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VOLUME 13 | ISSUE 36 | SEPTEMBER 9-15, 2015

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COVER STORY FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN With the West ablaze, how long before the Tetons feel the heat?

Cover photo by Bridger-Teton National Forest

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Twenty-eight degrees is not a record low temperature, by any means, for early September in Jackson. We’ve seen colder, and even colder temps during this second week of September. The record low for this week is 15-degrees, set back on September 9th, 1962. For plant aficionados, permanent crop damage will occur when the temperature gets colder than 25-degrees. Twenty-eight is considered a “moderate-freeze”, which is bad for fruits and tender plants.

Yes, 80-degrees does feel pretty nice this time of year. However, the reality is the chances of that are diminishing with each day we go forward towards fall. Average highs this week are in the lower 70’s, not bad. What really drops off from here on out this month is the likelihood of making it to 90-degrees. That has happened only one time in the last 80 years, so the odds are not good! On September 12th, 1934 the thermometer in Jackson made it to 93-degrees.

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AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.27 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 3.93 inches (1961) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 3 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 0.1 inches

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ast week we experienced an almost twenty degree drop in temperature here in town, with pre-Labor high temperatures up near 80-dgrees and overnight low temperatures a comfortable 42 to 45 degrees. That made those first few days of September 2015 feel like summer was still with us. Then the hammer dropped, as did the mercury, with high temperatures in town this past Saturday and Sunday only 60-degrees. The overnight low temperature Labor Day morning, officially in town, was 28-degrees.

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GUEST OPINION More commercial development will push a struggling community further off balance

BY CRAIG BENJAMIN

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The tipping point ‘Housing not hotels’ seems a recurring mantra around these parts.

in the wrong direction. “Workforce houswo years ago my wife Stacy and I ing is not being provided in balance with decided to leave successful careers the jobs that are being created,” the report in Seattle and move back to Jackson stated. And, “the ratio of local workforce Hole – where we met, fell in love and got to local jobs has declined steadily over the married – to raise our two children. While past 10 years.” we were excited our kids, Piper and Ryder, Our community has passed the tipping would get to grow up in a place with abun- point and is out of balance, way out of dant wildlife and astonishingly beautiful balance. We have too much commercial wild places, it was the opportunity for them and lodging development and not nearly to grow up in a place with a sense of com- enough housing affordable to the workmunity that drove our decision. But right force. Renowned urban planner Chuck now that sense of community is crumbling. Marohn recently said what is happening In June, a local restaurant manager here in Jackson Hole – with residents such asked me to personally thank everyone who as emergency responders being priced out – had spoken up for housing affordable work- will decidedly transform our home. “From a ers during the Downtown (District 2) land housing standpoint, Jackson Hole is well on development regulations update process. its way to being like Vail, Colo.,” he warned.

That’s because he can barely find enough In order to stay a strong community staff to stay open for dinner where at least 65 percent of (he’d long since given up on people who work here can “All of this is why finding enough staff to open afford to live here, it’s estiit’s so baffling that for lunch). mated that our community Then there’s the 40 percent some of our elected needs to produce 280 units increase in rent at Blair Place of housing affordable to peorepresentatives Apartments, which might just ple who work here a year for be the straw that broke our are bending over the next 10 years. Of these community’s back because of 280 units, 30 result from backwards trying to its impact on police and comcatching-up from our currationalize adding munity leaders who may now rent deficit, 50 are the result have to leave the valley. In The millions of square feet of the pending retirement of Planet’s series “The Faces of baby-boomers and 200 are Blair,” 11-year valley resident of new commercial and the result of employment (and Blair Place denizen) Matt lodging development growth.

Grabowski recently explained Think about that for a potential across what many of us are feeling: second. The primary driver Jackson Hole. “ “It feels more and more like of our housing crunch and working class people are not loss of community character welcome here anymore.” is continually increasing commercial and According to the 2012 Jackson/Teton lodging development.

County Comprehensive Plan, “Other resort This means the easiest and least costly communities in the Rocky Mountains fac- thing we can do to deal with our housing ing housing affordability issues have iden- challenge is to limit new commercial and tified the loss of a resident workforce as lodging development. When you’re in a hole the primary indicator of their lost sense of the best thing to do is stop digging. community.” This is why our community This is why our Comprehensive Plan has established the shared goal of housing clearly states, “Community character will at least 65 percent of our workforce locally – be preserved by limiting overall developwe value staying a strong community. ment in the community to the amount that The 2015 Annual Indicator Report – a has been allowed and planned for since joint town and county document that mea- 1994.” sures our community’s progress toward All of this is why it’s so baffling that our shared goals – indicates that we have some of our local elected representatives already fallen below this 65 percent tipping are bending over backwards trying to ratiopoint while explaining things are trending nalize adding millions of square feet of

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new commercial and lodging development potential across Jackson Hole.

This move would negatively impact our community’s housing, transportation (more traffic), and ecosystem stewardship (more impacts on wildlife) goals. Officials are unable to articulate how this policy change would advance our community’s vision of a better future and proponents of this inexplicable action have resorted to arcane arguments about the intent of a few of the elected representatives who voted to adopt our Comprehensive Plan. Wouldn’t it be better if our elected representatives made policy decisions based on what’s in the best long-term interest of our community instead of what they think a few people – who aren’t in office anymore – might have intended in the past?

Even stranger, proponents of adding more commercial and lodging development potential have argued that it would help pay the bills. That’s like pouring gasoline on a monster forest fire and then complaining you need more fire engines to put it out.

What makes all of this even more bizarre is that we already have more than five million square feet of existing commercial and lodging entitlements. When you consider that the Marriott currently under construction is only 92,000 square feet you start to understand the madness of adding millions of square feet of new commercial and lodging development potential.

Here’s what you can do to help clean up this hot mess: Write the town council (council@townofjackson.com) and the county commission (commissioners@ tetonwyo.org) and tell them that Jackson Hole needs housing for our middle class, not more Marriotts. Let them know we definitely shouldn’t make our housing problem worse through a dramatic and unnecessary expansion of commercial and lodging development potential. Respectfully request that they stop wasting time considering a policy change that would take our community in the wrong direction. Tell them to start focusing on moves that would protect our community character and advance our community’s vision of a better future. PJH Craig Benjamin is the executive director of the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance.

High Holidays Schedule of Events

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Services led by Rabbi Mike Comins, Carl Levenson & Chazzan Judd Grossman St. John’s Episcopal Church 170 N. Glenwood | Jackson, WY

Rosh Hashanah

Sunday, September 13

6:00 p.m. Erev Rosh Hashanah / Rabbi Mike Comins Prelude music begins at 5:30 p.m.

Thai Food New Years Party

Following Erev Rosh Hashanah services at Hansen Hall next door. Thai Food and goodies catered by Thai Plate Restaurant. $25 adults/$18 children/under 5 free. Includes Thai chicken, noodles and vegetarian buffet, drinks, dessert and party favors. Reservations required at contact info below. Note new location of party.

Monday, September 14

9:30 a.m. Children’s Service 10:00 a.m. Shacharit, Morning Service (Childcare will begin at 10 am)

Potluck lunch to follow services in the Fellowship Hall.

Please bring a main dish or side dish/salad to share.

Bagels, cream cheese and drinks will be provided. *Following lunch there will be Taschlich at Flat Creek.

Tuesday, September 15 Second Day Rosh Hashanah

10:00 a.m. on St. John’s Episcopal Church lawn

Erev Yom Kippur/Kol Nidre Tuesday, September 22

Services led by Carl Levenson Prelude music begins at 6:30 p.m.

Services will promptly begin at 7:00 p.m., Childcare provided

Yom Kippur

Wednesday, September 23

No tickets required JH Jewish Community 307-734-1999 info@jhjewishcommunity.org

9:30 a.m. Children’s Service with Josh Kleyman 10:00 a.m. Shacharit, Morning Service, Childcare provided 2:30 p.m. Workshop 3:45 p.m. Yizkor 4:45 p.m. Mincha/Torah Reading 5:45 p.m. Break 6:00 p.m. Rabbi’s Discussion 6:30 p.m. Ne’ila 7:00 p.m. Potluck community Break Fast in the Fellowship Hall. Please bring a savory main dish or hearty side dish/ salad. Bagels, cream cheese, dessert & drinks will be provided.

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Mining for goldfish Kelly Warm Spring may be dosed with poison to rid its non-native inhabitants

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rand Teton National Park authorities have wrapped up public comment period for their proposal to eradicate non-native fish from Kelly Warm Spring via poisoning. In consultation with Wyoming Game and Fish, park managers considered alternative measures to remove mostly goldfish from the pond located a mile northeast of Kelly in the national park. Electroshock and netting was on the list, but their preferred method was the use of a piscicide called rotenone – a procedure believed to be safe and the most effective by government officials.

The practice of dumping unwanted goldfish into Kelly Warm Spring has been an ongoing problem since the 1940s, according to park authorities. These fish have been recovered in the pond’s outflow channel, Ditch Creek, and some “have likely made it to the Snake River,” according to park spokespeople.

Environmental groups like the Snake River Fund immediately voiced opposition to the proposal. Executive director Len Carlman urged the public to get involved and asked park resource managers for more information regarding the chemical substance.

“As you’ve surely noted, the presence of words and phrases like ‘piscicide,’ ‘water,’ ‘eradicate the exotic species with minimal harm to native plants and animals,’ and ‘National Park’ in the same GTNP news release has struck a nerve,” Carlman wrote in an email to The Planet. “In light of this, more publicly available scientific information as to

Django (Jamie Foxx) bathes in Kelly Warm Spring for a scene in ‘Django Unchained’ shot in February 2012. why GTNP has determined the application of the piscicide rotenone is desirable appears to be in order.”

Rotenone is banned for use in U.S. coastal waters. In Europe, it is banned entirely.

Town councilman Jim Stanford tried to motivate his fellow board members to draft a letter of protest to no avail. He suggested netting as a simple and safe alternative to poisoning.

Peter Moyer, an outspoken and active angler in Jackson, has led a campaign against park officials for their eradication of lake and brook trout in Yellowstone lakes and tributaries. And Wilderness Watch is on record as stating, “poison has no place in wilderness.”

So-called chemophobic environmentalists point to the possibility rotenone can inadvertently harm or kill other wildlife including turtles, frogs and possibly birds.

They also reference a potential link to rotenone to Parkinson’s disease.

However, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has cleared rotenone for use.

It has been widely utilized since the 1930s. It is a quickly dissipating poisoning agent that works best on fish by blocking biochemical pathways of cell metabolism. Studies have shown little to no effect on non-targeted species of wildlife or humans.

“Birds and mammals that eat dead fish and drink treated water will not be affected,” the EPA states. However, human consumption of fish killed by rotenone is not recommended.

Rotenone is a naturally occurring substance derived from the roots of tropical plants in the bean and pea family that are found primarily in Malaysia, South America and East Africa. It has been used most recently in Soda Butte Creek in northern Yellowstone National Park to kill brook trout in 28 miles of stream before they could reach the Lamar River.

A statement from Planning and Environmental Compliance officer Carol

Cunningham said rotenone poisoning would “likely remove all of the unwanted non-native fish in one treatment,” though additional applications might be necessary. She also said the concentration of the piscicide would not persist in the environment for long or harm groundwater. Numerous studies in California and elsewhere have not shown groundwater infiltration, and breakdown of the chemical occurs in days or weeks at the most. Warm water increases the effectiveness of rotenone and accelerates the breakdown process as well.

“Rotenone is certified organic and is used in a lot of countries and breaks down rapidly, especially when temperatures are warm,” noted GTNP spokesperson Andrew White.

Kelly Warm Spring’s outflow, he added, does not make it underground.

As for ties to Parkinson’s, the EPA has deemed results from an Emory University study as misleading. Laboratory rats, the EPA alleges, were “mainlined” with extremely high doses of rotenone. They subsequently developed “Parkinson’s-like tremors.” In a FAQ concerning rotenone, the EPA did admit, “rotenone exposure under certain laboratory conditions could reproduce several symptoms of PD in rodents.” But, it added, “Although rotenone is toxic to the nervous system of insects and fish, commercial rotenone products have presented little hazard to humans over many decades of use and are not considered a cause of PD.” White said the park service has received almost 50 comments both online and via mail in regards to its rotenone proposal. Park officials have begun sifting through comments and will wait until the end of the week for any snail mail stragglers.

These comments, White noted, will guide the park’s next steps. The application would happen next autumn.

Watch this YouTube video showing numerous goldfish in Kelly Warm Spring: youtube. com/watch?v=9frkeZoUibM. PJH

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he disquieting image of a little boy sprawled facedown on a Turkish beach stunned the world last week, spiking global cognizance of the trajectories Syrians are risking to escape war. Three-year-old Aylan Kurdi drowned when a dinghy wrestling the Mediterranean Sea capsized. The 15-foot vessel was en route to the Greek island of Kos. NPR reported that the boy’s mother and 5-year-old brother also perished.

As four million Syrians flee a war-torn land, European countries are closing borders while politicos, such as former French President Nicolas Sarkozy likened the number of refugees seeking asylum to “a pipe bursting in your house.”

But heartrending images, like that of little Aylan, have the ability to soften icy perceptions by stirring empathy and compelling people to action. The Guardian reported Thursday that in Britain, where only 216 refugees have been accepted, Prime Minister David Cameron now promises, “We will do more.”

At the core of The Awareness Project Jackson Hole is this understanding: that images and stories farm compassion among people, particularly those walking divergent paths.

Conceived by valley do-gooder Nancy Hoffman and photographer Anne Muller, The Awareness Project illuminates the sometimes-hushed struggles facing people in the valley through photographs, video and written word found at the project’s website – TheAwarenessProjectJH.com and at an upcoming exhibit and symposium at the library in November.

Stories not statistics “My childhood ended because I am not a little girl anymore, I am a mother,” admits a 14-year-old whose struggles are steered into the spotlight through The Awareness Project.

“I’m really happy with my baby girl but to be an adult is difficult because I can’t do most things other people can. It feels right… but wrong,” the young mother says as a montage depicts her now reclusive life at home caring for her daughter.

Peppered among images of the teen mom and her baby are startling facts: “Two-thirds of families begun by young, single mothers have incomes below the poverty line,” one snippet reads.

Another tale narrates a man whose

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A teen mom, featured in The Awareness Project Jackson Hole, allows viewers into her home to see how motherhood has sharply altered her life. debilitating back injury nearly dismantled his life. “What would you do if you owned your home, were getting tidily by, thought yourself lucky to live and work in a place as beautiful as Jackson Hole, and a sudden change in circumstances threatened to take everything away?” reads the story about Danny and Diana Walker. “It was nothing you did wrong: an illness, an accident. It left you unable to work, to pay the bills, to live the life that you might have taken for granted.”

The story explains how Danny’s condition ultimately affected his ability to use his legs, forcing him to quit his job. So Diana took on a second job, but with mounting medical bills, the Walkers found themselves slipping deeper into debt. Finally they summoned the courage to ask for help, leaning on the Community Resource Center (CRC), which rescued them from a perilous financial storm. Hoffman, a board member of CRC, said through The Awareness Project, she and executive director Mary Erickson also wanted to shed light on CRC’s work in the community. “A large number of those helped by CRC, 63 percent, encountered a situation like the Walkers faced – a medical crisis that turned into a financial crisis,” the Walkers’ story goes on to explain.

For the inaugural installment of The Awareness Project, Muller photographed a family who had called Jackson Hole home for 14 years before they were evicted from their trailer to make way for a Marriott. “My eyes were so opened at that time,” Muller said.

“There was such desperation and a feeling of being lost on the part of these people. How brave they were really struck me. That was the end of a community.”

By narrating local stories, with the help of filmmakers, photographers, poets and writers who volunteer their time and become emotionally invested in narratives, Hoffman and Muller say they want to dispel prejudice while inciting dialogue that will lead to solutions for Teton County’s underrepresented populations. As part of the project, poet Matt Daly just launched the children’s workshop, “Know Me By My Voice,” encouraging young people to tell their stories through poetry.

Meanwhile filmmaker Raul Gutierrez is busy laboring over a documentary on the valley’s housing crisis, a venture also under The Awareness Project’s umbrella.

Unveiling the anguish

“I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where there was hidden racial tension,” Muller said. “Black people came over the mountain to work where the white people lived and then they went back over the mountain to get home. As a child, I could not understand this. Their families and stories were hidden and I think it is deep in me to put light on what is hidden and to put that light into the community.”

A concerning parallel can be drawn between the Birmingham of yesterday and the Teton County of today as more and more people are finding themselves unable to live in the same place they work. For those grappling to stay in Teton County, Hoffman noted there are many who quietly suffer. “One of the organizations we work with is Jackson Hole Cupboard,” Hoffman explained, “and the interesting thing about that organization … is your next door neighbor could be going to the cupboard for help and you might not have any idea.”

In order to address the deleterious issues plaguing members of this community, whether it is poverty, racism, hunger or housing, Hoffman and Muller believe an individual story must be told. “That’s how we know each other is through our stories, and through art we can tell these stories in many ways,” Muller said. “There are positive ways to look at the undercurrents of what is happening here.”

Before parting ways with this reporter on a drizzly Saturday afternoon, Muller paused to rummage through her purse.

“Oh yes,” Hoffman remembered. “We have something for you.”

Muller produced a small piece of paper.

“Art must show the world as changeable,” the paper read. “And help to change it.” PJH

Learn more about The Awareness Project and ways to get involved by visiting TheAwarenessProjectJH.com.

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Is there anything as uplifting as a lost pet returning home to its owner? People, Fox News and the Denver Post were just some of the major news outlets that felt an Australian Shepard’s ordeal in Yellowstone worthy of press coverage.

After a car accident in the nation’s first park, the 17-month-old Jade took off for the woods and could not be found. Jade’s owners, Laura Gillice and David Sowers, returned home to Denver without her. But Sowers, for one, would not give up. For weeks he would drive back up to Yellowstone and search the canyon area against his doctor’s advice. He suffered a broken wrist, broken ribs and a shattered kneecap in the car wreck.

Eyewitness reports that a dog was spotted off and on in the area where Sowers crashed bolstered his spirits. After six long weeks — 42 days in all — Sowers and Gillice were ready to give up. On what was likely their final trip to Yellowstone, Gillice said she saw a flash of black and white far off in a distant meadow. She asked someone nearby with binoculars if that was a deer or a dog.

“A dog,” they said.

Gillice called out Jade’s name. The dog came bounding and licked her master’s face.

“She’s skin and bones, but otherwise she seems perfectly fine,” Sowers told the Denver Post.

The couple assumes the dog eluded predators and got by on roadkill.

“She’s one tough little girl,” Gillice told People.

Ritzy ranch back on the market

“Price slashed by over 20 million,” read the Wall Street Journal headline.

That still left an asking price of $45.5 million for a Bondurant cabin in the woods.

Once listed as one of America’s priciest property, the Little Jennie Ranch first received national notice in 2010 when it hit the market for a cool $69.5 million. That was up from the $55 million price tag hung on it in 2005 when it first debuted on MLS.com. The 3,000-acre ranch includes a cluster of outbuildings built in the 1950s.

“Though the ranch’s 11 log cabins present a rustic aesthetic, there’s a good reason [for the whopping price]. This is a working cattle ranch that doubles as a ritzy recreational paradise,” Curbed wrote in a November 2010 story titled: “It’s Baaack! The $70M Cabin With 3,000 acres.” “Good luck running next door for a cup of sugar. It’s more like a marathon,” joked Curbed.

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Wyoming received another distinction last week, this one not so great. According to WyoFile, Wyoming is the only state in the Union with a growing uninsured population.

“Before you shout, ‘We’re No. 1!’ and pat your lawmakers on the back, you need to know that we’re really No. 50 when it comes to providing the uninsured the chance to obtain health insurance,” wrote Kerry Drake in his latest column.

A new Gallup survey found Wyoming’s uninsured rate increased 1.6 percent from 2013 to 2015 – a time when most fellow countrymen signed up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Wyoming lawmakers’ staunch stance against Obamacare has left 18.2 percent of state residents without health coverage of any kind. Only Texas has more but they are reducing the number of their uninsured.

Wyoming: A Rivers runs through it

Wyoming got her last laugh. Joan Rivers’ ashes were scattered in the Equality State recently. Melissa Rivers, daughter of the legendary comedian, Tweeted photographs of the area where she laid her mother to rest.

“Coop [Melissa’s son, Cooper] and I took our annual family vacation to Wyoming,” Rivers told ET. “[The] first without my mom, and scattered some of her ashes there so we can still be together every August as a family.”

Frugal fall flying

A story on cheaper airfare through this fall included mention of Jackson Hole. The Times Record, serving western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma, cited Hopper.com as the source of their claim that airfares are about 9 percent lower than they were at this time last year. That trend is expected to hold up through the fall months.

Almost buried in the story’s final paragraph is a mention of top destinations in the world as compiled by US News & World Report. San Francisco topped the list that included Paris, New York City and Melbourne, Australia. But Jackson Hole came in at a respectable No. 7. PJH

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Muslim clerics complain of the commercialization of the holy city of Mecca during the annual hajj pilgrimages, but for Pope Francis’ visits to New York, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia in mid-September, shameless street vendors and entrepreneurs already appear to be eclipsing Mecca’s experience.

Merchants said they’d be selling, among other tacky items, mozzarella cheese statuettes of the pope ($20), a “pope toaster” to burnish Francis’ image on bread, a Philly-themed bobblehead associating the pope with the movie boxer Rocky, local beers Papal Pleasure and YOPO (You Only Pope Once) and T-shirts (“Yo Pontiff!” and “The Pope Is My Homeboy”). The Wall Street Journal quoted a Philadelphia archdiocese spokesman admitting that “you kind of have to take it in stride.”

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In May, suspect David Riffle, charged with trespassing (after shouting “religious proverbs” at patrons of the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida), greeted Broward County judge John “Jay” Hurley at his bail hearing by inquiring, “How you doin’, a—hole?” Unfazed, Hurley responded, “I’m doing fine. How are you, sir?” After listening to Riffle on religion a bit longer, Hurley set bond at $100. In August, talking to Judge Hurley from jail via closed circuit TV, arrestee Susan Surrette, 54, “flashed” him as she tried to prove an alleged recent assault. The self-described “escort” and “porn star” (“Kayla Kupcakes”) had lifted her shirt to reveal bruises. (Her bond, also, was $100.)

Bright Ideas

— A Chinese woman identified only as Zeng was detained and stabilized at Beijing Capital International Airport in August after being found dazed on the floor at a boarding gate. She had attempted to fly with a bottle of expensive cognac (Remy Martin XO Excellence) in her carry-on—a violation of Chinese regulations barring liquids over 100 ml (the cognac was 700 ml, selling for about $200 in the United States) and was presented with the ultimatum to give up the bottle or miss the flight. She decided to drink the contents on the spot (but was subsequently declared too drunk to board).

— “And Another Thing, Dad”: Michael May, 44, was arrested in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in August after the Pilot Baptist Cemetery near Stanford reported that he had tried to dig up the grave of his dead father “in order to argue with him,” according to Lexington’s WLEX-TV. May told officers his dad had died about 30 years ago. (Alcohol was involved in the decision to dig.)

Great Art!

Former Massachusetts Institute of Technology lecturer Joseph Gibbons was sentenced in July to a year in prison for robbing a New York City Capital One bank in December (while operating a video camera) in a heist that he had insisted all along was merely “performance art.” (He had been suspected in a similar robbery in Rhode Island in November.) His biography on the MIT website described him as “blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, self and persona … with a contradictory impulse to confabulate and dissimulate.” The Queens Museum in New York City has offered to screen the footage of the robbery as an art piece. n Artist Anish Kapoor initially denied that his 400 to 500 tons of stones, called “Dirty Corner,” were “problematic,” but later conceded that they might have “multiple interpretive possibilities.” The installation, which ran through the summer at France’s Palace of Versailles with five other large sculptures, was arranged in the form of a huge vulva, and represented, he said, “the vagina of a queen who is taking power.”

New World Order

(1) A Pig Flies: On Aug. 20, a 250-pound pig was knocked free of a trailer traveling at 65 mph on Interstate 25 near Fort Collins, Colorado—thus briefly, at least, sailing. It was not badly hurt. (2) In July, Mexican customs officers detained an American and a Mexican on the bridge between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, with 13 pounds of marijuana the two allegedly were smuggling into Mexico to sell. (The month before, Juarez officials arrested another El Paso woman with a kilo of crystal meth allegedly destined for Mexican sale.)

Recurring Themes

Short-Term Rehab: Heath Franklin, 44, was arrested on Aug. 20 at the Wal-Mart in Dalton, Georgia, charged with taking “upskirt” photos of female shoppers. Franklin, a registered sex offender, had been released on Aug. 19 from Central State Prison, where he was serving a term for sexual offenses (including taking unlawful photos). n “Excessive” (I): Three weeks ago, News of the Weird mentioned that a federal judge had officially declared 29 years as an excessive amount of time for the Bureau of Land Management to have sat on a natural gas permit, but four years’ waiting is apparently an acceptable period for a judge to sit on a decision whether to fire a New York City schoolteacher. Edward Morrissey, charged with pushing and shoving a student at PS 109 in Brooklyn in 2009, had his administrative hearing in 2011 and since then has been drawing full pay and benefits (including seniority raises) while reporting to a no-duties “job” (termed a “rubber room”) every school day. In May 2015, he was finally found guilty. n “Excessive” (II): In August the independent Police Foundation declared it “excessive” that cops in Stockton, California, had fired 600 gunshots trying to apprehend robbers of a Bank of the West branch in July 2014. None of the robbers was hit, but one hostage was—fatally, hit by 10 police bullets. According to the report, “a few” of the officers engaged in “sympathetic fire,” shooting merely because their colleagues were shooting (and since the sequence was chaotic, sympathetic fire occurred even though other colleagues were actually positioned in front of shooters).

Thanks This Week to Rosie Martinez and Paul Peterson, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

(Read more weird news at www.WeirdUniverse.net; send items to WeirdNews@earthlink.net, and P.O. Box 18737, Tampa, FL 33679.)

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Under a 1981 treaty, at least 50 countries, including the United States, have banned their militaries from employing flamethrowers (as “inhumane”), but entrepreneurs have begun to market the devices domestically for $900 to $1,600 each (based on the distance of the flame, at 25 feet or 50 feet). Federal regulators appear uninterested (as the contraptions are technically neither firearms nor explosives), and only two states prohibit them outright, though a few jurisdictions believe flamethrowers are illegal under fire codes. The Ohio startup Throwflame has sensed the need for marketing savvy and describes flamethrowers as primarily for “entertainment.” (Recent news reports indicate a slight run on sales under the suspicion that authorities will soon realize the danger and outlaw them.) n After two women accused Sheffield Village, Ohio, attorney Michael Fine of “hypnotizing” and sex-talking to them during office consultations, police and the county bar association opened an investigation in November 2014. Though Fine was being consulted on a custody matter, he was secretly audio-recorded (according to one woman’s lawsuit) touting “powerful whole body orgasms” and suggesting that he was “the world’s great-

est lover”—among details the client recalls only vaguely if at all. The bar association later said as many as 25 women may have been victimized. Though no criminal charges have been filed, Fine’s lawyer said in August that his client had voluntarily given up his law license and was seeking “medical” help.

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More Things to Worry About

By CHUCK SHEPHERD

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A FIRE BURNS ON THE BRIDGER-TETON NATIONAL FOREST.

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oise National Forest, Idaho – The wind kicks up; it’s a smoky day with limited visibility, causing an eerie haze to settle on the forest, painting the woods in Hemingway colors. Jackson local Thomas Hinkel braces himself for the day ahead. The sun has barely begun to shine as he and his Teton Crew of firefighters are digging in for a long day of fire containment.

Tools in hand they begin the process of brush clearing – a proactive step to tame what will turn into an 800-acre forest fire before their eyes.

Hinkel has found himself “on the green,” standing between the blaze and the spread of the flame nearly every day during the peak of fire season. He has faced eight fires this summer, moving from high-priority fire to high-priority fire, leaving others to contain the ones his troupe has managed to control.

From the start of 2015, the Forest Service has been gearing up for a summer of big burns. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell warned in May that this year’s forest fires would potentially consume an unprecedented amount of the Forest Service’s budget, and with near prophetic accuracy, reports from the United States Department of Agriculture confirm that for the first time, Wildlands Firefighting will command more than half of the Forest Service’s 2015 budget.

The Department of Agriculture projects that if forest fire budgeting is not adjusted, the Forest Service will

spend 67 percent of its budget on forest fires by 2025, drastically reducing the Forest Service’s ability to fund the other invaluable services it provides. With this sharp diminishment in fiscal resources, programs such as managing the National Forests, funding and developing forest research, stemming illegal logging, and conserving migratory species’ habitats suffer the brunt of the expense seizures from forest fire maintenance.

This year the United States has lost nearly nine million acres of forest to wildfires - nearly triple the total wildfire deforestation for 2014. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, there are currently 45 large-scale fires burning in the United States, burning approximately 1.8 million acres, leaving the Forest Service at Preparedness Level (PL) 5 most of the summer. PL-5 is the highest fire alert level the U.S. government can issue, meaning the United States is maxed out on manpower and resources. Fire season is predicted to rage on well into October, draining the Forest Service’s pocketbook even faster than predicted.

Tidwell warns that this is the new normal. A scary thought as costs of wildlands firefighting have risen from $285 million in 1985 to nearly $1.9 billion in 2012. The United States has already spent more than $875 million dollars on wildfire management this year.

According to the Smithsonian Institute’s study on the correlation between climate change and forest fires,

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earlier springs, hotter summers, and drought conditions have all contributed extensively to the rising cost of fire control.

WILDLANDS, WILD LIVES

A FIREFIGHTER BURNS A SLASH PILE OF DEAD AND DOWN WOOD TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF WOOD ON THE FOREST FLOOR FOR A WILDFIRE TO BURN.

importance. Proper staffing is nearly impossible to attain at the height of fire season, which exponentially compounds the problem.

“We’re understaffed, doing the work of a crew that should be double our size most of the time,” Hinkel said.

Even though 2015 marks the first year the Forest Service has spent more than half of its budget on wildfires, it still lacks manpower. The federal government has brought in the military, volunteers, and firefighters from Mexico, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to stem the flames, but an overwhelming sense persists.

Hinkel is currently battling his third fire in the past two weeks. “Sometimes we pinch the fire, which is where you cut right in front of the flames and dig it out down wind right in front of where the fire is spreading, and that’s when you’re like, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to die.’ You’re

just deep in the smoke. Other times, when you’ve cut the fire off and let it burn itself out of fuel, you’re in charge of crawling over the ash, literally just digging through it on your hands and knees until you find a hot spot, and once it’s burned you, you get some water – if you’re lucky enough to have some – and you douse it. Those spots are monitored, sometimes for years, because fires can be dormant, and then they just spring back up, so no one leaves fires alone until we’re sure they’re out.”

HEAT ON THE HORIZON

Dr. Corinna Riginos is a research ecologist based out of the University of Wyoming that has done extensive work focused on the effects of climate change on Yellowstone National Park. The report she recently co-authored, “The Coming Climate,” on the possible impacts of

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the heat of the fire and the draft of the smoke make the labor nearly unbearable.

“You’re just inhaling smoke for hours,” Hinkel said, his ashy voice hoarse from the practice. “You get headaches, and you’re not even really sure what’s causing it at that point: if it’s the smoke or the dehydration, or just any combination of those things. Everyone’s coughing. People have to bump out or just sit down to keep from passing out. Plus, you’re out in the wilderness, so if something goes down, you’d be in a lot of trouble. You have to get heli-vaced out in situations like that, making even little incidents a really big deal.”

Because of the additional risk brought about by isolation and proximity to danger, the Forest Service is incredibly cautious with their firefighters, but the hazards of the job make some risks unavoidable, and the urgency and importance of the tasks they face make efficiency of paramount

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The Teton Crew has seen the cost of escalating fires firsthand. Sweat streaks down Hinkel’s brow as he turns a shovel over in his hands. His beard is peppered with ash, and his voice is tired and dry, a sharp departure from his generally animated, upbeat tone.

“It’s been a long day, and I haven’t slept in my own bed in a month,” Hinkel begins.

Hinkel is approaching his mandatory two days rest after a 14-day stint in the field. Most days he is called into action by 5:30 a.m. to a start an 18-hour day of manual labor, essentially combatting thousands of acres of forest fire with a shovel.

“You rarely put fires out with water,” Hinkel said. “What really happens is you use a hand tool, and you dig it out. You pretty much just dig out this line between you and where the fire is moving. So you have the black, which is where the fire has burned everything up, then you have the green, where the fire hasn’t reached, and in between, you pull the green away, and hope when the fire hits dirt it dies.”

If the prospect of 18-hour days tilling the earth were not overwhelming enough,

J.E. APPLEBY, VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS ROBB HANNAWACKER, VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

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climate change on the Tetons predicts terrible consequences, some already apparent, with compounding consequences surfacing in the near future.

“The best models of future climate conditions in this area show that the dry conditions that support frequent forest fires will occur much more frequently,” Riginos said. Historically, she explained, major fires in the Teton region have been infrequent. “But with a changing climate this is likely to switch to much more frequent fires — leaving the forests little time to recover. Some scientists are predicting that most forested areas will disappear and be

replaced by shrubs and grasses.”

Some species of shrubs and bushes can sustain wildlife well, but Riginos explained that the predatory species of cheatgrass is the most likely to migrate northward with earlier springs and warmer summers.

“In our sagebrush habitats,” Riginos said, “another major concern is cheatgrass invasion. Cheatgrass has invaded many parts of the Intermountain West but is not very common in this region because of the cool climate. Warmer, drier conditions, however, would probably allow cheatgrass to spread. Cheatgrass is not a very useful forage species and often takes the place of native species that are important food for diverse wildlife, including sage grouse and elk.”

Other climate-related causes of deforestation are the pine beetles. “The most pressing cause of deforestation in the Teton region right now is pine beetles,” she said, “which are much more numerous because of warmer conditions.”

However, if the trend of larger and more widespread forest fires continues, Riginos believes that forest fire destruction will become the larger threat.

In light of these threats, Riginos forecasts the consequences of climate change are not just the destruction of our

forestlands, but a fiscal impact upon tourism due to loss of wildlife. “These changes could radically alter the look, scenic value, and ability of these habitats to support wildlife,” she cautioned.

In the end, Riginos encourages members of the valley, “to put politics aside and focus on what the overwhelming amount of scientific evidence tells us: that climate change is a clear and present danger and that we need to take action now to slow it or face some very serious consequences.”

COWBOY CLIMATE

The Yale Project on Climate Change has found that only 54 percent of Wyoming’s citizens believe climate change is real; making Wyoming citizens the second least concerned about the effects of climate change on the environment in the U.S. Coal-centric West Virginia takes the number one slot.

Nationwide, Wyoming citizens are the least likely to believe that climate change is manmade, with only 42 percent of its citizens acknowledging its detrimental effects. Wyoming legislators have gone so far as to battle revamping science standards in public education recently, because there were inclusions about manmade climate change.

Governor Matt Mead, who refers to himself as a “climate skeptic,” announced in his keynote address to the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority in May that as Wyoming’s economy is dependent upon coal, it is in Wyoming’s and the world’s best interest to foster that resource to its fullest extent. According to the EPA, CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels are the number one cause of climate change.

There is little debate in the scientific community as to whether or not the climate is changing as megadrought

conditions spread, summers last nearly 20 percent longer than they did just 30 years ago, and this past July marks the hottest month in recorded history.

The Tetons have seen this change firsthand. A study done by Discovery, supported by NASA technology, has logged that today snowmelt throughout Wyoming typically thaws two weeks earlier than it did in the 1970s.

According to a release from the EPA, warmer winters will cause further issues in the West as precipitation is more likely to fall as rain rather than snow, decreasing snow accumulation. Between smaller snow reserves and earlier snowmelt, the West is projected to suffer from severe flooding in the spring and dryer summers.

The EPA also projects that by the end of the century, snowmelt will start between 20 and 40 days earlier than it does today.

This forecast will lend itself to intensified drought conditions, causing increased recovery time for forests ravaged by insects or burned by wildfires.

As Riginos said, without recovery time, the forests will disappear, and with it, indigenous wildlife.

FIRES FOR SAFETY: THE UPSIDE OF THE FLAMES

Not all is lost, though. Dr. Kevin Krasnow, research and graduate faculty of the Teton Science Schools, spoke with The Planet about the study he and his colleagues are conducting to better understand the frequency and severity of historical fires in the Jackson Hole area.

As a disturbance ecologist, Krasnow and his team are using tree rings, fire scar samples (when a tree is injured but not killed by a fire), and historical maps and photos to reconstruct how often forest fires occurred over the past 300 to 400 years, as well as the severity of these fires (what proportion of the trees were killed).

This information will help managers better understand the fire regime under which the forests of Jackson Hole evolved and will give guidance on how to maintain forest resilience to future fires.

While data is still being processed, preliminary findings show that much of Jackson Hole’s forests, especially those at higher elevation, evolved with infrequent, high severity fires, like those experienced in Yellowstone and surrounding areas in 1988. These

GATEKEEPER, FLAME-FEEDER

disasters, there is no outside account that goes toward fire suppression. “The money that funds fire suppression comes internally from the Forest Service budget,” Norman said, “so this fall, we’re in what we call ‘Fire Transfer,’ which is essentially transferring money from other projects to pay the bills through October when the current budget cycle ends.”

Despite budget constraints, making sure people and property are safe is the driving goal of the Forest Service’s firefighters, but maintaining and cultivating healthy ecological environments is a close second. Krasnow notes several ways to combat the threat of wildfire without undermining its productive aspects. First, he says, “We need to be careful where we develop. We should do our best to keep structures out of fire-adapted ecosystems.

We can also reduce fuel loads and adjust the structures of forests.” It comes down to helping these ecosystems thrive in the environments in which millennia of adaptation have equipped them. Of course heeding messages propagated by the Forest Service, such as not leaving fires unattended, making sure cigarettes are completely out, no controlled burns within 500 feet of forestland, etc., are very important. But Krasnow says that the heart of the issue, addressing climate change, will take a concerted effort from politicians and people around the world. PJH

SMOKE LINGERS OVER THE BRIDGER-TETON NATIONAL FOREST AFTER A LIGHTNING STORM.

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acres of wildfires in order to preserve the green and protect homes and natural resources.

While Norman has seen historical trends denoting decades of drought and high fire seasons, he has also seen decades of relative calm. When he first started working with the Forest Service in the The Forest Service is the gatekeeper 1970s, he reflects it was relatively calm between unchecked wildlands fires and until the big 1988 Yellowstone fire that populated areas, constantly taking stock scorched more than 1.8 million acres. of whether to let a fire blaze on to prevent Norman says the 1890s faced similar larger fires in the future, or to contain and conditions to those seen today as major extinguish them. This is usually dictated forest fires burned every year, heatwaves by human concentration in the area, or scarred the earth, and drought conditions nearby natural resources like watersheds. plagued the West in a very comparable Fire-adapted ecosystems and hazardous manner. fuel build-ups become a game of lesser of “Climate change is the big wildcard two evils for the Forest Service as drought right now,” he said. “We’ve always had conditions and heatwaves become the these really warm norm. for 10 to Andy Norman has “Climate change stretches 15 years, but they’ve worked for the Forest is the big wildcard always swung back, Service for more right now. We’ve but if climate change is than 25 years. As the truly happening, we’re fuel specialist for the always had these going to see more Teton area, he is in fires, and longer fire really warm charge of wildland fire seasons.” management. It is his stretches for 10 Norman has seen job to determine when not only an evolution in to 15 years but prescribed fires are climate during his time necessary (which are they’ve always with the Forest Service, human-management but an evolution in swung back.” ignited in order to budget as well. “There maintain fuel loads are two things that are going on, if climate in forests), when to allow a natural fire change continues,” Norman said. “We’ll to continue to burn, and how to combat have more fires, but the other thing is the unintentional human-caused forest fires. wildland-urban interface. As people keep “So even if we’re not happy about a fire, moving out West, wanting to live along we allow natural processes to occur under the boundary of the forest, a lot more of certain conditions,” Norman said. “Where our budget has gone to protecting those there are no developments to worry about. private interests. We’re trying to The program started with the Forest keep those fires from moving Service, and even the Park Service before out of forestland and onto that. We have to look at a fire before we private property.” let it burn, and we have to decide if we Unlike other have resource availability to fight it if the n a t u r a l fire should move unexpectedly out of the forest.”

Striking a balance between the green and the ash is a difficult, and rarely popular, decision, especially as 90 percent of forest fires are started by humans. This often leaves the Forest Service’s 13,500 employees to cut back millions o f

been an inconvenience to many, but pales in comparison to those men and women on the ground, fighting the fires firsthand.

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fires only occur when environmental conditions allow for fire ignition and spread in these often dense, moist forests.

Historically, this has been every 100 to 300 years. “We have tree species, like lodgepole pine and aspen that are well adapted to fires such as these,” Krasnow said, “and fires of that nature have in fact occurred in the past – just EuropeanAmericans had not been around to see it.”

Information from Krasnow’s study will help the National Park and Forest Service understand what, if any, forest types burned more frequently in the past and may have experienced increased tree density and fuel loads as a result of past fire suppression or forest management. If certain forests types have a deficit of fire, they could be targeted for prescribed fire, mechanical fuel reduction, or priority areas to allow wildfires to burn unsuppressed.

The larger concern is that with climate change, high elevation forests in the Greater Yellowstone Region, that are adapted to infrequent high-severity fires, will face increased fire frequency that they are incapable of sustaining.

According to Krasnow, the silver lining to these predictions is that, “Most of the studies concentrate on the relationship between climate and the likelihood of fires in the future,” but the corollary piece is that when fuel supplies are diminished by one fire, the likelihood and severity of subsequent fires goes down, at least in the short term.

One thing that Krasnow can conclude before all of the data has been processed is that the forests here have evolved with fire, and will burn again. “Learning to coexist with fire is really the task set before us. The most challenging aspect will be to build or foster resilience to the forests of this area so that they will be maintained in the face of likely changes to the fire regime by climate change.

“That’s the challenge: to maintain forests (and the services they provide) under a climate that may tend to change the disturbance regime.”

Indeed the major focus in ecology circles right now is how to build resilience in these forest communities to combat Riginos’s great fear: that eventually our forests will transform into barren grassland.

Even as Jackson has sustained a relatively wet climate this year, keeping forest fires at bay, the major fires in neighboring states have left smoke trails all the way to the Atlantic, causing health warnings even in unaffected areas due to poor air quality.

Air quality has

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CREATIVE PEAKS Fall Arts’ freshest Art Association features fledgling brilliance

BY KELSEY DAYTON @Kelsey_Dayton

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on’t be embarrassed if you’re not familiar with the names of the artists showing in an exhibition at the Art Association during the Fall Arts Festival.

In its fourth year, the show, “Jackson Rising” is meant to showcase local emerging artists who haven’t had many opportunities to show their work in town, explained Thomas Macker, gallery director at the Art Association.

When the annual exhibition first started, there weren’t many opportunities for local artists to share their work during the Fall Arts Festival, Macker said. Breaking into the art scene was challenging. Coffee shops sometimes booked art shows years out. So the Art Association wanted to give local talent another opportunity to share their work, he said.

“This exhibition was trying to bring a voice or showcase local artists to a tourist population that might not know what Jackson art looks like,” Macker said.

The first year the show featured 15 artists nominated by Art Association staff. They invited artists newly returned to the valley from graduate school, or those who hadn’t

shown in a few years.

“It was controlled but also a way of exploring and showing artists that may not be seen,” Macker said.

After that show, the artists nominated others who were making great art but still working under the radar for the next show.

Each year those who participate nominate other artists they think meet the criteria for the following year.

It’s become an “organic index of emerging artists,” Macker said.

The “hive mentality” stretches into reaches of the community that Macker says as a curator, he might not reach. Each year he gets to meet artists whose work he hasn’t seen.

This year’s exhibition features nine artists — eight women and one man. (The number dwindled because some people nominate the same person.) Many of the works are paintings, but there’s also a wide range of variety.

The artists in the show are Eleanor Anderson, David Cleeland, Sage Craighead, Calee Dunlap, Robin Gleason, Rosanna Mitchell, Aude Nevius, Carrie Schwartz and Erin Smith.

Craighead made bridal-inspired dreamcatchers. They are ornate and angelic looking made of white lace and beads. They provide an interesting juxtaposition by mixing a traditional Western fashion aesthetic with a dreamcatcher known for its structure, colors and geometric design, Macker said.

Nevius uses clean layering of shapes in her paintings. Some are representational of a figure, or a cloud or a tree.

“They are really cool and you kind of get lost in them,” Macker said.

Gleason has been working in the print studio and uses stencils in her work to create an interesting depth, like a foreground with a lake, a tree in the middle ground and mountains in the background, Macker said. The shapes are simple, but intricately cut. When the cutouts are pinned on a wall there is a shadow effect that brings out different colors, he explained.

While the show doesn’t have a theme beyond new and emerging artists’ work, Macker tries to make sure the pieces complement each other and everything in the show is unique.

Since Jackson Rising’s inception, Macker’s watched as the show’s participants become more involved in the art scene, taking classes and even teaching at the Art Association.

He’s also seen the valley’s art scene grow to support local artists and he’s seen some of the show’s first participants cement their names in the local art sphere. Meg Daly opened Daly Projects this year and many of the artists she represents have participated in Jackson Rising, such as Camille Davis and Scotty Craighead. “By their peers they were considered emerging artists that needed to be celebrated and needed to be seen,” Macker said. “And now they are represented by a local gallery and have that support and can be regularly seen.”

So while you might not know the names or work of this year’s Jackson Rising participants, if you love art, you should probably get familiar with their work.

Jackson Rising opens with a reception 5 to 8 p.m., Friday and hangs through Oct. 2 at the Jackson Hole Art Association. PJH

Artist Carrie Schwartz crafted collages using timeworn Encyclopedia Brittanicas for Jackson Rising, which illumes burgeoning local artists. The opening reception happens Friday at the Art Association.

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307-733-3316 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, Free. 307-733-6398 n Grand Teton National Park Weekly Trails Volunteer Day 9:00am, Grand Teton National Park, Free. 307-739-3379 n Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library, Free. 307-733-2164 ext. 218 n Miller House Homestead Tour

10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free. 307-201-5433 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free. 307733-2164 x 118 n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free. 307733-2164 n Walking Tours 10:30am, Center of Town Square, Free. 307-733-2414 x 213 n Storytime 11:00am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free. 307733-2164 n Kombucha 101 11:00am, Lucky’s Market, Free.

307-264-1633 n Crystal Sound Bowl Experience with Daniela Botur 12:00pm, Intencions, Free. 307733-9290 n Memory Loss Support Group 12:00pm, Morningstar Senior Living, Free. 307-413-2855 n Auditions for Off Square Players, Grades 9-12 4:30pm, Off Square, Free. 307733-3021 n Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Group in Spanish 5:00pm, Moose-Wapiti Classroom, St. John’s Medical Center, Free. 307-739-7678 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J Chuckwagon, $24.00 - $34.00. 307-733-3370 n The Real Reason DEQ is Allowing More E. coli in Wyoming Waterways 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free. 877-746-3628 n Photography Fundamentals 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, $120.00 - $145.00. 307-7336379 n Pilates Mat Classes at Dancers’ Workshop 6:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Adobe Illustrator 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $200.00. 307-733-7425 n Western Design Conference Opening Preview Party 6:00pm, Snow King Resort, $50.00 - $125.00. n Pool Tournament 7:00pm, The Virginian Saloon, Free. 307-739-9891 n Open MIc Night in the Gallery 7:30pm, Grand Teton Gallery, Free. 307-201-1172 n Major Zephyr

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n Dubois Museum and Torrey Lake Petroglyphs Hike 7:30am, Teton county/Jackson Recreation Center, 307-7399025 n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free. 307-739-3594 n 31st Annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival 8:00am, Jackson Hole, Free.

307-733-3316 n Stand Up Paddle Boarding Lessons for Adults 8:30am, Rendezvous River Sprots, $100.00. 307-739-9025 n Pilates Mat Classes at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library, Free. 307-733-2164 ext. 218 n Miller House Homestead Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free. 307-201-5433 n Walking Tours 10:30am, Center of Town Square, Free. 307-733-2414 x 213 n Wild. Wearable. Art. 11:00am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, $125.00. n Teton Mammas 1:00pm, Moose-Wapiti Classroom, St. John’s Medical Center, Free. 307 739 6175 n Young Naturalists 1:30pm, Jenny Lake Visitor Center, Free. 307-739-3654 n Chess Club for Grades K-12 3:30pm, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free. 307733-2164 ext. 118 n Jackson Hole People’s Market 4:00pm, At the Base of Snow King, Free. n Solar Astronomy at People’s Market 4:00pm, Snow King Resort, Free.

307-413-4779 n Semi-Private Painting + Drawing 4:00pm, Borshell Children’s Studio, $20.00 - $130.00. 307733-6379 n Back Pain Seminar 5:00pm, Wort Hotel, Free. 307733-3900 n Yoga on the Lawn 5:30pm, Healthy Being Juicery, Free. 307-200-9006 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J Chuckwagon, $24.00 - $34.00. 307-733-3370 n bootybarre® at Dancers’

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SATURDAY & SUNDAY BRUNCH 10:30am - 3:00pm Bottomless Mimosas & Bloody Marys $15

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1/2 Off Drinks Daily 5-7pm

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Monday-Saturday 11am, Sunday 10:30am 832 W. Broadway (inside Plaza Liquors)•733-7901

Friday, 7:45pm at Teton Village Commons: World Premiere of ‘Paradise Waits’ From the award-winning filmmaking crew that brought you 2014’s ‘Almost Ablaze,’ comes the story of one weird winter and the people who celebrate it... Paradise Waits - a ski and snowboard film.

7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free. 307-732-3939 n Westbound 8:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00. 307-733-2207 n Karaoke 9:00pm, Virginian Saloon, Free.

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FRIDAY 9.11

n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free. 307-739-3594 n 31st Annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival 8:00am, Jackson Hole, Free.

307-733-3316 n bootybarre® at Dancers’ Workshop 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Ballet Workout at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Miller House Homestead Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free. 307-201-5433 n Yoga Gives Back Fundraiser 10:00am, Center for the Arts, $1.00 - $10.00. 307-690-8364 n Western Design Conference Exhibit Sale.

10:00am, Snow King Center, $15.00. n Trunk Show 11:00am, The Wort Hotel, Free.

307-732-3926 n Wrangler Team Roping 12:00pm, TC Fairgrounds. 307733-5289 n Young Naturalists 1:30pm, Jenny Lake Visitor Center, Free. 307-739-3654 n R Park tour 4:00pm, Rendezvous Park, Free.

307-733-3913 n Friday Night Bikes 4:00pm, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, $10.00. 307-733-2292 n Free Friday Wine Tasting 4:00pm, The Liquor Store, Free.

307-733-4466 n Visual Culture 5:00pm, Center for the Arts, Free. 307-734-8956 n Mocha’s Bash for the Birds 5:00pm, Brookover Gallery, Free. 307-690-7654 n Jackson Rising IV 5:00pm, Art Association, Free.

307-733-6379 n Palates and Palettes 5:00pm, Participating Galleries, Free. 307-733-3316 n World Premiere of “Paradise Waits” 5:30pm, Center for the Arts, $8.00 - $13.00. 307-733-4900 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J Chuckwagon, $24.00 - $34.00. 307-733-3370 n Guitarist Byron Tomingas at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free. 307-733-4647 n Papa Chan and Johnny C Note 6:00pm, Teton Pines Country Club, Free. 307-733-1005 n ‘Developing Your Intuition & Clairvoyance’ 6:00pm, Spirit, $249.00 $299.00. 307-733-3382 n Jazz Night 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free. 307-7338833 n World Premiere of Paradise Waits 7:30pm, Teton Village Commons, $15.00 - $20.00.

307-734-8192 n Mike Hurwitz & the Aimless Drifters 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free. 307-732-3951 n Stargazing at R-Park 9:00pm, Rendezvous park, Free.

1-844-WYO-STAR n Tony Furtado Band CD Release 9:00pm, Knotty Pine Supper Club, $10.00. 303-818-4808

SATURDAY 9.12

n LoToJa Bike race 6:00am, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. n Wrangler Team Roping 7:30am, TC Fairgrounds. 307733-5289 n Jackson Hole One Fly 8:00am, Snake River. 307-2032654 n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free. 307-739-3594 n 31st Annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival 8:00am, Jackson Hole, Free.

307-733-3316 n Jackson Hole Farmers Market 8:00am, Town Square, Free. n Old Bill’s Fun Run for Charities 2015 8:30am, Town Square, Free.

307-739-1026 n Writers in the Environment 9:00am, Grand Teton National Park, Free. n Artists in the Environment 9:00am, Grand Teton National Park, Free. 307-739-3606 n zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Teton Toss 9:00am, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, $10.00 - $30.00. n Photographers in the Environment 10:00am, Grand Teton National Park, Free. n ‘Developing Your Intuition & Clairvoyance’ 10:00am, Spirit, $249.00 $299.00. 307-733-3382 n Adult Oil Painting 10:00am, The Local Galleria, $25.00 - $80.00. 208-270-0883 n Trunk Show 11:00am, The Wort Hotel, Free.

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MUSIC BOX Double-bill of legends John Hiatt & Taj Mahal team up with respective trios

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

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he onslaught of free outdoor music has dried up. The good news is that mind-blowing indoor show offerings are plentiful this week, including visits from John Hiatt and Taj Mahal, Tony Furtado Band and Black Uhuru.

(And Cheap Trick is playing the Eastern Idaho State Fair in Blackfoot this Friday.)

The combination of Hiatt and Taj hitting the road together is one of legendary status. Last year, 2014, was a big one for both artists. Hiatt released “Terms of My Surrender,” the title track of which was nominated for Song of the Year at this month’s Americana Music Association Honors & Awards, while Taj earned a Lifetime Achievement for Performance Award from the Association at last year’s ceremony, calling it “one of the most powerful and wonderful things that could ever happen in my life.”

Hiatt is known as a satirical storyteller and master lyricist.

Even Bob Dylan recorded one of his songs. Others that have tapped his songs for albums include Bonnie Raitt (a big hit with “Thing Called Love”), Delbert McClinton, Emmylou Harris, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt and Don Henley. It comes as a surprise that one of the industry’s greats has only been nominated for a Grammy, and his sales have never quite matched his reputation. Astonishingly, his new album is his 20-second studio release since his 1974 debut “Hangin’ Around the Observatory,” and is musically rooted in acoustic blues.

Taj Mahal billed as an opening act?! Yes, this is going to be a doozy of a concert. Quintessential versions of “Fishin’ Blues” and “Corrina” come from his catalog, not to mention his original (and often mislabeled as a traditional song) “She Caught the Katy.” Taj is a two-time Grammy winning

Taj Mahal (left), and John Hiatt team up to deliver a heady evening of music Tuesday at Center for the Arts. multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter who has been highly influential to blues and roots music. He’s a master of fingerpicked country-blues guitar and banjo, slide guitar, Southern soul and R&B and reggae music via Hawaii, Latin America, the Caribbean and beyond. He’s also a world-class performer that has always favored downhome musicianship rather than over-the-top showmanship. Just ask his longtime bandmates Kester Smith (drums) and Bill Rich (bass).

Keep your fingers crossed for collaborations.

John Hiatt & The Combo with Taj Mahal Trio, 8 p.m., Tuesday at the Center Theater. $89-$99. JHCenterForTheArts. org, 733-4900.

The Knotty doubles the fun The Knotty Pine will host two killer acts this week: Black Uhuru (Wednesday) and Tony Furtado Band (Friday). When the subject of roots-reggae comes up, you can’t help but think of Black Uhuru (Uhuru is Swahili for “freedom”). Mainstay Derrick “Duckie” Simpson formed the band in 1972 and the band won the first ever Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 1985. They’ve been nominated for a total of six Grammy Awards over the course of 14 full-length albums, seven instrumental dub albums and four live albums.

As of late, Black Uhuru performed in the Broadway musical “Loving the Silent Tears: A New Musical” in L.A., while

Las Vegas honored the band for its contribution to the entertainment business by officially calling Aug. 31 “Black Uhuru Day” in the city.

Black Uhuru, 10 p.m., Wednesday at the Knotty Pine in Victor. $20. 208-787-2866.

Tony Furtado’s new release “The Bell” is the first on his own label, Yousayfurtado Records, and he describes the effort as “a very personal journey inspired by the loss of my father, the birth of my son and a few uncontrollable changes in my career.” Per usual, Furtado’s virtuosic instrumental chops are interesting, textured and earthy on the album.

The recurring themes of life and death are sung in a laidback manner from the once unwilling vocalist. Production-wise, the set brings to mind Sarah Jarosz’s 2013 release, “Build Me Up From Bones.”

Multi-genre as a multi-instrumentalist, Furtado is equally comfortable picking bluegrass banjo or a rootsy slide guitar.

He’ll perform as a trio with bass and drums.

Tony Furtado Band, 10 p.m., Friday at the Knotty Pine in Victor. $10. 208-787-2866. PJH Aaron Davis is an award-winning singer-songwriter, journalist, multi-instrumentalist, frontman for bands Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, and founder/host of Songwriter’s Alley.

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S​ unday, 10am on Town Square: Takin’ it to the Streets This locals only art fair takes over the streets of Town Square during the Fall Arts Festival and coincides with the foodie event, Taste of the Tetons and the Rotary Supper Club’s Fall Arts Festival Wine Tasting.​ $15.00. n Historic Ranch Tours 2:00pm, Valley Ranches, $50.00. 307-733-3316 n Micqaela Jones 3:00pm, Grand Teton Gallery, Jackson Hole Fine Art, Free.

307-201-1172 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J Chuckwagon, $24.00 - $34.00. 307-733-3370 n Live Music 7:00pm, The Virginian Saloon, Free. 307-739-9891 n Mike Hurwitz & the Aimless Drifters 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free. 307-732-3951 n Westbound 8:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00. 307-733-2207 n Idaho High School Cycling League Grand Targhee Resort, 307-3532300

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n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free. 307-739-3594 n 31st Annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival 8:00am, Jackson Hole, Free.

307-733-3316 n Pilates Mat Classes at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop

9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Rosh Hashanah with the JHJC 10:00am, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free. 307-734-1999 n Public invited to say farewell to retiring Library Director 11:30am, Teton County Library, Free. 307-733-2164 n Story Time 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free. 208-787-2201 n Young Naturalists 1:30pm, Jenny Lake Visitor Center, Free. 307-739-3654 n Creative Adventure, Grades K-2nd 3:30pm, Off Square, $200.00.

307-733-3021 n Voice for Public Speakers and Actors 4:30pm, Off Square Theatre, $225.00. 307-733-3021 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J Chuckwagon, $24.00 - $34.00. 307-733-3370 n bootybarre® at Dancers’ Workshop 5:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00. 307-733-6398 n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornans, Free. 307733-2415 n Scene Study 7:00pm, Off Square, $225.00.

307-733-3021 n The JH Chorale Rehearsals 7:00pm, Music Center in the Center for the Arts, Free. 585872-4934 n The WYNOTTS 7:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free.

307-733-4913 n Monday Night Baseball The Virginian Saloon, Free. 307739-9891

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n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free. 307-739-3594 n Jackson Hole One Fly 8:00am, Snake River. 307-2032654 n 31st Annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival 8:00am, Jackson Hole, Free.

307-733-3316 n ‘Developing Your Intuition & Clairvoyance’ 10:00am, Spirit, $249.00 $299.00. 307-733-3382 n 16th Annual “Takin’ It To The Streets” 10:00am, Town Square, Free.

307-733-6379 n 3rd Annual Marmot Slayer Disc Golf Tournament 11:00am, Grand Targhee Resort, $20.00. n Rotary Supper Club’s Wine

Tasting and Silent Auction 11:00am, Town Square, Free.

631-404-7857 n Taste of the Tetons 11:00am, Town Square, $1.00.

307-733-3316 n Whole Hog Roast & Live Music 5:00pm, Q Roadhouse & Brewing Co., Free. 307-739-0700 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J Chuckwagon, $24.00 - $34.00. 307-733-3370 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free. 307733-4407 n Guitarist Byron Tomingas at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free. 307-733-4647 n Erev Rosh Hashanah with the JHJC 6:00pm, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free. 307-734-1999 n NASCAR in HD 6:00pm, The Virginian Saloon, Free. 307-739-9891 n Wine Tasting on a Budget 6:00pm, Dornan’s, 307-733-2415 n Taize 7:00pm, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free. 307-733-2603 n Time for Three Concert 7:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free. 307-200-3273

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Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free. 307-7393594 n 31st Annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival 8:00am, Jackson Hole, Free. 307-733-3316 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, Free. 307-733-6398 n Ballet Workout at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00.

307-733-6398 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free. 307-733-2164 x 118 n Walking Tours 10:30am, Center of Town Square, Free. 307-7332414 x 213 n Toddler Time 10:35am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free. 307-733-2164 x 118 n Toddler Time 11:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free. 307-733-2164 x 118 n R Park Tour 12:00pm, Rendezvous Park, Free. 307-733-3913 n Crystal Sound Bowl Experience with Daniela Botur 12:00pm, Intencions, Free. 307-733-9290 n MELT at Dancers’ Workshop 12:10pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00.

307-733-6398 n Superheroes! Grades 2nd-3rd 3:30pm, Off Square, $200.00. 307-733-3021 n Oneness Deeksha 5:30pm, Spirit, $1.00 - $5.00. 307-733-3382 n Yoga on the Lawn 5:30pm, Healthy Being Juicery, Free. 307-2009006 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J Chuckwagon, $24.00 - $34.00.

307-733-3370 n Disc Golf Doubles 5:30pm, Disc Golf Course, $3.00. 614-506-7275 n Free Mexican Independence Day Celebration 5:30pm, Jackson Whole Grocer, Free. 307-7330450 n Guitarist Marco Soliz at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free. 307-733-4647 n Photography Fundamentals 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, $120.00 - $145.00.

307-733-6379 n Yoga at Dancers’ Workshop 6:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00.

307-733-6398 n Spanish for Beginners I 7:00pm, Center for the Arts, $100.00. 307-7337425 n Hip Hop at Dancers’ Workshop 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00.

307-733-6398 n Adult Oil Painting 7:00pm, The Local Galleria, $25.00 - $80.00.

208-270-0883 n Playwritting 7:00pm, Off Square, $225.00. 307-733-3021 n Bluegrass Tuesday with One Ton Pig 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Bar, Free. 307-732-3939 n John Hiatt & The Combo and Taj Mahal Trio 8:00pm, Center Theater, $87.00 - $97.00. 307734-8956 n Open Mic Night 9:00pm, Virginian Saloon, Free. 307-739-9891

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Alcova ambling Explore a land of legends, beaches and climbing

BY ELIZABETH KOUTRELAKOS

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s winter storms make their way into the Tetons, mornings can be chilly and slightly unpleasant for those looking for an easy camping experience. This time of year, other parts of Wyoming can offer warmer environments for outdoor adventures.

After looking at the weather forecast, I chose to go to the Fremont Canyon area. This little spot is located between Pathfinder and Alcova Reservoirs on the North Platte River.

Dams to provide water for irrigation and hydroelectricity created both lakes. Legend has it before they built the dams some smallsized mummies were found in a cave. Sizes of these mummies ranged from 4 to 18 inches and scientists were baffled by the presence of mummified little people in a soon-tobe flooded cave. At least one mummy was removed and served as an attraction at a car dealership and various other roadside moneymaking schemes. Currently, the location of the salvaged mummy is unknown. Its friends are likely still residing in the cave, now underwater.

Another interesting possibility this place offered was the history of a once popular hot spring. In 1891, Isaac Van Horn purchased

Campsites abound (left), with views and access to Alcova Lake; an old car that ventured a little too far down the path looking for a hot spring perhaps? land at Alcova with plans of putting hotels and bathhouses above the canyon walls. The river below hosted a plethora of hot water.

Unfortunately, this never happened; the dam was built between 1935-38 and a power plant was constructed in the early 1950s. After some digging around the area, I discovered all possible hot springs were likely sitting deep under the water.

So with no mummy and no hot spring, what exactly can you do here for the weekend? Fremont Canyon, accessible by road, boasts beautiful pink granite walls that lead to great fishing holes and crack climbing. For even more dramatic views, lower Fremont can be accessed by boat. My adventure mate and I brought a climbing guidebook but given that it was about 20 years old, it was rendered useless, leaving us with our brains to figure the rest out. Those with enough drive can easily find many, many great rock scampers in this area.

Typically in places where there are climbers, there are also rules prohibiting the camping of too many crusty people in one area. In this spot, there were no crusty people or rules to abide by. From what I gathered, a predominant amount of this area lies on BLM land. This apparently means wherever you dare to drive your truck, you can, and the camping spots are glorious, scenic and filled with solitude. Beware that if you do get stuck here, your vehicle may not ever be able to leave. That being said, do not let the ease of multi-day activities deter you from the posted signs. If something reads, “No trespassing,” it really means don’t go there.

I spied a lot of random bullets, shot up signs and bridges, so journeying around this area may not be the best for the illiterate curious.

After a few nights, I concluded there was no need to have rules about camping. The sheer force of nature will easily weed the ill-prepared vagabonds out. As mentioned before, temperatures were warm yet the wind was abundant. Luckily, I was with someone who grew up in Casper as a “Child of the Wind” and knew places and ways to circumvent, even embrace these gale-force breezes.

So the wind, though ever-existent, was not that bad.

The climbing combined with fishing made for some great activities throughout the weekend. Low commitment, easily accessible spots allowed us to gallivant to whatever activity we desired without wasting time.

The climbs themselves will likely wear the skin off your hands before your muscles get tired.

Sloan’s Gas Stop conveniently offered some delicious hand-scooped ice cream.

This refreshing treat may be enjoyed in the comfort of your vehicle or on beaches of the lake that really do look like the ocean. Sandy Beach is actually sandy, unlike many of the pebbled excuses for beaches around Jackson Lake. Additionally, there are ample spots for sandcastle building. If you feel the desire to scamper around in a warm and beautiful place, this area will bring some warmth to your bones before winter settles in. PJH

Jackson Hole grievances A mash-up of TripAdvisor’s worst reviews of summer 2015

BY ANDREW MUNZ @AndrewMunz Please enjoy snippets from various reviews of local businesses that have been sewn together in an effort to provide you, dear reader, with one collectively bad review of Jackson Hole.

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A happy family of tourists. Must have been the beginning of their trip.

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hundreds of people slept there just fine.

The horses we rode on were both ill; one of us did not finish the tour because the horse was bucking and rearing as if she was in pain.

This was not user error! After being told by the manager, “She can’t refund EVERYONE,” we were promised a small refund of $46. It took several reminders since mid-June and the check is not even in the mail yet!

We were told to go to [business redacted] for the best whitewater experience, and we ended up being very disappointed except for Lunch Table. Our family of five was supposed to be in an eight-man raft but they put us in a 14-man raft with other families. If we wanted to go rafting with other families we would have requested a bigger raft, but we wanted the eight-man raft. The woman at the desk said, “We switch people around all the time.”

I didn’t want to say anything out of consideration of the other families. But Lunch Table was a very fun rapid and we didn’t fall out.

For dinner, we headed to [business redacted], which was recommended by a local person as THE place for steaks. We waited 20 minutes for someone to come and take a drink order and finished the drinks while waiting 40 more minutes to take our dinner order.

Damn near got up and walked out. I know meat, (haha) and my elk was charred … no need to blacken elk medallions if it is tender!

All five of us had tasteless meals that we could have made at home for 10 percent of the cost.

Realizing this is a resort town and prices are expensive regardless, this place puts on a façade of being a high-end eatery, but honestly you’d get better service from some college kid working at Ruby Tuesday to pay for school.

We made sure to catch the [event redacted], which was really, really terrible. It reminded me of something my 10- and 12-year-old kids would put together with their friends and then say, “Mom, watch our show!” But it seems like some tourists (foreign) really enjoyed it!

Overall, for a city that makes its bread and butter with tourists’ money, the people are rude to visitors. I would never go back to this area again.

We will never return.

Never coming back here.

TAKE YOUR FAMILY ELSEWHERE. But the Teton is worth the trip. PJH

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normally don’t write reviews, but this warranted my opinion.

We are from Raleigh, N.C. and wanted to see what a real western experience was like so we came to Jackson (the locals call it Jackson Hole). I am not overreacting when I say we had a TERRIBLE experience!!!

We went to Yellowstone first and, it was very, very hot, which is unusual according to the park rangers and visitor information. Our cabin had no AC and it was 100 degrees even with a fan; it did nothing but circulate hot air.

The heat created an insomnia, which is not what you want while you are on vacation. Our cabin faced the parking lot and we found out that most of the cabins don’t have wilderness scenes, just the sound of the garbage truck picking up the trash. The Wi-Fi didn’t work and we had ZERO cell service there. Plus, the amount of visitors also creates a sense of chaos. I think I would have rather been in a tent and take my chances of being eaten by a bear.

It’s important for me to point out that we did not see any bears.

The limited affordable accommodation options left us without many options. We loved the fresh air and green forests of the Grand Teton, but our reservations, our cabin, the horseback riding activity, the food, the facilities and the customer service were all very disappointing. In our cabin, the “rustic” cabin floor was dirty and very sticky. Looks like the floor never got mopped or vacuumed. When we talked to the owner, he said that the mattress in the room was not on his spreadsheet to replace (which he tried to show me) and that

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THE FOODIE FILES Egg carton conundrum If you’re going to put an egg on it, make it a good egg

BY ANNIE FENN, MD @jacksonfoodie ANNIE FENN, MD

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ow do you like your eggs? I like mine exactly the way I have told hundreds of pregnant women over the years not to cook their eggs (for fear of contracting Salmonella): gently poached or fried, with a creamy yolk that, when pierced with a fork seeps into the perfect puddle for dipping my toast. It’s not that I have no regard for food safety — who could forget the recall of 550 million eggs in 2010 after an outbreak of Salmonella that sickened thousands of people? Anyone who eats undercooked eggs is at risk for contracting Salmonella, the bacteria that causes serious gastro-intestinal distress, especially dangerous for children, elderly, and immunosuppressed persons.

I don’t worry too much about Salmonella in my runny eggs. Why? Because I’m really careful about the eggs I buy. And, although it’s no guarantee that I’ll never get sick, I’ve learned a few tricks about reading an egg carton that may reduce my chances. Let’s test your Egg Carton IQ: 1. The label says: Cage-free. There’s a picture of a chicken in front of a big red barn.

This means a) The chickens roam outside most of the day pecking at corn kernels and juicy grubs, spreading their wings at will; b) The chickens sleep in a barn but wander freely outside into the sunshine; or c) They live in aviaries, massive industrial barns that house thousands of birds, with an average of one square foot of living space each.

2. The hen’s diet is touted to be Vegetarian.

This means a) The chickens have eschewed their natural diet of bugs and forage for a more salad-like selection of kale, Brussels sprouts and nutritious grasses; b) Although chickens normally eat pork and beef, these hens are only fed vegetables; or c) Their vegetarian diet consists of amino acid fortified soy and corn feed.

3. The carton says Free-Range. This means a) This is a happy hen who gets to go outside anytime it wants, and frequently leaves the barn to frolic in the sunshine; or b) The chickens enjoy special privileges, like getting to visit the cows in the pasture; or c) They live cage-free in a large aviary with a small doorway that leads to a small screened-in porch that gives access to the outdoors, although in reality they are habituated to never using it.

4. Farm Fresh! This means a) The farmer got

up really early to collect eggs and drove them to the supermarket while they were still warm; or b) The eggs were at one point fresh and are from chickens raised on farms; or c) The eggs may or may not come from a farm, and most likely come from a large aviary, and they may or may not be “fresh,” which has no official definition.

Did you guess that the correct answer is C for all? If so, you have already figured out that all of these terms are marketing ploys created by large industrial producers to make you feel good about buying eggs. Likewise for “All Natural” (which means nothing), “Hormone Free” (the use of growth hormones in the poultry industry was outlawed decades ago), and “Antibiotic Free” (also rarely used in the egg industry). “Cage-free” and “Free-range” eggs may sound good, but chances are the hens who laid those eggs live in an environment that is most likely to harbor Salmonella: crowded aviaries housing thousands of birds sitting in a heck of a lot of chicken poop.

So what words would you like to see on an egg carton? “Pasture-raised” indicates hens who live most of their lives outdoors and are able to forage for a more natural diet of worms, insects and grass, along with their feed. “Organic” means producers are subject to USDA regulation, must raise chickens to be at least free-range, and be fed only organic feed (without pesticides and not GMO, or from genetically modified organisms). It’s good to see the labels “Certified Humane,” “Animal Welfare Approved,” and “American Humane Certified,” as these producers must adhere to a robust set of animal welfare guidelines. Local eggs may be labeled ungraded and that’s just fine — none of our small-scale egg farmers have the equipment needed to grade eggs by USDA standards.

The most nutritious, safest and delicious eggs, in my opinion, come from local farmers (or friends) who raise small broods of truly pastured chickens. In Teton County, farmers are allowed to sell eggs directly to consumers at farmers markets, through farm share programs, and directly from their farms.

Unfortunately, there are only so many of these high quality eggs to go around. Most

(From left to right), Egg carton buzz words – what do they all mean?; The Hole Egg company’s fine organic specimens; poached eggs on a bed of kale and tomatoes (find the recipe below). of the year we still rely on supermarket eggs — 95 percent of which are likely from largescale industrial aviaries — so it’s good to know how to read between the lines on an egg carton.

Price is a reliable indicator of quality when it comes to eggs. Industrial farms are designed to produce lots of cheap eggs — some sell for less than $2 a dozen. At that price you can almost guarantee the hens are in such close quarters they are pecking each other to death. Organic and pastured eggs will definitely cost more. The most expensive eggs are the local eggs, but even at $8 a dozen, I’d still choose them whenever they are available.

Why do local eggs cost so much? The actual egg carton is a huge expense — The Hole Egg cartons cost $1.50 each. (Please keep them as clean as possible and return to Anders Rae when you buy eggs.) And then there’s the feed. Most local egg farmers use feed free of soy, canola and corn, thus avoiding the top three GMO crops in our food system. Due to the high price of organic feed, it costs about 45 cents to produce one egg, and that’s just for feed, not including the cost of the labor, the facilities and the hens. But by spending a few extra dimes per egg, I get to support organically fed, humanely treated chickens and a local farmer who is probably not making much money on his or her chicken and egg business. If I buy my eggs at the Farmers Market on the Town Square, 10 percent is donated back to that week’s featured nonprofit. And I get a better egg — an egg with a rich, marigold yolk I can cook up as runny as I like.

How to find good eggs: Track down Anders Rae of The Hole Egg at the Jackson Hole Farmers Market on the Town Square or at www.theholeegg.com. Go early — he always sells out.

Sign up for “Which Came First,” a chicken and egg share from Purely By Chance biodynamic farm, and get a whole chicken (butchered and ready to roast) and a dozen

eggs each week. Contact Andy Heffron at the Jackson Hole Farmers Market on the Town Square, the People’s Market, or at andy@ purelybychance.com.

Get Generation Farms eggs at the Jackson Hole Farmers Market, the People’s Market, and directly from farmer Matt Furney at tetongenfarms@gmail.com. When the market season is over, you’ll find his eggs at Liquor Down South in Jackson, at Barrels and Bins in Driggs, and at Hole Food Rescue (where $1 from each dozen will get donated back to them). To taste chef renditions of Generation Farms eggs — Trout Stock Egg Drop Soup anyone? Don’t miss the ninecourse farm to table Generations Farms dinner at Jackson Hole Winery on September 19 and 20. Tickets can be purchased at the Generation Farms booth at the farmers markets or by emailing Furney.

Debbie at KnitTogether Kinders Farm will be delivering eggs to Jackson on Wednesdays once the markets are over. Message her on Facebook or email her at dbass@knit2gether. com. She is hoping her ducks will start laying eggs soon too.

A few more of my favorite eggs come from the farmers at Cosmic Apple Gardens and Robinson Family Farms. Contact them to buy eggs directly from the farm.

Kale Poached Eggs Serves 1, easily doubled

Place a large frying pan over medium heat and swirl the bottom with olive oil. When hot, add ¼ cup finely diced onion and a pinch of salt. When the onion is transparent, add 2 handfuls of kale, cleaned, dried and shredded. Sauté for 2 minutes until limp. Add 1 ripe, chopped tomato and warm through.

Using a spoon, make 2 wells in the vegetables large enough to poach an egg. Crack an egg into each well and cook until done to your liking (cover the pan with a lid of you like the yolk cooked through). Season with salt, pepper and hot sauce, and serve with toasted bread. PJH

BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Champagne wishes The glamour wine for glamorous times

BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

D

uring a recent “glamping” excursion, I found myself wishing I’d have brought some Champagne along.

After all, nothing says “glamour” while glamour-camping like a beautiful bottle of bubbly.

A while back, I was talking with a well-known California winemaker about Champagne. Although she grew up in wine country, she hadn’t really had much experience with sparkling wines, especially Champagne, until being treated to a birthday bottle of Dom Pérignon. “I suddenly got it,” she said about the Dom. “I could really taste the difference between Dom Pérignon and the cheaper Champagnes I’d had before, and it suddenly made sense. I could understand why someone would pay a hundred

dollars for a bottle of Champagne.”

I’ve had a similar experience. Until I spent a week in the towns of Reims and Epernay, in the Champagne region of France, most of the Champagne I’d tasted all seemed pretty much the same. But a week’s immersion in bubbles, in a place where the natives drink Champagne for lunch with their croque monsieur sandwiches, resulted in my realization that no two Champagnes taste exactly alike.

Although most Champagne is produced via the same method, no two Champagne houses produce wines that taste alike. Each house has its own style and signature.

But let’s get back to my winemaker acquaintance. Because her young wine palate hadn’t been clouded yet by dozens or more Champagne experiences, it was easy for her to distinguish between Dom Pérignon and the handful of lesser Champagnes she’d tried. The difference was as clear as an empty bottle of Cristal. The Dom Pérignon tasted to her like it was worth $100. Like I said, I’ve had the same experience.

Now generally speaking, when it comes to wine, I’d rather have five bottles of $40 wine than one bottle that costs $200. And although I hesitate to try to quantify something as subjective as a wine tasting experience, it’s usually the case that the $200 bottle doesn’t taste to me five times better than the $40 bottle. So perhaps I’ll sacrifice some quality for quantity, since my budget doesn’t

IMBIBE cost a fraction of the best bottle of Burgundy. Sadly, that bottle of Salon that set me back $160 a decade ago now sells in Utah for a whopping $471. Even as much as I love Salon, it’s not worth sacrificing a car payment for!

So the next time you’re glamping— or generally looking to juice up the glamour quotient in your life—my advice is to go ahead and take the plunge: Go out and splurge on the best bottle of Pol Roger, Krug, Bollinger, Heidseick, Salon, Perrier Jouet, Pol Roger, Veuve Clicquot, Pommer y, Roederer, Gosset, Deutz, Dom Pérignon or other great Champagnes that you can afford. You’ll get your money’s worth. PJH

afford me to drink $200 wines habitually.

But the exception, for me, is Champagne, where I really do think you get what you pay for. Again, for budgetary reasons I happily drink inexpensive Spanish cavas and domestic sparkling wine more often than classy French Champagne. But a $100 bottle of Champagne usually does taste five times better to me than a $20 bottle. That’s because the elite Champagne producers of France have, over the centuries, created Champagne styles that are so consistent, so refined, and so dependable, that they’re actually worth what they cost. A bottle of $160 Salon Le Mesnil Blanc de Blanc Champagne sent me straight to sparkling wine heaven, whereas I’ve had plenty of bottles of still wine in that price range that weren’t pa r t icu la rly exceptional. And, the best bottle of Champagne will still usually

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ASIAN & CHINESE TETON THAI Serving the world’s most exciting cuisine.

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Kazumi is a family-owned and operated restaurant serving unique sushi rolls, fresh sashimi and nigiri, and off-the-charts specialty items. Located near the Town Square, we also feature hot noodle soups and the spiciest rolls in town! Open Monday through Saturday at 11 a.m - 9:30 p.m.

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CONTINENTAL THE BLUE LION A Jackson Hole favorite for 37 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Ask a local about our rack of lamb.

Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Early Bird Special: 20% off Entire Bill between 5:30-6:00pm. Must mention ad. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome.

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CAFE GENEVIEVE Serving inspired home cooked classics in a historic log cabin. Enjoy brunch daily at 8 a.m., dinner nightly at 5 p.m., and happy hour daily 3-5:30 p.m. featuring $5 glasses of wine, $5 specialty drinks, $3 bottled beer.

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ELEANOR’S Enjoy all the perks of fine dining, minus the dress code at Eleanor’s, serving rich, saucy dishes in a warm and friendly setting. Eleanor’s is a primo brunch spot on Sunday afternoons.

Its bar alone is an attraction, thanks to reasonably priced drinks and a loyal crowd.

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Located just a short block north of the Town Square at 180 N. Center Street, (307) 733-3448.

LOCAL Local, a modern American steakhouse and bar, is located on Jackson’s historic town square.

Our menu features both classic and specialty cuts of locally-ranched meats and wild game alongside fresh seafood, shellfish, houseground burgers, and seasonally-inspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locally-sourced products.

Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Our deck is open! Lunch Daily 11:30am. Dinner Nightly 5:30pm 55 North Cache, (307) 201-1717, localjh.com.

LOTUS CAFE Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices. Offering super smoothies, fresh extracted juices, espresso and tea. Full bar and house-infused botanical spirits. Open daily 8am for breakfast lunch and dinner.

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MANGY MOOSE Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally fresh food at reasonable prices, is a always a fun place to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel right at home and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit.

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SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour 4 to 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.

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Featuring a variety of cuisines in a relaxed atmosphere, Trio is famous for its woodoven pizzas, specialty cocktails and waffle fries with bleu cheese fondue. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations.

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Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers. Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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PIZZA DOMINO’S PIZZA Hot and delicious delivered to your door.

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Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally FRESH FOOD at reasonable prices, is a always a FUN PLACE to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel RIGHT AT HOME and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit.

The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012, 2013 and 2014. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, stromboli’s, calzones and many appetizers to choose from. Try the $7 ‘Triple S’ lunch special.Happy hours 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. Sun.Thu. Text PINK to 71441 for discounts.

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A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965, the Calico continues to be one of the most popular restaurants in the Valley. The Calico offers the right combination of really good food, (much of which is grown in our own gardens in the summer), friendly staff; a reasonably priced menu and a large selection of wine. Our bar scene is eclectic with a welcoming vibe. Open nightly at 5 p.m.

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REDNECK PERSPECTIVE SATIRE

Hip Hog Island Gentrification plan calls for yuppies and art

BY CLYDE THORNHILL

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am working with Christina Grey, a Sotheby’s realtor and one of my part-time belamours, to transform greater Hog Island into a trendy, upscale neighborhood like New York’s East Village, the Mission District in San Francisco or Wilson. Christina is hoping to make a fortune when real estate prices boom and I want quick access to bored housewives without having to drive all the way to The Pines.

“For our plan to succeed,” Christina told me. “Hog Island must become a magnet for artists and bohemian types, setting a foundation for the rich white people to follow. Luckily, Natalia Duncan Macker was appointed to the county commission. She graduated cum laude from Yale and is artistic director of Off Square Theater. Best of all she’s living in Hoback Junction and typifies the people we need to attract to the area, young, white, well educated and cultured.”

I don’t know what cum laude means, but knowing college kids, I have a pretty good idea. But Yale! Seriously!

“Their football team sucks!” I moaned.

Then, wanting to keep the conversation relevant, I asked, “How many guns and trucks does she own?”

“Clyde,” Christina sounded exasperated. “If we want to increase real estate prices in Hog Island-Hoback, we can no longer define success by the amount of guns or trucks one owns. It is the amount of liquid tangible assets one has.”

“Guns and trucks are assets,” I said, defending the investment strategies of generations of Hog Islanders and Hobackers. “However most of us have lots of beer as well, so we’re set on liquid assets so long as we don’t get too thirsty.”

Changing the subject, Christina asked, “How are you coming with the public art project I asked you to make?”

“Great,” I replied. “I tied a Budweiser can peppered with bullet holes to a piece of bailing twine and hung it off the South Park Bridge. The Planet’s art critic Kelsey Dayton was invited to the unveiling. I told her if she wrote a good review I would … well, let’s just say she agreed. I’ll read her review to you. “The sculpture combines Dadaism and modernism while embodying post-agrarian pathos with a pastoral dichotomy of regionalism in conflict, pursuing the randomness of Polack and the aesthetics of Warhol yet more personal, more relevant. The piece offers a revivalism of deconstructionism reminiscent of Oleksandra-Barysheva but with a cubist influence.”

“Perfect!” Christina exclaimed. “And how did your meeting with the Hog Island City Council go?”

“I explained our plan to create an urban community lifestyle and attract young professionals to the greater Hog Island region,” I said. “The counsel expressed concern that gentrification will displace the current Hog Island demographic. I explained that we don’t want to displace rednecks as much as we want to enlighten them to the advantages of

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015 Considerable account 019 Home with a view 020 One-on-one sport 021 Zebra genus 022 Passing remarks?

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082 Shoe widths

being rich: wearing shorts and sandals on hot days, trust funds, spring vacations to the Caribbean, and girlfriends that won’t steal your chew. The stealing chew part convinced them!”

“Clyde,” she said excitedly. “You did fantastic! You could have been a great realtor.” PJH

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19) “More and more I have come to admire resilience,” writes Jane Hirshfield in her poem “Optimism.” “Not the simple resistance of a pillow,” she adds, “whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another.” You have not often had great access to this capacity in the past, Aries. Your specialty has been the fast and fiery style of adjustment. But for the foreseeable future, I’m betting you will be able to summon a supple staying power—a dogged, determined, incremental kind of resilience.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “The fragrance from your mango groves makes me wild with joy.” That’s one of the lyrics in the national anthem of Bangladesh. Here’s another: “Forever your skies … set my heart in tune as if it were a flute.” Elsewhere, addressing Bangladesh as if it were a goddess, the song proclaims, “Words from your lips are like nectar to my ears.” I suspect you may be awash with comparable feelings in the coming weeks, Taurus—not toward your country, but rather for the creatures and experiences that rouse your delight and exultation. They are likely to provide even more of the sweet mojo than they usually do. It will be an excellent time to improvise your own hymns of praise.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) There have been times in the past when your potential helpers disappeared just when you wanted more help than usual. In the coming weeks, I believe you will get redress for those sad interludes of yesteryear. A wealth of assistance and guidance will be available. Even people who have previously been less than reliable may offer a tweak or intervention that gives you a boost. Here’s a tip for how to ensure that you take full advantage of the possibilities: Ask clearly and gracefully for exactly what you need.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Why grab the brain-scrambling moonshine when you may eventually be offered a heart-galvanizing tonic? Why gorge on hors d’oeuvres when a four-course feast will be available sooner than you imagine? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, my fellow Crab, the future will bring unexpected opportunities that are better and brighter than the current choices. This is one of those rare times when procrastination may be in your interest.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) As I hike up San Pedro Ridge, I’m mystified by the madrone trees. The leaves on the short, thin saplings are as big and bold as the leaves on the older, thicker, taller trees.

I see this curiosity as an apt metaphor for your current situation, Leo. In one sense, you are in the early stages of a new cycle of growth. In another sense, you are strong and ripe and full-fledged. For you, this is a winning combination: a robust balance of innocence and wisdom, of fresh aspiration and seasoned readiness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) I hope it’s not too late or too early to give you a slew of birthday presents. You deserve to be inundated with treats, dispensations, and appreciations. Here’s your first perk: You are hereby granted a license to break a taboo that is no longer useful or necessary. Second blessing: You are authorized to instigate a wildly constructive departure from tradition. Third boost: I predict that in the next six weeks, you will simultaneously claim new freedom and summon more discipline. Fourth delight: During the next three months, you will discover and uncork a new thrill. Fifth goody: Between now and your birthday in 2016, you will develop a more relaxed relationship with perfectionism.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) A “wheady mile” is an obsolete English term I want to revive for use in this horoscope. It refers to what may happen at the end of a long journey, when that last stretch you’ve got to traverse seems to take forever. You’re so

close to home; you’re imagining the comfort and rest that will soon be yours. But as you cross the “wheady mile,” you must navigate your way through one further plot twist or two. There’s a delay or complication that demands more effort just when you want to be finished with the story. Be strong, Libra. Keep the faith. The wheady mile will not, in fact, take forever. (Thanks to Mark Forsyth and his book Horologicon.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Trying improbable and unprecedented combinations is your specialty right now. You’re willing and able to gamble with blends and juxtapositions that no one else would think of, let alone propose. Bonus: Extra courage is available for you to call on as you proceed. In light of this gift, I suggest you brainstorm about all the unifications that might be possible for you to pull off. What conflicts would you love to defuse? What inequality or lopsidedness do you want to fix? Is there a misunderstanding you can heal or a disjunction you can harmonize?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Is feeling good really as fun as everyone seems to think?

Is it really so wonderful to be in a groove, in love with life, and in touch with your deeper self? No! Definitely not! And I suspect that as you enter more fully into these altered states, your life will provide evidence of the inconveniences they bring. For example, some people might nag you for extra attention, and others may be jealous of your success. You could be pressured to take on more responsibilities. And you may be haunted by the worry that sooner or later, this grace period will pass. I’m just kidding, Sagittarius! In truth, the minor problems precipitated by your blessings won’t cause any more anguish than a mosquito biting your butt while you’re in the throes of ecstatic love-making.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In this horoscope, we will use the Socratic method to stimulate your excitement about projects that fate will favor in the next nine months. Here’s how it works: I ask the questions, and you brainstorm the answers. 1. Is there any part of your life where you are an amateur but would like to be a professional? 2. Are you hesitant to leave a comfort zone even though remaining there tends to inhibit your imagination? 3. Is your ability to fulfill your ambitions limited by any lack of training or deficiency in your education? 4. Is there any way that you are holding on to blissful ignorance at the expense of future possibilities? 5. What new license, credential, diploma, or certification would be most useful to you?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) The story of my life features more than a few fiascos. For example, I got fired from my first job after two days. One of my girlfriends dumped me without any explanation and never spoke to me again. My record label fired me and my band after we made just one album. Years later, these indignities still carry a sting. But I confess that I am also grateful for them. They keep me humble. They serve as antidotes if I’m ever tempted to deride other people for their failures. They have helped me develop an abundance of compassion. I mention this personal tale in the hope that you, too, might find redemption and healing in your own memories of frustration. The time is right to capitalize on old losses.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) It’s never fun to be in a sticky predicament that seems to have no smart resolution. But the coming days could turn out to be an unexpectedly good time to be in such a predicament. Why? Because I expect that your exasperation will precipitate an emotional cleansing, releasing ingenious intuitions that had been buried under repressed anger and sadness. You may then find a key that enables you to reclaim at least some of your lost power.

The predicament that once felt sour and intractable will mutate, providing you with an opportunity to deepen your connection with a valuable resource.

Go to RealAstrology.com for Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text-message horoscopes. Audio horoscopes also available by phone at 877-873-4888 or 900-950-7700.

A zen teaching Learning the short path to enlightenment

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friend introduced me to this story a long time ago; I rediscovered it recently and thought you might also find it inspiring.

A young man who felt terribly disappointed with himself and his life went to a Buddhist monastery and shared his dismay with the Abbot.

“I am totally disillusioned with my life,” the young man said. “I was bored in school and dropped out, I have a short attention span and I have no self-discipline.

Is there any short way for people like me to attain enlightenment?”

“What have you concentrated on or studied most in your life?” asked the Abbot.

“I guess the only thing I was ever interested in is chess,” the man replied.

“That’s what I spent most of my time in school playing.”

Then the Abbot called for a monk who was an accomplished chess player to come and play chess with the young man. After the monk sat down, the Abbot drew his sword and laid out the rules for the chess match.

“If you lose, I will cut off your head, but you will be reborn in paradise,” the Abbot said to the monk. “If you win, I shall cut off the head of this youth. Chess is the only thing he has tried hard at, and

if he loses he deserves to have his head cut off, too.” The players looked at each other and back at the Abbot and knew he meant business.

The two began to play. The young man felt sweat trickle down his face as he played for his life. The chessboard became the whole world, and he concentrated on it fully. At first, the young man was losing, but then the monk made a poor move and he seized his chance to make a strong attack. As the monk’s position crumbled, the young man cast a secret glance at him. He saw a face of intelligence, kindness and sincerity worn with years of learning, service and effort. The youth thought of his own wasted life thus far, and a wave of compassion came over him. The young man deliberately made a strategic mistake, and then another, ruining his lead and making him defenseless.

Suddenly the Abbot, who was watching the entire time, stopped the game and threw the chess board off the table. The two contestants sat shocked and scared. “There is no winner and no loser, and no one’s head will fall today,” the Abbot said.

“Only two things are required — complete concentration and compassion,” he said to the young man. “You have learned them both today. You were completely concentrated on the game, and in that focus you could feel compassion and were willing to sacrifice your life for it. Now stay here a few months, pursue your training in this spirit and your enlightenment is a sure thing.” The young man stayed. PJH

“Only two things are required – complete concentration and compassion.”

Carol Mann is a longtime Jackson resident, radio personality, former Grand Targhee Resort owner, author, and clairvoyant.

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