lee summarizes as “designed for a busy lifestyle; it’s very calming and grounding.” Instructor Eliza Fulton will be offering these classes free of charge as a way to not only introduce people to the benefits of Tai Chi Chih, but to also make a positive contribution to the Roaring Fork community.

A third opportunity to head outdoors for health and healing can be found by taking part in the Apothecary’s guided herb walks. Manes believes in the healing power of plants; she first put this belief into practice about 10 years ago, when she worked as a backpacking guide for teens and supplemented the standard first aid kit—if necessary—by using plant-based remedies to help stop bleeding, reduce inflammation, or even address digestive issues. With his background in science and research, her husband Lee is able to share not only which herbs are medicinally beneficial, but also why they are: “The formulas we put together and the recipes we build are all evidence-based.

That’s why they work as well as they do,” he says.

Curious locals can take a walk with the couple on the Grizzly Creek trail on June 28, and experience several eco-zones while learning about the healing properties of dozens of amazing local plants.

Manes and Lee hope that Providence Apothecary serves a role in the community by educating and empowering community members who seek ways to support a healthier lifestyle. Whether this comes in the form of a yoga pose or a plant, the owners and staff adhere to the state of Colorado’s motto: Nile Sine Numine, or “Nothing without Providence.”

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SCULPTING A SENSE OF PLACE ARTICLE NICOLETTE TOUSSAINT "Portal" by Alicia Matesanz de las Heras.

CARBONDALE'S PRESTIGIOUS ART AROUND TOWN SHOWCASES SIX LOCAL ARTISTS

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he artists I know are attempting to understand a sense of place and living in the world,” muses Nancy Lovendahl.

“My own career has been about a call and response, a sense of place and the landscape. I’m sure my art would be very different if I lived in New York or Beijing, which I did for awhile.”

Lovendahl, who now lives in Old Snowmass, is one of six locally-rooted sculptors whose works will grace Carbondale's streets as part of Art Around Town, the annual outdoor public sculpture program presented by the Carbondale Public Arts Commission (CPAC). The 14 new works CPAC has chosen were presented in a public art walk on June 1, accompanied by many of the artists. While the exhibit has drawn artists from as far away as Hood River, Oregon, sculptors Nancy Lovendahl, Nathan Slape, Jack Brendlinger, James Surls, Charmaine Locke, and Alicia de Matesanz all have Roaring Fork Valley ties.

Lovendahl, originally a ceramicist, began sculpting stone after an instructor from the Marble Institute saw her work at a Denver gallery Jack Brendlinger with his ballet dancer sculpture. Designed to sit and exclaimed, “you just have to on a rotating base, the sculpture make these forms in marble!” That will be transferred to a stationary led to meeting with and learnpiece of marble for the CPAC exhibit. Photo: Nicolette Toussaint ing from Madeline Weiner, who founded and directs the Marble Institute, 28 miles up the Crystal River from Carbondale. Today, Lovendahl’s work can be found in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., in Germany’s historic Keramikmuseum, and in many other art museums.

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"Open Book" by Charmaine Locke.

Intercession 15, Ra, Lovendahl used 15 different cutting and grinding processes, diamond blades, hazmat suits, eye coverings, and “lots of protection” to free the final forms from the stone. But all that remains invisible. “My intent is for the method to be so complete you don’t even think about the process. You just see the form,” she says. “There are no tool marks to give away how it was made. It could have been a river rock that sprang out of the river fully formed.”

The work of Nathan Slape is also connected to the Marble Institute. Slape’s Textured Wave Loop #1, called TWL#1 for short, was hewn from Colorado Yule marble, quarried locally. Slape, who grew up in Grand Junction, says that he chose Carbondale’s annual Art Around Town exhibit over five other shows that accepted the piece because “Western Colorado is a part of me.”

An abstract and direct sculptor like Lovendahl, Slape works in a freeform style. Rather than creating a “mockette” and scaling it up, he selects an interesting piece of marble by looking at it in the rain, which wets down the stone and reveals how it will look when polished, and also by shining a flashlight into it at night. “How deep the light goes shows how the translucency will be,” he explains. “I prefer the lively stuff that works "Intercession 15, Ra",

by Nancy Lovendahl. with light. What I see at night shows me how it will look in the daylight, with the sun behind it. The CONTINUED > thinner areas will be lighted up.”

"Seven and Seven Hanging Flower" by James Surls.

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TWL#1, one of Slape’s largest pieces, was created at the Marble Symposium, where Slape has worked for years running. “I wanted a visual treat. I was playing with textures, the way they are affected by light and shadow. It’s an optical illusion. It looks like it’s moving.”

Motion also beckoned to Jack Brendlinger when he created Pirouette, the Giacometti-style ballet dancer that will be in this year’s show. Brendlinger designs in wax and then has his bronzes cast by Lands End Sculpture Center in Paonia. He says, “I'm quite interested in catching action and stopping it. Most of my sculptures are of that nature—trying to catch a moment and stop the action in perpetuity.” Brendlinger’s commissioned works often depict skiers, snowboarders, surfers, or climbers.

Along with his wife Marsha, Brendlinger, a fifth-generation Coloradan, built and operated Aspen’s Applejack Inn. After selling it in 1975, Jack handled marketing for Aspen Skiing Company and then later became a film and radio executive. He continued creating art all along the way.

Charmaine Locke, who lives in Missouri Heights and has an international reputation, will be represented in Art Around Town

by Open Book, a bronze that symbolizes feminine gifts. Standing more than six feet high, the sculpture depicts a six-handed woman offering an egg, a lotus blossom, and a fish in each of her three right hands. Her three left hands offer a ring, a bowl, and a book. The hands were modeled from casts of the sculptress’ own hands.

Open Book, which was cast by the Shidoni Foundry in Santa Fe, is descended from a piece commissioned by the City of Corpus Christi for its Civic Center. Locke says the gifts offered by the woman are symbolic—for example, the fish indicates the Gulf of Mexico’s water—and the objects are food for the mind, body, and soul. The words "Why can't we find the path to peace when it is right in front of our eyes?" flow in ribbons down the figure’s skirt and the phrase is repeated in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Vietnamese.

Locals probably need no introduction to James Surls, who produced the well-known sculpture in Carbondale’s roundabout.

Less well-known than his sculpture is the fact that he’s married to Charmaine Locke; the two met when Locke took a course from Surls in Texas. Of the Seven and Seven Hanging Flower that graces the CPAC show, Surls notes that he's fascinated with natural patterns. “Nature has a mathematical language it can and does speak,” he says. “You have to actually take the time; you have to look deep.

If you’re looking at a flower, a leaf, or even water on the river, you will find it. If you can hear the pattern, you get to speak to nature.”

For Seven and Seven, Surls collected 49 lower limbs shed by aspen trees, made forms, cast them in bronze, and configured them as petals on flowers. The piece was cast in 1999 at Anderson Ranch; at the time, Surls was working in the studio there and learning from Douglas Casebeer.

Alicia Matesanz de las Heras says that her featured piece Portal is about “opening doorways to the imagination and to the unknown.”

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Nathan Slape's "TWL #1", measuring 44 inches by 46 inches tall and about 11 inches thick.

Sculptor Nathan Slape lives in Denver, but works at the Marble Institute every summer.

The work is composed of two paired pieces of steel, both roughly 16 inches square and 71 inches high. To create her larger works, she begins by creating a scale model with a clay-like plastic material, exploring the form while making it. “Once I have the form that I am looking for, I scale it up and make a template out of wood,” she explains. The wooden form is then traced onto the steel, cut, and welded together.

Matesanz de las Heras, who was born in Spain, worked as a photojournalist for a Japanese newspaper and guided tourists on photo safaris in Kenya before coming to Aspen as a ski instructor.

Nowadays, she’s a full-time artist, creating raku sculpture as well as painting in acrylics. She says that by participating in the Carbondale exhibition, she hopes to “inspire a dialogue.”

The new Art Around Town outdoor sculptures will remain on display on Carbondale's streets for a year.

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Flying Colors LIFT-UP Celebrates 35 Years with High Hopes and Hot Air Balloons

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am and Bruce Wood have been flying hot air balloons professionally in the Roaring Fork Valley since 1996. Their flying company, Above It All, brings immense joy to the Woods; so much so that they purchased the company outright when their business partner and original owner, Bill Hodgden, decided to retire in 2002.

Hot air ballooning is an adventure defined by the landscapes across which they drift and float.

As such, the Woods have traveled the U.S. to experience flight and festivals with people from around the country. Their wild blue wanderlust gives rise to lasting friendships with other balloon pilots and aficionados. Above It All offers hot air balloon rides throughout the spectacular Elk Mountain Range, launching from Snowmass. The couple had long been seeking a way to bring the spectacle of hot air ballooning to the masses, somewhere in the mid-valley area.

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Considering the inspiring festivals they’d like to model, Pam says, “We admired the Lake Havasu Balloon Festival and how they offered a great community event while raising funds for many nonprofits in their city.”

Historically, the hot air balloon was the first manned vessel to achieve flight. And while today these are the simplest vessel—a fabric sack, a basket and a burner—flight is still an expensive venture.

The Woods needed a partner to help fund and organize an event.

A few years ago, LIFT-UP, the regional nonprofit providing yearround food and assistance to struggling locals, reached out to Above It All. LIFT-UP sought to increase awareness of its services with a balloon banner, and both entities quickly discovered fulfillment in working together.

They then decided to embark on a mutual venture: LIFT UP’s 35th anniversary Lift Off 4 LIFT-UP Balloon Festival at Crown Mountain Park in El Jebel, taking place this month on June 23, 24 and 25.

LIFT-UP Executive Director Kimberly Loving says, “It was definitely meant to be and we are so looking forward to working with them for many years to come. We have a new logo to celebrate our 35th anniversary. We love the idea of having a fundraiser that can be symbolic of ‘lifting up,’ much like the similar fundraiser Can for a Tram has done for years, with the generous support of Steve and Jeanne Beckley of Glenwood Springs Adventure Park. In addition, we wanted to have a community-wide, mid-valley, family-centric event. It is a blend of nature, beauty, and fun.”

Planning Lift Off 4 LIFT-UP was two years in the making. “We invited a few friends to the valley to fly for a fun weekend,” says Pam Wood. “While we had flown the valley before, we felt it might be good to have a test run in 2016 with a few pilots to help prepare us for 2017.”

Many of the balloonists arriving for the event are personal friends of the Woods, she says, adding that “the pilots who are attending our event love flying and they love sharing this spectacular hobby with anyone who is interested.”

The synergy between the community, Above It All, and LIFT-UP has been paramount in creating this year’s fundraiser balloon festival.

“This is our inaugural hot air balloon event and the community has already been so supportive,” says LIFT-UP director Loving. “We’re very blessed to have so many generous supporters with cash and in-kind donations. We’re already looking at next year’s event and the many new elements that we’ll be able to include, such as arts and crafts, school involvement, arts programs, as well as additional nonprofits and vendors. We want the attendees to come and experience the wonder of a balloon festival while creating awareness for the services of LIFT-UP for those in need. Although the recession has dissipated, the needs of our services and the numbers of our clients have not decreased.”

Fifteen balloons will be on display at Crown Mountain Park during the festival. Wind and weather pending, bright ‘n early morning ascensions are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday from 6:30-7 a.m. The rising sunlight makes for a beautiful experience, but dress warmly and don’t forget your camera. Tethered ascensions are $25 per adult, with kiddos 10 and under floating for $15. Basalt Lions Club will provide a pancake breakfast both weekend mornings from 6-9 a.m., alongside traditional kids' activities with activity tickets available for purchase— think “ fundraising!” Or bring your own mat on Saturday and join Becky Anderson of Aspen Shakti for Honey Flow Yoga at 7:30 a.m.

Balloon pilots will fire up the night with a Saturday evening illumination at 8:30 p.m. Live music by Poser is the perfect excuse for blanket-time and bare feet. Picnic food is absolutely welcome but glass containers should be left at home. The Boy Scouts and food trucks will keep the masses happy with tasty eats, and drinks of all varieties will be available for purchase from vendors. Event organizers will strictly prohibit smoking, fireworks, or open flames of any kind due to the delicacy of the hot air balloons and the flammable nature of their go-juice.

There are several ways to help LIFT-UP’s important cause at the festival, says Loving.

“We are encouraging those who attend to bring nonperishable foods, as the need for food and support is year-round; in turn, those who do will get one dollar off the $10 admission ticket (kids 10 and under, free). We will also be looking for volunteers to help run the actual event.” To volunteer, contact LiftOff4LiftUp@gmail.com.

As they partner with LIFT-UP for this event, the Woods of Above It All have made a dream come true, bringing hot air balloon whimsy to the mid-valley—and in so doing, we, the valley, can lift up our disadvantaged friends and neighbors, allowing them to focus on their dreams, too.

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ow do you foster a deep and sustaining sense of stewardship for the land? By getting your hands good and dirty in it. That’s the founding belief of the Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV), the Basaltbased nonprofit that offers opportunities to pour your sweat equity into a full slate of trail work and ecological restoration projects from Aspen to Rifle.

Since 1995, Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers has channelled the labor of nearly 22,000 volunteers to build and maintain over 500 miles of local trails, restore 20 acres of wetlands, and remove invasive weeds from nearly 50 acres of public lands. In addition to a full summer schedule of public work days, the organization also offers local clubs, schools, organizations, and businesses the opportunity to volunteer for focused projects in its Group Work Day program. RFOV is also highly vested in creating opportunities for Roaring Fork Valley youth to develop strong relationships with our stunning local landscapes; their Young Stewards Initiative fosters this through programs ranging from halfday outdoor service learning opportunities for local middle school students to a seven-month long

Tidying the trail near Electric Pass in 2015.

classroom-based Sustainable Outdoor Leadership program that educates students on the ethics behind wilderness land management, Google Maps trail building, and a host of related topics.

RFOV’s extensive reliance on volunteers and its unique hands-on approach is intentional. Executive Director J. David Hamilton experienced the intense success of a similar participatory model during a previous professional tenure with Denver-based Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC), a statewide organization that has been involving citizens in public land stewardship since 1984. VOC’s success confirmed that when Coloradans get their hands in the dirt to improve and restore the local lands they recreate and live in, they get invested in ensuring those lands remain healthy in a powerful and lasting way. Hamilton helped bring the VOC model of citizen involvement to the Roaring Fork Valley as a way to harness the deep passion locals have for their landscapes and mountain recreation and use it to help preserve, maintain, and enhance wetlands and trails.

What do these volunteers get in exchange for donating their precious summer evenings and the occasional weekend to one of RFOV’s summer projects? A lot.

The organization estimates they’ve had volunteers spanning an age range from three to 93 years old, and all ages share a renewed sense of pride, ownership, connection, and fun with each volunteer stint. Students in Carbondale’s Waldorf School CONTINUED >

All in a day's dirty work.

A youngster volunteers during the RFOV 2016 Summer Advantage program.

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Volunteers assist with a project at the Carbondale boat ramp in 2017.

adopted the Perham Creek Trail in 2008 and subsequently began taking their parents and friends hiking on the trail to show them what they’d accomplished. And RFOV’s large contingent of longtime volunteers can’t seem to stop coming back for more projects, year after year.

“Participating in projects with RFOV has given me a sense of connectedness to the land,” says Elaine Wysocki, a New Castle resident who has volunteered for several RFOV projects every summer over the past fifteen years. “Trails take us to some incredibly beautiful places that you might never get to experience otherwise. It’s very rewarding to go back year after year and see the rock walls I helped build, the stairs I helped create on the Hanging Lake trail, and the native vegetation that was restored along the river banks from years of tamarisk removal projects. The improvements are long-lasting and are enjoyed by so many residents and visitors, both now and for generations to come. It feels great to give back to our public lands, which have been a source of recreation and enjoyment for me for the past twenty years.”

Basalt resident Helen Carlsen shares Wysocki’s passion for outdoor volunteering.

“I have been a hiker since I was a teenager, but I had never thought about trail work until I saw a flier from RFOV asking: ‘Do you use this trail? If so, help us maintain it,’” says Carlsen, who has volunteered

Clearing brush near the Carbondale boat ramp in 2017.

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Many hands helping to clean up overgrowth along a beloved local trail.

for more than 50 RFOV projects in the past two decades. “Now I understand how much work previous generations of trail users and volunteers have put in on thousands of miles of trails all over the country, and I look at and appreciate trail work wherever I am hiking.”

Such sentiments are precisely what RFOV’s founders hoped to instill in locals when they started the organization over 20 years ago.

“When I think about the thousands of volunteers we’ve involved and the amount of work we’ve accomplished on our public lands, it doesn’t seem possible,” says Executive Director Hamilton. “We never imagined how our success would continue to build over these 22 years with new ways to reach volunteers with our Group Work Day and Young Stewards Initiative programs.”

Volunteers Wysocki and Carlsen both encourage anyone who is interested to come out and volunteer, noting that there’s a place for people of all physical abilities to get involved. Scheduled public work projects in the summer of 2017 range from short after-work Tuesday evening trail projects at Carbondale’s Crown Trail system and Snowmass’ Sky Mountain Park to a two-day backpacking weekend to restore several miles of the Capitol Lake trail.

“It's very satisfying to work on every project because at the end of the day we can see how much difference our work has made,” says Carlsen.

“All of us own our public lands and we should help take care of them, especially now that the Forest Service and BLM no longer have money to pay for their own trail and restoration crews. I like to say: If every trail and river user volunteered one day a year, think how much we could get done.”

“Volunteering on projects is fun,” agrees Wysocki. “There are various types of work on each project, from lighter duty pruning and brush hauling, to digging, to rock wall work—there’s something for everyone. You don’t have to be the world’s strongest person to do trail work that is worthwhile and rewarding—there are many different ways to participate. And at the end of a project day, you get to enjoy a good meal and a few beers and socialize with everyone who worked on the project. It’s an awesome way to spend the day.”

Ready to get your own hands dirty? Learn more about signing up for volunteering, a group work day, or a classroom program at RFOV.org.

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oupled with a mate for life, an osprey’s nest has been called its “center of gravity,” its place of reconnection and lifelong family home. Wherever it builds its nest, this is the place where coupled ospreys return after winters apart, year after year. Offspring, too, will return to the same area and begin their own nests.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology points out that it’s pretty likely that ospreys within a single area are related.

As fish-eating hunters, ospreys build within riparian ecosystems, places where land mingles with a river or stream. If living in an area populated by humans, it’s not uncommon for the birds to choose telephone or power poles for their nests.

In building a nest, the male osprey delivers construction material—dive bombing dead branches, even, to break them off for easier collection. The female does the actual building. First season

around, they’re just getting started. The couple will add to their nest annually.

Cornell describes finished nests as three to six feet in diameter, with a depth of 10-13 feet, weighing in at over an incredible 300 pounds.

In 2010, as ospreys began to build a nest on a power pole between an Emma stretch of the Roaring Fork River and Highway 82, invested agencies took notice. Pitkin County Healthy Rivers, Pitkin County Open Space and Trails, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES), and Holy Cross Energy (HCE) stepped in.

Power lines and ospreys don’t mix, HCE Glenwood Operations Vice President Cody O’Neil explains.

“Birds can cause a number of reliability issues for an overhead electric system, from temporary outages to permanent outages.

We’ve adapted our construction practices to minimize the places where a bird can

be exposed to energized equipment, thus minimizing outages and saving more birds in the process. We don’t move nests very often, though ospreys are a challenge, as they are a very persistent bird.”

HCE fast-tracked the move with funding from their overhead maintenance budget. The nest, and its power pole crossbeams, were moved 40 feet away to a safe, existing pole.

In 2015, the agencies reunited to install a wildlife camera.

“People are so curious about it. It’s right on the highway where everyone can see. They want to know what’s going on,” says Gary Tennenbaum, Pitkin County Open Space and Trails director.

“Holy Cross Energy has been great to work with. They funded the pole and even brought the power to it. Any time we need to work with the camera, they come out with the bucket truck.”

ACES educates the public and schools about the ospreys.

Pitkin County’s Business Information & Technology Services Department has handled the technology necessary for the cam, from installing the camera to operating the website (which can be found via PitkinCounty.com).

With real-time streaming, viewers have the opportunity to see nature in action. As of this writing, the ospreys “are sitting on something,” says Tennenbaum. “There’s always a bird in the nest. You can see it’s windy right now,” he adds, watching the streaming footage as winds ruffle the bird’s feathers.

“She’s eating something!” he exclaims. “It must be a fish.” The silhouette of a trout then reveals itself from the shadowy depths in front of the female osprey as she rips her beak into it.

The Osprey Cam is addictive, once you start watching. With chicks on the way, the nest will soon be hopping. Lisa MacDonald of Pitkin County Healthy Rivers enjoys the Emma Osprey Cam immensely.

“I think once the nest was moved, and then the camera went up, all of us here became a bit obsessed with the birds,” she says.

“Our Healthy Rivers logo also contains an osprey, so I feel a connection to that.”

MacDonald often views the birds in person, camera in hand, capturing intense details outside of the nest.

“I'm very amateur and just happened to be in the right place at the right time to capture the birds,” MacDonald says. “I enjoy photographing all the raptors—golden and bald eagles, hawks, and the ospreys. They’re majestic: their wings, talons, and intense eyes.”

It’s hard not to be fascinated. For many like MacDonald, the Emma Osprey Cam is just the gateway to developing a fierce passion for local wildlife.

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Renovate & Refine

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hey say that Colorado residents see 300 days of sun each year. Whether that number is factual remains open to a bit of debate, but there is no denying that we do indeed enjoy quite a lot of sunshine here compared to many other places in the U.S. Take a look out the window right now—is the sun shining? Your answer will most likely be yes.

With all of those delicious golden rays constantly pouring over our state, it’s no wonder that many locals are choosing to harness this abundant natural energy source to help power their homes, ranches, and businesses. Solar energy is both sustainable and cost-effective in the long run, proving that what’s good for the earth can also be good for the wallet.

Skyline Solar is one new local enterprise helping to bring solar power to the Roaring Fork Valley, and its team is passionate about the work they do. Although the company calls Utah home, its partners work with a regional installer to serve the valley’s local market.

“Our local representative is Ali Belandria,” says founding co-partner Kyle Larsen. “He grew up in the Roaring Fork Valley and knows it very well and can come to your home to discuss your individual needs.”

Customer service tailored to each home or business owner is high on Larsen’s priority list. He and his founding co-partner Scott Knudsen had worked in the solar industry for years before joining forces to create Skyline Solar.

“What we found was that other companies weren’t customer-focused,” Larsen recalls. “Often customers were confused about how services worked and the sales process was just bad— so we wanted to create something with a simple desire to deliver a much better experience to our own customers.”

Larsen says that his company hopes to help locals make the transition to solar power as easily as possible. A bit of insight into how solar works is usually the first step in the process.

“Basically we match your monthly electricity bill with a solar payment. There’s no out-of-pocket cost and the system produces all the electricity you need, so you never have to pay for electricity again,” he explains. “The maintenance is next to nothing. And whatever energy

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isn’t used at home goes back into the power grid, and the consumer gets credit for what they don’t use.”

Once the consumer understands the basics, the company devises a specialized proposal for their property via an in-home consultation. Skyline Solar assesses the home or business property and history of energy use over the previous 12 months, and accounts for any increased energy needs anticipated in the future.

“Another thing that makes us different from other companies is that we help customers reduce the amount of energy they’re using before going solar,” Larsen notes. “For example, we replace every standard lightbulb with LED bulbs and install a smart thermostat. Those combined will reduce usage by about 25 percent so you don’t need as many solar panels.”

Larsen explains that the entire process, from consultation through installation, takes three to six weeks depending on property type. The company has handled 10 to 1,000 panels on everything from ranches and farms to single-family houses, townhomes, businesses, and even off-grid properties in remote locations.

“Plus, with current local and federal rebates that are available, there has never been a more affordable time in the lower Roaring Fork Valley to go solar,” Larsen adds, noting that the average cost of $20,000 for a single family is cut by 30 percent with tax credits and reduced by another 25 to 30 percent with local rebates. The resulting cost of about $8,000 is then financed through one of their customer-tailored programs.

“I always use the comparison to gas prices and ask, ‘If you could have locked in gas prices from what they were 20 years ago, would you have done it?’” Larsen says. “Everyone always answers ‘Yes, of course.’”

Locals interested in going solar can learn more about energy rebate programs by visiting AspenCORE. org, and can reach Skyline Solar’s valley representative Ali Belandria at 970.379.9502 or ali@skyline.solar.

“The bottom line is that solar provides cleaner energy and more control of your Roaring Fork power bill,” Larsen says. “More than Valley representaever, it’s a competitive choice now.” tive Ali Belandria.

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Lifestyle Calendar

June THURSDAYS, JUNE 1-AUGUST 17

TUESDAYS STARTING JUNE 13

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Enjoy all the thrills and spills of rodeo season every Thursday, rain or

The Glenwood Market kicks off at 4 p.m. 'til dusk on June 13, and

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continues every Tuesday (except July 4) through September 5. The

Slack begins at 6 p.m. followed by the Grand Entry at 7:30 p.m. Adults

community event features produce and goods from local growers,

$10, carloads of up to six people $30, and kids aged 10 and under are

artisans, and food vendors and will include live music and a beer gar-

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den each week. See RoaringForkEvents.com for more information.

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JUNE 16

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VVH AUXILIARY PIE DAY

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The Valley View Hospital (VVH) Auxiliary hosts its beloved annual Pie

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Day as a delicious kick-off to Strawberry Days in Glenwood Springs.

gatherings. Join friends, raise a glass, and mingle with RFOV staff

Arrive early; homemade pies are available whole or by the slice. Carry

members who can provide details about upcoming outdoor resto-

out or stay in to eat. Event ends when the pie runs out!

ration projects and volunteer sign-ups. See RFOV.org.

JUNE 9 RIVER CENTER SPAGHETTI DINNER BURNING MOUNTAIN PARK, NEW CASTLE The River Center in New Castle invites the community to attend their annual spaghetti dinner and silent auction fundraiser on Friday, June 9 from 5-8 p.m. Adults are $10, seniors (65+) $8, kids $5, and children under two years old are free. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit's many outreach programs. Visit RiverCenterNewCastle.org.

JUNE 10 TRTC MASQUERADE GALA THE ORCHARD Carbondale's Thunder River Theatre Company (TRTC) invites you to don a mask and join them for the theatre's fabulous annual fundraising benefit! Cocktails at 5 p.m. followed by dinner and revelry at 6 p.m.

Whimsical entertainment will be provided by TRTC's own Consensual

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STRAWBERRY DAYS SAYRE PARK, GLENWOOD SPRINGS Celebrate 120 years of Strawberry Days in 2017 with three days of festivities! Enjoy arts and crafts, Family Fest, shopping, delicious food, and live music and entertainment throughout the weekend. Plus, don't miss the annual Strawberry Days parade at 10 a.m. Saturday morning along Grand Avenue. See StrawberryDays.com for full event schedule!

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JUNE 17 THE SALON THE LAUNCHPAD Modeled after 19th century European salon entertainment, The Salon is a new performance series in Carbondale curated by Alya Howe.

The night includes performances by a jazz drummer, comedian, cellist, and more. Each subsequent Salon event will be different, but all will have a powerful impact stemming from a close connection between artist and audience. Tickets available at EventBrite.com.

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Gather at the Basalt Sunday Market for fresh local produce, pre-

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JUNE 28 FAMILY NIGHTS AT FILOHA FILOHA MEADOWS OPEN SPACE, REDSTONE Join Roaring Fork Conservancy for the first of their summer "Family Nights at Filoha" series outings near Redstone. Appropriate for families with kids of all ages! The June 28 program will introduce families to fireflies, bats, and bugs. Cost is free, but registration is required.

Register and learn more at RoaringFork.org or call 970.927.1290.

JUNE 28 WILDERNESS WORKSHOP: WILD FEAST CARIBOU CLUB Join Carbondale's Wilderness Workshop for a dinner celebrating 50 years of local conservation with guest speaker Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club. Enjoy cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, live music from Pearl & Wood, and a three-course seasonal meal by chef Miles Angelo. Contact Rebecca Mirsky at 970.963.3977 or Rebecca@ WildernessWorkshop.org for tickets and table reservations.

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Parting Thoughts "...my friends, the funny pink-violet elephant's head..."

Snowline E

very spring, an itch crawls through my bones. As the snow recedes up the mountains, I look furtively out the window, an exile scheming my way back to them. Morning rises bright, musical, and inviting. The birds paint the branches: the bold yellow-orange body and black and white wing patches of the evening grosbeak, the yellow breast of the western meadowlark singing on fenceposts, the bright green of the hummingbirds buzzing by, even the stark contrast of the orange and sky-blue lazuli bunting up in a juniper tree. Yet there I pace through the kitchen, trapped in a desperate calculation of exactly how many miles are open on the running trails, versus precisely how low the reaches of skiable corn remain. Must go high. Must go fast. Must make it hard.

Like an overwhelmed toddler, I huff a great sigh. Since I can’t settle on either, I resign to pack up a simple little daypack with a journal. If a moment of grace passes through my mind, I will toss in some colored pencils and a field guide, too.

On days like these, I’m likely to head toward Redstone, bump the car up a half mile of road, swinging the wheel right and left around the rocks, and park at the East Creek trailhead. I jump out and set off fast, pumping my arms up the steep switchbacks through the forest, determined to find where mud ends and snow fills the trail, to resolve whether I should have been skiing or running, somewhere else, somewhere other than here.

As my breath gets heavier, I scale back my pace a little, begin to look around. The yellow flower of a heartleaf arnica gleams from the dark, needle-strewn forest floor. In the wet places, where the snowmelt runs downhill through some sun, my legs brush past mountain bluebells covered in dew. I grab a leaf or two to munch on.

The taste reminds me of fresh spinach. In the shade of the conifers, I find bright red and yellow western red columbines and think of the crowns of tiny kings. By now, I am pausing more. Where the trail

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ARTICLE AMELIA POTVIN

meets an open meadow, I stand awhile to drink my water and look across the valley to the folds of the Thompson Divide.

Onward. Find snowline.

I march at a good pace for a while, my head on a swivel, looking at branches, flowers, birds, and the dramatic, deep-red rock formations that jut out high above the town, getting closer to me all the time.

Soon, a smile spreads across my face that will not leave. I find the energy to skip and run up the trail. I sing to the sky and the stream and the sun. The hike that was my consolation prize in this middle season takes on new life.

Finally, I reach the meadows leading to the upper bowl. As Old Man Winter curls his long fingers back up ridgeward, all the beauties of early summer emerge in the snow’s wake. Where the trail turns mucky, I keep my feet directly in the mud so as not to disturb marsh marigolds. I round a corner and pass through a corridor of deep blue monkshood, noble and prayerful as they are, and purple larkspur. There are delicate white globeflowers emerging from a shrinking patch of snow.

Up one more rise, and there it is: winter obscuring my summer trail.

I walk across the supportable snow, soft on top, for a few minutes, feet sliding side to side, jolting periodically when one leg pushes all the way down. Water sloshes around my socks. I stop, look up to the basin that curls above me, and raise my arms in a salute to that place where the cold lasts a little. With a slight bow, I decide to call it a day.

After a few more quiet breaths on the dividing line between the seasons, I turn back. I find a sunny rock, open up my pack. I might spend an hour or more journaling, gazing out from this high perch, drawing and imagining. Maybe in a few weeks, when I could be running some ridgetop, I’ll come back here instead just to check in on whether my friends, the funny pink-violet elephant's head and western yellow paintbrush, have returned to the alpine zone.

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