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Metro Worth the Wait—A Revamped Idaho State Museum . . . . . 10 ‘A Destination Food Getaway’ . . . . . . . . . . 14
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Life A Magical Feat—The Shoe That Grows . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Converging at ‘The Hill’ . . . 20 Neighborhoods: Hyde Park . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Arts Celeste Bolin— Force of Nature . . . . . . . . . 52 Behind the Scenes at the Mountain Home Music Fest . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Weddings Sunny & Burton . . . . . . . . 60 Taylor & Ryan . . . . . . . . . 62
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30 Explore Tour de Boise . . . . . . . . . 28 Boise's Twilight Criterium . 30
In Every Issue Editor's Letter . . . . . . . . . . 4 Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Dining Guide . . . . . . . . . . 70
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Primal Necessity The story of Idaho’s water and its hold on a growing state By Adam Tanous
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The Place to Go Is Idaho Float, hike, bike, and ride your way through the Gem State’s wonders By Torrie Cope
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EDITOR'S LETTER
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chool is out for the year; the weather is bright and clear. It’s a time when all of Idaho, it seems, heads for the mountains, streams, and parks. Exploration of all sorts becomes top of mind. Paddleboards and kayaks, hiking boots and mountain bikes find their way out of dusty storage, and the adventures begin. Whether hiking in the Sawtooths or jet-boating on the Main Salmon, the opportunities for fun in the Gem State are virtually limitless. Wondering where to start a summer of fun? Read Torrie Cope’s article on exploring Idaho (“Idaho Is the Place to Go,” page 40). There she details just some of the ways to see this vast, wondrous, and—to steal a word from the Wilderness Act—“untrammeled” land. Those more inclined to city exploring might enjoy “Tour de Boise,” (page 28) a survey of the many ways to enjoy the City of Trees, whether by foot, bus, balloon, trolley, or bike. One Boise touring company is devoted solely to foodies. It’s no wonder, given the wealth of great food in the City. One such food craze not to miss this summer is the “Taco Tidal Wave,” (page 64). No fewer than four new taco spots are opening this summer, each with a unique take on a Mexican favorite. One stop that should be on everyone’s summer to-see list is the newly renovated and expanded Idaho State Museum (“Worth the Wait,” page 10). The $17 million revamp includes multi-media displays and new exhibits centered on two themes: how humans and the land influenced each other, and how water and its many uses shaped each region.
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Indeed, since the early booms of gold and silver mining in the 1860s and 1880s, respectively, water has been the lynchpin to both the popular and economic growth of the 43rd state. To begin to understand the complex and contentious role water plays in Idaho look into “Primal Necessity” (page 32). Much of both the history and future of water in Idaho hinges on a single river and its tributaries: the mighty Snake River. In fact, the Snake River that we know today exists due to a twist of geological fate that occurred some 18,000 years ago with the Bonneville Flood (“The Great Flood,” page 50). When a natural dam at Red Rock Pass gave way, half of then Lake Bonneville—estimated to be the amount of water in Lake Michigan—roared through Idaho at upwards of 34 mph, refashioning a river millions of years in the making. While Idaho’s natural wonders tend to get a lot of deserved attention, we can’t overlook some of the quite remarkable human endeavors springing forth from the capital city. Consider Celeste Bolin (“Force of Nature,” page 52), a teacher, dancer, Yogafort organizer, and inspiration to many, who also happens to have a Ph.D. in toxicology. Or Kenton Lee, founder of The Shoe That Grows (“A Magical Feat,” page 16). Lee’s nonprofit produces shoes that literally grow—up to five sizes—and distributes them to thousands of kids and adults overseas prone to soil-transmitted diseases. There is, of course, quite a bit more to read about in this summer issue of TERRITORY, including more stories in our Metro, Life, Explore, Arts, and Food departments. Hopefully, you will explore those in the downtime between grander adventures throughout the City and beyond.
Adam C. Tanous managing editor
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corrections... In Karen Day’s profile of Suzi Boyle published in the spring issue of TERRITORY, there were three factual errors we would like to correct. Boyle, senior mortgage loan originator at One Trust Home Loans, helped write state, not federal, legislation to support the integrity of the mortgage industry. Second, the recovery time from her stroke was three years not five. Finally, Boyle was raised in Payette, Idaho, where her parents were tragically murdered (not in Burley as reported).
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Zach Kyle
Jamie Hausman
Amy Story Larson
Chad Case
“Worth the Wait,” page 10 “Force of Nature,” page 52
“Boise’s Twilight Criterium,” page 30 “Taco Tidal Wave,” page 64 “Cider House Rules,” page 68
“‘Instant City … Just Add Beer,’” page 54
“The Place to Go Is Idaho,” page 40
Amy loquent combinations of words, ingenious home improvement, unique form, and brilliant color. An author, editor, ghostwriter, and artist/art instructor, she and her Weimaraner, Gracie, tour Idaho in the chalkboard-covered compact bus named “Chalkie” seeking adventure, poignant things to capture in paint, interesting people, and unforgettable stories.
Chad is an award winning professional photographer and videographer. His travel images have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, The New York Times, Outside, Sunset Backpacker and numerous other publications. Chad also operates Idaho Stock Images representing over 100 photographers with more than 40,000 images online. His work can be seen online at chadcasephotography.com.
Zack grew up in a commercial fishing family in the sticks outside of Bellingham, Wash. He worked for 10 years at three Idaho newspapers, most recently as a business reporter at the Idaho Statesman. He left the print business in June to begin a career as a freelance journalist and business communications specialist. He and his wife, Catherine, live in a tiny duplex in Boise’s North End.
Jamie was born and raised in the Chicagoland area, and after graduating from the Missouri School of Journalism she became a freelance writer. In addition to writing for print and digital magazines, she launched two farmer’s markets in Atlanta, Georgia. She moved to Boise in January 2017 with her golden retriever, Hooch, and her boyfriend, Owen, seeking new adventures. She enjoys cooking, hiking and spending time at the Boise Farmer’s Market.
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Amy Busek, Winslow Brokaw, Torrie Cope, Sharon Fisher, Cheryl Haas, Kate Hull, Kelcie Moseley, and Adam Tanous.
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A revamped Idaho State Museum will reopen after years of construction
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he public has waited for years to peek inside the bigger and more robust exhibits promised by the Idaho State Museum since it closed to undergo a $17 million expansion. That wait will soon be over. Nobody is more anxious to see the museum reopen than the woman overseeing the project, Idaho Historical Society Executive Director Janet Gallimore. “You only get one chance every 65 years to do this,” she said. “If you’re going to create a state museum, you want to do it right.” Located in Boise’s Julia Davis Park, the museum closed in summer 2014 and is now slated to reopen in late summer or early fall. When it does, visiTERRITORY–MAG.COM
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tors will take in a thoroughly modern museum experience chock full of multimedia displays, interactive exhibits and hands-on activities for children. State Historian Keith Petersen, who wrote the displays after working with about 50 historians from around the state, said the new museum will reward visitors’ patience. “We’ve never had a museum like this in the state,” he said. “Certainly our facilities were old and the exhibits were dated. People will see something totally new. It’s a really exciting time for Idaho.” The expansion will add about 13,000 square feet and include a new store, space for traveling exhibits, two classrooms, and a community room that will be available to rent for events.
Rather than lay out exhibits in historical order, the museum was designed around two themes that touch every aspect of Idaho’s history: how humans and the land influenced each other, and how water and its many uses shaped each region. The development team worked with the five federally recognized Native American tribes in Idaho, as well as one from Utah, to build the exhibits dedicated to the tribes’ histories, and conservation efforts. The crown jewel of those efforts, and one of the most significant in the museum, is a small theater showing the animated origin stories of each tribe, narrated by their elders. The museum will feature 23 multimedia displays that Gallimore said will help kindle understanding for
BOISE LIBRARY TO GET BIG-NAME OVERHAUL The City of Boise enlisted a heavy hitter when it approved renowned architect Moshe Safdie to design the new, main branch for the Boise Library. Safdie is famous for designing huge, spectacular and bizarre buildings all over the world. Safdie has not yet submitted a designfor the new library, which will be built on the same site of the current main branch Downtown on Capitol Boulevard just north of the Boise River. But if Safdie’s previous work is any indication, the Boise Library will likely be one of the eyecatching buildings in the city. Safdie will work with his team and with Boise firm CSHQA on the project, according to the Idaho Statesman. Together, they will design a building housing the 110,000-square-foot library as well as an 18,000-square-foot public events and arts space. The building will also include 22,000 square feet of space for the Boise Arts and History Department.
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SOME OF IDAHO STATE MUSEUM’S NEW EXHIBITS
Southern Idaho Exhibit (top); Origins Exhibit aerial view (bottom).
Boomtown: Located downstairs, the exhibit will encourage children age 7 and younger to tackle activities replicating several professions of the pioneer days, including a miner and train engineer.
Turn off Shoshone Falls: How Idahoans interact with land is largely shaped by how water is used for irrigation, drinking, storage, transport and recreation around the state. This exhibit allows visitors to shut off the water flowing down Shoshone Falls and then see on multimedia displays how the crops, dairies and cities downstream are affected, showing the complex relationship between humans and the land and teaching about the region’s water management strategies.
History Lab: Visitors will use multimedia displays to complete tasks by finding information in primary sources, giving a first-hand experience in researching while learning about the state’s history.
Stories from Idaho: This exhibit will tell personal stories from a diverse collection of Idahoans, giving insights into their lives and place in the state’s history.
Photos: Renderings courtesy of Idaho State Historical Society
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major past events, such as the 1910 Big Burn fire that consumed nearly 5,000 square miles of forest in the West, including in Idaho. A video display will show the confluence of factors that led to the conflagration: the land drying, followed by lightening cracking down at several points, followed by fires sparking and the wildfire erupting. A wave of heat will emanate from the display, turning the experience from theoretical to visceral. The exhibit then explains how the Big Burn influenced the National Forest Service’s policy of fighting all wildfires that permeated U.S. forest management for a century before the strategy changed in recent years. The old exhibits were mostly written to a fourth-grader’s reading level. For the new museum, the planning team sought input from Chris Taylor, who supervises science and social studies curricula at Ada County School District, to ensure the new museum had exhibits tailored for different grade levels and different subjects. “We tried to answer questions, like, ‘How can we take eighth-grade students learning earth sciences and geology to the museum to do some exploring?’ ” Taylor said. “How can we bring environmental science students in 10th or 11th grade to look at an exhibit? We’re trying to incorporate not just Idaho history, but different disciplines as well.” The years-long planning process will be Petersen’s last hurrah as state historian. He’ll step down satisfied that he and the hundreds of others involved in the planning and inputgathering for the project will result in a jewel for the state. “I’m a museum person,” Petersen said. “Museums offer an entry into teaching history you can’t get anywhere else. It’s not books. It’s not TV. It combines stories with artifacts never seen before because we couldn’t get them out of storage, and with incredible photography from repositories and photographers from around the nation. It’s cool stuff.” Taylor fondly remembers his grandfather taking him to famous museums in Pittsburgh when he was a boy. “I hope our new museum will bring that same love and passion when parents take their kids as it did for me,” he said. “To me, this is a worldclass museum.”
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‘A Destination Food Getaway’ By Amy Busek
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n the age of content marketing and ultra-personalized customer service, one local retailer is looking to capitalize on this trend and make it unique to them. Albertsons Companies, a Boise born-and-bred grocery chain now spread across 35 states, is opening boutique locations in the Treasure Valley this year. The new locations promise in-house culinary experts, partnerships with local vendors, interactive customer experiences, elevated catering, and restaurant-style dining. Albertsons’ effort is keeping with national trends. Forbes magazine predicted that radical changes in the retail landscape would be integral to the survival of longtime businesses. “In 2018, retailers will realign their businesses with the needs and desires
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of customers, who are driven today not by a passion to acquire more things, but by a deep desire for more experiences,” wrote Forbes reporter Pamela Danziger in a December 2017 article. She wrote that customers now define the shopping experience, not retailers, and that stores must “flip the incentives to entice shoppers” into stores, when they can simply purchase goods online. In Albertsons’ case, the company is looking to diversify what is typically offered by a grocery store, to draw in new customers. “From hard to find unique ingredients, to prized local favorites, to cooking classes and live events, Market Street Idaho raises the bar for what customers can expect from a fantastic grocery store,” said Kathy Holland, Albertsons Communications and Community Relations Manager.
The first location replaces a West Boise Albertsons on Broadway Avenue with an opening planned for late June. The second, in Meridian, will open under the moniker Market Street Idaho in the former Shopko location on Eagle and Fairview in October, following an extensive renovation. As the Treasure Valley grows, the local food scene must adapt with it, said Albertsons Intermountain Division President John Colgrove, calling the model a “destination food getaway” experience. “In our store, our dedicated chocolatier might partner with one of our scratch bakers to create an art deco cake for an exclusive event, or our Head of Catering might work with our sommelier and masters in our fresh team to craft an exclusive wine pairing experience with fresh fruits and cheeses,” he said. “We’re
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Albertsons’ Market Street stores offer a new grocery model
elevating the idea of what a grocery store can be here.” Colgrove said customers will find all products to be reasonably and competitively priced by market standards. The model is loosely based on the success of a similar endeavor by Albertsons affiliate United Supermarkets in Texas, but different in that “we’re leveraging the brand into something that is uniquely Idaho,” Colgrove said. He built upon the NOSH/NOSHE grocery buzzword in his descriptions, saying “NOSHL” to describe their model, an acronym for natural, organic, specialty, healthy and local. Albertsons is scouring the Boise Farmers Market for local vendors they might bring on for the Market Street Idaho store and plans to offer nutrition classes. Holland said the concept will have intergenerational appeal. “Those looking for local and fresh ingredients, or a wide variety of sustainably produced, natural and organic skin, hair and body products, or international items for ethnic cuisine. Those who want to learn more about food and nutrition, and those needing help in planning the perfect event. Even for those who are looking to spend time with family and friends in a unique and trendy environment. Ultimately, we will have something for everyone.”
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A MAGICAL FEAT The Shoe That Grows bringing international well-being By Winslow Brokaw
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ave you ever looked at people’s shoes and created a narrative based on what you see? I do it often, and it is amazing what stories I drum up based on the type of shoe and condition it is in. But if you don't actually talk to the person in the shoe, it's hard to glean the magic that lies within and behind the footwear. Take Kenton Lee for example. He is a born and raised fellow from Nampa, Idaho, who wears black sandals every day of the year (with wool socks in the winter). What would you think if you looked at his feet? Cool, madman, or hippie? Would you guess that he invented the shoe he is wearing to last five years and grow five sizes (if need be)? It seems an impossible feat (pun intended), so you are not likely to know that The Shoe That Grows (TSTG) has been distributed by over 1,000 partners to over 150,000 individuals in 97 countries. It is a high-quality adjustable shoe created for “incredible kids,” according to TSTG founder Lee. “Shoes are a small thing that make a big difference in people’s lives.” To date, 300 million people are without shoes, and 1.5 billion people suffer from soiltransmitted diseases worldwide. The truth that “small, straightforward things make a difference” is the small-town mentality that Lee hails from. The son of a plumber, Lee did not travel outside the United States until after college. Post studies, he toyed with the idea of missionary service but did not want to commit to the required three-year term. Then, when his long-term girlfriend broke up with him, he hit the road solo. He thought, “I don’t even want to be in the same country as her,” and took off for Ecuador and Kenya. Lee’s epiphany came unexpectedly while working at an orphanage outside Nairobi. One day as Kenton walked to church with a group of children, he noticed an 8- or 9-year-old girl in a white dress wearing shoes that were far too small for her feet. In fact, she had cut off the top of the shoes to let her toes hang out. This experiStudents from Kitende Primary School in eastern Kenya show off their "growing shoes."
ence sparked Lee’s imagination. Why couldn’t he create adjustable shoes that could grow in size? It took six long years of gritty and focused work to make this dream a reality. Upon returning to the States, Lee, not knowing anything about shoes, began contacting every major shoe company in search of a partner. He also attempted to make his own adjustable shoe out of random materials in his garage. Not only were his results comical, but no one appreciated his idea. Then behold; one day a small shoe company out of Portland, Ore., agreed to make 100 prototypes of an adjustable shoe that were distributed to four schools in Kenya. It was a first step in the right direction. With feedback from the kids, Lee had 3,000 pairs of shoes made in a factory in China. Word slowly got out that a “growing shoe” existed. In April 2015, Lee’s creation went from a hobby to a full-time job when a series of coincidences landed TSTG on the BuzzFeed website, and his concept and vision went viral. Overnight, Lee’s shoe became the first major project of his company, Because International.
Providing Innovation and Opportunity Because International’s mission is “to leverage innovation to make things better, using the positive cycle of innovation to fight the negative cycle of poverty.” In explaining the company’s mission, Lee added, “If we just use our innovation as a hand out and don’t provide opportunity, we keep people down. There is not a lack of ideas but a lack of support and opportunity to make those ideas a reality.” For this reason, Because International supports entrepreneurs worldwide and also focuses on increasing production of its shoes in the regions that need them most. While their principal partnership is with a factory in China, the company also collaborates with factories in Haiti, India and Ethiopia to grow fair-trade jobs. And TSTG is just the beginning. Lee and his team recently launched Bednet Buddy, a freestanding pop up tent that can be used inside or outside to fight malaria. (Traditional bug nets must hang, excluding people who do not have a roof). SUMMER 2018
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Andrew Kroes, president, left and Kenton Lee, founder, with the many product iterations of The Shoe That Grows.
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Why Shoes? Shoes are critical for our health, are required for school, and improve our self-esteem. In many parts of the world where human and animal waste are prevalent in public areas and sanitation is poor, people frequently contract disease via their feet. Additionally, the majority of schools around the world require shoes with uniforms. If you do not have shoes, it is yet another setback on the challenging road to success. And while self-esteem may at first seem less important, Lee offered, “I underestimated the importance of self-confidence and shoes. For many of our kids, it’s their first shoe, and they feel proud to be wearing a high-quality shoe.” TSTG’s invests a lot of resources into the quality of its shoes to ensure they last five years and grow five sizes. The sole is made of compressed rubber like a tire, and the rest of the shoe is composed of a synthetic rubber. The shoes are adjustable at the front, top, and back. Additionally, the sole of the shoe has special ridges that naturally unfurl as the foot grows. So, the next time you put on your shoes, pause and appreciate what you have. And when TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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you happen to glance at a stranger’s shoe, do not let its confines hold you back from imagining the possibilities for friendship, innovation, and collaboration. TSTG logo is as important as a pair of shoes: two footprints in the shape of a heart.
The Shoe That Grows comes in four colors and three sizes ... Blue, Black, Tan, and Pink Small: Grows 5+ sizes U.S. kid’s size 10–to women’s size 2 Large: Grows 5+ sizes U.S. women’s size 2 to 8 Adult: Grows 5+ sizes U.S. men’s size 6 to 11 Black is the most popular color because school uniforms generally require black. They cost $15/pair. Stay tuned for TSTG’s toddler size shoe, men’s 11+, and the closed-toe tennis shoe (requested for colder temperatures and in the U.S.)
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Converging at 'The Hill'
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making it one of few to be awarded a Century Farm designation, which it received in 2001. David Duro, president and CEO of the Treasure Valley YMCA, said that when Hill and Cook retired from farming, they envisioned having a Y and a park for south Meridian, which is one of the fastest growing areas in Idaho. They donated 15 acres of land, and developer David Turnbull of the Brighton Corporation donated an additional 8 acres of land. Duro said the Y made strides on making the location a reality just before the Great Recession in 2008, before the land donations came through. “That made us put it on hold. But as the economy recovered, there was this opportunity to have donated land from the Hill family,” he said.
The partnerships came together over time, Duro said, as they discussed community needs and how to provide the maximum benefit to the community through the property. “This is really a one-of-a-kind collaboration in the nation that we know of, and the strength of it is that in every case, the organizations that came to the table providing services, they gave something to the collaboration but are also getting something back,” Duro said. “That’s one of the things that’s really resonated with our stakeholders, including the people who have made The Hill is a collaboration of the Treasure Valley Family YMCA, St. Luke’s Health System (top rendering), the West Ada School District Hillsdale Elementary School (bottom rendering), the City of Meridian Parks and Recreation Department, and the Meridian Library District.
Photo: Renderings courtesy of Ed Daniels, Hummel Architects
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The Y itself looks standard from the outside, but much more is going on inside and around the building. It shares its hallways with Hillsdale Elementary School, which opened in 2016 for West Ada School District families. The school shares its grounds with 10-acre Hillsdale Park, which is managed by the City of Meridian. The park opened for the school’s use in October 2017. Because of the partnership, Hillsdale Elementary did not build a gymnasium into its school plans. Instead, hallways connect to a youth gym at the Y, which will be locked down for the elementary school’s use during school hours then open for all youth programming in the evenings. In addition, the school did not build a playground, because the city park will serve as their playground during school hours. The playground features signage and playground sets that are themed after the original Hill farm. “That’s what we are really excited about, is the design elements of the park and how it really honors the history of the land and the farming implements,” said Meridian Mayor Tammy de Weerd. The signs in the park look like seed packets, and there are murals of farmers on the side of the picnic shelters. One of the play sets is shaped like a John Deere tractor, the Hill family’s cattle brand is stamped inside the picnic shelter, and the benches are designed to look like hay bales. “It’s really to honor the gift and acknowledge the roots of the land.” Inside the Y is St. Luke’s Center for Lifestyle Medicine. Pat Lara, administrator of the heart and vascular program at the hospital, said the center is part of modern medicine’s trend toward preventative medicine and overall population health. The center, comprising 8,000 square feet, focuses on addressing the root causes of common health problems, such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and cancer, as well as preparing patients for faster recovery before they receive joint surgeries or give birth. Services include classrooms for health education, as well as a teaching kitchen, consultation TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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rooms, and a transitional gym, which will also be available during designated hours for YMCA members who may not feel comfortable working out on the main cardio floor. “Lifestyle contributes to 80 percent of communicable diseases worldwide,” Lara said. “It’s as simple as eating more plants and vegetables and whole foods, moving more, avoiding alcohol and tobacco and having social connectedness … which sounds easy enough, and everyone knows they should, but really 3 percent of the population does all that stuff per the guidelines.” The center has a group of dieticians, psychologists, social workers, physical therapists and exercise physiologists to help individuals make sustainable behavioral changes. In another wing of the Y, St. Luke’s has a small Children’s Health Clinic with a nurse practitioner and nurse. Katie Apple, senior director of business operations for the St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital, said the clinic is open to the public but will primarily serves Hillsdale Elementary and children in the Y programs. Nurses at the clinic are able to quickly serve students who don’t feel well, test for viruses or other contagious illnesses, and determine whether the student needs to be sent home or not.
Future Directions A “tiny library” will be placed at the front of the YMCA facility until the Meridian Library District can raise enough funds to have a larger building. A bond to build the library failed to reach a two-thirds majority in 2016. The YMCA originally wanted to have a pool as part of the facility as well, but the 2016 bond to finance the pool also failed to reach a two-thirds majority. Instead of trying a bond again, Duro said the Y is working to raise those funds privately. “The really great part is the site is all totally prepared, the infrastructure is there, it would be just a basically bolton component to the rest of the Hill,” he said. “We’re in the beginning stages of (fundraising), we’ve got some leadership recruited, and we do have our first couple of gifts toward that effort. After just raising $18.5 million it’s a lot of work to put that together, but we have a very generous community.”
YMCA FEATURES The facility includes gyms, pickleball and basketball courts, fitness areas, group exercise studios (some of which have garage doors that will open for outdoor exercise), youth development centers, family locker rooms, and a four-level, all ages play structure called the Adventure Zone. Following in the standard practice of the YMCA, the new branch is open to all, regardless of age or ability to pay.
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ucked away in the heart of the North End of Boise, the Hyde Park Historic District evokes the charm and friendliness of a European village. Its mixture of residential and locally owned businesses exist in vibrant harmony, making Hyde Park one of Boise’s most popular destinations—for an evening or a lifetime! The area was Boise’s first suburban commercial center in the late 1800s, providing a central locus of shopping for the residential additions that were platted nearby as the city grew northwards. Architecturally, the neighborhood—which borders both sides of N. 13th Street between Alturas and Brumback streets—is a blend of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival homes and commercial buildings of brick, wood and cast stone construction. The celebrated Boise architects Tourtellotte and Hummel are credited with designing the neighborhood. Check out the beautifully restored Oddfellows and Waymire buildings! Today, the many open-air patios and roll-back windows of the restaurants are full in Boise’s long summer season, with visitors and neighborhood regulars leaning their bikes—or leashing their dogs—against the low railings that define the outdoor seating. (All of the restaurants and coffee The C. H. Waymire Building, designed by Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture, was built by Clarence H. Waymire in 1909. It is a concrete block construction that was originally a "corner" store.
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bars have a generous supply of water and dog treats for Fido!) You’ll find chilled wine, cold microbrews, an oldfashioned barbershop, a cobbler who repairs shoes and can also make you a pair of boots, gift stores where you’ll want to buy one of everything you see, a fair-trade emporium, a high-end bicycle shop, to-die-for handmade ice cream, a toy store—and a lot of laid-back fun. Did I mention the neighborhood is very family-friendly? Hyde Park is a popular gathering place for cyclists. Camel’s Back Park and Hull’s Gulch, both access points for the network of Foothills trails, are just a few blocks away. Add baby strollers, dog walkers and joggers to the mix and you start to get an idea of the diversity of the neighborhood. A few blocks up 13th Street, the wide swaths of cool grass, shady trees and playground sets of Camel’s Back— so called because of the shape of the hills’ ridgeline—attract families with children and summer shade-seekers. Each September, Camels’ Back is the site of the fabled Hyde Park Street Fair organized by the North End Neighborhood Association. It’s a trippy weekend of live music, community entertainers, food booths, artisans and crafts people and crowds!
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1. Hyde & Seek Chock-a-block with intriguing and wonderful items, from journals to objets d’art, to quirky jewelry and chandeliers to, well, you really must see for yourself! The owners and staff are knowledgeable and friendly, and can do gorgeous giftwrap. Be warned that the aisles are very narrow. Leave the kids outside on the bench.
2. Vince’s Barbershop Vince himself will cut your hair: no frills, cash only. Don’t bother calling ahead because he only takes walk-ins. As he says with acerbic wit, “Our clients deserve our undivided attention, so we never answer while cutting. If you are calling to ask how busy we will be a week from Tuesday, hang up and phone your local psychic hotline.”
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With an old-fashioned soda fountain, hand-made ice cream, handcrafted chocolates produced twice a week, candies, an outdoor patio and occasional live music, Goody’s is a Boise gem. We wholeheartedly agree with the store’s motto, “Only Too Much is Enough!”
4. G. Willikers Right next door to Goody’s—both owned by Brett Palmateer—is a toy shop of a child’s dreams. Classic wooden toys and games from our childhood are sure to please the kid in each of us.
5. Reibe’s Shoe Shop Stepping into this unassuming, dusty shop is a journey back in time to when shoes were meant to last. The gangly German shorthair, Bill Riebe’s canine companion, who, for years, snoozed in the afternoon sun in the chair by the door has gone over the Rainbow Bridge, but this extraordinarily talented cobbler remains. He’s a craftsman who can coax long life out of shoes, belts and handbags, and knows the lost technique of creating a pair of handmade boots with the old-fashioned machines and tools that have been in his family for 100 years. TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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6. Camel’s Crossing Retro 70s décor and juxtapositions of unexpected flavor that delight your palate combine to make this dinneronly restaurant a star in Boise’s culinary firmament. Chef Christian Phernetton began his career “as soon as he could see over the stove” making pierogis with his grandmother and as a teenager cooked for Boise’s legendary Peter Schott. Chef Brian Ferris honed his skills at high-end restaurants in between stints as a private chef. Together, they combine seasonal, locally sourced ingredients with French cooking techniques to produce a globally inspired New American cuisine. The eclectic wine list includes a 2009 Cuvee Rouge from the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, a 2015 red from Uruguay and a chenin blanc from South Africa. Space is very limited so reservations are a must.
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7. Parilla Grill With a roof that opens to the sky and front windows that open onto the sidewalk, this hip cantina serves house-made salsas, grilled meats in Mexican-Asian-Indian fusion style. There’s a special every night of the week—and my favorite is Friday’s $2 Tecate and $2 fish tacos! Owner Scott Graves also operates 13th Street Pub & Grill, known for its huge windows that open to the patio in summer, its friendly servers, and dependably fresh and delightful pub fare. A good Sunday brunch choice, and it’s kidfriendly, too!
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8. Harry’s Hyde Park Pub Harry’s offers a full bar and a rotating selection of microbrews on tap. Burgers, wings, rings, Buffalo chips, cheese curds, fingers steaks and sandwiches will satisfy even the most hearty appetite.
9. Hyde Park House Like most establishments in this neighborhood, Hyde Park House is family-owned and operated. The spacious outdoor patio is just the place to kick back and enjoy one of their creative dishes that is “locally sourced and crafted with love.” Skip straight to dessert and enjoy their to-die-for ice-cream sandwich, a treat for the taste buds!
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A Foodie’s Delight
There is no question that Boise is a foodie mecca. Farm-to-table options, inventive tasting menus, and mouthwatering hole in thewall eateries abound on every corner. Idaho
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native Angela Taylor founded Indulge Boise in 2016—the first walking food and culture tour in the city— charged with a desire to help food lovers experience the best of Boise’s unique neighborhoods and downtown corridors, while celebrating all that the Greater Boise area has to offer. “Culinary tourism is one of the fastest growing industries around the world. People are picking destinations based on food, and this is a really exciting time
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in the Treasure Valley,” said Taylor. “We have an emerging culinary scene and an amazing story to tell with our public art, culture, history, and architecture. We have curated experiences that have allowed us to share that with our guests whether they are locals or visitors.” Although food is the focal point, tours also highlight history with cultural nuggets, as participants stroll from spot to spot. A favorite, Historic Downtown Boise Food & Cultural Tour features more than ten tastings, snacks, and bites at iconic downtown eateries, unlocking some of Boise’s most eclectic spots.
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Boise’s prime location seamlessly combines outdoor recreation with big city amenities; Boise Bicycle Tours helps visitors and residents experience both. To see the cream of the Boise crop, pedal through the Best of Boise tour that meanders through riverside paths to the heart of downtown, all while being led by a knowledgeable guide. The tour is great for all biking levels and is approximately 7 miles long on mostly flat terrain. Expect to stop and listen to history tidbits and soak up the sights. For this tour, slow and steady is the name of the game.
Hop on the Brewmobile Soar up above Treasure Valley via hot air balloon with the experienced pros at Boise Hot Air Company. At the crack of dawn, weather permitting, ballooners climb aboard the basket of a vibrant balloon that will ascend up to a few thousand feet above ground. Gaze below at the scenic vistas and stunning views, while your pilot—licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration—guides the way.
Whether you’re a hops fan or a lover of lagers, craft brews are never in short supply throughout Boise. The
Boise Brew Bus invites patrons to hop on board the brew bus and experience the best of the best, while cruising town on the festive green bus. Each tour consists of three stops at a rotation of local hotspots like Payette Brewing Co, Edge Brewing Co, and Highlands Hollow Brewhouse, with a flight sampling at each. Grab a growler to take home, and sit back and enjoy the ride. Not a big beer fan? The Brew Bus also offers a winery option that heads to renowned wineries like Cinder Wines, Coiled Wines, and more.
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Ever wondered about the history of the Old Penitentiary? Curious about the goings on at the Capitol? Boise Township Tours offer trolley excursions rich in nostalgia and local lore. Hop on board the throwback red and green trolley for a deep dive into the tales and history of the city. The trolley departs daily for historic tours and offers specialty holiday tours, like the ghostly Halloween outing or the magical Christmas lights sightsee.
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High Speeds, Close Quarters The Twilight Criterium sets Boise’s cycling on a world stage By Jamie Hausman 30
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was the proud new owner of George’s Cycles, which he and business partner Tom Platt purchased in 1981. He saw how successful the races were at showcasing Boise’s local cycling talent. First Security Bank, which later merged with Wells Fargo, offered to sponsor if Cooley could put it together, and he got to work. Armed with caution tape and string lights borrowed from Morrison-Knudsen’s Christmas decorations, Cooley crafted an urban route that passed through the bar district on 6th and Main. He needed a crowd, after all, and that was the most populated area of downtown at 10 p.m. Since then, Cooley has teamed up with the Downtown Boise Association (DBA) to organize the event, the track has moved locations, and it has grown into an all-day familyfriendly affair, which Lynn Hightower, DBA’s executive director attributes to Boise’s community-focused culture. “For Boise, it’s more than a bike race. It’s bringing the community together and making people feel connected,” she said. Race day begins with Kristin Armstrong’s kids ride at 1
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p.m. and culminates with the women’s pro race at 7 p.m. and the men’s pro race at 8:15 p.m. Amateur cyclists can compete in the category 4/5 race at 1:45 p.m., which is a 45-minute sprint around the track. Other highlights include a paracycle race at 5:45 p.m. and a GreenBike celebrity bike ride at 6:15 p.m. Local cyclist Robert Hoene has raced in every single Twilight Criterium since the first one in 1986. While he says the race has certainly gotten more organized, the reason he keeps riding in it remains the same. “It’s very community oriented; that’s really what keeps me coming back,” he said. “For the amount of time we put in, a criterium is an opportunity for those around you to actually see you [compete] for a period of time … It’s a fun time to share with family and friends.” With a top-tier position in USA Cycling’s criterium series, Boise’s Twilight has brought world-class cyclists from across the globe to the City of Trees for its race, including Olympians and Tour de France riders. This year, two additional
events have made it a can’t-miss event: the inaugural Chrono Kristin Armstrong time trial on July 13, which is named for the three-time Olympic gold medalist and twotime world champion from Boise in the time trial event, and the Chicken Dinner Road Race on July 15. Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world governing body for sports cycling, will sanction the time trial, and the $35,000 prize money will be split down the middle between men and women. The Chicken Dinner Road Race will cap the weekend, where riders will compete on a 21-kilometer loop through the Snake River Valley. Cooley says the multi-event weekend will incentivize top riders from all over the world to make the trip as pressure mounts from other competitions. Spectators can gather in Capitol Park this year to enjoy the shade, beer garden, and food trucks. Should you find yourself lost, listen for longtime announcer and former participant Kurt Holzer’s voice as he tries to relay the strategies of the teams and prime prizes that sponsors offer throughout the race. SUMMER 2018
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Compared to other Western states, Idaho is relatively rich in water, consuming 19.5 billion gallons per day, the bulk of which, 80 to 85 percent, supplies agriculture. Only two states in the nation consume more: California and Texas. Despite these apparent riches, water has always had devilish hold on the state. Beyond keeping people alive, water can transform landscapes. Add a little water to an arid place like Southern Idaho and plants and animals magically spring forth. Food grows, people come, communities thrive. An economic engine is jumpstarted. If one traces the economic and popular development of a Western state like Idaho, it soon becomes clear that water courses through the very center of it. There is another simple but inescapable fact that is never very far from the debate about water, and that is its weight. For a given volume, water is remarkably heavy. Carry a six-gallon jug across a couple hundred yards of sagebrush and that reality becomes palpable. While gravity is a force with which we always reckon, rarely is the consideration as pressing as when trying to manipulate water for our needs. Where water flows and where we want it to be don’t always comport, and therein lies great cost and often great conflict. Certainly, gravity can be temporarily defied with technology; it’s just costly. Witness the Fryingpan-Arkansas project in Colorado, where water from the Fryingpan basin on the western slope of the Rockies is dammed in 16 places, channeled, and pumped 5.5 miles underneath the Continental Divide to the eastern slope of the Rockies and the thirsty residents of Denver. Depending on one’s perspective, that is either an engineering triumph or a fool’s errand. Of course, water’s weighty nature isn’t all bad. It’s what makes it so effective at turning turbines, which generates relatively cheap electricity, which, in turn, enables businesses to grow and economies to flourish. So, for a simple little molecule, water is complicated. TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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THE ACCOUNTING Like everything else on earth, water is subject to the ultimate accounting system: the conservation of mass. It can’t be created or destroyed; it’s just moved around to different places and forms. This is a reality that sometimes gets lost in the debate. Jim McNamara, chair of the department of geosciences at Boise State University (BSU), explained that the precipitation that falls on Idaho, generally in the form of snow, can really only go two places: into stream flows or into the soil. The former case is a simple fate; once in a stream, water follows gravity to the ocean. Alternatively, water moving down into the soil to what’s called the root zone can be sucked up by plants and trees. A small percentage of that water is used in photosynthesis (the process of converting carbon dioxide to sugars and oxygen), and the bulk, 98 percent, is transpired through the plants and trees and evaporates from the surface of leaves into the atmosphere. “These are losses out of the basin,” McNamara said. Water that does not get transpired and instead moves down past the root zone will become part of a given aquifer, which McNamara described as being like a big underground sandbox. Water flows into cracks and pores, becoming, in effect, an underground water storage system (often referred to as groundwater). Ninety-two percent of Idahoans’ drinking water comes from groundwater. Critical to understanding the water cycle and many of the water battles of recent history is the fact that aquifers are, in general, connected to river systems (surface water). Water is constantly flowing in and out of aquifers and back into rivers. As McNamara put it, major problems in modern water management have come about “… due to the lack of recognition that surface water and groundwater are the same water.”
If one were to magically rise up into the sky and visualize the water flowing over and through Idaho—before the era of water management—the picture would be conceptually quite simple. Barring losses to evaporation and transpiration, the vast majority of the precipitation that lands on Idaho makes its way in to the Snake River via river and aquifer flows. Given Idaho’s complex topography and multitude of basins, water may flow east, west, north or south to get to the Snake, but it gets there. Gravity makes sure of it. There are only two watersheds in Idaho that don’t feed the Snake: the Bear River drainage in the southeast corner of the state, and the very northern Panhandle drainages—basically the St. Joe River and those rivers north of it.
PRIOR APPROPRIATION IN A LAWLESS LAND Idahoans’ relationship to water, which ultimately became a legal one, really began in 1860 with Eli Pierce, a trapper who was convinced there was gold in the Clearwater River Basin. As it turned out, Pierce was right, and the Idaho gold rush was on. Miners streamed to the area. As Paul Harrington points out in a 2012 Idaho Law Review article, “The lands mined at the time were part of the Washington Territory … There was no law enforcement, no courts, and no county organization … For all practical purposes, the early miners found that they had arrived in this country before the law.” Remarkably, the miners soon established order on themselves. Peter Anderson, a Boise water attorney for Trout Unlimited, explained that the miners in this lawless land adopted practices established in the California Gold Rush. (In fact, several miners, including Pierce, had mined in California before venturing to what would become Idaho for more prospecting.) In California, miners established mining districts with
agreed upon rules for mining, the most important of which was that claims were based on first possession. Once a miner made a claim and continued to “work” it, that claim was protected from subsequent claims. With such claims, which were being made on public lands, miners weren’t vested with rights to the land, just to the gold in it. “California miners, needing water [to run through sluice boxes in separating gold from sediment] simply applied old mining law ideas—the first in line concept—to water,” Anderson said. It is perhaps the most common strategy for allocating a limited resource, he explained. He likened it to a line for movie tickets. If the tickets run out, those at the back of the line are sent home. This “first in time, first in right,” or prior appropriation doctrine, was grounded in mining law, but it was also adopted because it was uniquely suited to the dry climate of the West. Anderson pointed out that in the East, basically east of the 100th meridian (which transects North Dakota and states on down), a farmer could grow crops on precipitation alone. Access to rivers wasn’t critical to the effort. Consequently, water law in the East was based on “riparian rights”: only those property owners adjoining a waterway were vested rights to the water. Water came with the land. West of the 100th meridian, precipitation was such that successful farming required irrigation, which meant that water had to be pulled from the river. The same was true for mining; claims were often away from the river, so water had to be brought to the claims. Consequently, and contrary to the riparian system in the East, water rights in the West were from the beginning divorced from property rights. “With the separation, land didn’t necessarily come with water,” Anderson said. “So, the state controlled the water in streams until you put it to use.” He said that the situation was analogous to hunting: the state owns the wild game on its lands until a hunter actually kills and takes possession of it. SUMMER 2018
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Today, there are approximately 3.4 million acres of irrigated land in Idaho that fuel $5.1 billion in agricultural revenue. When Idaho became a state in 1890, there were only 217,000 acres of irrigated land. Much of the economic and popular growth of southern Idaho might not have happened but for the hydrological riches of the Snake River and the Snake River Plain Aquifer.
While Idaho became a territory in 1863, it wasn’t until 1881 that the Territorial Legislature codified the prior appropriation doctrine into law. And when Idaho became a state in 1890, the doctrine became part of the Idaho Constitution, which stipulated, among other things, “The right to divert and appropriate the unappropriated waters of any natural stream to beneficial uses, shall never be denied. Priority of appropriation shall be give the better right as between those using the water …”
THE ERA OF MANAGED WATER While the gold and silver rushes of the 1860s and 1880s drew people to the Idaho Territory (there were 14,999 residents in 1870 and 88,548 residents when Idaho became a state in 1890), population growth might have petered out with the declining lodes of silver and gold but not for the advent of irrigation of the large swath of arid land that is southern Idaho. Two acts of Congress, the Carey Act of 1894 and the National Reclamation Act of 1902 jumpstarted the transformation of what was basically a desert in southern Idaho. The former enabled and encouraged private companies to build irrigation systems that they could use to sell water. In addition, the new law established the General Land Office, precursor to the Bureau of Land Management, which transferred up to a million acres of federal land to each Western state to facilitate the building of such systems (several years later Idaho received another 2 million acres). The National Reclamation Act channeled money from the sales of semiarid federal and territorial lands into the construction of irrigation projects. It did not take long for such water projects to come online in Idaho. One of the first projects, however, was, a result of neither law, but rather a private hydroelectric power plant on the Snake River at Swan Falls. Todd Shallat, professor of history and urban studies at BSU, explained that the plant, which was built in 1901, was intended to support the use of electric trains to reach the mines in the Silver City area of the Owyhee Mountains. Shallat said that the grade to the silver mines was too steep for coal-powered trains. “However, by the time the dam and plant were finished, the silver mines had played out, so Idaho had lots of excess hydro then,” he added. That the facility was built so early in Idaho’s history (1901), and therefore had a very senior water right, would later become an important fact in the pivotal 1980s Swan Falls controversy, which pitted irrigators against the electric company that owned the plant, Idaho Power. As the new century unfolded, dams facilitated by the Carey and the Reclamation Acts began to pop up all over the Snake River Basin: In 1905 the Milner Dam was built just east of Twin Falls; the Minidoka and Jackson Dam rose in 1907; the Arrowrock and Lucky Peak Dam in 1915; the Henry’s Lake Dam in 1923; the American Falls Dam in 1927; the Island Park Dam in 1939; the Anderson Dam in 1950; and the Palisades Dam in 1957. The three dams in the Hells Canyon Complex went up from 1959 through 1967. All of that damming correlated with a dramatic increase in irrigated acreage in Idaho. In 1890, there were approximately 217,000 acres of irrigated land. By 1930, the acreage
had increased 10-fold to 2.2 million acres. Today, there are about 3.4 million acres of irrigated land in Idaho, which generates approximately $5.1 billion in revenue in a state economy of $59.7 billion.
REAFFIRMING STATE SOVEREIGNTY OVER WATER Given the critical role water was playing in the economic development of the state, Idaho legislators recognized a need to actively manage this resource. In 1965, the Legislature, with Idaho Constitutional authority, established the Water Resources Board. It was charged with formulating and implementing a state water plan. Put simply, the state was reaffirming its sovereignty over the water in its streams and aquifers. In so doing, it aimed to quantify the supply and demand of water and to ensure that its use was in the interest of the public. For the most part, that meant shepherding economic development through the optimum “beneficial use” of water. The Idaho Constitution specifies “beneficial uses” in general terms as those for domestic needs, agriculture, manufacturing, and mining. However, when the Water Resources Board was formed, the Idaho Legislature codified a somewhat expanded definition of beneficial uses when it committed to fostering “… minimum stream flow for aquatic life, recreation and aesthetics and the minimization of pollution and the preservation of waterways …” This change was a recognition that how we define “beneficial uses” is subject to some evolution. What’s more, the term and how it is used in the Constitution seems to open the door to some subjective judgment. As water attorney Anderson pointed out, “Prior appropriation is built upon the idea of dynamic equilibrium—that you will have dry years and wet years … When issuing new water rights, we have to determine if water is available. It’s not really a beneficial use to start a farm with water available one out of 10 years … Would it be a beneficial use to raise rice in the Idaho desert?”
A WATERSHED MOMENT AT SWAN FALLS If one considers the way water is used for irrigation versus the way it is used to generate electricity, it soon becomes obvious that there is an inherent tension between two major water users in Idaho. Irrigators pull water out of the river to put into the fields. While some of that returns to the aquifer and, ultimately, the river, much of it does not; it is lost to evaporation and transpiration. Hydroelectric power plant operators, on the other hand, want the water in the river. Higher flows mean more power generated and lower prices for consumers. This tension approached a breaking point in the late 1970s and early 1980s when a group of Idaho Power Company ratepayers filed a complaint claiming the company had not fully protected its senior water rights (a 1901 priority) from those with junior rights upstream of the dam, which belonged primarily to irrigators. Had Idaho Power done so, ratepayers claimed, flows would be higher at Swan Falls and electricity rates would be lower. A lawsuit ensued, and, ultimately, the Idaho Supreme Court ruled with the ratepayers. With ruling in hand, Idaho Power sued 7,500 water rights holders upstream of the dam SUMMER 2018
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demanding a curtailment of their junior water rights. In effect, Idaho Power had the legal right to shut off water to all 7,500 farmers upstream of them. Given the potential economic wreckage such an action would create, the State entered into negotiations with Idaho Power to try to avert a disaster, as well as to avoid forever losing control of the major river coursing through its lands. Finally, in 1984, both parties came to an agreement that brought peace between the hydropower interests and those of the irrigators. Essentially, Idaho Power agreed to subordinate its senior water rights to all junior rights upstream at the time of the agreement with the provision that the state would maintain increased minimum flows in the river at the Murphy gauge just south of Boise. In addition, Idaho Power agreed to place any water rights for flows above the minimums into a “water trust,” administered by the state for future beneficial users upstream. The settlement, while fiercely contentious, did avert the implosion of an agricultural sector. And given that Idaho Power’s business depended on economic development, a large majority of which was driven by agriculture at the time, the settlement likely saved it, too.
A MASSIVE RECKONING – THE SRBA For nearly a century of its short history—first as a territory, then as a state—Idaho did not require water users to document nor even notify the state of their water use and, therefore, rights. One simply had to divert water from a source and put it to beneficial use. It wasn’t until 1963 that permits were required before appropriating groundwater and 1971 for appropriating surface water. However, the Swan Falls settlement put into stark relief the need for the state to understand how much water in the Snake River Basin had already been appropriated. The state
could not maintain minimum flows in the river (as they were required to do per the agreement) without knowing how much water had been spoken for and by whom over the course of the previous 125 years or so. There were also the issues of tribal water right claims, as well as federal claims that were spawned by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (1968) and the Endangered Species Act (1973). If Idaho was going to manage its water, these all had to be quantified. Adjudicating all of the water rights in the Snake River Basin was a monumental task that spanned 27 years and cost over $27 million. Over 158,600 individual water rights were decreed, which the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said amounted to “one decree every 90 minutes, an astonishing pace by anyone’s standard.” Finalized in 2014, the Snake River Basin Adjudication (SRBA) superseded all prior rights decrees and provided an agreed upon baseline of all water rights for planning potential future appropriations. The SRBA also enabled conjunctive management, the ability to look at entire streams and parse the rights and flows of both surface and groundwater. It was an official recognition that the two water sources were interconnected and, as such, had to be managed “conjunctively.”
PRIOR APPROPRIATION SOFTENS A BIT Since the early 1950s, when wide scale ground pumping began in southern Idaho, the level of the Snake River Aquifer as measured by flows at Thousand Springs has declined dramatically. The amount of water in the aquifer has decreased by 13 million acre-feet (4.2 trillion gallons) in the last 63 years. The more water pumped from the aquifer will, in general, leave less available in the river for surface water rights holders, most of whom have rights senior to the groundwater users.
Photo: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
The Swan Falls controversy pitted Idaho Power, which had some of the most senior water rights in Idaho, against 7,500 water users, primarily farmers, upstream of the power company. With a potential water call threatening an economic disaster, both sides entered into contentious negotiations that resulted in the Swan Falls Settlement. The controversy underscored the need for a massive adjudication of water rights in Idaho, which ultimately resulted in the Snake River Basin Adjudication.
In some years there is plenty of water to go around, so all rights holders get their allocations. But in times of drought, like the spring of 2015, “The doctrine of prior appropriation can be harsh,” explained Mark Davidson, director of conservation services at The Nature Conservancy. That spring, surface water users, who had senior rights, were in a position to make a water call of 90,000 acre-feet on those with junior rights, predominantly groundwater users. In effect, the call would turn off water to those junior users, which included farmers working 157,000 acres, 500 dairies, and 14 cities. The potential economic damage was in the millions of dollars. Rather than litigate in court, the surface and ground water coalitions negotiated an agreement whereby ground water users would reduce their annual use by 13 percent— whether through improved efficiency, shortening their irrigation season, or fallowing land—and the surface water users would not make water calls on the groundwater users. There were also agreed upon efforts to install flow meters on pumps and for the state and groundwater users to recharge the aquifer each year in order to get it back to levels seen between 1991 and 2001. In sum, it marked a new era of cooperation among users in a watershed. “To me, the interesting thing that is happening in Idaho is that water users are actually trying to find ways to come together and resolve these kinds of problems, like they did on the Snake River Plain [in 2015],” said Davidson. “The Teton Basin has a similar thing going on, and the Big Lost … people are trying to figure out, ‘how do we work together as a watershed to solve our own problems.’ … that is really the new shift we are seeing in Idaho.”
DEMOCRACY AND CONSERVATION Speaking at a recent Andrus Center conference on Idaho’s water at BSU, Patty Limerick, director of the Center
for the American West at the University of Colorado, discussed what she referred to as the American experiment with conservation. “The practices we know as conservation originated in centralized regimes of power. Kings, aristocrats, and colonial governors began what we now consider practices of conservation.” She was referring to kings ruling over large estates of land and maintaining the land to their preferences, particularly in relation to hunting and locals poaching game. “So that makes the American experiment with conservation … [shifting out of a framework of a centralized authority]… globally important because the experiment we’ve been engaged in for the last 140 years since the start of federal land management, public land ownership, and reclamation … is testing the compatibility between democracy and conservation. “Every day in a water managers life is an important data point in that experiment. How does that work? To be surrounded by constituents, individuals, and citizens, all wanting something from you as you navigate through this conundrum of how you take practices that are much easier to implement from a top-down, centralized authority—how do you make that work in a democratic republic? “In those terms, there are reasons to feel we are watching something like progress… We were talking about litigation, and, I thought, ‘from a Western historian’s perspective, I’ll take it.’ Showing up in courtrooms as opposed to showing up on battlefields? … That’s a form of progress. That so many of our primal struggles for dominance, for resources, for the allocation of goods we want, we go to the courtroom rather than to Main Street, or to the battlefield. I’ll take that. And if we are now seeing some sort of evolution to a follow up stage of collaboration, cooperation and negotiation, if that doesn’t count under the term progress, I don’t know what does.” SUMMER 2018
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he state of Idaho is home to thousands of miles of wild rivers and scenic trails. There are countless alpine lakes tucked away as a reward for hikers and backpackers to discover. Idaho’s ski resorts transform from winter playgrounds into mountain biking destinations in the summer, including Bogus Basin Mountain Resort, Brundage Mountain Resort, Tamarack Resort, and Sun Valley Resort. Tourists from around the world visit the state to experience its famous whitewater, but Idahoans are fortunate enough to have these treasures right in their backyards.
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THE PLACE TO GO IS IDAHO FLOAT, HIKE, BIKE, AND RIDE YOUR WAY THROUGH THE GEM STATE’S WONDERS
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For many of these activities, expert guides are more than willing to lead adventure-seekers on their journeys, providing the necessary equipment and skills while sharing their passion for and knowledge of Idaho’s outdoors. The list of ways to explore Idaho in the summer seems never-ending, but here are just a few suggestions for memorable adventures.
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Less than an hour outside of Boise, whitewater enthusiasts can hop on a raft and feel the thrill of the rapids on the Payette River. Idaho has more than 3,000 miles of whitewater, according to the Idaho Outfitters and Guides Association. The Long family, which owns Cascade Raft and Kayak in Horseshoe Bend, has guided groups of rafters down the Payette River for three decades. The Payette River is close to Boise and has a great variety of whitewater, said Anne Long, Cascade Raft and Kayak’s office manager. “It’s pretty easy to just zip up less than an hour from Boise and be able to enjoy Idaho’s outdoors,” she said. Cascade Raft and Kayak offers family trips down sections of the river that aren’t too intense, Long said. The more adventurous groups can check out the whitewater on the South Fork of the Payette, while kayakers can take on the North Fork’s class V rapids. Full and half-day float trips are available on different sections of the river. Rafters can take in views of the surrounding forests as they make their way down the river. The popular rafting trip
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down the Main Payette takes about three hours and features fun but manageable class III rapids, Long said. Cascade Raft and Kayak is one of several outfitters in the area that offer guided trips down the Payette River. Others include the Payette River Company, Idaho White Water Unlimited and Bear Valley Rafting. The website raftidaho.org provides a helpful resource for planning a day on one of Idaho’s rivers. The site has raft trips searchable by river or length of trip, as well as a list of local outfitters to show you the way. Multi-day rafting trips on Idaho’s waters offer more than rapids, incorporating hiking, swimming, camping, and riverside meals. Idaho River Adventures hosts rafting trips along the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in central Idaho that include riverside meals made from locally sourced food, hiking, and stops at hot springs and historic sites. The outfitter’s six-day Pickin’ On the
Middle Fork trips even include a bluegrass band that goes along on the journey to provide acoustic music with the river experience. Owner Dustin Aherin has taken groups from Australia and New Zealand on trips down the river and has a group coming from The Netherlands this year. The river’s reputation worldwide is akin to the Grand Canyon, he said. “What makes the Middle Fork so special is its remoteness,” Aherin said. “It’s a river that flows through the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.” For that reason, the river remains largely undeveloped. The U.S. Forest Service also allows just a limited number of launches on the river, which lends a feeling of solitude, he said. The trips with Idaho River Adventures cover 100 miles of the river. Aherin said that he and other outfitters—there are 28 licensed on the Middle Fork—tend to book trips quickly and recommended booking early, even a year in
advance to secure a spot. Another unique Idaho experience is a float or jet boat trip on the Snake River through Hells Canyon, which is the deepest river-carved gorge in North America, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
RESOURCE for RIVER FUN RaftIdaho.org is a comprehensive website with information on outfitters and rivers throughout Idaho. Visitors to the site can search by river or length of trip. It is a good first stop in planning a trip this summer.
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A QUIET PLACE to PADDLE McCall’s Payette Lake is a popular destination for boating, but it also provides a nice opportunity to spend a quiet few hours paddling on peaceful water surrounded by forest scenery. From the North Beach area of the lake, there’s a tributary perfect for an out-and-back paddle on calm, shallow water. The beach has parking and a few picnic tables. Backwoods Adventures also has stand up paddleboards, kayaks and canoes available for rent at this location.
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HIKING AND BACKPACKING IN THE SAWTOOTHS Mountain air, mountain views and mountain lakes abound in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area near Stanley. This is a popular area for hiking, backpacking, and camping for good reason. There are 700 miles of trails to explore with 40 mountain peaks and more than 300 alpine lakes, according to the U.S. Forest Service. With so many options, where do you begin? There are a couple of day hikes that Erik Leidecker of Sawtooth Mountain Guides described as classics in the area. The first is the hike to Alice Lake starting from the Tin Cup trailhead at Pettit Lake. The other is the hike to Sawtooth Lake, starting at the Iron Creek trailhead. Both are full-day hikes to alpine lakes. Both hikes are about 5-6 miles to reach the lakes with about 1,500-1,800 feet of elevation gain, Leidecker said. For shorter, family-friendly hikes, Leidecker recommends the Fishhook Creek trail at the Redfish Lake trailhead and the Stanley Lake Creek trail. Both are about 3-4 miles round trip. “These are good for kids or people who aren’t up for the big hikes,” he said. “They’re more accessible hikes that people can do
and still get the view and experience the Sawtooths.” Beyond day hikes, the Sawtooth area is popular for backpacking trips. The Alice-Toxaway Loop, starting at the Tin Cup trailhead, is a one- to two-night backpacking trip that includes several alpine lakes and peaks within view. For a longer trip, Leidecker suggested the one-way trip from Pettit Lake to Redfish Lake, which takes three to four days. Before backpackers head out on the trail, Leidecker recommends they become familiar with wilderness rules and regulations and expect to encounter hazards ranging from snowy passes to bugs and weather conditions. He also directs people to the "Leave No Trace program," which encourages responsible enjoyment of the outdoors. Sawtooth Mountain Guides offers guided day hikes and backpacking trips in the Sawtooths, from half-day hikes to four-day backpacking trips. The guides are familiar with the trails, terrain, conditions and rules. “Their biggest job is managing the risk of being in the mountains,” Leidecker said. They also supply the equipment needed, take care of food, and offer porter services to carry packs.
RESOURCES for HIKING AND BACKPACKING Sawtooth Mountain Guides sawtoothguides.com Offers guided day hikes and multi-day backpacking trips in the Sawtooths. National Forest Service Sawtooth National Recreation Area fs.usda.gov/recarea/sawtooth Find information about trails, reserve a campsite, and learn about rules and regulations before you go.
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Both floaters and powerboaters will need permits year round for the Snake River, and permits and reservations are required to launch at specific locations on the river during the primary season. There are a number of outfitters ready to take people down in rafts or jet boats with the bonus of fly fishing, stops at historical sites, and camping along the river. Back in Boise, the Boise Whitewater Park, located near Esther Simplot Park, allows people to experience whitewater without leaving town. It features wave-shaper technology that creates different types of waves in the river for kayakers, paddle boarders and river surfers, according to the City.
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Back Country Horsemen of Idaho Trail sbbchidaho.org/html/directions2.html This website provides detailed directions and trail and facility descriptions for horse trails around Idaho. Stanley Horseback Outfitters stanleycc.org/Do/Horseback-Rides
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Hiking and backpacking isn’t the only way to navigate Idaho's trails. The Back Country Horsemen of Idaho keeps a comprehensive log of trails in Idaho that make good options for horseback riders along with information about horse facilities at nearby campgrounds. They also host rides, maintain trails, and host educational events. Rob Adams of the group’s Squaw Butte chapter provided a list of some of the chapter’s go-to trails in the summer time. In Cascade, the group likes the Kennally Creek Trail in the Payette National Forest. This is a popular horse trail that connects to two other popular trails, the Needles trail and Black Mare summit trail. Another option is the campground at Bull Trout Lake in Lowman. The campground features equestrian sites with corrals and large parking spaces. The campground is near many miles of trails, according to the U.S. Forest Service, including the 35mile Kirkham Ridge Trail, which is open to many types of uses, including horseback riding. In the Hells Canyon area, the group goes to Cuddy Mountain near the Brownlee Reservoir on the Snake River. This area has trails on varied terrain with spectacular canyon views, according to the group’s description. The Tin Cup trailhead in the Sawtooths—a popular choice for hikers and backpackers—is also a go-to horseback-riding trail. For people without horses of their own, there are multiple options from outfitters to spend the day exploring the area on horseback. The Stanley Chamber of Commerce lists four local outfitters on its website offering rides on local trails.
Photos: Chad Case (left); courtesy Sun Valley Company (right)
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TAKE THE CHAIRLIFT TO MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAILS In 2017, National Geographic named Sun Valley one of the top 20 mountain bike towns in the nation. The magazine cited the town’s 400 miles of single-track trails to ride plus 30 miles of paved trails for its position on the list. Sun Valley Resort is also one of several ski resorts that changes focus in the warmer months. Instead of carrying skiers and boarders up the mountain, Idaho’s resorts welcome hikers and mountain bikers to explore trails and take in the views after the snow melts away. Sun Valley has several downhill-only trails that bikers can access after taking a gondola or chairlift ride. One of those trails is the Warm Springs Loop, which the resort describes as a “roller coaster ride through the wooded backside of Bald Mountain.” The trail is 16 miles including the lift up, according to the resort. Bogus Basin is also home to a nationally recognized mountain bike trail, the 10-mile Around
the Mountain trail. The resort is a close mountain getaway from Boise, but the vast mountain views and forest make it feel like a faraway escape in both winter and summer. The chairlifts usually start operating at Bogus in early July. While at Bogus, consider a ride on The Glade Runner, a brand new alpine mountain coaster. The bike park at Tamarack Resort, near Donnelly, is scheduled to open on June 23 this year. A high-speed quad services 1,700 vertical feet of trails, according to the resort. And Brundage Mountain in McCall has the Triple Play Skills Park in the base area, which serves as a practice area for mountain bikers to practice their skills at no charge, according to the resort. The BlueBird Quad at Brundage takes cyclists up to the summit to access more than 20 miles of single-track trails that provide views of Payette Lake and the surrounding mountains.
RESOURCES for MOUNTAIN BIKING Sun Valley Resort Find a map of trails and biking information at ... sunvalley.com/ things-to-do/biking/ Brundage Mountain Trail maps and lift information can be found at ... brundage.com/ on-the-mountain/summer/ mountain-biking/ Bogus Basin A map of summer trails at Bogus Basin can be found at ... bogusbasin.org/ the-mountain/overview/ trail-maps/ Tamarack Resort Information about the bike park at Tamarack Resort can be found at ... tamarackidahocom/ summer-activities
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THE GREAT FLOOD When Lake Bonneville broke loose, Idaho’s landscape was transformed
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ooking around southwestern Idaho's desert ecology, you may not believe it, but one of the biggest floods in U.S. history took place right here. Starting in eastern Idaho, the prehistoric Bonneville Flood carved the current route of the Snake River, created Shoshone Falls, dropped gigantic boulders all along its route, and etched permanent changes in the Idaho landscape before making it out to sea. Exactly when the Bonneville Flood happened is hard to pinpoint, but the best estimate is that it was 18,000 years ago, plus or minus a thousand years, said Dr. Jim O’Connor, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, in Portland, Ore. It was caused when the giant prehistoric Lake Bonneville broke a natural dam and emptied out half its contents over what might have been just a few weeks. And just how big was the Bonneville Flood? Estimates are in the range of 5,300 cubic-kilometers, or about the volume of Lake Michigan, O’Connor said. “Or for us Westerners, about seven times the volume of Puget Sound. Or 2 billion Olympic swimming pools,” he said. “A lot of water.” The flood started at Red Rock Pass, near Downey, in southern Bannock County. “Toward the end of the last Ice Age, the climate was changing,” said Dr. Monte Wilson, a retired geology professor from Boise State University. The snowmelt and ice melt, along with the Bear River, flowed into Lake Bonneville, which kept rising. “The lowest place on the rim was Red Rock Pass, which is at the head of Marsh Creek, which runs into the Portneuf River, which runs into the Snake River,” he said. The pass, full of sediment, either burst or was overtopped and then began to erode rapidly, he said. “Around 350 feet of sediment eroded down to bedrock.”
THE FLOOD’S PATH After that, the flood traveled down the existing canyons, which had been carved over the millions of years the Snake River had been running, Wilson said. How fast and how deep the flood was depended on the underlying geography. “In narrow places, like in Twin Falls Canyon and Hells Canyon, it was on the order of 300 to 400 feet deep in places,” O’Connor said. “There are some places in Hells Canyon 600 feet deep.” And the narrower and deeper the canyon, the faster the water flowed. “Thirty to 40, maybe 50 feet per second (20-34 mph),” O’Connor said. “In the deep, narrow stretches, it was cooking along, which is why it could pick up TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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boulders the size of small houses and SUVs.” In comparison, the Snake River typically flows today about one or two feet per second (approximately 1 mph), he said. Where the canyon wasn’t deep enough to contain the flood, it overtopped the valley, ran over the surface of the ground, and stripped the sediment off the underlying basalt, making waterfalls, Wilson said. “Big blocks of basalt were ripped out of the canyon walls and floor and rolled and tumbled downstream.” But what goes up must come down. “Obviously, if there’s erosion in one place, there’s deposition somewhere else,” Wilson said. Remnants of deposited sediment are visible around Hagerman and the Swan Falls area, he said. Eventually, the flood went into the Columbia River, near Lewiston, and ultimately into the Pacific, Wilson said.
DID ANYONE SEE IT? What’s not clear is whether anyone saw the event. There is no obvious evidence, such as tools or bones in flood deposits. And while floods are mentioned in Native American folklore, that’s not definitive, O’Connor said. “There are a lot of flood stories in Native American oral traditions, but there were a lot of floods, too,” he said. “There’s not enough detail to know that this flood story is from Bonneville and this one is from Channeled Scablands” in Eastern Washington. The exact dates of both human habitation in Idaho and the flood are in flux, but at least so far, it appears that the flood happened before anyone was around to see it. “It’s not out of the question that there were people here,” O’Connor said. “The earliest known fossils are from 14,500 to 15,000 years ago, but that doesn’t mean people weren’t here before that. They could have been here earlier and no trace has been found. Every year, it looks like the timing of the first arrival gets pushed back.” But even if there were people here at that time, their chances wouldn’t have been too good, Wilson said. “If there were early occupants here, they probably would have lived right along the river for water and fish, so the evidence of their habitation would have been wiped out by the flood,” he said. Still, Wilson said he thinks about it sometimes. “It’s interesting to wonder what some early Native Americans would have thought, standing on the side, and the river started to come up so abruptly,” he mused.
Map: Stephen S. Clark Library, University of Michigan Library
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TO SEE TRACES OF THE BONNEVILLE FLOOD Red Rock Pass Red Rock Pass is where The Great Flood broke through a natural dam 18,000 years ago. The amount of water equivalent to that in Lake Michigan raced across Southern Idaho creating what is today the Snake River. There are still remnants of the ancient borders of Lake Bonneville at Red Rock Pass. The current Great Salt Lake is shown in lighter blue. Shoshone Falls Shoshone Falls is among the most dramatic examples of erosion caused by the flood, Wilson said. Dedication Point The canyon walls of the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area house the largest population of nesting raptors in the U.S. because the flood carved out great nesting places, Wilson said. Swan Falls Dam Just downstream of the dam, there are house-sized boulders that were ripped from the canyon during the flood and then dumped where the canyon and river widened, O’Connor said. Celebration Park Idaho’s only archeological park is full of “melon gravel,” or rocks, rounded by the current, that were dropped as the water slowed down. In some cases, Native Americans carved petroglyphs on the rocks. Hells Canyon Near Pittsburg Landing, you can drive into the canyon and see “a huge flood bar down there,” O’Connor said. If you make it to Utah, you can always look at the last remnants of prehistoric Lake Bonneville. After the Ice Age ended and the climate changed, there wasn’t much snowmelt and Lake Bonneville basically evaporated down to the Great Salt Lake, Wilson said.
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nybody who’s taken one of Celeste Bolin’s dance classes with music blaring and bodies pumping and sweat flowing knows she’s a ball of energy. But “big room Celeste,” when Bolin kicks it up a few notches while leading 200 dancers at Yogafort, is a whole other animal. “I look out at all those faces, and I see them diving in and getting that raw, unfiltered wildness out, and it amps me up even more,” Bolin said. “All of those faces are part of a room feeling that high-energy vibe, and it fuels me.” Dance instructor Celeste is Bolin’s most public-facing persona, but it’s only one aspect of the unusual amalgam of talents and ambitions. Scientist Celeste, or Dr. Bolin, holds a Ph.D. in toxicology, has taught at universities, including Boise State University and College of Idaho, and has coauthored peer-reviewed articles with such heady titles as, “The impact of cyclindependent kinase 5 depletion of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase activity and response to radiation.” Then there’s One Stone Celeste, who teaches at the Boise alternative high school and who has rediscovered her zest for education. Then there’s Yogafort Celeste, who co-founded and co-organizes the growing series of dance and yoga classes that have become a staple of Treefort Music Fest. Yogafort is a labor of love for Bolin and Marisa Weppner, who owns and teaches yoga at Sage Yoga & Wellness in Boise. The pair developed a partnership while teaching yoga and dance sessions at retreats around the world. Planning Yogafort, which had 16 sessions, 10 instructors and about
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2,000 attendees this year, requires Monday night planning sessions almost year-round. “We couldn’t do it without each other,” Weppner said. “It’s an ultimate trust. Whenever I drop the ball, she’s always there to pick it up. Never hard feelings that come with it.” Bolin, 38, teaches classes with titles such as Dance Fit, Dance Party Toning and Power Party Sculpt. Most of her students are women. The classes aren’t about dance as art, though Bolin and many of her students are talented. She doesn’t encourage students to drop inches off of their waists, or for mothers to get their pre-pregnancy bodies back. Instead, Bolin strives for therapy. She seeks to help students use movement to connect with their bodies and to feel good about themselves. She gives a lot of hugs. “I teach very few steps,” Bolin said. “The point is: This is what it feels like to be with a bunch of people, moving and sweating, hooting and hollering, being together in the soup.” Kelsey Nunez said she was going through a rough time personally and professionally when she signed up for one of Bolin’s classes in 2011. After her first session, Nunez felt better and more optimistic than she had in months. She’s attended classes ever since and has become close friends with Bolin. “I feel my body. I feel the friendship,” Nunez said. “Celeste has that energy. I leave all of the yucky stuff on the dance floor.” Bolin grew up in Boise and graduated from Boise High School. She embraced art thanks to her mother, who enrolled her in her first dance class at
age 3, and her master luthier father, John Bolin. Some moderately successful musicians have played Bolin Guitars over the past 35 years, including the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page. Bolin was the first in her family to attend college. After earning her Ph.D. and serving a series of prestigious fellowships, including one in Paris and another in Australia, Bolin returned home to be close to her family and to work a series of visiting professorships at College of Idaho and guest lecturer gigs at Boise State. Bolin said she “nerded out” on hard-core science topics, such as cell biology, animal physiology and the molecular structure of cancer, and enjoyed it. But she also spent most of her time in labs, by herself. She felt lonely. She tried to help her dance students live their most joyous lives, but she was failing to take her own advice. “It was the Dr. Bolin life. Celeste just wasn’t there,” she said. “I needed to find a way to let my personality out. I was looking for a change.” To say Bolin found a change by joining the small staff at One Stone teaching high school students would be an understatement. The school is a nonprofit and offers free tuition. Students don’t receive grades. Its staff are called “coaches” rather than teachers, and students and adults call each other by their first names. It’s also studentdirected, with more than two-thirds of the school’s board chaired by students. Students were among the first to interview Bolin when a friend convinced her to apply to teach science classes.
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The unconventional approach turned out to be a perfect fit both for Bolin and her students. Jared Perkins, a second-year One Stone student (the equivalent of a high school junior) said he’s become fascinated by neuroscience thanks to one of Bolin’s classes. “She took something that I had no interest in, and something incredibly complex as brain chemistry and transformed it into something I find incredibly engaging,” Perkins said. “That is pretty cool.” Another second-year student, Lucian Davis, said Bolin, as an advisor, is a strong advocate for students. Helping students find their voice is particularly important at a school that demands students shape their own education. “She’s a really cool person to be around,” Davis said. “She has a Ph.D. She organized Yogafort. But she’s always super approachable. I never feel intimidated by her even though she’s this super impressive person.” Bolin understands that students at One Stone and her dance studio draw from her seemingly endless enthusiasm. On days when she drags a bit or doesn’t feel her stellar best, Bolin said she’s learned to trust her body to take over. “I’m so engaged with my students and my classes, and I have moments where I feel so tired,” she said. “But I get to the studio, and by the end of the second song, time disappears. I’m elated to be there. Even if my body is tired, it’s completely rejuvenating, from the hugs coming through the door to the music that’s up so loud that it’s a problem.”
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ate in July, drivers cresting Highway 20’s hill near Pine, Idaho, can often be seen doing a double take. There before them, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, a small valley hosts a giant stage, dozens of white tents, 1,600 camping spots, and 7,000 feet of fencing. These are the makings of the Mountain Home Country Music Festival, this year being held July 27-29. While high temps, wind, pouring rain, intermittent lightning, insects, occasional dehydration, and the unavoidable dust can impinge on the fun, most of the 20,000 fans are undeterred. “You really have to experience it to understand it,” said Elmore County Extension’s Nadine Cook, a 4-H Program Assistant coordinator of volunteers. For three days, attendees flock to the base of the Sawtooth National Forest in remote Elmore County, approximately 30 miles from Mountain Home. With added vegetation and nearly 700 loads of decompressed granite, the venue can still be somewhat of a dustbowl, which, in a strange way, increases the rugged charm. Misting tents, free Gatorade, and medical stations for those succumbing to the heat help. What’s more, there are no water restrictions during the event, which allows for the filling of small swimming and wading pools. One week prior to the concert, construction begins, with nearly 400 volunteers’ help required during the TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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festival. While attendees from the area greet each other, many hail from all over the region and beyond, creating what could be called an “instant city … just add water.” “Instant city … just add beer!” said Renee Forsberg, University of Idaho Extension Program assistant. She explained that she volunteered to help with garbage collection through her local 4-H. “It’s not glamorous,” said coordinator Cook. “Heat and dust are an issue.” The festival requires an array of resources: power, bathrooms, camping, food, water, law enforcement, firefighters, emergency medical service and traffic control, to name a few. However, with upwards of $3 million in additional economic revenue generated by the event, outlying towns Mountain Home, Glenns Ferry, Pine, Featherville, and Sun Valley, consider the effort worthwhile. “It’s a fantastic plus, funding community events we might not have, otherwise,” said Forsberg. “It’s the fundraiser for us; it doubles our annual budget,” said Fairfield Volunteer Fire Department Chief Mike Stewart. “We bought a pumper truck for structure fires the first year.” For those used to small-town living, there’s some culture shock. “But you get to meet so many different folks. The majority are happy to be there, happy to help out,” said Stewart. Unlike the 4-H, local high school, and Mountain Home Air Force Base
volunteers, Stewart and crew are onduty full-time. “Not much play for the core crew,” he said. “Thursday noon to Monday noon, up till 1 or 2 a.m., chasing reports of burners going. Then up at 4:30 to cook breakfast.” Stewart’s crew of 10 recruited additional family and friends to host their $8 all-you-can-eat festival breakfasts. “We make $10,000 to $12,000 per
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year,” Stewart said. “And all proceeds go to the department.” Gathering massive amounts of refuse into pickups, 4-H volunteers take all of it to giant commercial bins during four-hour shifts, constantly circling the valley. “We meet different kinds, some drunk. It’s hard work, we get covered in alcohol, ” Cook laughed, “but amazingly, most have fun. You
don’t have to be in 4-H to volunteer,” Cook said. “We recruit whoever we can get.” For the instant community of 20,000, common courtesy is paramount. The festival website sums it up with this piece of advice: “Basically, don’t be a jerk.” There is zero tolerance for random desert dwelling or open flames. “None
whatsoever,” Fire Chief Stewart said. “So far, it’s been good. But if it’s burning, it’s going to get wet. Cook with something that can be shut off.” If rules are bent, firefighters have the authority to cut festival tickets in two. “If anyone wants to play nasty, we get rid of them,” Stewart warned. In 2017, Keith Urban’s performance was cancelled due to thunder and SUMMER 2018
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lightning. While fans were disappointed, others enjoyed a silver lining. “Watching the storm roll through was amazing. I love storms and was great with it,” said Cook. “I was nervous last year,” Chief Stewart said. “But we’ve got a good plan if things were to go south.” Over the course of three days, friendships are made. Forsberg recalls 4-H kids befriending a Las Vegas family with an elaborate custom UNLV “cornhole” game. When the game
went missing, the kids, upset, found it tucked under an RV on the opposite side of the park, which led to its recovery and an unlikely friendship. “We meet lots of really neat people when they’re out having breakfast, from Nevada, Oregon, all over,” Forsberg said, sharing their typical aftershift schedule of enjoying inner tubes and lawn chairs at a nearby reservoir. John Clark, Mountain Home High School’s Activity Director, told of students volunteering to help with
ice distribution, will call, and security gate checks, adding that parents and students from the band to basketball team often work together. “They’re dead tired when done, but it’s something they talk about all year,” Clark said. “Sometimes I’ll tell them to watch the gate for Alan Jackson.” For those behind the scenes for the duration, the payoffs are those magical moments of singing and dancing together under the stars. “It’s definitely something to behold,” Clark said.
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thought you knew the story of 'The Princess and The Pea,' you may be in for a walloping surprise! Carried on a wave of wonderful songs, by turns hilarious and raucous, romantic and melodic, this rollicking spin on the familiar classic of royal courtship and comeuppance provides for some side-splitting shenanigans. Chances are you'll never look at fairy tales quite the same way again. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise. boiselittletheater.org
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JUN. 8-14 — ‘Sister Act’ A woman hiding in a convent helps her fellow sisters find their voices as she rediscovers her own. This feelgood comedy smash is based on the hit film. Filled with powerful gospel music, outrageous dancing and a truly moving story, Sister Act will leave you breathless. This uplifting musical was nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Musical! Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald St., Boise. stagecoachtheatre.com JUN. 8-JUL. 29 — Idaho Shakespeare’s ‘Misery’ When successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon awakes in a secluded home, rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan” Annie Wilkes, fiction quickly becomes stark reality. While he semi-consciously
convalesces under her “care,” Annie secretly reads the unpublished manuscript of his new novel “Misery” and becomes enraged upon discovering that he has killed off her favorite character. When Annie demands that he rewrite his novel, Paul quickly realizes that the only way to avoid his own personal unhappy ending is to outwit the sociopathic bibliophile that seems bound and determined to keep him permanently bedridden. ISF Amphitheater, 5657 Warm Spring Ave., Boise. idahoshakespeare.org JUN. 9–28 — Idaho Watercolor Society Exhibition Founded in 1979, the Idaho Watercolor Society is a non-profit organization that promotes the use of watercolor media and aims to educate the public regarding the significance of watercolor painting in today’s settings. This exhibition showcases a glimpse at the breadth of styles the medium can achieve and highlights watercolor artists throughout Idaho. Boise State University SUB Fine Arts Gallery, 1700 University Dr., Boise. facebook.com/events/359414351217601/
Krishna Cultural Center, 2470 W. Boise Ave., Boise. 2-5 p.m. facebook.com/Holi-Boise-Festival-of-Colors-andMusic-1024619881054614/ JUN. 29-JUL. 22 — ‘Sculpted Light’ at BAM As a Los Angeles native who has spent many years in New York, artist Heather Carson is influenced by both the West Coast light and space movement and East Coast minimalism. Viewed from the front, Carson’s works are delicate and luminescent, emanating a pale glow. Their subtle palettes are comprised entirely of different tones of white, that, when placed in close proximity to one another, appear to be distinct hues. Viewed from the side, the industrial hardware, used to build the artworks, becomes visible, causing the weight and mass to become more prominent. Between the light they emit and the physical space they occupy, the artworks exist in a middle ground between fleeting and permanent. Boise Art Museum, 670 S. Julia Davis Dr., Boise. boiseartmuseum.org JUL. 13-AUG. 29 — Alive After Five Summer Concert Series Join us this summer for Alive After Five, back on The Grove Plaza! We will be celebrating 32 years of Boise's favorite Summer Concert Series every Wednesday. The event starts at 5p.m. and lasts until 8 p.m. and is free to attend. The Grove Plaza, 827 W Main St., Boise. downtownboise.org/events/alive-after-five
Festivals & Events JUN. 10 — Festival of Colors and Music Originating in India, the Holi Festival of Colors is now celebrated world wide as a way to promote cultural diversity and inclusivity. There will be colors throws every half hour!
JUN. 9 — Sheep in the Foothills Festival Enjoy this family friendly event featuring local sheep, sheep herding demonstrations, local vendors, crafts for kids, live music with Gary and Cindy Braun, and a BBQ lamb lunch.
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JUN. 26 — Mary Chapin Carpenter The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise. 7 p.m. egyptiantheatre.net JUN. 28 — Blue October, Kitten Knitting Factory Concert House,
416 S. 9th St., Boise. 8 p.m. knittingfactory.com JUN. 29 — Charlie Parr Neurolux Lounge, 111 N. 11th St., Boise. 8 p.m. neurolux.com JUL. 5 — Kenny
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Limited Parking is available; a shuttle will be running from Fort Boise to the Learning Center. Please, no children under 2 year of age. They cannot ride the shuttle due to safety factors. Jim Hall Foothills Learning Center, 3188 Sunset Peak Rd., Boise. 10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. facebook.com/idahowool/ JUN. 10 — Savor Idaho Welcome to Idaho's premier wine and food event! The Idaho Wine Commission is celebrating Savor Idaho's 10th Anniversary. Savor Idaho gives consumers a unique opportunity to savor the best Idaho has to offer in wine and food while enjoying great, local tunes by Douglas Cameron. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N Old Penitentiary Rd., Boise. 2 – 5 p.m. savoridaho.org
studios, yet rise with the sun to display their handiwork. Talented bakers who can create the most robust of bread loaves, yet coax a fine, flaky crust from each handmade pastry. From passionate vendors to visitors who value shopping local, these are the people who make The Capital City Public Market THE weekend market in Boise’s vibrant downtown. 8th and Idaho streets, Boise. capitalcitypublicmarket.com/the-market
JUN. 26 — God & Country Festival Join us for the Treasure Valleys largest fireworks exhibition at the 52nd Annual God and Country Festival. This year we have international speaker Nick Vujicic from Life Without Limbs, musical guest "Unspoken" and American Idol finalist Maddie Zahm. There will be food trucks and other local music artists and fun for everyone! Ford Idaho Center, 16200 Idaho Center Blvd., Nampa. godandcountryfestival.com
JUN. 9–OCT. 13 — Eagle Saturday Market The Eagle Saturday Market is a local community market held every Saturday May 5 - October 13, from 9:30 a.m.- 2 p.m. in the heart of downtown Eagle, Heritage Park. At the market, one will find an array of arts and crafts along with local produce, herbs and flowers, woodwork, specialty food items and freshly prepared food. Every Saturday the park comes alive with the melodious sounds of local musicians and community members coming together to support local micro-producers. There will also be additional Special Events throughout the year in which market vendors will participate, including Eagle Fun Days, Harvest Fest, Eagle Country Christmas and Gazebo Concert Series. Heritage Park, 185 E. State St., Eagle. facebook.com/eaglesaturdaymarket
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JUN. 10–OCT. 27 — Boise Farmers Market BFM celebrated its 5th birthday on opening day, April 7. festivities will be ongoing all day and will begin with the cutting of the cake at 10 a.m., continuing throughout the morning with see samples and more for the kids, and hourly giveaways. 10th and Grove streets, Boise. theboisefarmersmarket.com
JUN. 9 — Barre at the Garden Come shake with us and enjoy the beautiful surroundings of the Idaho Botanical Garden. Pure Barre is excited to offer this inaugural lift, tone and burn class. Bring your mat, water bottle and leave the shake to us! Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Old Penitentiary Rd., Boise. 10 a.m.
JUN. 9–DEC. 15 — Capital City Public Market At The Capital City Public Market, you’ll meet Treasure Valley farmers who can tell you the best way to choose a ripe ear of corn. Skilled atists who burn the midnight oil in their
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Center, 16200 Idaho Center Blvd., Nampa. 7:30 p.m. fordidahocenter.com JUL. 5 — The Black Lillies The Olympic, 1009 Main St., Boise. 7 p.m. theolympicboise.com
JUN. 16 — PurpleCure Memorial Golf Tournament Golf tournament benefiting patients, survivors, and families affected by Pancreatic Cancer. Eagle Hills Golf Course, 605 N Edgewood Lane, Eagle. 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. purplecure.org
JUL. 15 — X Ambassadors Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. 9th St., Boise. 8 p.m. knittingfactory.com JUL. 17 — James McMurtry Neurolux
Lounge, 111 N. 11th St., Boise. 7 p.m. neurolux.com JUL. 17 — Sheryl Crow Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Old Penitentiary Rd., Boise. 7 p.m. idahobotanicalgarden.org
JUN. 23 — World Refugee Day & Soccer Friendly Start the day off at the Grove Plaza with refugee performances, a citizenship ceremony, and ethnic food and art vendors. Afterward, stop by Ann Morrison Park for a refugee soccer tournament, youth clinics, and more entertainment at the third annual World Refugee Day Soccer Friendly! Grove Plaza Celebration: 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Refugee performances, food and art vendors, citizenship ceremony. Soccer friendly: Ann Morrison Park, 12:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. Bring the family for soccer clinics, youth activities, and more! Grove Plaza, 827 W Main St., Boise. Warm Springs Golf Course
JUN. 24 — Longest Day of Golf Business Links Boise (BLB) and Eventageous Idaho have partnered with the Alzheimer's Association of Idaho again this year to support the "Longest Day of Golf." We appreciate all of your support. The cost is $60/per player (golf cart and tee time). Teams are made up of four players. Warm Spring Golf Course is providing a bucket of balls with no range fee for all players. This is a great opportunity to network and get your name out there as a community sponsor/donor. Warm Springs Golf Course, 2495 Warm Springs Ave., Boise. facebook.com/events/2665640816909972/ JUL. 13-15 — Twilight Criterium Enjoy this three-day cycling event, which includes Kristin Armstrong’s “Chrono” time trial featuring top pro female racers, the downtown Criterium, and the Chicken Dinner Road Race. Downtown Boise. facebook.com/BoiseTwilightCriterium/
JUL. 20 — Jackson Browne Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Old Penitentiary Rd., Boise. 7:30 p.m. idahobotanicalgarden.org AUG. 1 — ZZ Top Idaho Botanical Garden,
2355 N. Old Penitentiary Rd., Boise. 7 p.m. idahobotanicalgarden.org AUG. 8 — Amos Lee Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Old Penitentiary Rd., Boise. 7 p.m. idahobotanicalgarden.org
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aylor Norby and Ryan Erstad said “I do” in their shared hometown Boise last September, with a traditional wedding dripping in gorgeous fall hues and intimate details, celebrating deep family roots. Although they both grew up in Boise, Ryan, a construction manager, and Taylor, a physical therapist, didn’t meet until Ryan attended school with Taylor’s brother at the University of Idaho. A serendipitous meeting ignited sparks that carried the couple through a growing long-distance relationship. Their nuptials honored family traditions, while celebrating love with 400 guests. Taylor wore a garter made from her mother’s veil. Her bridesmaids wore shoes with decals of her favorite Disney couples. Disneyland is one of her favorite places and is where Ryan proposed. The couple drove away from the ceremony in a 1936 Packard, the same car Taylor’s parents used for their wedding, while the bridal party followed, riding a fire engine from the mid-1930s. “There were a lot of details that tied it to our roots, with the reception being at the home of Taylor’s grandmother, all the old cars representing her grandfather, and all the groomsmen wearing cowboy boots (many of which had first belonged to Ryan’s or Taylor’s grandfathers),” Ryan said. The night ended with dancing under the stars and an exit through a tunnel of sparklers.
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Red Feather Lounge owner David Roberts will soon open Diablo & Sons Saloon at 8th and Idaho.
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he people behind Boise’s four new taco restaurants are anything but restaurant novices. They include a James Beard award semi-finalist, a food truck fan favorite, an established farm-to-table restaurateur and a veteran farmers market pop-up. The tacos they’re slinging are everything from authentic Latin cuisine to chef-driven fusion. Here’s a preview of this summer’s taco offerings downtown.
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Famous Tortillas Mike and Rosie Weems, owners of Calle 75 in downtown Boise, started making tacos for their friends and family. Far from their current digs, this was in Rosie’s parent’s backyard in California. Rosie’s mom made fresh salsa and tortillas, while her dad flipped carne asada on the grill. They made tacos for their friends back in Ketchum, where Mike was raised, and then they started selling their tacos at farmers markets. Once their farmers market business turned into steady catering gigs in the Treasure Valley, they moved their family and jumped on an opportunity to open in The Village at Meridian’s open-air food court. When a space on 11th and Main streets became available, they opened their second location in January.
Calle 75’s claim to fame is the Nixtamalization process they employ for their blue and yellow corn tortillas. The Nixtamalization (pronounced neesh-ta-mal-i-za-shun) process for making authentic corn tortillas from scratch leaves them with inimitable flavor and texture. Raw corn is processed with an alkaline soak, steeped and then ground into masa with a heavy volcanic stone. The process alters the natural proteins in corn to create a completely hearty hominy. This summer, catch Calle 75’s staff slinging tacos through a walk-up window that will have a limited menu and be opened late, or cool off in their airy, white-tiled dining room. Their Mike Reims of Calle 75, along with his wife, Rosie, began their business by cooking tacos for friends.
signature tacos el pastor are cooked on a tromp, or the spinning grill you might see in a gyro restaurant. Ask for it gringa style for a layer of fried cheese that adds the perfect crunch.
Tacos Localized When David Roberts, brand manager at Bittercreek Alehouse and Red Feather Lounge, describes Diablo & Sons Saloon, he makes a point to emphasize that the new concept on 8th and Idaho is bar-driven. The beverage program will feature lagers from breweries that share the same values and point of view that the “Just Eat Local” team touts at Bittercreek, with the liquor program focusing on mezcal. Roberts adds that the menu will revolve around tacos that rotate with the seasons, allowing the restaurant to source from local farms. Diablo & Sons has even planted its own corn for the tortillas, working with Casey O’Leary at the Snake River Seed CoOp to gather heirloom seeds, plant test plots, and make small amounts of tortillas for taste testing. They’re avoiding street-style tacos and hope to create a menu from Boise’s point of view, which means you can bet that M&M Farms potatoes will be included for an Idaho-specific taco. The design concept will follow the American West theme, with rugged textures and a Japanese technique for charring wood called shou sugi ban. Plus, an outdoor bar will be heated by Boise’s geothermal network. SUMMER 2018
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Madre, located in the Lusk District near Boise State University, focuses on locally grown ingredients .
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Chef-Driven Tacos Madre is the first restaurantforward space in the up-and-coming Lusk District, the commercial area near Boise State University and Ann Morrison Park that is transforming by the day. Owners John and Julie Cuevas like the up-and-coming quality, the proximity to the park, and the chance to be a part of something new in Boise. They hope to win hearts and stomachs through their chef-driven tacos, with ingredients that will be sourced as locally as possible, including Tractor organic soda from Coeur d'Alene and Lost Grove Brewing beer from just a few doors down. John Cuevas was a James Beard Award semi-finalist for his Laguna Beach restaurant, The Loft, and both he and Julie spent several years working in luxury hospitality. Their fast-casual restaurant will allow guests to order at the counter and find their own seating, but the service won’t stop there. Staff will circulate the dining room TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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and expansive patio to offer diners further assistance. The space was formerly occupied by a tile company, but the only evidence you’ll find of the previous
If you cut-open the Airstream that usually serves as The Funky Taco’s home base, you’d find the same tight operation that is their 8th Street restaurant. With modern navy-colored booths and a full bar, the restaurant’s hip design matches its prime location, formerly occupied by Mongolian Grill. Their new brick-and-mortar home, however, takes their funkiness up a notch, with an upper level for live music, vibrant turquoise-colored walls and funkified portraits of pop stars. Owners Justin and Sheri Archambo expanded the menu but kept the same fusion-style tacos that draws long lines at the Boise Farmers Market. Their vegan options still abound, with a fried cauliflower and vegan-optional kimchi quesadilla on the rotational menu, as well as their famous vegan Bahn mi mi taco with funk fu, pickled veggies, jalapeño, cilantro, toasted sesame aioli and Asian slaw. The most mainstream tacos on their menu are anything but, with a macho taco that includes coffee-braised brisket, roja salsa, cilantro cream and shaved carrot, as well as a chicken roja, with charcoaled chicken thighs, house roja, charred peppers and onions, Ballard feta, radish and arugula. The Funky Taco serves fusion-style tacos in a modern and hip environment.
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Cider House Rules Meriwether Cider opens downtown cider house, a first for Idaho
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The Meriwether Cider Company was named after the owners' ancestor, Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark fame.
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n some ways, Meriwether Cider’s history stretches much further back than the two years they’ve been in business. The Leadbetter family, who owns the business, are direct descendants of Meriwether Lewis, the first explorer to cross the Continental Divide into Idaho. They named their cider company after Lewis because when they started out, they were embarking on a new adventure. Gig and Ann Leadbetter are equal partners with their daughters, Molly TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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and and Kate. The entire family has served as wildland firefighters, and when Gig and Ann decided to retire from their roles as college professors, Molly and Kate were firefighters ready to hang up their axes. After a successful Kickstarter campaign to launch the business, they built a regular following at farmers’ markets and opened their taproom on Chinden Boulevard. This summer, they’re opening their second retail location as a cider house in downtown Boise. Cider is an alcoholic drink made from crushed apples that are fer-
mented. Its popularity rode the wave of craft beer, making it the world’s fastest growing beverage category over the last decade. In 2012, Boston Beer Company, which sells Sam Adams, launched their Angry Orchard cider label. Even beverage giant Anheuser-Busch InBev markets a cider under Stella Artois. Molly Leadbetter, Meriwether’s marketing arm, credits these giants for making cider go mainstream. “Don’t let anybody diss Angry Orchard, because they put the millions into marketing that cider needed,”
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Molly explained. “None of us would exist if they didn't say, ‘No, no. This is a thing now.’” The cider house, which is the first of its kind in Idaho, will open this summer on the corner of 9th and Bannock streets, in the space formerly occupied by Portsche’s Jewelry Boutique. The 20-tap bar will showcase Meriwether’s signature ciders, as well as their seasonal creations and ciders from around the state, country and world. The range of options will allow guests to choose their own flights so they can sample many different types of cider. Bottled ciders will also be available for purchase to enjoy at home or on site. Their Foothills semi-dry and blackberry boom are best-sellers, and some of their most interesting seasonals include a hopped cider, heritage crab apple, and a bourbon-barrel-aged maple that is aptly named Hardwood. The Leadbetters hope to release a special cider for opening day, as well, which they project to be in June. The family’s original taproom on Chinden will remain open, but the Leadbetters see the downtown taproom as an opportunity to educate
the masses on cider and its place in their beverage lineup. The staff will all be certified cider educators by the United States Association of Cider Makers. Part of their task has and will be showing imbibers that cider isn’t a beer or wine replacement, but just another category. “Our whole philosophy behind the cider house is it’s not just going to be our ciders,” said Gig Leadbetter, the head cider maker. “It’s going to be informing Boise that there is more than one style of cider out there. There’s French, Spanish and English ciders, and we are going to try and present all of those different styles of cider to Boise and really educate and introduce them to the world. Ann and I were both professors, and it’s hard to get away from that teaching aspect.” The 9th and Bannock space will also include an upper level, which will be available to reserve for private events, as well as a narrow patio along Bannock Street. The garage-style windows will open for an indoor/outdoor experience, and the modern design will reflect the family’s mission for promoting cider’s future.
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A Brief Guide to the Valley’s Best Eateries
Juniper Locally imagined and seasonally inspired cuisine served in a funky modern-rustic space anchored by a turn-of-the-century brick wall. A full offering of classically crafted cocktails complements an eclectic wine list. 211 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 342-1142
Red Feather Lounge
american/regional NW Berryhill Restaurant Bar Celebrated chef John Berryhill presents his energetic and Slightly Southern dining in the heart of downtown Boise, featuring 28 wines by the glass, an extensive wine list and full bar. 121 N. 9th Street B, Downtown Boise, (208) 387-3553
Bleubird Serving quality specialty sandwiches, hearty soups, artisan salads, and fresh-squeezed juices and sodas. Don't miss it for lunch. 224 N. 10th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 345-1055
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Awarded the Wine Spectator "Award of Excellence" in 2016, Capital Cellars serves Boise’s best business breakfast and lunch, as well as featuring an elegant dinner menu that changes seasonally. 110 S. 5th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 344-9463
Cottonwood Grille Seasonal Northwest fare, farm-fresh wild game, fine wines and classic cocktails served in a rustic setting along the greenbelt. 913 W. River St, Boise, (208) 333-9800
Red Feather has been celebrating the modern American lounge since its opening in 2002. Enjoy seasonal American cuisine, fresh interpretations of the classic cocktail, and an atmosphere inspired by a vibe of eternal swank. 246 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 345-1813
Reel Foods Fish Market & Oyster Bar Providing the Boise area with a fine-dining restaurant, quality seafood and other gourmet treasures—soups, sauces, spices, condiments and sides. Reel Foods serves soups and oysters to eat in on the covered patio or for take-away from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 611 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, (208) 342-2727
State & Lemp State & Lemp offers a dynamic, prix-fixe menu in a contemporary atmosphere Wednesday through Saturday. Relationships built with local farmers, ranchers and artisans lead to creative dishes that showcase the highest quality productions that Idaho and the Pacific Northwest have to offer. 2870 W. State Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 429-6735
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Emilio’s
With ingredients sourced from local Boise and Northwest farmers, ranchers, bakers, distillers, brewers and cheese makers, Fork’s seasonal menu is fresh and innovative— perfect comfort food for lunch or dinner. 199 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 287-1700
Grit American Cuisine Enjoy fresh, seasonal dishes that feature ingredients from Idaho farmers and producers. The gas-fired pizza oven turns out hand tossed pizzas, and specialties like TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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Ling & Louie’s Asian Bar and Grill The concept is centered around fictional founders Ling, a firecracker of a gal from Shanghai, and Louie, an AllAmerican guy from Toledo, Ohio, who meet, fall in love and share their passion for food by opening an Asian restaurant that’s “Not for Boring People.” The result is an energetic atmosphere, critically acclaimed cuisine and innovative drink menu. 3210 E. Louise Dr., Meridian, (208) 888-5000
Mai Thai Unique and authentic dishes from the four regional cuisines of Thailand are complemented by an exceptional wine list and handcrafted cocktails. It is like stepping into a slice of Thailand, right here in Boise. 1759 W. Idaho Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 344-8424
Mount Everest Momo Café A unique dining experience that brings diners a taste of the rich culinary heritage of the Himalayas. A delicious variety of recipes, painstakingly gathered from the royal kitchens of Nepal to the swept shores of South India, offer a truly delightful Nepali experience. 2144 S. Broadway Ave., Downtown Boise, (208) 342-1268
Pho Nouveau Bistro Contemporary Vietnamese comfort food featuring spring rolls, green papaya salad, rice plates, summer noodle bowls (bun) and the always-popular pho. 780 W. Idaho Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 367-1111
Shige Japanese Cuisine
Emilio’s Restaurant specializes in upscale comfort food, featuring regional Idaho and Northwest influences, including locally sourced produce, meats, fresh fish and more. Reservations recommended. 245 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise. (208) 333-8002
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A unique dining experience offering sushi, USDA prime grade steaks, daily seafood specials, burgers, sandwiches and salads. Full bar with an extensive wine list, great classic cocktails, sake and draught beers. Happy Hour is Monday – Saturday. Brunch is served on Sundays from an a la carte menu, from 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Tables range from higher tables in the bar area with an energetic atmosphere, or booths, and a quieter area with lower tables. 3111 S. Bown Way, East Boise, (208) 345-2277
Celebrating over 20 years downtown, Shige Japanese Cuisine is still a local favorite serving up sushi and Japanese specialties at three locations in the same complex— Shige Express, Shige Steakhouse and Shige Japanese Cuisine. 100 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 338-8423 280 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 385-0123
bars, pubs & distillery 10 Barrel Brewing Company This 20 barrel brewhouse and our hop-king headbrewer Shawn Kelso make this brewpub "the hoppiest place in Idaho" and a hub for all your pre-game warmups and post-adventure hunger, and quaffing needs. 830 W. Bannock St., Downtown Boise, (208) 344-5870
Amsterdam Lounge Amsterdam is a mixology lounge specializing in craft cocktails and small plates, located in downtown Boise. Women & Whiskey every Wednesday night—ladies receive half-price whiskey all night, featured whiskey is half price for everyone, and free tastings are from 8–11 p.m. Friday happy hour, with half-priced food and drinks, 4-7 p.m. 609 W. Main Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 345-9515
Bardenay Stop in for lunch or dinner and enjoy Bardenay’s casual Northwestern-style cuisine with cocktails handcrafted with freshly squeezed juices and their signature distilled spirits—currently vodka, rum and gin, with whiskey in the barrel. 610 W. Grove Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 426-0538 155 E. Riverside Dr., Eagle, (208) 938-5093
Barrelhouse Pub and Grill A unique and casual dining experience, Barrelhouse offers a relaxed environment with delicious pub fare. Serving more than 22 rotating taps of handcrafted beers and hard ciders, with a special emphasis given to Treasure Valley breweries. 5181 N. Glenwood Street, Garden City, (208) 376-4200
Bittercreek Alehouse The Bittercreek Alehouse serves exceptional beers, ciders and ales on tap, alongside tasty bites. Don't miss the Low Power Happy Hour—every weekday from 3-5:30 p.m., when the management unplugs and turns down the lights to reduce their energy footprint, serving and drinking by candlelight in honor of the planet. Romantic and earth-friendly. 246 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 345-1813
Always Good. Always Cottonwood.
Bodovino A total wine experience, with over 144 wines by the glass and over 600 wines by the bottle. Now with two locations—downtown Boise and a new location in The Village at Meridian. 404 S. 8th St., Downtown Boise, (208) 336-VINO (8466) 363 E. Monarch Sky Lane, Meridian, (208) 887-5369
The Hyde House
There’s something for everybody on this eclectic menu, where delicious dishes are handcrafted to complement local brews and wines and taps rotate daily! 1607 N. 13th St., North End Boise, (208) 387-HYDE (4933)
Whether you’re celebrating a milestone birthday or the end of another workday, come to Cottonwood. We make it easy to savor the moment with handcrafted cocktails, an impressive wine list, and classically delicious meals made with ingredients at the peak of freshness. Join us this spring and summer on our riverside patio. Linger a little. Enjoy.
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Reef A tropical escape in the heart of downtown, featuring the city’s best rooftop patio, live music and exotic food and drink. 105 S. 6th St., Downtown Boise, (208) 287-9200
basque Traditional Basque dishes, pub fare and an extensive beer selection served in a laid-back space that has become a local institution. 202 S. Capitol Blvd, Downtown Boise, (208) 344-2175
Epi's—A Basque Restaurant Chris and Gina opened Epi’s in memory of their grandmother, Epi Inchausti. This quaint dinnerhouse features food reminiscent of the Basque country, giving you a delightful experience for your evening. 1115 N. Main Street, Meridian, (208) 884-0142
cafés, delis & coffee Bacon BACON, a Southern breakfast and lunch bistro conceived by celebrity chef and restaurateur John Berryhill, features coffee, a full bar and the awesome Bacon Bloody Mary! 121 N. 9th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 387-3553
Big City Coffee & Café Serving breakfast and lunch all day, along with espresso, coffees and in-house baked goods. Try the pumpkin chai muffin, cherry pie scone, or homemade biscuits and gravy with fresh buttermilk biscuits. 1416 Grove Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 345-3145
Goldy’s Breakfast Bistro Goldy’s opened in 1999 in the heart of downtown Boise. Quality made-to-order breakfast has made Goldy’s one of the best restaurants in the Treasure Valley—Voted Best Local Breakfast for 18 years! 108 S. Capitol Blvd., Downtown Boise, (208) 345-4100
JanJou Patisserie JanJou was opened in 2008 as a wholesale bakery selling mostly cookies to local shops. A retail bakery and full cafe was opened in 2013—with the name as homage to one of the co-owner's mother, whose nickname was Janjou. 1754 W. State Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 297-5853
Wild Root Café and Market Chef Michael Trebbi and his wife, AnneMarie, serve up breakfast and lunch fare with artistic flare and a local, seasonal, farmto-table focus. The presentation is elegant TERRITORY–MAG.COM
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craft cocktails, daily specials and a menu that specializes in seasonal fresh fish prepared with elegant simplicity over a wood-burning grill. Taste today's fresh catch. 855 W. Broad St., Downtown Boise, (208) 433-1234
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Fresh seasonal ingredients inform the locally inspired Italian cuisine at this traditional Italian osteria. Creative craft cocktails and an extensive wine list complement dishes inspired by regional ingredients. 807 W. Idaho Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 780-1100
Le Coq d’Or An unforgettable and artistic dining experience inspired by authentic European countryside cuisine and farm-to-table French cuisine and modern European dishes. Open for dinner only, Tuesday through Saturday. 176 S. Rosebud Lane, Eagle, (208) 947-2840
Pie Hole Late night dining in a funky space, serving thin crust New York-style pizza. Pie Hole has become a local institution. Open all day and late night. 205 N. 8th Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 344-7783 1016 Broadway Avenue, Boise Bench, (208) 424-2225
Prime cuts of beef and fresh caught fish, combined with local homegrown ingredients and an extensive wine list, are served in a swanky, hip setting. The Lounge at Chandlers features live jazz nightly and a martini bar— home of the Ten Minute Martini™. Social Hour is Monday-Friday, 4-6 p.m. 981 W. Grove Street, Boise, (208) 383-4300
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The Wylder Enjoy handcrafted, slow-batch pizza with soul. Experience full-service dining, craft cocktails, and suppers. With five styles of red pizza and five types of white, pies are not the only reason this restaurant is always buzzing. 501 West Broad Street, Boise. (208) 209-3837
mexican Chapala Traditional Mexican food in a familyfriendly atmosphere offering choices for every taste, and with multiple locations throughout Boise. 1201 S. Vista Ave., Boise Bench, (208) 429-1155
Matador Popular Mexican cuisine in an "Old World" atmosphere of dark walnut, intricate ironwork and deep, roomy booths. Matador features the city’s widest selection of tequila and a spacious outdoor patio during the summer months. 215 N. 8th St., Downtown Boise, (208) 342-9988
steak & seafood Bonefish Grill Full of fresh and innovative dishes, the Bonefish Grill crafts a complete dining experience—from customized pairings and
Owyhee Tavern opened in October 2016 bringing a new vibe to the downtown area. Located in the historic Owyhee building, this steak house offers American Wagyu, USDA prime grade steaks, organic salmon, fresh ahi, and oysters on the half shell. Specialties also include kung pao calamari, Kobe fondue and ahi poke salad—and don’t forget to ask for a side of cheddar tots or Brussels sprouts. $5 Happy Hour, Monday-Friday from 3-6 p.m. 1109 Main Street, Downtown Boise, (208) 639-0440
The BrickYard Touted as a steak house, The BrickYard has other notable features that are bound to pique your epicurean interest, such as our tableside salad service and our wide range of entrée selections from Idaho Wagyu Kobe beef to crab and scallop topped halibut. Open for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour, 3-6 p.m. and Friday & Saturday from 10-11 p.m. Dueling Piano Show, Friday and Saturday, 10 p.m. – close. 601 Main Street, Boise. (208) 287-2121
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