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idway through August we begin to notice the changes that signal the end of the summer season. The first thing is, the days are now getting noticeably shorter. This week the length of day - the time between sunrise and sunset - is more than 30 minutes less than it was at the start of August, just two weeks ago. The shadows are also getting a bit longer, as the sun angle above the horizon is a little lower at noontime.

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One day earlier this August, temperatures in the valley dipped down below the freezing mark. Since then, overnight lows have been hanging around closer to normal for this time of year. Average low temperatures this week are in the upper 30’s to near 40-degrees. However, the record low temperature in town for this week would make you think about dragging out the down parka. On August 21st, 1980 it got down to 21-degrees.

Almost exactly one year later, the thermometer hit the record high for this week in August, when it topped-out at 98-degrees on August 19th, 1981. In modern times that is as hot as it has ever been in town. Prior to that, and the hottest temperature ever recorded in Jackson, was 101-degrees. You may recall - if you are a regular reader of this almanac that 101 reading happened in mid-July, way back in 1934. That is literally as hot as it has ever got.

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GUEST OPINION King Collaboration Why the public has to get involved with Phase 2 development of the town hill.

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’ve got too many great memories from Snow King to count, and I bet you do too.

From sucking wind on my first hike to the summit, to bootpacking/skinning up and skiing down during the winter, to watching my kids proudly climb and conquer the boulders at Phil Baux Park, to attending concerts with friends and family, to celebrating the independence of our nation, to tubing shenanigans, to the madness of Hill Climb, to buying locally grown food at the People’s Market—Snow King has played a central role in my Jackson Hole life.

The King is where our kids learn to ski, skate, and play hockey. It’s where we train to climb bigger mountains and go for leisurely lunchtime strolls with our friends. It’s where we ride our mountain bikes, trail run, eat crawfish, enjoy great music, celebrate, and come together as a community.

Town Square might be the tourist hub of our town, but Snow King is the living room of Jackson Hole and the heart of the community.

For many of us, it feels like Snow King belongs to our community. In fact, it does. Nearly all of the Snow King land on which we play is owned by the Town of Jackson or the BridgerTeton National Forest, meaning it’s our public land.

Then there’s the dozens of acres of private land at the base, which are governed by what’s called the Snow King Resort Master Plan, a special zoning designation that gives property owners development rights in exchange for the provision of public benefits. Approved by the Town and County more than 15 years ago, the plan gave copious development rights to property owners, approximately 600,000 square feet of which remain to this day (the equivalent of six Marriotts). In return for these development rights, property owners agreed to provide public benefits like a convention center, access to our public lands, sidewalks and a pedestrian plaza, preserved open space, and employee housing.

Except that over the past 15 years, almost no development happened at Snow King. With no development there were no corresponding public benefits. Meanwhile, despite the best intentions of the previous owners, the ski area languished and hemorrhaged money during winter operations.

This situation changed dramatically two years ago when a group of investors bought Snow King Resort, along with much of the land at the base, and set about to revitalize the resort. The new ownership group quickly completed a range of projects, funded through both private and millions of public dollars, aimed at making the resort profitable; including improved snowmaking infrastructure, a ropes course, a mountain coaster, and a rebuilt Rafferty lift with new ski runs.

In a rush to get these projects completed to get the resort in the black, the owners of Snow King got them approved with minimal analysis and comment from citizens, denying our

After a grueling ascent, Ryder Benjamin conquers a boulder at Phil Baux Park community an opportunity for public input.

Regardless how one feels about the merits of these projects, the rushed approval process for these projects left many in the community riled about the lack of public participation.

Now, Snow King is proposing what’s called their “Phase 2 Development Plan,” a suite of projects including a gondola and new road to the summit, a top-to-bottom zip line, lift-accessed mountain bike trails, a “first class” restaurant on the summit to replace the Panorama House, an observatory, and significant boundary expansions to the east and west to increase skiable terrain and north into Phil Baux Park (you can read the entire proposal for yourself at snowkingmountain.com/mountain/master-plan/). If implemented, this plan will have significant impacts on both Snow King and our entire community.

Once again, regardless of how one feels about the merits of the specific projects proposed as part of this plan, it’s important they all go through a comprehensive public review process. Then we will not only understand their impacts, we can ensure their implementation actually benefits our community, too.

Let’s be clear about what’s going on here. We’ve got a private entity proposing significant development, most of which will take place on our public lands under the jurisdiction of the Bridger-Teton National Forest and the Town of Jackson.

These jurisdictions have a responsibility to coordinate and ensure this proposal benefits our community and addresses basic questions before moving forward.

Basic questions like where are people going to park? How are people going to get there? Where are new employees going to live? Where will all the new sewage go? How can we protect wildlife and habitat? How do we ensure this private investment results in benefits for locals and keeps Snow King

“We’ve got a private entity proposing significant development on our public lands.”

the heart of our community?

In addition, the Town has a responsibility to ensure Snow King’s plan aligns with our community’s land use rules and vision of a better future as articulated in the Comprehensive Plan. Specifically, since the master plan for the private lands at the base is more than 15 years old and completely out of date, contains none of the proposed projects, and does not anticipate an expansion of this sort, the Town should consider an update to the base master plan to ensure it aligns with the proposed development plan and our community’s current vision of a better future.

So, what should the Town and Forest Service do to ensure Snow King’s development benefits our community? They should make sure the plan and subsequent development increases public access, improves public transit and makes it safer for people to walk and bike, provides adequate sewer and water systems, protects wildlife habitat adjacent to the existing ski area, enhances our public gathering spaces at the base, keeps Snow King affordable to people who live here, and uses some of the dozens of acres of vacant land at the base to help address our housing crisis.

Thankfully, at a recent Town Council meeting, Snow King, the Forest Service, and the council all agreed on the need for collaboration and coordination moving forward. In addition, the Town took the important step of directing planning staff to analyze all external impacts from the proposed development plan to the town.

Here’s the thing, every one of us that loves Snow King also has a responsibility to support the Town and Forest Service in holding Snow King accountable for doing the right thing. So let’s all step up, make our voices heard about the future of our town hill, and support the collaboration necessary to make Snow King great. PJH Craig Benjamin is the executive director of the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance.

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THE BUZZ House of Cards Families are faced with the prospect of homelessness after an affordable housing fiasco.

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onnie Jones has no problem being the “face” of the housing crisis. She wants to make sure her landlords read this story and never forget her. Jones and her family—husband Cory and their autistic son Riley, 8—were told their place is on the market, currently listed and expected to sell soon. They hadn’t been there long enough to pay the second month’s rent when they got the news.

Before you stop reading because you think you’ve heard it all before, wait. Yes, the tragic tales, one after another, begin to numb residents to the real suffering. The Jones family has received a bad deal like so many others. But here’s the kicker: The landlord is not a greedy, absentee owner looking to gouge lowly tenants. The Joneses landlord is Teton County, specifically, the Housing Authority.

Pattern of nonperformance When the Jones family moves, it will be their seventh new place in as many years since they arrived here from California. All along they’ve put up with the usual: black mold, savage rent hikes, no yard to play in, and cattle call open houses for rentals that attract 20 to 30 applicants outbidding each other before they even see the bedroom closets.

“My husband and I are at the end of our freaking ropes.

The amount of stress is unbearable. I’m completely devastated. I’m inconsolable some days,” Connie Jones said. “It’s been one rough damn day after rough day, and I’m the one who has to go home and look into my kid’s eyes while I tear down his posters from the wall every year.”

The Jones family rents at 3405 N. Cheney Lane off Teton Village Road. They scored the rental after three tries at housing offered by the Authority and diligent classifieds watching.

In April of this year Jones was told she won the lottery for the Mantey property (Cheney Lane).

“You should have seen the celebration we had when we moved in,” Jones said. “Riley is outside now every day where he can be free. It’s heaven.”

But winning was losing for Jones. The events that would lead to her ousting were set in motion 15 years ago when the County began a long legacy of botched housing efforts.

The latest project in question for the County is The Grove, a project that included a $2M spreadsheet error and an $8M increase in cost estimates for Phases 2 and 3. Commissioners were so frustrated by the venture they pulled the plug on the Authority for Phase 3, handing the project to Habitat for Humanity against the agency’s protests, and eventually dissolved the Authority altogether.

Housing hang-ups began long before that for county officials. The Authority made its first attempt at collecting revenue through SPET (special purpose excise tax) in 2001.

Prop 8 asked for $9.3 million from voters for funds that would include the “acquisition, planning, and improvement of properties … to be utilized for affordable housing.” Half of that money ended up in 5-2-5 Hall and The Grove—a development that is now scheduled for completion in 2021. Another $1.2M (and an additional $750k in 2006) went toward purchasing a five-acre parcel next to the Aspens Market (Rains property) that has sat vacant ever since.

The Housing Authority’s former director Christine Walker heralded the Mantey and Rains purchases at the time as great investments in the organization’s land banking program.

Connie Jones’ son Riley has two service dogs, making the family’s hunt for a new home dismal.

Plans to build dense affordable housing projects on both never got off the ground, even though the agency’s website still reads: “All of these properties will eventually be used for affordable housing.” In fact, none of them will be.

When county commissioners attempted to upzone the Cheney Lane parcels, neighbors objected and one next-door property owner, lawyer Peter Moyer, sued.

“It’s been 10 years and what have they done there?” Moyer asked. “The Housing Authority got nearly $10 million in 2001 for their land banking program and another $5 million in 2006, which barely passed by 31 votes. The intent was to not have specific projects but to bank the money. Then they paid $1.7 million for a commercial lease on [260 W. Broadway where the HA’s offices are located] and did $200,000 in office renovation—empire building while no affordables were being constructed. They overpaid on the [Rains] property. It was appraised at $950,000 but the Authority shelled out $1.95 million for it.”

But according Lisa Potzernitz of the Joint Affordable Housing Department, “our original outlay for renovation was $128,000; $75,000 of that has been reimbursed by the tenant in suite C and the rest is to be paid back with 8 percent interest over the next five years.”

Moyer’s suit went all the way to the state supreme court, where judges agreed that land banking was probably not a proper use of taxpayer money derived from SPET. It was enough to scare off any more talk of developing Cheney Lane.

Running scared Smokey Rhea isn’t the only commissioner a bit gun-shy after the pushback at Cheney. “We’ve already been told if we try to change things at Cheney, we are going to be sued. I don’t think we will ever get high density in the Cheney Lane. We saw what happened on Teton Village Road [at Bar J], before it even hit the BCC. When some choose to go the legal route, and that’s absolutely their right, it slows us down. It’s damned if you do and damned if you don’t,” she said.

Commissioner Paul Vogelheim still believes Cheney Lane

is an appropriate place for greater density but he’s no longer ready to die on that hill. He’s now eyeing places like Hog Island, around the new elementary school.

“This was public money invested and a decision made without commissioners,” Vogelheim declared, though the BCC, led by then-chair Sen. Leland Christensen, did give the OK to purchase the Mantey property. “At this point we are trying to get out of a bad situation but we don’t need to do a fire sale.”

A land swap, Vogelheim says, could be another option for the Cheney parcels—one of which is a three-acre plot with three units on it where Jones rents. The other 2.1-acre parcel is vacant.

Commissioner Mark Newcomb remembers the battle on the West Bank while he was on the planning commission.

“There was a major battle there. We ended up walking it back from NC-transitional to NC-stable [zoning],” he said. “I can only guess Christine Walker thought density should be there and was going to be allowed to be there. But at this point we need to look at our options going forward. We can’t go back in time. There is no ‘woulda, shoulda.’”

Newcomb believes a better use of Cheney Lane is selling it. It is currently listed with Brett McPeak for what the County paid for it a decade ago—$2.1 million. Newcomb believes it will likely fetch $2 million. “Are we getting the best return on our investment with three units on two parcels?” Newcomb questioned.

Perhaps only the government could lose money on a real estate deal in Jackson Hole. But it’s not all their fault. Lisa daCosta, who is running for Teton County commissioner, has a background in financing. In addition to serving on the planning commission, she has served as the business advisor for the Wyoming Small Business Development Center, handling multi-million dollar budgets in the process. daCosta does this in the real world where one mistake gets you fired; two and you’re sued.

“I think the understanding at Cheney was it would be upzoned to density. In 2002, there was blue sky upzone

Shoveling it on

Bait and switch While government moved at a hem-hawing pace, Creswell muddied the waters with a surprising announcement weeks ago: the project would have to change in scope from rentals to an ownership model in order for the Trust to close a $4 million gap and make their development pencil.

The changeup didn’t sit well with some. For Newcomb, it was a deal-breaker.

“I initially had good feelings about the Trust project, but I was very surprised when I heard it was being converted from rental to ownership. The community’s greatest need is rentals,” Newcomb said. “I’m not sure how closely Anne follows direction from her board. They were begging us to spend money now but they haven’t given us a clear picture of the finances. Now it looks like they can’t start this summer. If the Trust had a bona fide project ready to go this summer it would have made sense to deploy $2 million toward it, in my mind.”

Macker was also hot on the idea of getting housing on the ground by next summer. Now, she’s thinking that might happen quicker with the new Joint Housing Authority director, April Norton.

“I’m in favor of selling [Cheney and Broadway] and pledging those proceeds toward Redmond and Hall. That wasn’t necessarily enough for [the Trust]. Well, I can’t print money,” Macker said. “Now that we have April we are marching forward on establishing parameters of what a partnering of government and the private sector might look like.”

Moyer was most critical of the Trust and elected leaders involvement with a private nonprofit. “If they had their new joint housing program up and running it should be them developing Cheney or getting the money from it. The Trust is jerking them around,” Moyer alleged. “Besides, state statute says you cannot give public money to private entities.”

Newcomb agrees his board needs to be careful about partnering with private developers, even ones like the Trust with a proven track record of putting housing on the ground.

“The Trust being a private nonprofit, you have to be more specific about where money is going. Clarity has to be worked out,” he said. “But we need to explore these public-private partnerships, or else the only way for private developers like S.R. Mills to make their money is to go balls to the wall with density.”

Creswell says struggles with raising capital forced her

hand. “We looked at building in phases. Unfortunately that would add millions to the cost,” she said. “Significantly more money is required to get affordable rental housing on the ground. It’s just a riskier investment. We can borrow more than twice as much for ownership units as rentals. This has not swayed our belief in rental housing, it just means it is taking longer to raise the funds needed to get rental homes on the ground.”

Redmond-Hall parked As County endeavors to put housing on the ground have been met with opposition and disappointment, casualties like Jones are examples of unintended consequences. Jones says she has had little to no communication with her landlords about her future housing situation.

Although it was before her time, Norton explained that the Joneses were notified the land could be sold when they signed their lease. Norton says she is doing everything she can to explore solutions for the Joneses and their neighbors. But while the Joneses will be able to live out the one-year lease they signed in the spring, they are not confident it will be enough lead time to find a new home as the valley’s housing emergency deepens.

“No matter who I ask, it’s been ‘I don’t know.’ There were no calls, emails, or a sign on the door. The only way I found out that I might be getting evicted was through the newspapers and showing up at a meeting,” Jones said.

The joint June 6 meeting Jones is referring to is when town and county officials voted to sell Cheney Lane assets. Housing Authority officials also learned the news at the meeting.

“I did meet with Natalia [Duncan Macker] and April [Norton] recently. They were very apologetic. They are very nice women and I know they have their work cut out for them.

It’s an enormous task. They both sympathized and Natalia said she would help us find another place. Look, I don’t care how your heart breaks, please just don’t forget us.”

And the Trust’s Redmond-Hall project? It’s sunk for now.

At a town meeting Monday, councilors voted 4-1 (only Jim Stanford in opposition) to withhold the requested $2.1 million Creswell needs to get started. An oversight committee recommended the project go back out to bid in January and then government leaders will look at it again next spring.

“I don’t think there will be any dirt flying this summer,” a disappointed Creswell said. PJH

The Rains Property (top) and the Mantey Property are placeholders for future affordable housing. The building located at 260 W. Broadway is slated for redevelopment of affordable rental units.

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While county officials contemplated cutting bait on a few properties that weren’t doing much to solve the valley’s affordable housing woes, a godsend arrived in the form of the Community Housing Trust. Already partnered with the Town on a project at Redmond and Hall that would build 28 affordable rentals, Anne Creswell offered to come to the rescue of a community deep in the throws of agony over housing the homeless.

Creswell hailed her project as perfect for a public-private partnership. The land at Redmond and Hall (bought by the town in 2013 for $1.65M) her organization was leasing there from the Town could be combined with adjacent parcels the Trust had later purchased in order to provide a significant “shovel-ready” project. The only problem was Creswell was short a few shovels.

The development has a $12.5M price tag. After Creswell secured commitments from private philanthropists, she tried to squeeze $2.1M from the town. She then put the pinch on county electeds. They said they’d like to help but they were broke.

“When the Trust came to us, we didn’t have the money. We had that tied up in The Grove,” Rhea said.

Vogelheim agreed. “The County has already allocated our money. They originally offered us a deed-restricted unit for consideration. Now they need two million more and we don’t have consideration for it. We can’t just give you two million without consideration. This is starting to look like deja vous at The Grove. We are spending $2.8 million on affordable housing this fiscal year—just on salary and overhead—and we still have to finish The Grove.”

When the County pulled lint out of its pockets, Creswell suggested they sell off some of their stagnant land holdings and give her the cash, up front. Town officials balked at the idea but the BCC was 3-2 in favor (Macker, Newcomb, Rhea) of at least committing a million bucks toward the Trust’s project from the hopeful sale of the Authority’s office space on Broadway.

“They did agree to provide proceeds of Broadway to the Trust but did not guarantee it. It’s a generous offer but it does not help this project right now,” Creswell said. “If Broadway even sells, and that’s a big if. The prospects are probably much better at Cheney Lane.”

The bind the County is in with the Broadway sale is they don’t own the land, only the building. And that’s leased from Bill and Gwen Hansen for a mind-boggling $12,000 a month,” daCosta said. “I think the county commissioners were right

to tell the Trust no money now for a transaction that hasn’t happened yet. That’s not prudent. I wouldn’t want to get sideways on a commitment like that.”

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potential that affected the value and now you are selling ‘as is, where is,’” she said. She added that she was in favor of selling both the Cheney property and the Broadway offices of the Housing Authority.

Natalia Duncan Macker also supports parting with Cheney. The commissioner up for reelection lamented the sale price but is eager to see something positive rise from the ashes.

“That asset could be leveraged to produce more than it is.

The most it could have on it is four units,” Macker said. “As to the question of selling it as a loss, we don’t control the real estate market. That’s not how the world works. We are where we are, and finger pointing about who did what and where is not useful. I believe in the creative powers in our community.

We can rise up and we can go forward.”

As for the Rains property, it would be a hard sell and harder to develop.

Newcomb says the Rains property on 390 next to the Aspens is a tougher argument to make. “I could see a real battle against density there and the potential collateral damage it could cause. Aspens Market, for one, is just waiting in the wings,” he said, referring to any precedent-setting Pandora’s box that could be opened by density upzoning.

“If that gets upzoned to dense housing, how could the county say no to Bar J?” daCosta added.

At times, county leaders have seemed paralyzed to move on housing.

“We’re in a tight place. We have to make hard decisions,” Newcomb admitted. “When are we going to see the right project in the right place?”

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Morning After Why Thursday’s candidate forum on social issues matters in the race ahead.

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ometimes it’s necessary to go backward,” Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, “in order to go forward.”

By the time you read this, Teton County’s primary election results will be in. Eight of the 11 initial candidates are still in their respective races for town and county leadership. A look back at last Thursday’s social justice candidate forum offers an instructive lesson in the issues that will guide Jackson going forward.

Organized by One22, Shelter JH, and PFLAG, the forum pressed candidates to answer tough questions about the valley’s income disparity, affordable housing, social services, and nondiscrimination. The candidate field includes a crop of new kids on the block for whom social justice is paramount.

“I believe it’s the first time a candidate forum in Jackson has been held with those parameters of attention,” said Mark Houser, forum co-organizer of PFLAG, The elephant in the room was palpable. Months have passed since an emergency meeting was called in the same St. John’s church meeting room to discuss Jackson’s housing crisis. Short-term solutions have yet to be enacted.

Houser said the audience attendance of 130 surpassed expectations. A mixed demographic in terms of age, race, and profession attended, with approximately 20 Latino residents in the audience.

“I wish we had more Latinos there,” Shelter JH organizer Jorge Moreno lamented. “I think they feel that if they aren’t eligible to vote, why would they go to a forum. But for me it is important because the candidates don’t know who is and isn’t able to vote, and if we are there it puts more attention on our issues.”

Despite the modest Latino turnout, Moreno says there is a rising political consciousness among Jackson’s Latino population.

“For many years, Latinos thought they’d be here for just a little bit, but now they realize this is home,” he said. “This is where their kids are growing up and where family is. A lot have become citizens.”

Houser agreed that the forum signaled a change. “I see it as the potential sparks of greater citizen involvement in local politics,” Houser said. “Involvement from individuals who are not usual players at the table.”

Houser and One22’s Mary Erickson emceed the forum.

Moreno offered live Spanish translation. Candidates for mayor, county commission, and town council were first asked if they would support a living wage in Jackson as opposed to the state’s current $5.15 minimum wage.

Two of the four mayoral candidates—Pete Muldoon and Mayor Sara Flitner—responded that they would support a living wage. According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology living wage calculator, that wage varies between $11.44 and $35.25, depending on an individual’s number of children and marital status.

Town council candidate Jessica Sell Chambers said income inequality is “a systemic problem we are seeing across the globe.”

Likening the working class in Jackson to a miner’s canary, Chambers said, “Our most vulnerable population has been suffering and it should have indicated to us long ago that the rest of our population was going to follow.”

But not all candidates shared Chambers’ sentiment. Town

council candidate Judd Grossman said that income inequality is a “false argument” and that “working people come here to make money off the rich people.”

Other town council candidates say they would use means other than a living wage to address income inequality. Hailey Morton Levinson and Anne Schuler said they would seek to diversify the job market so that locals are not as dependent on seasonal jobs.

Incumbent councilman Jim Stanford spoke in favor of a state income tax on high earners. “That will really have an effect on the income inequality here,” he said.

Teton County commissioner candidates were in agreement about what they see as their roles in addressing income inequality. All say they would focus on housing, with Republicans particularly focusing on rezoning. Natalia Duncan Macker-D contributed a working-mom perspective, saying that she was interested in “all types of equality,” including stable housing, healthcare, childcare, and good schools.

In the second round, candidates were asked about passing a town ordinance on nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation and sexual identity. Just as all the candidates would later agree that social services are good, all agreed that discrimination is bad. Where they differed was in how to protect LGBT people from discrimination.

Mayoral candidate Mark Obringer, Muldoon and Flitner all support an ordinance.

“These are civil rights we are talking about,” Muldoon said.

“I know it costs money to enforce civil rights, but if the civil rights of straight white men in Jackson were being infringed upon on a daily basis, we would find the money to enforce [an ordinance].”

Town council hopefuls were mixed. Chambers clearly understood the symbolic as well as practical importance of an ordinance, and spoke in favor of both. Schuler, Levinson and Stanford each said they want something passed, but not until it can have political “teeth.” Grossman, however, said he does not support an ordinance.

County commissioner candidates were asked a variation on the discrimination question that broadened the issue to human and civil rights. Most candidates responded in terms of LGBT rights.

Greg Epstein-D urged the town to pass an ordinance, which he said would give the county leverage in pressuring the state to ban discrimination. Macker said she is already networking statewide to make progress on this issue. Lisa daCosta-R and Nikki Gill-R both support change at the state level. Sandy Shuptrine-D said the county could pass a resolution supporting town action on the issue.

Trey Davis-R responded to the discrimination question by talking about the Latinos he employs at Sweetwater Restaurant. “They don’t necessarily feel comfortable in all parts of our community,” he said.

Latino issues were addressed indirectly throughout the forum, since topics like housing, discrimination, and social services cross lines of race and ethnicity in Jackson. Forum organizers addressed housing in a uniquely engaging way— opting for a lightning round where candidates held up “Yes,” “No,” or “Maybe” signs for their responses.

Town candidates were asked questions such as “Do you support:” Increasing residential mitigation on market-rate homes?

Allowing four stories in some places, designated for deed-restricted, income-limited housing?

Passing an ordinance with tenant protections regarding leases, evictions, and repairs?

County candidates were asked similar questions, but with some variation, such as their views on: Increasing the county property tax mill levy for housing and human services, and allowing overnight parking on public parking lots like Stilson.

Candidates were given one minute to clarify their answers.

The boldest candidates by far, in terms of action, were Muldoon and Chambers who each held up their “Yes” sign in favor of all housing solutions, except for Chambers’ “No” vote on

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A crowd at Thursday’s forum reacts to the astounding notion of parents receiving child care assistance on site where they work.

commercial mitigation.

“I voted no on commercial mitigation—we cannot have more employees onto this,” Chambers said.

“I think the town can take unilateral action in a lot of places,” Muldoon said. “Tenant protections is on my agenda on my first day in office. On the four stories, I don’t like them, either, but I’d rather see them built up on a few lots than a three-story Marriott.

Chambers spoke to the option of establishing a property tax mill levy in town. “I am a homeowner and I understand what that means,” she said. “This would definitely push me and my husband. But, leading by example, this is one of those times when if we want quality services, they cost money.”

The property tax mill levy was not supported by any other mayoral candidate other than Muldoon. Obringer’s rallying cry throughout the forum was for addressing issues in a countywide approach. His specifics on issues were thin. Flitner and Stephen McDonald championed Accessory Residential Units (ARUs) as part of the housing crisis solution.

“ARUs keep housing local and keep it with people who need it most: Jackson homeowners,” McDonald said.

Flitner said she is moving forward with ARU zoning plans.

Regarding a town property tax, she said, “I don’t want to double burden where working people are.”

Unlike the circus that has ensued on the national political stage, civility reigned throughout this local forum.

“I observed a room of candidates who carried integrity into their races,” Houser said afterward. “They had respect for forum structure and respect for one another. That speaks to a positive value that can be cultivated in our community.”

Many candidates stressed the need to work together across party lines and town-county lines. In the county commissioner lineup, closing statements from Gill, Epstein and Macker echoed one another.

Some of the only people to close with statements about practical solutions to implement now were county commissioner candidates Davis and Shuptrine. Despite being on different sides of the political aisle, both spoke in favor of installing trailers or modular homes on county land to solve homelessness in the near term. “Do I want to see trailers around Jackson? No,” Davis said, “but we have to do something.”

Shuptrine echoed Davis, saying, “We need to stop worrying about constructing, but what we do need to do is get modular in here.”

After the forum, Moreno expressed appreciation for the entire candidate field participating. However, he said he was disappointed that some candidates seemed to be “answering but not answering.”

“Now is the time to do something,” he said. “There’s always time to change direction. But let’s stop being afraid of changes because changes are happening anyway.” PJH

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By JAKE NICHOLS

FedUp, not put up

Organizers for FedUp say they are getting the shaft from the Jackson Lake Lodge after the park hotel cancelled all 13 of their room reservations for the upcoming annual Federal Reserve retreat here in Jackson Hole. The coalition protested the event last year with signs reading: “Inflation? Seriously?” and “Whose Recovery?”

The 39 members planning to attend the symposium say they are being unfairly targeted by the Grand Teton Lodge Company. Alex Klein, VP and general manager of GTLC, said the cancellation was a result of a reservation glitch, which oversold the hotel by 18 rooms.

“We worked proactively and diligently with guests to relocate them to our nearby Flagg Ranch property,” Klein told Bloomberg News. Sponsors of the event, the Kansas City Fed, said no directive came from them. Bank spokesman Bill Medley said the KC Fed “has no input regarding any decisions that the Lodge makes outside of its contract with us.”

Breeze bill for CA

It was years ago when state legislators came to the realization that Wyoming blows.

A lot. And all that breeze couldn’t simply go to waste, vanished into thin air.

A question was posed: Who owns all of that wind?

Rawlins-based journalist William Yardley answered the question in a piece that wound up in the LA Times. His headline read: “Who owns the wind? We do, Wyoming says, and it’s taxing those who use it.”

Since Wyoming began taxing its wind four years ago, the state has collected a little less than $15 million in revenue. Bill Miller, co-owner of the Staples Center in Los Angeles, is building a massive wind farm in Wyoming. His intent? To feed three nuclear reactors worth of power 750 miles on a transmission line to a California grid that will provide clean electricity to nearly a million homes in Southern California.

Faced with declining coal, oil and natural gas revenues, the wind tax isn’t much, but it’s exactly what Wyoming needs right now.

Jackson Hole, Idaho

Maybe Jackson Hole should trademark its name before everyone decides to cash in on the iconic branding. First, there was the mini-me development in China that Xeroxed the valley complete with rustic log cabin mansions and lofty real estate prices.

Now, a 42-acre project is set to break ground between Teton Toyota and Interstate 15 in Idaho Falls.

“Jackson Hole Junction” has been two years in the planning. The $200 million commercial center development will be a motorist’s one-stop shopping haven with a big box store, a hotel, banks, gas stations, fast food establishments, restaurants and convenience stores. Morgan Construction is spearheading the project. Idaho’s Local News 8 ran the story on August 11.

Gran Tetón, NY-style

The New York City Ballet Moves is in town this week for weekend performances but they aren’t the only New Yorkers enjoying our valley. NBC News ran a superb piece on a Bronx transplant here for a summer internship in Grand Teton National Park.

Millie Jimenez, 25, is helping the park introduce Latinos like her to the great outdoors. The Big Apple ranger translates for Spanish-speaking visitors as part of a program called Pura Vida.

“We’re the next generation,” Jimenez said. “The national park isn’t representing the United States’ population. If we want to continue to be relevant and if we want to get to 200 years, we need to open our arms and embrace everyone.”

How is Liz in the lead?

National news outlets aren’t the only ones calling the primary race for U.S. Senate from Wyoming already. The Casper Star Tribune recently threw its endorsement behind Liz Cheney as the “one to beat.” They called the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, “well-funded and disciplined.”

Well-funded, indeed. Cheney is backed in large part by her father. She’s raised 10 times that of her nearest three challengers combined.

Allegations of “carpet bagger” and her high-profile sister feud have virtually disappeared, and some insiders see the crowded GOP field (eight are on the Republican ticket) playing to Cheney’s advantage.

“With an eight-way split in the vote, I think she pretty much is in the driver’s seat,” said Jim King, a University of Wyoming political science professor.

Fortune headlined a Sunday story on her: “Liz Cheney’s Wyoming campaign backed by big names, bigger money.” PJH

NEWS Designer Leather

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WEIRD

Friendly Bacteria: Plastics are well-known to decompose slowly, but the most difficult is the polyethylene used for containers such as the omnipresent water bottles, and despite recycling, tens of millions of metric tons wind up in landfills, where the plastic’s strong polymer bonds resist breakdown. Recently, however, two Japanese researchers, after tedious trial-and-error, identified a bacterium that views the polyethylene terephthalate as an efficient, tasty meal. A colleague of the two said further tweaking was necessary before using the bacteria industrially.

War Is Hell

n Room-Sized Bong? Samuel Oliphant, 35, was arrested on various charges in Scottsdale, Arizona, in June after police were called to a house to investigate a “strong and unusual” odor (which cops suspected to be drugs). Inside, they found a “laboratory,” necessitating use of their “hazmat protocols,” because Oliphant had allegedly built a “complex and elaborate” system apparently for the purpose of enhancing the smoking of marijuana.

n On the other hand, jihadists can claim one victory, in that the actor Michael Caine said recently the terrorist-caused airport discomforts had finally convinced him to legally change his name to “Michael Caine”—after tiring of explaining to screeners why he had Maurice Micklewhite’s (his birth name’s) passport.

Awkward Flirtations

Patrick Marsh, 59, was charged with indecent exposure in Woodward Township, Pennsylvania, in July after he rang the doorbell of a 30-year-old female neighbor seeking, as he told police, “courtship.” He greeted the woman naked, “with his genitals in his hands.” n In Florida’s The Villages senior community, Howard Sparber, 69, faces several charges after having, in June, fired 33 9mm rounds into the home of a woman who had been declining his sexual overtures. (The lady was away.)

Awesome!

Rapper Kasper Knight apparently shot himself in the cheek with a revolver on July 17 in Indianapolis—as part of a staged music video—according to raw footage of the incident posted on his Facebook page (and then of course seen by almost 2 million people). Knight, seen bleeding afterward, said he tried to recruit a shooter, but when no one volunteered, shot himself, anticipating (as in previous times he had been shot, by other people) “like a 4 out of 10 on the pain scale.”

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The Belton (Texas) Early Childhood (pre-kindergarten) School staged an “Enchanted Evening” prom in May and posted many photos on its Facebook page of little toddlers arrayed in tuxedos, gowns, corsages and of course, for some, limousines. (A Kansas City Star reporter suggested that this was just the beginning of an expensive parental trend.)

Compelling Explanations

Least Competent Criminals

The men who tried an armed carjacking at the Oasis car wash in Shreveport, Louisiana, on July 20 were sent running by the car owner Michael Davis, who was holding a high-pressure hose at the time and casually directed the stream to one potential thief’s face while swinging the metal wand at the other.

Recurring Themes

An ambulance was called in July when jockey Chris Meehan was kicked in the face by a horse and knocked out cold after he fell during a race in Merano, Italy, but the arriving ambulance accidentally backed over his leg.

He is recovering.

Thanks this week to Frederick Fisher, Eric Lindinger, Chris Bailey, Robert Skinner and Mr. and Mrs. “Ted” Henderson, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

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n At England’s premier agricultural event (the Great Yorkshire Show), a winning show cow was stripped of her title, suspected of having artificially “enhanced” udders. The runner-up, of course, was promoted.

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n The village of Trecon was inducted recently into the club of French towns with silly names. “Tres con,” translated, is “very stupid.” Mayor Georges Leherle accepted the town’s membership, joining 38 incumbent members including “Monteton” (“My Nipple”) and “Mariol” (“Dumbass”).

n Geoffrey Fortier, 23, was arrested in Craighead County, Arkansas, in July and charged with video voyeurism of a woman he had allowed to shower in the home occupied by Fortier and his girlfriend. After the woman stepped out of the shower, she noticed a logged-on iPad propped against a wall. Fortier informed deputies that it was all a misunderstanding—that he had earlier recorded himself urinating in order to sell the video to a urination-fetish website, and he simply forgot to remove the device.

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The Passing Parade

n John Taylor, 57, said he was just lonely and wanted to meet women when a court sentenced him in Shirley, England, in July, for a three-month spree of furtively slipping men’s underwear through various women’s house letterboxes.

In June, Dieter Uchtdorf, a high official in the Mormon Church, said the historic narrative of Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s use of a “seer stone” to translate the “golden plates” that gave Smith ultimate worldly knowledge has been authenticated, basically, by the 2007 invention of the iPhone. “I can get the collected knowledge of the world through a few little inputs,” said Uchtdorf, and thus it is likelier than ever that God gave Smith something like a smartphone in 1823.

WANTED

Scientific Breakthroughs

The late fashion designer Alexander McQueen (who dabbled in macabre collections, himself), might appreciate the work of acolyte Tina Gorjanc: She will grow McQueen’s skin (from DNA off his hair) in a lab, add back his tattoos, and from that make leather handbags and jackets. Gorjanc, a recent graduate of McQueen’s fashion school alma mater, bills the project mainly as showcasing the meager legal protections for abandoned bits of human DNA—and fears industrial use of such DNA on a much larger scale.

Jihadists had a rough year militarily and now suffer further from an array of field reports (such as a new book by retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn) that their most sensitive laptop computers captured in battle by U.S. forces seemed always to be loaded with pornography— including “vile” material involving kids and animals.

(Initially, said one analyst, there was so much porn that U.S. intelligence figured its purpose was only to disguise tactical messages within the sex-scene pixels.)

REPORTER

By CHUCK SHEPHERD

Independently Powered IS LIVING OFF THE GRID THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM?

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By Jessica L. Flammang

Cade Palmer and Becca Bredehoft lounge in ‘Pancho,’ their home on wheels.

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Traditional definitions of “settling” are shifting as more and more people in America choose utility independence. The American Heritage Dictionary defines “unsettle” as “to change from a settled condition; disrupt.” And that is what off-thegrid living is doing—disrupting traditional concepts of settling and conventional energy dependence.

Author Mark Sundeen recently released The Unsettlers, addressing the longing in American culture to return to the land and the environment to “assuage modern ills.” He cites the human desire to nurture individual spirit and develop community, instead of turning to the distracting and isolating nature of electronics.

Essentially, Sundeen says unsettling means “simultaneously trying to disengage from the global economics that harm us all, while seeking work that is meaningful and satisfying.” Ultimately, this means surviving and subsisting by personal means, rather than grid dependence.

Energy independent people folks manage with few material things, outside

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BECCA BREDEHOFT

A nation of ‘unsettlers’

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ithout notice, everything went dark one recent summer evening in Jackson Hole. Confusion swept through western Wyoming and southeast Idaho, to Idaho Falls, Rexburg and Shelley. No one knew how long it would take for the electricity to be restored, or why it went out. People searched Facebook and other social media networks for answers while Planet reporters rushed to post a story about the blackout using their smartphones. As residents wondered what happened, some pointed to the possibility of terrorists.

A major attack on America’s power grid is not only possible, but likely, according to author Ted Koppel, in his bestselling book: LIGHTS OUT: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath. In a recent CNN interview, Koppel warned, “America is vulnerable, and needs to be prepared for the potential of an extreme cyberattack on the U.S. power grid.”

The outage here, however, was the result of an equipment failure at Goshen substation in Shelley, Idaho. It lasted less than five hours, a small inconvenience when considering other monster outages of the past. The Northeast blackout of 2003 spanned Southeast Canada and eight northeastern U.S. states. Fifty million people were affected for two days in the largest blackout in North American history. If another blackout of this magnitude occurred, how many folks would just shrug their shoulders and go about life as usual? The people in this story would ostensibly not bat an eyelash. Living in tiny, alternative spaces, these folks are rejecting America’s reliance on public energy systems and finding their own solutions to a housing emergency that has spiraled out of control.

Gordy “Gordo” Richman, for one, has taken the power into his own hands.

Richman makes his own “renewable energy.” He built his own capacitor, reminiscent of mad scientist Emmett Brown and his super flux time-traveling capacitor in Back to the Future. (Quick science lesson: capacitors can store an electric charge using one or more pairs of conductors separated by an insulator.)

For seven years, Richman has lived off the grid on land he bought in 2009 between Victor and Driggs, Idaho, independent of public power sources. The power lines stop 400 feet before his gate at his neighbor’s house; they operate a conventional, utilitydependent household.

Richman was unaffected by the July 19 Goshen substation failure, while more than 42,000 people twiddled their thumbs. Many valley residents, unsure how long they would have to fend without power, flocked to some of the few open stores for necessities: Broulim’s in Teton Valley and Albertson’s in Jackson.

“The ramifications would have been far greater in the winter, given our cold temperatures and the high amount of all electric homes we have in our territory,” said Brian Tanabe, communications manager for Lower Valley Energy.

When asked about the recent power outage, Richman laughed. “I was completely unaware it happened until someone told me,” he said.

As of 2013, current U.S. Census Bureau estimates 1.7 billion people live “off–grid,” throughout the world. Almost 200,000 are households in the United States.

Literally, the term “off the grid” is defined as not requiring utilities, such as electricity, water, sewer, natural gas and heat. To truly live off the grid means a person operates their household without the assistance of any public utility services.

In the U.S., many families are dependent on utilities to power generally oversized homes. But author Nick Rosen noted, “Most families could go off the grid with as little as a half an acre, as long as it’s the right half-acre.” Rosen penned the book, Off-theGrid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America.

Ideal locations, Rosen noted, include areas that have woodland, with land for agriculture, enough light for solar power and a good source of water, like a well or a stream.

Rosen cites that the average off-grid residence uses only 20 percent of the energy of a typical American home, and that folks living off-grid have lowered reliance on transportation. “Although people living off the grid still own vehicles, they use them much less frequently,” he said.

services, and without conventional spaces. Many use solar panels, batteries and capacitors to supply their own power. In order to do this, all their energy sources need to be onsite, along with a generator and fuel reserves. These locations also require a water source or filtration system.

Echoing Sundeen’s concept of “unsettling,” conventional homes are starting to become a wave of the past as people seek ways to live more sustainably and in harmony with the land. “The era of 40 acres and a mule has been replaced by the era of a half an acre, a laptop and a solar panel,” Rosen said.

Richman’s solar panel soaks up the Idaho rays.

GORDY RICHMAN

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Gordy Richman has been living off-grid for seven years between Victor and Driggs, Idaho.

GORDY RICHMAN

Off the grid living 101

Self-taught in solar power, Richman built the first phase of his home utilizing power from four used car batteries that he charged in a truck. In the winter he used snowmelt water. Richman’s definition of off-grid living is being “independent of mass produced utilities.” His house is 220 square feet, 90 of which is pure greenhouse space. He lives mostly off the land, and his thin frame and radiant smile are the opposite of his nickname Gordo.

He does, however, hang on to two shreds of utility dependence: a dish for Internet service, and a propane tank out back. He says that his propane refrigerator is more efficient than conventional refrigeration.

Richman’s running water functions the same as it would in a typical house. The power goes out to the underground well, and the pump that controls the pressure switch. He can store 40 gallons in a balloon-filled tank that pressurizes the water on an automated system. This is like pressure in a car tire—as the tank fills, the pressure increases against a balloon, and as you use water, the balloon pushes the water out, helping even the flow.

Richman uses hydronic heat in his house, which transfers thermal energy into glycol instead of water. “I’m my own utility company, my own generator, and my own back-up plan,” he said. “My power doesn’t go out. If there is a failure, it’s a failure on my part.”

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, heating and cooling account for nearly 50 percent of the energy consumption in an average home. “These luxuries are heavy energy users,” Richman said. Since his system runs on a smaller motor than a conventional home, he opts for a refrigerator without an auto-defrost cycle, a feature Americans have come to depend on. This means he has to manually remove ice, debris, and sometimes rodents inside the walls of his appliance.

From mid- or late October until mid-January, when the days are short, Richman says his ability to harvest power is limited. “If it is cloudy, power is scarce, so I have to be frugal, and find ways to use less power. I turn my refrigerator off during these months to preserve energy.”

His capacitor can’t power a year-round freezer, so his food has to be canned or dried. “Canning and dehydrating is the way to go, as opposed to freezing when you live on the grid,” he said. “Once it is processed, it stores the energy and the food is good.”

And he has to choose when he will vacuum or do laundry, which require a lot of power. Richman is fully dependent on the weather. If there is a 10day spell of clouds, he has to make adjustments. “I use a 20-foot broom to clear the hot water heater and the solar panels,” he said. “If it snows while I’m away from the house, the panels get covered in snow and I don’t harvest energy.”

Richman still needs a connection to the petroleum world to access gas for his chainsaw, his truck and trailer. On bitterly cold days, Richman struggles to start his diesel truck—he doesn’t own a block heater. “This is difficult because others depend on me for snowplowing services,” he said.

“They need to get out of their driveway and get to work to pay their bills for utilities. And I rely on these jobs as a source of income in the winter.”

It has only been since the 1890s, Richman likes to point out, that humans have been using light bulbs and refrigerators. In his mind, he is living conventionally in terms of human history. “I know how to work around problematic gear, and still live without power,” he said. “I can reconfigure my system, and not be powerless.”

In addition, his house is constructed of re-sold and harvested materials.

“Why buy drywall?” he asked, “when there are stacks of coffee bags sitting in the corner at Snake River Roasters—these are my ceilings.”

His homegrown garden rows boast grapes, figs, plums, purple sprouting broccoli, onions, kale, garlic, turnips, squashes, and a wide variety of berries.

He also grows herbs and makes homemade oils to trade and sell.

Offering up a plump, handpicked piece of asparagus, he said, “People are feeling better off-grid because they are in a better space physically, mentally. They have embarked on a different lifestyle, and that lifestyle promotes health.”

One week this summer Richman sold, gave away, and traded 70 pounds

of his homegrown strawberries. He sold a large portion on the street in Victor. “I don’t look at any of it as a challenge,” he said. “It’s a way of life.”

The stressors, he says, are different and easier to manage than what many folks who lead more conventional lifestyles face. “I drive to my jobs two days a week as a property manager and caretaker for the University of Wyoming.” Consequently, he says doesn’t feel the need to ‘unwind’ at the end of the day.

“The whole cyclical mess starts with utilities,” he said. “‘Utilities’ itself is an economic term. If you promise, and can’t produce for the trade market, that is hard. If some of what I grow and build doesn’t survive, that is my only stress.”

Richman admits that his first couple years of off-grid living were trying as he learned the parameters. “You have to learn how much sunlight your system craves, to know what you have to work with,” he said.

Sabrina Peraza has made many concessions to live off-grid, but she says she notices a major difference in her health since making the shift.

changes in brainwave patterns were observed. According to the World Health Organization: “There is no doubt that short-term exposure to very high levels of electromagnetic fields can be harmful to health.”

Exposure to non-thermal radio frequency radiation from Wi-Fi and cellular phones in the home may disrupt normal cellular development (especially fetal development), affect brain waves, neutralize sperm and impact fertility. In May a seminal study by the National Toxicology Program (NTP), a federal group under the National Institutes of Health, identified links between cancer and chronic exposure to the radiation emitted from cell phones and wireless devices.

A van named Pancho

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Becca Bredehoft and Cade Palmer are paraglide instructors for Jackson Hole Paragliding.

They live in a 6- by 12-square-foot space on wheels with a hundred-year-old barn wood floor.

They affectionately call their hi-tech Sprinter van “Pancho.”

“Over the years,” Palmer said, “we have watched rent go up and up, and it’s harder to find a place to live.” Like the narrative in Sundeen’s book, they are seeking to “unsettle,” to be less tied to the house they inhabit, as well as the land it is situated on. This allows them mobility for their work, and less dependency on energy and outside services to maintain their lifestyle.

While their situation is not truly off-grid living, the couple has made careful strides towards this lifestyle. They survive mostly by the solar panels they have built into Pancho’s roof, and jugs of water they cart from friends’ houses or the grocery store. “We’ve built it as our home,” Bredehoft explained. “It was a huge investment. It was the equivalent of putting a down payment on a house.” The two estimate it will take them at least five years to pay off the van.

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Just outside Tetonia, Idaho, Sabrina Peraza lives in a 350-squarefoot off-grid wooden cabin, accessed in the winter only by ski touring or snowmobiling up Badger Creek. She pumps her own well water, and has returned to the basics, hand washing her clothing.

Peraza lives with her partner, who is the head of JH Youth Soccer League, and works as a professional traveling soccer coach in the summers. When he is traveling, she lives alone with her pets, foraging wildflowers and herbs.

“I wake up when the animals wake me up. There is a shadow cast outside the well each morning so I know what time it is.”

Equipped with two solar panels that control the pressure to the well, Peraza makes coffee the old way—with mortar and pestle.

“I buy chilled goods which I can eat in a couple of days,” explained Peraza, who doesn’t own a refrigerator. However, she takes pride in managing her chosen lifestyle, now on her third year off the grid. “The smallest things are such big victories,” she said. “I feel so happy that I am getting water right now.”

It takes under a minute for Peraza to fill a two-liter jug. But without the sun, the well doesn’t pump water. She fills the solar batteries with water, which then conduct the solar electricity necessary to charge. These must be refilled every three months. She has two solar panels for lighting—she can use only 12 volts, or two light bulbs indoors with the charge. She visits the compost once a week, and goes to the well three to four times per day.

Disconnected from Internet, Peraza says it can be difficult to respond to urgent messages or access information. “I charge my technical devices— data-free cell phone, iPad and small music player—at work or the library. I use my propane hookup and two solar panels for any backup energy,” she said.

Peraza doesn’t have any attachments at home to power or sewage companies, and she is not dependent on the city for living. She uses an outhouse that is moved every few years while the standing sewage is buried.

She takes her showers with buckets, wet wipes and witch hazel.

But this lifestyle isn’t new to her. “It is not for the faint of heart,” she said.

“I grew up in an energy conscious family. The buckets of water we used in the shower, we then reused to flush the toilet.” For Peraza, “it has provided simplicity in a world that can be very overwhelming.”

While her life is seemingly simpler, everyday chores are more timeconsuming. Peraza washes her clothes and dishes in smaller buckets, and then carries small loads to the well 50 yards away. As an avid cook, it is difficult for Peraza to live without an oven. “I miss having an oven I don’t have to chop wood for,” she said. “My love for cooking has been compromised.”

Still, Peraza says the good outweighs the bad: “I get to do my dishes under a tree listening to the aspens rustle and the birds singing. It’s very peaceful and tranquil. It makes my whole life a meditation.”

Of course there are also dangers in living off-grid in a remote area. One morning climbing the ladder to her loft, Peraza was reminded of what even a simple accident might mean for someone like her. “I had just woken up and it was really early. Going down the ladder, I lost my footing, and I grabbed onto an indentation in the rungs,” she said. “I had to stand there and breathe. The high consequences of getting hurt out here by myself and how easily it is done really hit me.”

But like Richman, Peraza cites a key benefit to energy-free living that outweighs everything: improved personal health. “When you have Wi-Fi and Internet interfering, which span the whole planet, you are less in control, and you don’t really know what kind of energies you are connecting with, or if you want those in your home or your life.”

Science happens to back up Peraza’s claims. People exposed to electromagnetic radiation experienced more difficulty falling asleep, and

SABRINA PERAZA

Completely utility free

The couple lives with a fridge, a sink with running Definitions of off-grid living can vary. “When I hear water, but no toilet. Their custom ceilings and cabinetry people say ‘off the grid,’ I think they are talking power,” are made from reclaimed redwood and reused deck Palmer said, “but I consider the grid more than that.” materials, and other natural, sustainable materials, He referenced the lengthy time many spend on paying along with wool insulation. utility bills and maintaining their services, calling for “Being in a tiny space makes you constantly repairs and upgrades. inventory everything. It leaves you with less to tie you “We will see more free time in the future,” he said. “So down to traditional housing,” far, we have been spending Palmer explained, while most of our time building.

“The whole cyclical mess Bredehoft joked about their Eventually, it will give us more starts with utilities. ‘Utilities’ time because when your “tiny garage,” an attachable trailer that hauls their 15 itself is an economic term. house is already with you, paragliders, motorcycle, and you are not commuting for If you promise, and can’t two cruiser bikes. work, or to maintain or fix it.”

Although they use water Palmer also cites his sleep produce for the trade market, and do laundry at friends’ cycle and improved wellness houses, and take showers living off-grid. “The van is as that is hard. at the gym, they are mostly as the environment If some of what I grow and quiet energy independent with a around us. There is nothing to full solar setup. This powers build doesn’t survive, that is disturb you while you sleep. the refrigerator, water You don’t realize how many my only stress.” pump, and provides power of the systems in houses to charge their cameras and cause noise that disrupt your computers. innate cycles.”

Each morning, rain or shine, Palmer hoists himself The couple charges their devices during the day, onto Pancho’s roof to clean the solar panel so it can rather than at night, to keep their environment as perform at maximum efficiency; if it gets dirty it doesn’t natural as possible. The water pump is their only item work as well. In a downpour or when the valley sees that has a light, but it stays off, unless in use. sub-zero temps, this becomes a challenge.

Neither Bredehoft nor Palmer foresee a return to They must also be careful not to overuse the an orthodox living situation. “We are more nomadic. expensive solar panel batteries to avoid shortening the We are disconnecting ourselves from the land. We are batteries’ lifespan. This is a delicate balance. connected to wherever we go,” Bredehoft said. “We are Yes, van life is not glamorous. It takes patience and unsettling. ” a dedicated focus to be organized and frugal with your belongings. The couple says they miss having a garden too, and have to substitute this luxury with frequent The U.S. is currently dependent on three main farmer’s market visits. It is impossible for them to live power grids, 70 percent of which are more than 25 off the land.

Dismayed by rising rents and the valley’s escalating housing crisis, Becca Bredehoft and Cade Palmer recently transformed a Sprinter van into their new home.

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years old, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The main power grids are valued at trillions of dollars, and are not financially feasible to replace with U.S. debt currently at $18 trillion.

Forging into the future, Lower Valley Energy has teamed up with the Town of Jackson and Teton County to form Energy Conservation Works. Lower Valley’s Tanabe says the energy cooperative is implementing initiatives toward providing progressive services, such as zero to low-interest loans for energy efficiency, upgrading public buildings, and natural gas filling stations for vehicles.

The energy company has two low-impact hydro facilities in the southern part of its territory—one in Bedford, WY, and another in Afton, WY—and is involved with wind farms in Wyoming and Idaho. “I think there always has and always will be a demographic that is very interested in grid independence. We seek that as a country, so it stands to reason we would also seek that individually,” Tanabe said.

Off-grid living is a lifestyle that requires planning and forethought. “You’re giving yourself a lot to do if you’re running your own power plant, dealing with your own water supply, disposing of your own waste and pulling your own food,” Rosen said.

Living off-grid also means, however, surrendering to a lack of control. Richman summed up the dilemma: “While we are not dependent on the grid system, we are completely at the mercy of the weather, the availability of wood and water, the sun, and the batteries that power our solar panels.”

Peraza also doesn’t advise people to leap into utilityindependent living, but rather to take it one step at a time. “Start with turning your phone off, unplugging, and making time for one or two things you wish you had time for,” she said. “It’s really about getting back to your roots, and the core of living very modestly; you can feel that in your body.” PJH

THIS WEEK: August 17-23, 2016

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17

n Geologists of JH: Mount St. Helens & Other Cascadia Subduction Zone Volcanoes 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Mardy’s Front Porch Conversations 6:00pm, The Murie Center, Free, 307-733-1313 n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 $65.00, 307-733-6994 n The HOF BAND plays POLKA! 6:30pm, The Alpenhof Bistro, Free, 307-413-1348 n Miss Sharon Jones Documentary: The Incredible True Comeback Story 7:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 307-733-1500 n JH Rodeo 8:00pm, Fairgrounds, $15.00 $35.00, 307-733-7927 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 8:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Isaac Hayden 8:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Songwriter’s Alley Open Mic 8:00pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n 8th Annual Bike-In Movie Series 8:00pm, Snow King Mountain, Free n Jack Nelson Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

THURSDAY, AUGUST 18

n Fitness & Dance Classes All Day! 7:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Coffee with a Ranger 7:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free, 307-739-3594 n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free, 307-739-3594 n Jackson Community Blood Drive 8:00am, Shepherd of the Mountains Lutheran Church, Free, 307-733-4382 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Creative Construction 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $235.00, 307733-6379

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n Book Bike: Phill Baux Park 4:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Free Solar Astronomy Program 4:00pm, JH People’s Market at the Base of Snow King, Free, 307-413-4779 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Rebecca Ryan 4:30pm, The Deck at Psite, Free, 307-733-2292 n Alive@5: Teton Raptor Center 5:00pm, Teton Village Commons, Free, 307-733-5898 n Teton County Access to Justice divorce and child custody legal aid clinic 5:00pm, Teton County Access to Justice, Free, 307-734-9023 n Stars of American Ballet Open Rehearsals 5:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, Free, 307-733-6398 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Gallery Concert with Simone Porter at Heather James Fine Art 5:30pm, Heather James Fine Art, $30.00, 307-733-1128 n Barbara Trentham Life Drawing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-7336379 n JH Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free, 307-733-3316 n Wednesday Community Dinner 6:00pm, Presbyterian Church of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-7340388 n Byron’s Guitar at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free, 307-733-4647 n Bluegrass Wednesday with PTO 6:00pm, Cafe Genevieve, Free, 307-732-1910 n Autism Series: Celebrating Neuro-Diversity 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Cribbage 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201

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n Fitness & Dance Classes All Day! 7:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Coffee with a Ranger 7:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free, 307-739-3594 n Yoga 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free, 307-739-3594 n Senior Outing: Breakfast at Dornan’s Chuckwagon 8:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $10.00, 307-739-9025 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $4.00, 307-739-9025 n Creative Construction 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $235.00, 307733-6379 n Deep Sea Artistic Immersion 9:00am, Music Wing of Center for the Arts, $425.00 - $475.00, 307-733-6379 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Storytime 10:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library Victor, Free, 208-7872201 n Walking Tour of Jackson 10:30am, Center of Town Square, Free, 307-733-2141 n Lap Sit 11:00am, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Jackson Community Blood Drive 12:30pm, Shepherd of the Mountains Lutheran Church, Free, 307-733-4382 n Open Build 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-354-5522 n Genealogy: Trace Your Ancestors Across the U.S. 2:00pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab , Free, 307-7332164 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n JH People’s Market 4:00pm, The Base of Snow King, Free

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SEE CALENDAR PAGE 22 n Deep Sea Artistic Immersion 9:00am, Music Wing of Center for the Arts, $425.00 - $475.00, 307-733-6379 n Elevated Yoga on the Deck 9:00am, Top of Bridger Gondola, $30.00, 307-733-2292 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Yoga on the Trail 10:00am, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-733-5771 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Walking Tour of Jackson 10:30am, Center of Town Square, Free, 307-733-2141

n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Teton Toastmasters 12:00pm, Teton County Commissioners Chambers, Free, n Spin 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n InDesign Fundamentals: Flyer and Poster Layout 2:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $130.00, 307-733-6379 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n Nicole Miller Pop-Up Shop 3:00pm, Westbank Center, Free

n Free Family Concert with Jaren Atherholt 3:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 - $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Alive@5: Tunes on Thursday 5:00pm, Teton Village Commons, Free, 307-733-5898 n Raptors at the King 5:00pm, Snow King Mountain, Free, 307-201-5464 n Jeremy Houghton: Good Sport Opening Reception 5:00pm, Diehl Gallery, Free, 307-733-0905

n Homewood Suites by Hilton Chamber Mixer 5:00pm, Homewood Suites by Hilton, Free, 307-201-2309 n Jackson Hole Gallery Assosication Third Thursday Art Walk 5:00pm, Various Galleries, Free n 20th Annual PCJH Peach Sale 5:00pm, Presbyterian Church of Jackson Hole, $34.00, 307734-0388 n “Light on the Land” 5:00pm, Trio Fine Art, Free, 307734-4444 n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539

n Snake River Scramble 5:15pm, Rendezvous Park, $15.00, 307-733-3913 n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Zumba 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Mental Health Support Group 6:00pm, Board Room of St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-732-1161 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n JH Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free, 307-733-3316

n Byron’s Guitar at Jenny Lake Lodge 6:00pm, Jenny Lake Lodge, Free, 307-733-4647 n DIY Video Tactics 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $130.00, 307-733-6379 n Splash and Go Thursdays 6:00pm, Wilson Bridge, Free, 307-733-3270 n Dancers’ Workshop Fundraising Gala Performance & Dinner 6:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $125.00 - $450.00, 307-733-6398 n Bacchus & Brushes 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $45.00, 307-733-6379

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MUSIC BOX

Grand Goodbye Outdoor concert series JH Live concludes with indie darlings Shovels & Rope.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

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ary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent have made mountains out of molehills. Even after taking a brief hiatus to have their first child, Shovels & Rope has the momentum to summit whatever they like. They’ll headline the final installment of Jackson Hole Live this Friday along with Wyoming flatpicking hero Jalan Crossland and an opening set from Margo Valiante.

Shovels & Rope, or ShoRo as they’re fervent fan base has come to know them, are on the heels of releasing a third LP, Little Seeds, October 7 on New West Records. The bold video release of the album’s first single, “I Know,” depicts a drag show beauty contest with an interesting twist. The electrified blues shuffle with raw harmonies is inspired by English rock

Does this signal the end of summer? The final installment of Jackson Hole Live happens Friday when indie duo Shovels & Rope take the stage at Snow King. band T. Rex and Scottish alt-rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain.

“Competition can be an ugly side of show business, where friendly rivalries can devolve into petty jealousies,” Trent and Hearst told Noisey. “In our video for ‘I Know,’ we dress those ugly feelings up all pretty and pit them against each other in a beauty contest.”

The new album follows up last year’s covers album, Busted Jukebox: Volume 1, which featured guests Shakey Graves, Milk Carton Kids, Caroline Rose, and Preservation Hall Jazz Band. It’s a fun album, at times, but doesn’t touch the originality that breathes from the duo’s first two releases—2012’s O’ Be Joyful and 2014’s Swimmin’ Time. Yet on Little Seeds, they ditch the narrative songwriting and turn to the personal experiences around them—a friend’s death, Alzheimer’s diagnosis of a parent, having their first child, a local shooting in their hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. They also branch out instrumentally, adding mandolin, the autoharp, and new organ sounds. It’ll be interesting to see how they incorporate these sounds into the live show, where they have been switching off on drums/keyboard, bass and guitar.

“With each record we’ve broadened the distance between

the quietest and the loudest we can be,” Hearst told The Wall Street Journal.

At the 2013 Americana Awards, the group won Americana Song of the Year for “Birmingham,” and also took home Emerging Artist of the Year honors though they had truly emerged years before. Shovels & Rope is making some of the most raucously beautiful, sincere music of a generation, and doing it on their terms—an indie band homerun success story.

Speaking of homespun workhorses, Wyoming Governor’s Arts Award recipient Jalan Crossland is a great fit for this bill and marks an overdue return to Jackson since touring with The WYOmericana Caravan in 2013. He’s a state treasure, funny dude, witty-as-hell songwriter, and one of the finest, quirkiest guitar/banjo players in the West. Crossland even staged a trailer burning video earlier this summer to accompany one of his signature tunes from the 2007 album of the same name, “Trailer Park Fire.” Across six studio albums, his other anthems worthy of an immediate listen include “Chicken Trucker,” “Bosler,” “Hoboerotica,” and “The Mad Carpenter.” He’ll be sans band, solo acoustic.

Valiante, a Jackson native who moved to Austin, Texas,

WEDNESDAY The Hof Band (Alpenhof); Greg Creamer & Ted Wells (Warbirds) THURSDAY Jeff Austin Band (Knotty Pine); Major Zephyr (Silver Dollar)

A Wyoming favorite, Jalan Crossland performs an acoustic set before Shovels & Rope takes the stage. several years ago before migrating to New York City, will open the show. She released the EP I Can’t Pray in 2010, the full-length New Blue in 2008, and about a year ago surfaced with an indie-tinged folk rock single, “Weight of Your Heart.”

She’s a pure, soulful vocalist and a great rhythm guitarist that hasn’t gigged publically in her hometown in quite some time.

Jackson Hole Live presents Shovels & Rope with Jalan Crossland and Margo Valiante, 5:30 to 10 p.m. Friday at Snow King Ball Field. $5 adults, 17 and under free.

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Fruit Bats headlines a triple freebie From country-rock stomp to shimmering astral sounds and folk-pop, Fruit Bats has been making records since 2001.

Formed in Chicago in 1997, the project has revolved around the music of Eric D. Johnson. He was also a member of The Shins from 2007 to 2011 on keyboards, guitar, banjo and backing vocals, as well as a sideman for Vetiver.

The evolution of Fruit Bats can be heard with a sampling of their discography, which is an enjoyable ride for this firsttime listener. It’s remarkable to discover an artist that has

Aaron Davis is a decade-long writer of Music Box, a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, founder/host of Songwriter’s Alley, and co-founder of The WYOmericana Caravan.

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been around for so long, with such a solid catalog, later in his career. Johnson has maintained quality output with simplistic songs, and a voice that is commanding and high-pitched yet somehow lulling.

Rounding out this triple bill in Teton Village is The Watters and Stormy Georjan, the latter of which is a bit myserious.

There is zero info on Stormy Georjan floating around on the inter webs. The Watters, formerly known as The Oak Creek Band, is an Austin-based soul-rock-Americana outfit led by husband-and-wife team Daniel and Jenna Watters, blending the idea of Fleetwood Mac meets Tedeschi Trucks Band and Rilo Kiley. PJH Concert on the Commons presents Fruit Bats with The Watters and Stormy Georjan, 5 p.m. Sunday at the Village Commons in Teton Village. Free, all ages. ConcertOnTheCommons.com.

FRIDAY Shovels & Rope with Jalan Crossland and Margo Valiante (Snow King Ball Field); DeadPhish Orchestra (Town Square Tavern)

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n The Ballad of Cat Ballou 6:30pm, JH Playhouse, $35.00 - $65.00, 307733-6994 n Letting Go & Moving On With Positive Psychology 7:00pm, Medicine Wheel Wellness, $25.00, 307-699-7480 n Major Zephyr 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307732-3939 n Summer Workshop Series 7:30pm, Riot Act, $5.00, 307-203-9067 n Ian McIver 8:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Chamber Music: An Evening with Performance Today 8:00pm, Walk Festival Hall, $25.00, 307-7331128 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500 n Jack Nelson Band 9:00pm, Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207 n Jeff Austin Band 10:00pm, Knotty Pine, $15.00, 208-787-2866 n BOGDOG 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-7333886

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19

n Fitness & Dance Classes All Day! 7:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n American Indian Guest Artist 8:00am, Colter Bay Visitor Center, Free, 307739-3594 n Grand Teton Relay 8:00am, Teton Village, 801-636-4981 n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $4.00, 307739-9025 n Portrait Drawing Club 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307739-9025 n Creative Construction 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $235.00, 307-733-6379 n Deep Sea Artistic Immersion 9:00am, Music Wing of Center for the Arts, $425.00 - $475.00, 307-733-6379 n MC Presents Art & Antique Show 10:00am, Miller Park n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10:00am, National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-7339212 n Festival Orchestra: Open Rehearsal 10:00am, Walk Festival Hall, $10.00, 307-7331128 n Nicole Miller Pop-Up Shop 10:00am, Westbank Center, Free n Money Play Weekend 10:00am, Jackalope Toys & Gifts, Free, 307201-5036 n Intuitive Guidance with Ellae Elinwood 10:00am, Spirit Books Gift Life, $125.00, 307733-3382 n Zumba 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025

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CREATIVE PEAKS Skin Deep Peeling away the layers of a new exhibit by Matthew Day Jackson.

BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1

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wanted to get close to the skin. The hanging flayed skin, that is, on view at the opening of the companion art exhibit to Rural Violence III. It was a thick membrane and its pallor said it hadn’t had blood and muscle underneath it for a very long time.

Hanging from a tree branch affixed to the wall, the skin, or “Bartholomew,” was a creation by Matthew Day Jackson, an artist known in part for his unsparing investigation of the human form. Jackson was in attendance that night and when we were introduced, I told him that I was sufficiently creeped out by the flaccid human likeness.

“Oh really? I think it’s kind of sweet,” he replied. “It’s a sort of devotional to Michelangelo.”

As I pried my foot out of my mouth I remembered what curator and artist Andy Kincaid had told me about “Bartholomew.”

It is based on Michelangelo’s painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel where Saint Bartholomew appears holding his own flayed skin. However, Michelangelo painted the skin in his own likeness.

In his version, Jackson imagined skinning a human to be a piecemeal job (rather than the unmarred skin dangling from St. Bartholomew’s grasp in the Sistine Chapel.)

Jackson’s figure is sewn together with colored thread. The facial features are distinctive and the skin has hair on the legs, arms, belly and head. It’s a striking piece and the longer I stood with it the more familiar it felt, like a costume I wouldn’t mind donning.

I caught up with Jackson several days later. He keeps a low profile but is an artist of significant merit. The New York Times called him “one of the art world’s most ambitious talents.” His work has been shown in the Whitney Biennial, Ballroom Marfa, and in galleries around the world. He and his family moved to Wilson two years ago.

“When you decide to be an artist, you try on the skin of other artists, maybe to finish something they started or continue a trajectory,” he said. “There’s something about— trying on that flayed skin—that is more in the realm of masturbation.”

On this day, Jackson expressed another side to “Bartholomew” that wasn’t so sweet as what he had indicated the night I met him at the opening.

“Trying Michelangelo’s skin on? Even if

Matthew Day Jackson’s ‘Bartholomew’ is comprised of silicone, thread, fabric, human hair, tree bark, plastic, pigment and stainless steel. you knew how to hold the tool,” Jackson continued, “you couldn’t turn the stone to flesh.

There’s no one alive who can do that.”

Getting under the skin has been a theme threading through Jackson’s work for many years. One notable body of work is his mixed media paintings depicting TIME magazine covers. The covers’ colors are often altered and appear sand blasted and eroded. One striking piece of Ronald Reagan laughing but with his lips worn away is entitled “Man with No Lips (Aside from being a total Dick, Ronald Reagan is a Good ol’ Boy).”

The day I spoke to him, Jackson was angry about another Republican politician, this one a presidential candidate every bit the showman Reagan was but meaner. Jackson said his anger about The Donald is coming out in his work.

“I took a plywood board and shot out the center,” Jackson said. “It’s this violent, fucked up place we are in as a nation. We made that guy—it’s our laziness and complacency and resignation.”

When The New York Times Style Magazine profiled Jackson in 2013, Matt Healy wrote: “There’s something unmistakably masculine and American about Jackson’s artistic pursuits: bending and conjoining and manipulating material, forcing his will upon it, in order to comment on the blood lust and destruction baked into American history, a past he believes we are, on one level or another, still implicated in.”

It’s for this reason that I expected Jackson’s work to make me uncomfortable or

disgusted. But I was quickly learning there may be another way to look at art we typically think of as masculine—a flayed skin, a shot up board. It was vulnerable. “‘Bartholomew’ is also sweet,” Jackson said. “It’s both—like how you love your parents. They are fallible and they fuck up and you loved them. Art should be complicated like that too.”

In a symbolic sense, skin represents what we keep inside, what we hide; skin on an animal is called a hide. Jackson says he has been thinking about how personal boundaries have shifted with social media. “The things that we feel have become deeper because we share so much more of ourselves than people used to,” he said.

The artist’s job, Day continued, is to recognize one’s feelings and be able to convey them. “Being an artist is about articulating feelings and your ability to see,” he said. “It’s up to artists to separate the feeling from its body. Like an anatomist.”

“Bartholomew” is one of five startling artworks on view at Holiday Forever, an artist run space on Cache Street. The show includes a difficult-to-watch video by Matthew Barney (Cremaster Cycle) excising ingrown hair.

Also on view is a drawing by Lionel Maunz of a young child with a skin disease. Jackson has a 2-D piece on display. Barney also contributed a delicate drawing of a boy holding the skin of a wolf. PJH Holiday Forever is open by appointment, email info@holidayforever.org.

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n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Stars of American Ballet Open Rehearsals 1:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, Free, 307-733-6398 n Murie Center Ranch Tour 2:30pm, Murie Center, Free, 307-739-2246 n Electronics/Tech 3:30pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Free Friday Tasting 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer, Free, 307-733-0450 n Bikes, Beers and Burgers at The Handle Bar 4:00pm, The Handle Bar - Four Seasons, 307-732-5157

n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:15pm, Bar T 5, $37.00 $45.00, 307-733-5386 n Whiskey Mornin’ Duo 4:30pm, The Deck at Piste, Free, 307-733-2292 n Alive@5: Wild Things of Wyoming 5:00pm, Teton Village Commons, Free, 307-733-5898 n Friday Night Bikes 5:00pm, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, $10.00, 307-7332292 n Plein Air Watercolor Workshop 5:00pm, Grand Teton National Park, $150.00, 307-733-6379

n Bar J Chuckwagon Supper 5:30pm, Bar J, $25.00 - $35.00, 307-733-3370 n JacksonHoleLive presents Shovels & Rope with special guest Jalan Crossland 5:30pm, Snow King Ball Field, Free, 307-733-1633 n Music at the Chuckwagon 5:30pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307733-2415 n Friday Night Meditation 6:00pm, Zendler Chiropractic, Free, 307-699-8300 n Whiskey Experience 6:00pm, VOM FASS Jackson Hole, Free, 307-734-1535 n JH Shootout 6:00pm, Town Square, Free, 307-733-3316

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Hunger Games in Snowshoe Canyon When a quest for survival ensues in the Tetons, two players forge ahead.

BY RYAN BURKE @wanaka11

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omewhere deep inside of us, we perhaps all have the desire to know how we might fare in a bare-knuckle battle where our life and limb were on the line.

Unwittingly, Lewis Smirl and I were able to live out that fantasy in the first annual, and never again, “Snowshoe Canyon Hunger Games.”

Before volunteering for this quarter quell, I had heard stories of the elusive Snowshoe Canyon in the Northern reaches of District 12, otherwise known as Grand Teton National Park. In this area, rumors abound of man-eating bushes, bird-sized mosquitoes and grizzly bear mutations. But nothing could prepare us for the reality of this remote section of wilderness.

To reach the arena, you must travel via canoe from Spalding Bay or convince a friend with a sailboat to brave a crossing from Colter Bay to the base of Bivouac Peak.

On arrival, we received a gift basket of shin-bang and bristle bush cuts, as we maneuvered through the dense foliage of downed trees and tall willow bushes. As we ascended the east face of Bivouac Peak, the odds seemed in our favor. Views of Mt. Moran revealed themselves and the steepness of the ridge leveled off from a near vertical grassy ice rink to moderately tolerable talus. Summiting the first obstacle of the weekend, our confidence was growing as we had only gained a few bumps and bruises on our way to the victor’s circle.

Now feeling cocky about our chances, we moved north towards Traverse Peak. Faced with a labyrinth of scree fields and indiscriminate cliff faces, our spirits softened. But this was just the beginning of our adversity. We found ourselves traveling through multiple

Lewis Smirl surveys the scene from the top of Eagles Rest Peak.

dead-end couloirs that ultimately forced us to descend into the heart of Snowshoe Canyon, towards monsters beyond our comprehension.

The drama started to mount as we made our way towards the seemingly idyllic Dudley Lake, only to encounter bushes so dense that the Alaskan backcountry would feel casual in comparison. After covering only a quarter of a mile in 50 minutes we contemplated seeking refuge for the night.

Pushing forward, however, we persevered through a few thigh-deep river crossings and then entered the final stretch of forest that would lead us out of the dangers of Snowshoe Canyon and return us to the safety of our campsite. But the mountains had one last trick up their sleeve. The best way to describe what happened next, dear reader, is to picture an upside down tornado of air shooting from the sky into the earth, destroying everything in its path. Meteorologists would have labeled it as a microburst of wind, but Lewis and I more accurately refer to it as a treepocalypse of bark and falling trees crashing directly onto our path. For around five seconds our world was filled with sheer terror, as the forest seemed to uproot and come down upon us. To imagine our fear, multiply a sense of impending doom fourfold and then add in trees six feet in circumference racing towards you at breakneck speeds. Luckily we chose the right direction to sprint.

The smart decision at this point may have been to fold, but one does not simply leave the Hunger Games by his own free will. So on day two we set our eyes on the Southeast Couloir of Eagles Rest Peak. As we left Moran Bay, the first hurdle we had to overcome was a maze of downed trees and grizzly bear willows, which kept us on edge. These obstacles were followed quickly by marble sized hail that forced us to cling to each other for survival in a closet sized cave. Persistent players that we are, however, we found our way to the summit of Eagles Rest via its east ridge and were rewarded with expansive views of Jackson Lake and the surrounding Teton Range.

In hindsight, that we had the chance to explore Snowshoe Canyon could be perceived as either a blessing or a curse. Near death experiences are not something anyone should go looking for, but they do tend to make the world a little more vivid... if you come out unscathed. To paraphrase a dictator acquaintance of The Hunger Games’ President Snow: It’s always better to live one day as a mountaineer than to live 100 years in fear. PJH

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WELL, THAT HAPPENED

Twanging on Heartstrings Brandi Carlile brings at least one fan to tears at the Center’s fundraiser.

BY ANDREW MUNZ @AndrewMunz

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t was 2006 and I was a freshman at the University of Wyoming. As a welcomeback-to-school event, iTunes offered a handful of free playlists and mp3 tracks for anyone with a school e-mail address. For me, Brandi Carlile awakened my eyes to the beauty of harmony, of folk music, and of embracing love and sexuality despite the noise.

Today everyone wants to claim they were the original fans. They heard [insert band name here] play whatever song for the first time at some festival, “The band came into my life at the most incredible time,” etc.

Honestly, in 2016 I will take overenthusiastic passion over apathy any day. But why Jackson folks, and presumably many others, feel like they have to justify precisely how long they’ve been doing something or living somewhere in order to look impressive or interesting, I’ll never know. (Hell, I’m guilty of it too. Can someone please fund a psychological study of weird-ass mountain town social habits?) But I digress…

I, like many Carlile fans in the valley, was

Brandi Carlile reminded the author what it’s like to experience a transformative music performance. not able to afford tickets to the Center for the Arts fundraiser last Tuesday. She’s played Targhee Fest a handful of times and made her first appearance in Jackson at a sold-out Mangy Moose show in 2009.

When the Center announced the ticket prices, I was skeptical about the audience.

I felt like her local fans, who had probably paid between $20 to $50 to see Carlile over the years wouldn’t shell out upwards of $200 in their hometown. However, the theater eventually filled up for the night of the performance, which makes me happy both for the Center and for Carlile.

Then, a week leading up to the show my roommate Madeleine surprised me with a ticket. I was overjoyed to get the chance to see Carlile again on my home turf. I dressed up, did a little pre-gaming and arrived early.

Since coming back from my isolated Iceland adventures, large crowds of people have been making me somewhat uneasy.

Seeing folks I know always sparks a conversation about what the hell I’m doing with my life, which I am always prepared for, of course… But I did “the dance” as they say, and had a great time socializing in the lobby leading up to Carlile’s performance.

Sitting in the center of row JJ, up in the balcony, I admired the sound, which, as always, was impeccable. And as Carlile and the Twins (Tim and Phil Hanseroth) wooed the crowd with an insanely tight, off-the-cuff acoustic set, I sat in the darkness and bawled my damn eyes out. She honored the space and delivered one hell of a show. After an a cappella rendition of “Beginning to Feel the Years,” Carlile addressed the important

role the Center for the Arts plays in the community.

“It’s always good to re-experience the true moments of poetry in a space like this,” she said, speaking off-mic at the edge of the stage.

When she finally reached her closing song, “Pride and Joy,” I was literally convulsing trying to suppress my sobs. Just ridiculous.

Suffice it to say that Carlile’s lyrics have a pretty powerful effect on this gay, Wyomingraised writer. I walked out of the auditorium lighter, both emotionally and physically. I lost a good three pounds of water weight via my eyeholes. I met the Center’s program director Shannon McCormick, who kindly put up with my requests to meet Carlile, “even just for a second!”

He made it work.

“Well, hey, I’m Brandi,” she said with her signature twang.

“Ha, I know,” I said like a doofus.

I shook her hand and proceeded to gush for a good 30 seconds, singing as many words of praise as I could. She looked exhausted and smiled politely, having gone through her own version of “the dance” countless times.

We hugged, we parted ways, and I walked home perplexed, star-struck, kinda drunk.

Having performed at the Center, I know the magic that stage can produce. And as the Center continues to program for the community, I hope folks there book more artists like Carlile. Artists who may not have the biggest name recognition, but can truly transform that stage into something poetic, unique and powerful. PJH

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Festival Orchestra: Rousing Finish​ Friday 8pm & Saturday 6pm at Walk Festival Hall​ Don’t miss Grand Teton Music Festival’s “Rousing Finish,” the festival’s closing show, 8 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Saturday at Walk Festival Hall.

Violinist sensation Simone Porter returns to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Festival Orchestra. Maestro Runnicles then leads the Festival Orchestra in Rachmaninoff’s lavishly romantic and epic Second Symphony. Adults $25-55; students are free. www.gtmf.org

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CINEMA Go Quest, Young Man Kubo and the Two Strings delivers profound life lessons for young and old audiences.

BY SCOTT RENSHAW @scottrenshaw

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n the central plaza of a seaside Japanese village many years in the past, a young one-eyed boy named Kubo (Art Parkinson) is surrounded by an enraptured audience.

Playing on his magical shamisen—a threestringed Japanese instrument—Kubo brings to life a succession of origami figures, part of an ongoing performance about a warrior on a quest who battles frightening monsters (and perhaps also a fire-breathing chicken).

It’s an archetypal tale, nested inside another archetypal tale, a hero journey about bravery and the connections of family. Kubo isn’t just telling a story; he’s telling the story.

The setting, both geographical and temporal, is in many ways incidental to Kubo and the Two Strings—the latest terrific feature from stop-motion animation studio Laika (Coraline)—although there’s a delightful specificity to this village and its inhabitants.

Because like all of the greatest stories, this one is about something bigger and more broadly human than its surface narrative.

This is movie-making of the most magical kind—not just an astonishing feat of visual imagination, but a resonant celebration of what stories themselves give to us.

Kubo’s own quest involves many of the elements that are so familiar from the culture-spanning monomyth. Mystery and magic surrounds his parentage, as a prologue shows his sorceress mother bringing him across the sea to safety as an infant after the death of his father. Years later, his mother now mostly invalid and only sporadically lucid, Kubo finds himself again threatened by the same powers that stole his eye—his mother’s witchy sisters (Rooney Mara) and his own grandfather, the Moon King. Only three enchanted objects can protect him, and Kubo must set out to acquire them, accompanied only by the animated totem of

Beetle, Kubo and Monkey in Kubo and the Two Strings. a monkey (Charlize Theron) and a samurai who has been transformed into a man-sized beetle (Matthew McConaughey) and whose only vague human memories are of serving Kubo’s father.

If Kubo had been nothing more than its unique style, it still would have been one of the year’s most remarkable films—not animated films, but films, period. Director Travis Knight—a Laika veteran animator with his first directing credit—oversees a production that features characters designed with a distinctive sharpness. The action sequences are magnificently choreographed, highlighted by a battle between our three protagonists and a massive creature made of bones, and a confrontation between Monkey and one of the evil sisters on a sinking ship built out of leaves. The comic relief, when it comes, is low-key and anchored in the characters. And individual shots are breathtakingly beautiful, none more so than a river covered in slowly moving lanterns, floating into the glowing sunset.

The heart of Kubo, however, is in the skill with which its screenplay (by Marc Haimes and Chris Butler) allows us to invest in this specific story while building its thematic framework on a foundation much more expansive than this specific story. It explores our need to reach out to the generations that came before us for wisdom and guidance, and the way that myths and legends serve that need. It touches on the power of

humanity as something based on recognizing what pulls us together, and makes us want to fight for one another. It recognizes art—music, a paper figure, a tale of a longago warrior—as some of the most potent magic we have for defeating heartlessness and despair.

If the description of a shamisen as a threestringed instrument seems confusing in light of the film’s title, rest assured that Kubo and the Two Strings handles that issue in a manner that’s almost unbearably heartbreaking.

Like much of the rest of the story, it’s built on allegory and metaphor, but never in a way that feels like an academic lesson. In a landscape of animated films that rarely reach for more than franchise-building, wacky hijinks and pop-culture punch lines, this one has been crafted with soaring ambition. What better lesson to convey to children through a cinematic story than why we continue to tell stories at all, how transcendent they can be and how they allow us to share our attempts to understand the experiences—and people—that made us who we are. PJH

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS BBBB Charlize Theron Art Parkinson Matthew McConaughey Rated PG

TRY THESE Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) George Clooney Meryl Streep Rated PG

Coraline (2009) Dakota Fanning Teri Hatcher Rated PG

ParaNorman (2012) Kodi SmitMcPhee Anna Kendrick Rated PG

The Boxtrolls (2014) Ben Kingsley Jared Harris Rated PG

BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Sips at a Steal White wines that are kind to your palate and your wallet.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

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ne of the perks of my job is being able to taste wines that I could never afford. Still, what really turns me on is finding well-made, high-quality wines that I can afford. Yes, I’m a wine writer. But no, I don’t sit around sipping Opus One too often.

I’d guess that 90 percent of the wines I drink are priced at $15 or less per bottle.

Now, if you think that wine under $15 is a crapshoot… well, it is. However, with modern winemaking technology and storage systems, your chances of finding good or even great low-priced wine are excellent.

Most of the wine snobs I know actually drink cheap wine for everyday sipping—including an acquaintance of mine, Josh Wesson.

Wesson is a professional sommelier who, a few years ago, began opening his Best Cellars

IMBIBE (pun intended) wine stores on the East Coast.

At Best Cellars, most of the wines are priced from $5 to $15. If value-priced wine can satisfy Wesson’s picky palate, it can certainly work for mine. Here are a few wallet-friendly white wines that are priced under $15.

Out on the patio in warm weather, I like a fruity and floral wine. Yalumba Y Series Viognier ($10.99) certainly fits the bill.

Produced by Australia’s oldest family winery, this Viognier has prototypical aromas of white flowers, peach and apricot on the nose, with tropical pineapple and tangerine flavors on the palate.

Another favorite “deck-and-patio” wine for me is Chateau Ste. Michelle Columbia Valley Gewürztraminer ($8.99) from Washington State. This lush Gewürztraminer is quite floral on the nose, with crisp acidity and citrus notes courtesy of the 2 percent Muscat that is blended with 98 percent Gewürztraminer. There are hints of clove and cinnamon, too, and this wine is a good partner for Asian fare.

While we’re still in the flowery wine department, I should mention Dr. L Loosen Bros. Riesling ($12.62), which Wine Spectator awarded 91 points for the 2012 vintage. It’s got bright peach and grapefruit aromas with abundant peach flavors on the tongue—a very vibrant and racy Riesling.

Inexpensive Chardonnay can be a minefield since there are so many inferior ones

that use oak to cloak flaws in the wine. Well, here are three economical Chards that I’d be proud to serve at my dinner table. If, like me, you appreciate the restrained use of oak in wine fermentation, I recommend Cono Sur Bicicleta Chardonnay ($8.99) from Chile’s Valle Central wine region—a well-balanced wine that is aged in stainless steel and shows peachy aromas, bright fruit flavors and solid mineral underpinnings. The Wishing Tree Unoaked Chardonnay ($12.49) from South Australia is exactly that: unoaked. Pop the cork and you’ll be treated to gorgeous apricot, peach, honey and tangerine aromas, followed by candied citrus flavors and a hint of spice; it’s an elegant Chardonnay for the price.

If you lean toward organic and biodynamic

wines, Bonterra Chardonnay ($15.49) should be right up your alley. Made from organic Mendocino fruit, this Chardonnay is a blend where 70 percent is aged in French and American oak, while the remaining 30 percent of the wine is aged in stainless steel, which helps preserve the wine’s crisp fruit flavors. It’s a bright, clean wine that would pair nicely with a simple roasted chicken.

A few other winning whites that are well worth your hard-earned dollar include: Eyrie Dundee Hills Pinot Gris ($13.95), Domaine De Rieux Côtes de Gascogne Blanc ($12.50), Folonari Pinot Grigio ($7.49), Simply Naked Chardonnay ($7.98), Marqués de Cáceres White Wine ($8.99), and Cline Cellars Mourvedre Rosé ($10.99). PJH

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Good between 5:30-6pm • Open nightly at 5:30pm

733-3912 160 N. Millward

Make your reservation online at bluelionrestaurant.com

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Take Out and Delivery 307.200.6544 Mon thru Sat 10:30am - 4:00pm 100 E. Snowking Ave. (between Ski Patrol & Ice Rink)

Large Specialty Pizza ADD: Wings (8 pc)

Medium Pizza (1 topping) Stuffed Cheesy Bread

$ 13 99

for an extra $5.99/each

(307) 733-0330 520 S. Hwy. 89 • Jackson, WY

FAMILY FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT PIZZAS, PASTAS & MORE HOUSEMADE BREAD & DESSERTS FRESH, LOCALLY SOURCED OFFERINGS TAKE OUT AVAILABLE Dining room and bar open nightly at 5:00pm (307) 733-2460 • 2560 Moose Wilson Road • Wilson, WY

A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965

TETON THAI Serving the world’s most exciting cuisine. Teton Thai offers a splendid array of flavors: sweet, hot, sour, salt and bitter. All balanced and blended perfectly, satisfying the most discriminating palate. Open daily. 7432 Granite Loop Road in Teton Village, (307) 733-0022 and in Driggs, (208) 787-8424, tetonthai.com.

FAVORITE PIZZA 2012, 2013 & 2014 •••••••••

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CONTINENTAL ALPENHOF Serving authentic Swiss cuisine, the Alpenhof features European style breakfast entrées and alpine lunch fare. Dine in the Bistro for a casual meal or join us in the Alpenrose dining room for a relaxed dinner experience. Breakfast 7:30am-10am. Coffee & pastry 10am-11:30am.

Lunch 11:30am-3pm. Aprés 3pm-5:30pm. Dinner 6pm-9pm. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call 307-733-3242.

THE BLUE LION A Jackson Hole favorite for 38 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. Early Bird Special: 20% off entire bill between 5:306:0pm, Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com.

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. 135 E. Broadway, (307) 732-1910, genevievejh.com.

FULL STEAM SUBS The deli that’ll rock your belly. Jackson’s newest sub shop serves steamed subs, reubens, gyros, delicious all beef hot dogs, soups and salads. We offer Chicago style hot dogs done just the way they do in the windy city. Open daily11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 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, house-ground 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. Lunch Mon-Sat 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 glutenfree 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. 145 N. Glenwood St., (307) 734-0882, tetonlotuscafe.com.

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. Teton Village, (307) 733-4913, mangymoose.com.

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. 265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing.com.

SWEETWATER Satisfying locals for lunch and dinner for over 36

LUNCH

ELEANOR’S

SPECIAL Slice, salad & soda

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TV Sports Packages and 7 Screens

Under the Pink Garter Theatre (307) 734-PINK • www.pinkygs.com

Home of Melvin Brewing Co. Freshly remodeled offering modern Thai cuisine in a relaxed setting.

New tap system with 20 craft beers. New $8 wine list and extensive bottled beer menu. Open daily for dinner at 5pm. Downtown at 75 East Pearl Street. View our tap list at thaijh.com/brews.

307-733-0005.

CAFE GENEVIEVE

THE LOCALS

$4 Well Drink Specials

Korean and American style, from breakfast sandwiches, burgers, chicken tenders, Philly cheese steaks to rice bowls and noodles.

Something for everyone! Open Monday through Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. At base of Snow King between the ski patrol room and the ice rink. 100 E. Snow King Ave. Take out and Delivery: (307) 200-6544.

THAI ME UP

NOODLES

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@ SNow King

KIM’S CORNER

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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. Come get a belly-full of our two-time gold medal wings. Open at 11 a.m. daily. 832 W. Broadway, (307) 733-7901.

years with deliciously affordable comfort food.

Extensive local and regional beer list. Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. features blackened trout salad, elk melt, wild west chili and vegetarian specialties. Dinner 5:30 to 9 p.m. including potato-crusted trout, 16 ounce ribeye, vegan and wild game. Reservations welcome. (307) 7333553. sweetwaterjackson.com.

TRIO

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner ••••••••• Open daily at 8am serving breakfast, lunch & dinner.

BYOB

145 N. Glenwood • (307) 734-0882 WWW.TETONLOTUSCAFE.COM

European Dining

in Teton Village

Owned and operated by Chefs with a passion for good food, Trio is located right off the Town square in downtown Jackson. Featuring a variety of cuisines in a relaxed atmosphere, Trio is famous for its wood-oven pizzas, specialty cocktails and waffle fries with bleu cheese fondue. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m.

Reservations. (307) 734-8038 or bistrotrio.com.

ITALIAN CALICO 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. 2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO

BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER 7:30-9PM 307.733.3242 TETON VILLAGE

Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere.

Home of the original Jumbo Margarita.

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.

385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

PIZZA Napolitana-style Pizza, panini, pasta, salad, beer wine. Order online at PizzeriaCaldera.com

DOMINO’S PIZZA

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Hot and delicious delivered to your door.

Hand-tossed, deep dish, crunchy thin, Brooklyn style and artisan pizzas; bread bowl pastas, and oven baked sandwiches; chicken wings, cheesy breads and desserts. Delivery.

520 S. Hwy. 89 in Kmart Plaza, (307) 733-0330.

PINKY G’S

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11am - 9:30pm daily 20 W. Broadway 307.201.1472

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. Delivery and take-out. Open daily 11a.m. to 2 a.m. 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

PIZZERIA CALDERA Jackson Hole’s only dedicated stone-hearth oven pizzeria, serving Napolitana-style pies

1110 W. Broadway • Jackson, WY Open daily 5:00am to midnight • Free Wi-Fi

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using the freshest ingredients in traditional and creative combinations. Five local microbrews on tap, a great selection of red and white wines by the glass and bottle, and one of the best views of the Town Square from our upstairs deck. Daily lunch special includes slice, salad or soup, any two for $8. Happy hour: half off drinks by the glass from 4 - 6 daily. Dine in or carry out. Or order online at PizzeriaCaldera.com, or download our app for iOS or Android. Open from 11am - 9:30pm daily at 20 West Broadway. 307-201-1472.

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CONTINENTAL THE BIRD

4125 S. Pub Place, Jackson 307-732-BIRD Thebirdinjackson.com

BLUE LION

160 N. Millward, Jackson 307-733-3912 Bluelionrestaurant.com

BUBBA’S BAR-B-QUE 100 Flat Creek Drive, Jackson 307-733-2288 Bubbasjh.com

CAFE GENEVIEVE 135 E. Broadway, Jackson 307-734-1970 Genevievejh.com

CUTTY’S BAR & GRILL 1140 W WY 22, Jackson 307-732-0001 Cuttysgrill.com

DOWN ON GLEN

JACKSON HOLE PLAYHOUSE & SADDLE ROCK SALOON 145 W. Deloney, Jackson 307-733-6994 Jacksonplayhouse.com

KING’S GRILL

At Snow King Mountain 402 E. Snow King, Jackson 307-201-5292 Snowkingmountain.com/jackson-hole-dining

THE KITCHEN

155 Glenwood St, Jackson 307-734-1633 Thekitchenjacksonhole.com

NOODLE KITCHEN 945 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-734-1977 Noodlekitchenjh.com

LIBERTY BURGER 170 N. Cache, Jackson 307-200-6071 Givemelibertyburger.com

LIFT RESTAURANT

RUSTIC INN BISTRO AND BAR 475 N Cache St, Jackson 800-323-9279 Rusticinnatjh.com

Q ROADHOUSE

2550 Teton Village, Wilson 307-739-0700 Qjacksonhole.com

SIDEWINDERS TAVERN 945 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-734-5766 Sidewinderstavern.com

SILVER DOLLAR BAR & GRILL in The Wort Hotel 50 N. Glenwood, Jackson 307-732-3939 Worthotel.com/silver-dollar-bar

SNAKE RIVER BREWERY 265 S. Millward, Jackson 307-739-2337 Snakeriverbrewing.com

SNAKE RIVER GRILL 84 E. Broadway, Jackson 307-733-0557 Snakerivergrill.com

ASIAN & SUSHI BON APPE THAI 245 W. Pearl, Jackson 307-734-0245 Bon-appe-thai.com

HONG KONG BUFFET 826 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-734-8988

KAZUMI

265 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-733-9168 Jacksonholesushi.com

KIM’S CORNER CAFE

970 W. Broadway or Snow King Center 307-413-8331 Facebook.com/Kimscornercafe

KING SUSHI

75 S. King Street, Jackson 307-264-1630 Kingsushijh.com

NIKAI SUSHI FISH & GAME 225 N. Cache, Jackson 307-734-6490 Nikaijh.com

25 S. Glenwood, Jackson 307-733-4422

645 S. Cache, Jackson 307-733-0043 Liftjacksonhole.com

DORNAN’S PIZZA & PASTA COMPANY

LOTUS CAFE

STIEGLER’S AUSTRIAN RESTAURANT & COPPER BAR 3535 Teton Village Rd., Wilson 307-733-1071 Stieglersrestaurant.com

340 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-734-9768 Oceancitychinabistro.com

LOCAL RESTAURANT & BAR

STREETFOOD @ THE STAGECOACH

SUDACHI

Moose, Wyoming 307-733-2415 Dornans.com

ELEANOR’S

832 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-733-7901 Eleanorsbarandgrill.com

E.LEAVEN FOOD CO. 175 Center St., Jackson 307-733-5600 Eleavenfood.com

GATHER

72 S. Glenwood, Jackson 307-200-7766 Gatherjh.com

THE GRANARY

Spring Creek Resort 1800 Spirit Dance, Jackson 307-733-8833 Springcreekranch.com/dining/the-granary

THE GUN BARREL STEAK & GAME HOUSE 862 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-733-3287 Gunbarrel.com

HAYDENS POST

In Snow King Resort 537 Snow King Loop, Jackson 307-734-3187 Snowking.com/restaurants/haydens_post

145 N. Glenwood, Jackson 307-734-0882 Theorganiclotus.com 55 N. Cache, Jackson 307-201-1717 Localjh.com

MACPHAIL’S BURGERS 399 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-733-8744 Macphailsburgers.com

MILLION DOLLAR COWBOY STEAKHOUSE 25 N. Cache, Jackson 307-733-4790 JHCowboysteakhouse.com

5755 WY-22, Wilson 307-200-6633 Streetfoodjh.com

SWEETWATER RESTAURANT 85 King, Jackson 307-733-3553 Sweetwaterjackson.com

TRIO

45 S. Glenwood, Jackson 307-734-8038 Bistrotrio.com

NORA’S FISH CREEK INN

VIRGINIAN RESTAURANT

THE PINES RESTAURANT

WILD SAGE RESTAURANT

5600 W. Hwy. 22, Wilson 307-733-8288 Norasfishcreekinn.com

3450 N. Clubhouse Rd., Wilson 307-733-1005 Tetonpines.com

RENDEZVOUS BISTRO 380 S. Broadway, Jackson 307-739-1100 Rendezvousbistro.net

RISING SAGE CAFE

In National Museum of Wildlife Art 307-733-8649 Risingsagecafe.com

740 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-733-4330 Virginianrestaurant.net Rusty Parrot Lodge 175 N. Jackson, Jackson 307-733-2000 Rustyparrot.com/dining

WHITE BUFFALO CLUB 160 W Gill Ave, Jackson 307-734-4900 Whitebuffaloclub.com

OCEAN CITY CHINA BISTRO

346 N. Pines Way, Wilson 307-734-7832 Sudachijh.com

TETON THAI

7342 Granite Rd, Teton Village 307-733-0022 Tetonthaivillage.com

TETON TIGER 165 Center, Jackson 307-733-4111 Tetontiger.com

THAI ME UP

75 E. Pearl, Jackson 307-733-0005 Thaijh.com

THAI PLATE

135 N. Cache, Jackson 307-734-2654 Tetonthaiplate.com

MEDITERRANEAN BIN 22

200 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-739-9463 Bin22jacksonhole.com

FIGS

In Hotel Jackson 120 N Glenwood St, Jackson 307-733-2200 Hoteljackson.com/dining/figs

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO

385 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-733-1207 Elabuelitocafe.com

HATCH TAQUERIA AND TEQUILAS 120 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-203-2780 Hatchjh.com

MERRY PIGLETS

PIZZA HUT

180 Powderhorn, Jackson 307-733-8550 O rd e r. p izza h u t .co m/loc at io ns/w yo m in g/ jackson/012424

II VILLAGIO OSTERIA In Hotel Terra, Teton Village 307-739-4100 Jhosteria.com

TETON VILLAGE ALPENROSE RESTAURANT In Alpenhof Lodge 307-733-3462 Alpenhoflodge.com/dining

GAMEFISH

160 N. Cache, Jackson 307-733-2966 Merrypiglets.com

In Snake River Lodge & Spa 7710 Granite Loop R 307-732-6040 Snakeriverlodge.com/gamefish-restaurant

PICA’S MEXICAN TAQUERIA

THE HANDLE BAR

1160 Alpine, Jackson 307-734-4457 Picastaqueria.com

SANCHEZ

65 South Glenwood Street, Jackson 307-734-5407

EL TEQUILA

545 E. Broadway, Jackson 307-264-1577

ITALIAN & PIZZA

In Four Seasons Resort 307-732-5157 F o u r s e a s o n s . c o m / j a c k s o n h o l e /d i n i n g / restaurants/the_handle_bar

MANGY MOOSE RESTAURANT & SALOON

SPUR RESTAURANT & BAR In Teton Mountain Lodge 307-732-6932 Tetonlodge.com/spur-restaurant

WESTBANK GRILL

690 S. Hwy. 89, Jackson 734-1970 Pizzaartisanjh.com

In Four Seasons Resort 307-732-5001 F o u r s e a s o n s . c o m / j a c k s o n h o l e /d i n i n g / restaurants/westbank_grill

CALICO ITALIAN RESTAURANT & BAR

BARS & LOUNGES

DOMINO’S

520 S. Hwy 89, Jackson 307-733-0330 Pizza.dominos.com/wyoming/jackson Moose, Wyoming 307-733-2415 Dornans.com

NANI’S RISTORANTE & BAR 242 N. Glenwood, Jackson 307-733-3888 Nanis.com

PINKY G’S PIZZERIA 50 W. Broadway, Jackson 734-PINK Pinkygs.com

20 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-201-1472 Pizzeriacaldera.com

FULL STEAM SUBS $10 VOUCHER FOR $5

JACKSON HOLE FEED & PET

$45 TOWARDS A LARGE BAG OF HORIZON BRAND DOG FOOD FOR $22.50

KIM’S CORNER CAFE $10 VOUCHER $5

PIZZERIA CALDERA

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BIN 22

200 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-739-9463 Bin22jacksonhole.com

THE BIRD

4125 S. Pub Place 307-732-BIRD Thebirdinjackson.com

ELEANOR’S

832 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-733-7901 Eleanorsbarandgrill.com

THE ROSE

50 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-733-1500 Therosejh.com

SILVER DOLLAR BAR & GRILL in The Wort Hotel 50 N. Glenwood, Jackson 307-732-3939 Worthotel.com/silver-dollar-bar

SNAKE RIVER BREWERY 265 S. Millward, Jackson 307-739-2337 Snakeriverbrewing.com

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DORNAN’S PIZZA & PASTA

CHASING TAILS

307-733-4913 Mangymoose.com

ARTISAN PIZZA ITALIAN KITCHEN

2650 Moose-Wilson Rd, Wilson 307-733-2460 Calicorestaurant.com

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STAGECOACH BAR

ELEVATED GROUNDS

PERSEPHONE BAKERY

BIG HOLE BBQ

VIRGINIAN SALOON

HEALTHY BEING JUICERY

YIPPY I-O CANDY CO.

THE BRAKEMAN AMERICAN GRILL

5755 W. Hwy 22, Wilson 307-733-4407 Stagecoachbar.net

750 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-739-9891 Virginianlodge.com

3445 N. Pines Way, Ste. 102, Wilson 307-734-1343 Elevatedgroundscoffeehouse.com 165 E Broadway, Jackson 307-200-9006 Healthybeingjuice.com

165 E. Broadway, Jackson 307-734-1700 Persephonebakery.com 84 E. Broadway, Jackson 307-739-3020 Yippyi-ocandy.com

22 W. Center St. 208-270-9919 Bigholebbq.com

27 N. Main St. 208-787-2020

TOWN SQUARE TAVERN

JACKSON HOLE ROASTERS 50 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-200-6099 Jacksonholeroasters.com

SELLERS OF THE SAUCE (BEER, WINE & LIQUOR)

FORAGE BISTRO AND LOUNGE

DELICATESSENS

PEARL STREET BAGELS

BIN 22

GRAND TETON BREWING

20 E. Broadway, Jackson 307-733-3886 Townsquaretavern.com

ASPENS MARKET

4015 W. Lake Creek Dr., Wilson 307-200-6140 Aspensmarket.com

CREEKSIDE MARKET & DELI 545 N. Cache, Jackson 307-733-7926 Creeksidejacksonhole.com

FULL STEAM SUBS 180 N. Center, Jackson 307-733-3448 Fullsteamsubs.com

JACKSON WHOLE GROCER 975 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-733-0450 Jacksonwholegrocer.com

LOCAL BUTCHER 50 W. Deloney, Jackson 307-203-2322 Localbutcherjh.com

LUCKY’S

974 W Broadway, Jackson 307-264-1633 Luckysmarket.com/jackson-wy/

NEW YORK CITY SUB SHOP 20 N. Jackson, Jackson 307-733-4414 Nycss.com/jackson-hole-wyoming

PEARL ST. MARKET 40 W. Pearl, Jackson 307-733-1300 Pearlstmarketjh.com

QUIZNO’S

1325 S. Hwy. 89, Jackson 307-733-0201 Restaurants.quiznos.com/wy/jacksonhole/ jacksonhole-83001

SUBWAY

520 S. Hwy 89, Jackson 307-739-1965 Subway.com

COFFEE/CAFE THE BUNNERY

130 N. Cache, Jackson 307-734-0075 Bunnery.com

COWBOY COFFEE 125 N Cache St, Jackson 307-733-7392 Cowboycoffee.com

145 W. Pearl, Jackson 307-739-1218 Pearlstreetbagels.com

200 W. Broadway 307-739-9463

PEARL STREET BAGELS - WEST

3200 W. McCollister 307-732-2337

1230 Ida Dr, Wilson 307-739-1261 Pearlstreetbagels.com

PICNIC

1110 Maple Way, Jackson 307-264-2956 Picnicjh.com

STARBUCKS

Inside Albertson’s 105 Buffalo Way, Jackson 307-733-5950

STARBUCKS

Inside Smith’s 1425 S. Hwy 89, Jackson 307-733-8908 starbucks.com

STARBUCKS

10 E. Broadway, Jackson 307-734-4471 starbucks.com

BAKERIES & SWEETS

BODEGA

BUD’S EASTSIDE LIQUOR 582 E. Broadway 307-733-1181

JACKSON WHOLE GROCER 974 W. Broadway 307-733-0450 Jacksonwholegrocer.com

LIQUOR DOWN SOUTH MARKET AND WINE SHOP 4125 US-89, Jackson 307-200-6103

THE LIQUOR STORE/THE WINE LOFT 115 Buffalo Way 307-733-4466

MANGY MOOSE MARKET & CELLARS Mangy Moose Bldg.

307-734-0070

PLAZA LIQUORS

285 Little Ave., #A 208-354-2858 Forageandlounge.com

430 Old Jackson Hwy. 208-787-9000 Grandtetonbrewing.com

GRUMPY’S GOAT SHACK 37 S. Main, Victor, ID 208-787-2092 Goatshack.com

HEADWATERS GRILLE

In Teton Springs Lodge & Spa 10 Warm Creek Ln, Victor, ID 208-787-3600 Tetonspringslodge.com/dining/range-restaurant

KNOTTY PINE SUPPER CLUB 58 S. Main St., Victor, ID 208-787-2866 Knottypinesupperclub.com

O’ROURKES SPORTS BAR & GRILL 42 E. Little Ave, Driggs, ID 208-354-8115

ROYAL WOLF

63 Depot St, Driggs, ID 208-354-8365 Theroyalwolf.com

SCRATCH

832 W. Broadway 307-733-8888

185 W. Center St., Victor, ID 208-787-5678 Scratchvictor.com

SIDEWINDER’S WINE, SPIRITS AND ALE

SPOONS BISTRO

945 W. Broadway, Jackson 307-734-5766

32 W. Birch, Victor, ID 208-787-2478 Spoonsbistro.com

185 Scott, Jackson 307-734-9024 Breadbasketjh.com

SMITH’S LIQUORS

TETON THAI

COCOLOVE

STAGECOACH LIQUOR STORE

ATELIER ORTEGA 150 Scott Lane, Jackson 307-734-6400 Atelierortega.com

BREAD BASKET OF JACKSON HOLE

53 N. Glenwood, Jackson 307-734-6400 Atelierortega.com

DAIRY QUEEN

575 N Cache St, Jackson 307-733-2232 Dairyqueen.com

HAAGEN DAZS

90 E Broadway, Jackson 307-739-1880 Haagendazs.us

MOO’S GOURMET ICE CREAM 110 Center, Jackson 307-733-1998 Moosjacksonhole.com

1425 US-89, Jackson 307-733-8908

5755 W. Highway 22, Wilson 307-733-4590

VIRGINIAN LIQUOR STORE 750 W. Broadway 307-733-2792

WESTSIDE WINE & SPIRITS In The Aspens 307-733-5038

VICTOR & DRIGGS, ID BANGKOK KITCHEN

220 N. Main St. 208-354-6666 Bkkitchen.com/index.php/19-menu-list

32 Birch St., Driggs, ID 208-787-8424 Tetonthai.com

VICTOR EMPORIUM 45 S. Main St., Victor, ID 208-787-2221

WEST SIDE YARD 31 W. Center, Victor, ID 208-787-5000

WARBIRDS CAFE

675 Airport Rd., Driggs, ID 208-354-2550 tetonaviation.com/warbirds-cafe

WILDLIFE BREWING & PIZZA 145 S. Main St., Victor, ID 208-787-2623 Wildlifebrewing.com

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) In my opinion, you need to bask in the glorious fury of at least one brainstorm—preferably multiple brainstorms over the course of the next two weeks. What can you do to ensure that happens? How might you generate a flood of new ideas about how to live your life and understand the nature of reality? Here are some suggestions: Read books about creativity. Hang around with original thinkers and sly provocateurs. Insert yourself into situations that will strip you of your boring certainties. And take this vow: “I hereby unleash the primal power of my liberated imagination.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) When you were a child, did you play with imaginary friends? During your adolescence, did you nurture a fantasy relationship with a pretend boyfriend or girlfriend?

Since you reached adulthood, have you ever enjoyed consorting with muses or guardian angels or ancestral spirits? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are in a good position to take full advantage of the subtle opportunities and cryptic invitations that are coming your way. Unexpected sources are poised to provide unlikely inspirations in unprecedented ways.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) When you were born, you already carried the seeds of gifts you would someday be able to provide—specific influences or teachings or blessings that only you, of all the people who have ever lived, could offer the world. How are you doing in your quest to fulfill this potential? Here’s what I suspect: Your seeds have been ripening slowly and surely. But in the coming months, they could ripen at a more rapid pace. Whether they actually do or not might depend on your willingness to take on more responsibilities—interesting responsibilities, to be sure—but bigger than you’re used to.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) I suspect that you will soon be culminating a labor of love

you’ve been nurturing and refining for many moons. How should you celebrate? Maybe with some Champagne and caviar? If you’d like to include bubbly in your revels, a good choice might be 2004 Belle Epoque Rosé. Its floral aroma and crispy mouth-feel rouse a sense of jubilation as they synergize the flavors of blood orange, pomegranate and strawberry. As for caviar: Consider the smooth, aromatic and elegant roe of the albino beluga sturgeon from the unpolluted areas of the Caspian Sea near Iran. But before I finish this oracle, let me also add that a better way to honor your accomplishment might be to take the money you’d spend on Champagne and caviar, and instead use it as seed money for your next big project.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Some species of weeds become even more robust and entrenched as they develop resistances to the pesticides that are designed to eradicate them. This is one example of how fighting a problem can make the problem worse— especially if you attack too furiously or use the wrong weapons. I invite you to consider the possibility that this might be a useful metaphor for you to contemplate in the coming weeks. Your desire to solve a knotty dilemma or shed a bad influence is admirable. Just make sure you choose a strategy that actually works.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to compose an essay on at least one of the following themes: 1. How I Fed and Fed My Demons Until They Gorged Themselves to Death. 2. How I Exploited My Nightmares in Ways That Made Me Smarter and Cuter. 3. How I Quietly and Heroically Transformed a Sticky Problem into a Sleek Opportunity. 4. “How I Helped Myself by Helping Other People. For extra credit, Capricorn—and to earn the right to trade an unholy duty for a holy one—write about all four subjects.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) I suspect that, in the coming months, you will be drawn to wandering through the frontiers and exploring the unknown. Experimentation will come naturally. Places and situations you have previously considered to be off-limits may be downright comfortable. In fact, it’s possible that you will have to escape your safety zones in order to fully be yourself. Got all that? Now, here’s the kicker: In the coming weeks, everything I just described will be especially apropos for your closest relationships. Are you interested in redefining and reconfiguring the ways that togetherness works for you?

high-quality silence. When I arrived at the trail head, I found an older man in ragged clothes leaning against the fence. Nearby was a grocery cart full of what I assumed were all his earthly belongings. “Doing nothing is a very difficult art,” he croaked as I slipped by him, “because you’re never really sure when you are done.” I immediately recognized that his wisdom might be useful to you.

You are, after all, in the last few days of your recharging process. It’s still a good idea for you to lie low and be extra calm and vegetate luxuriously. But when should you rise up and leap into action again? Here’s my guess: Get one more dose of intense stillness and silence.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) If you’re playing the card game known as Bridge, you’re lucky if you are dealt a hand that has no cards of a particular suit. This enables you, right from the beginning, to capture tricks using the trump suit. In other words, the lack of a certain resource gives you a distinct advantage. Let’s apply this metaphor to your immediate future, Pisces. I’m guessing that you will benefit from what might seem to be an inadequacy or deficit. An absence will be a useful asset.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) My readers have a range of approaches for working with the counsel I offer. Some study the horoscopes for both their sun signs and rising signs, then create do-it-yourself blends of the two. Others prefer to wait until the week is over before consulting what I’ve written. They don’t want my oracles to influence their future behavior, but enjoy evaluating their recent past in light of my analysis. Then there are the folks who read all 12 of my horoscopes. They refuse to be hemmed in by just one forecast, and want to be free to explore multiple options. I encourage you to try experiments like these in the coming days. The moment is ripe to cultivate more of your own unique strategies for using and interpreting the information you absorb—both from me and from everyone else you listen to.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Can you imagine feeling at-home in the world, no matter where you are? If you eventually master this art, outer circumstances won’t distort your relationship with yourself.

No matter how crazy or chaotic the people around you might be, you will remain rooted in your unshakable sense of purpose; you will respond to any given situation in ways that make you both calm and alert, amused and curious, compassionate for the suffering of others and determined to do what’s best for you. If you think these are goals worth seeking, you can make dramatic progress toward them in the coming weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) As I tried to meditate on your horoscope, my next-door neighbor was wielding a weed-whacker to trim her lawn, and the voices in my head were shouting extra loud.

So I decided to drive down to the marsh to get some

83 Bone up quickly 84 Assert with confidence 88 Zero out, say 89 Well past its prime 90 Affluent, in Andalusia 91 Court prop 93 At deuce 95 OAS charter member 96 Defense secretary __ Carter 97 Burlesque stand-up act?

101 Puts away too much, briefly 102 One of a hand truck’s pair 104 “Purple Rain” musician 105 Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” e.g.

107 “For honest men and bonie __”: Burns 109 1983 Mr. T comedy 111 “This isn’t good!”

112 Shocks, in a way 115 Iroquoian family members 117 Goes like crazy 121 Where fowl spies meet?

125 Parka with different sleeve lengths?

127 “The Tempest” spirit 128 Fox football sportscaster Long 129 “The Mikado” executioner 130 Couture monthly 131 Classic rock opera 132 Without stopping 133 Break sharply 134 Completely convinced

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81 Lose in a chase 82 Numerical extreme 85 Mae West persona 86 “Did you __?”

87 Overhauled 92 Crucial unifying element 94 One in a buffet stack 97 Without a doubt 98 Courtroom figure 99 In the neighborhood 100 Eponymous swindler 103 Think the world of 106 Rope loops 108 Former JFK lander 110 Strong lagers 111 Sanyo headquarters city 113 Off-the-wall feedback?

114 Before you know it 116 Palindromic time 118 Fram Museum city 119 Ponder, with “over” 120 Flower child?

121 Stealthy animal 122 Metal precioso 123 Gusto 124 Be beholden to 126 Pajama part

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10 Tomato variety 20 Emphatic type: Abbr.

30 Suva’s nation 40 Environment-friendly carrier 50 Letters on some SUVs 60 One way to hang 70 Pass over 80 Yawn-inspiring 90 Aid for dealing with pea soup 10 Red-centered serving

11 Cold War prez 12 “None of it is true!”

13 Host with a TV “Garage” 14 It only offers partial coverage 15 Ticket period 16 NCAA div. with Seminoles 17 Jersey greeting?

18 Vacation stop 24 Gets to 26 Closest pal, in text 29 Implored 32 Hardy work 34 Curving 36 Sign of breakfast burning?

37 Caruso and Domingo 38 System with speakers 39 Some intellectuals 40 Break point situation 41 Abs trainers?

43 “Unböring” furniture chain 44 “The Swedish Nightingale” Jenny 48 Was able to 49 Schindler with a list 50 Writer Zora ___ Hurston 51 Its sessions begin and end with bells 54 Capital of Sicily 57 Cross-referencing words 59 Come off as 61 Swedish import 62 Pulitzer playwright Rice 67 Elevated point 69 Many 1969 Woodstock arrivals 72 Boots 73 Start of a fitness motto 74 Singer Cetera 76 Many a signature 77 Yearwood of country 78 Pudding starch

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10 Overrun 50 Toothpaste portion 90 Superfluity 14 “Same here” 19 Psych ending 20 NYC tourist attraction 21 “The Great Dictator” Oscar nominee 22 Intel mission 23 Nickel that’s worth big bucks?

25 Eco-friendly lighthouse?

27 One might not hold up in court 28 Basic element 30 Remote hiding places?

31 Pic Sans Nom, par exemple 33 Guanaco cousin 35 Does a salon job 39 “Life Below Zero” channel, familiarly 42 Chef known by his first name 45 Not yet fulfilled 46 Part of an academic address 47 Rearrangement of suitcase contents?

52 I, at times 53 Easy win 55 Allison of jazz 56 Mighty small 57 Hershey bar 58 “The Count of Monte Cristo” author 60 Czar’s edict 63 Homework helpers 64 Clare’s land 65 Flair 66 Sung syllables 68 “That’s true, but ... ” 70 Welcome center?

71 Ideal takeover?

75 Oscar winner Lee 76 Attacks with force 79 Puzzle 80 Prestigious prize

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Have you been drinking a lot of liquids? Are you spending extra time soaking in hot baths and swimming in bodies of water that rejuvenate you? Have you been opening your soul to raw truths that dissolve your fixations and to beauty that makes you cry and to love that moves you to sing? I hope you’re reverently attending to these fluidic needs. I hope you’re giving your deepest yearnings free play and your freshest emotions lots of room to unfold. Smart, well-lubricated intimacy is a luxurious necessity, my dear.

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Shining Light on the Shadows How acknowledging the darker corners of our psyche can lead to greater self-awareness.

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

— Carl Jung Meet your shadow self Though the concept is very ancient, the term “shadow self” was most recently introduced by psychiatrist Carol Jung to describe a phenomenon of the human psyche. There are parts of our collective and individual human nature that are less than noble. When we don’t like these aspects of ourselves, are ashamed of them, afraid of them, and don’t even want to know they exist within us, the psyche buries these unacceptable parts deep within the unconscious mind. That way, they’re “disowned,” literally out of sight and out of the reach of our everyday awareness.

In this way, the mind is something like an iceberg. The conscious mind is the tip we are aware of above the water, and the unconscious mind is the other 98 percent, invisible under the water. Like the hidden part of the iceberg, less than noble feelings, urges, beliefs, prejudices and the negative energy they contain, are out of sight, but they are there in the shadow self.

What we file away in our unconscious runs parts of our lives and eventually leaks out in negative ways, until we are willing and able to acknowledge and then neutralize those disowned parts.

What it means to make the darkness conscious It should be noted that the idea is not to bring our nasty urges up to the surface and act them out. Instead, what amazingly happens when a less than noble feeling/belief/urge is openly acknowledged and owned, is that the negative charge dissipates.

When it is brought “out in the open,” it is neutralized and it loses its power.

That’s why in every program for healing destructive behavioral patterns and addictions of all sorts, the first step is always the same. People take turns standing in front of the group and saying something they may have not wanted to acknowledge for some time. They admit to being an alcoholic; a compulsive liar; a sex

addict; a drug addict; a hoarder; a cheater, etc. You cannot simply go beyond hatred, or prejudice, jealousy, or addiction if first you don’t admit that you do in fact possess those urges and behaviors.

Once you “own it” it is no longer hidden. Then you can choose to dismantle the negativity and change your life.

When the dark side rises Carl Jung and others postulated there is also a collective shadow side to every culture, to every country and to humanity as a species. Recently Dr. Deepak Chopra and other experts have offered explanations as to why we are seeing a current horrific uptick in wanton global violence rooted in racial, gender and religious prejudices. They attribute it to the collective shadow side of humanity, which has now risen to the surface.

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The horror of what’s happening is obvious. But what if this is also an unprecedented opportunity to help humanity become more tolerant and understanding?

What if every person were to openly own his/her secret biases, shames, and fears and therefore neutralize them so they are neither hidden nor acted out?

What if how we become whole and evolve is by bringing the good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly of who we are into the light?

What if all humanity as a collective species owns up to and faces our secret biases, shames and fears?

What if, just as an individual frees himself to change after acknowledging his addiction, humanity will have created the opening to upgrade the world to become a planet where people live in harmony.

Time is now to free the positives, too Incredibly, there are also positive and creative aspects of us locked away in the vault of the unconscious. They found their way there because they didn’t fit in with society or someone dissed on them, or we felt shamed and then to avoid the pain, our psyche hid them away. Human beings all have talents, skills, insights, heart and creativity to share, which is sometimes stifled. Imagine the hidden treasures we can now bring to the surface, shining as individuals and as a species.

Imagine…

I realize this week’s column may sound like a pipe dream. But then, my favorite song—and ostensibly one of yours too—is John Lennon’s “Imagine.” This song resonates with myriad people because it reminds us that anything we can imagine can exist.

Are you in? PJH

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Typically the Hog Island Open Market Committee meets every other Thursday in Bob Thourtion’s trailer, as he has a double wide, a big screen TV and a young wife who wears revealing clothing. The committee evaluates financial conditions and the two weeks aggregate cost of a six pack. The committee’s goal is to keep Bud Lite prices within established parameters tolerating a 10 percent variation to allow for normal market fluctuations. While the mathematical calculations used are too complex for the proletariat, our basic strategies are to drink as much beer as possible to prevent deflationary forces due to oversupply.

If an increase in supply is needed we send Bob’s wife to Smith’s for a beer run. However, recent speculative actions by a consortium of investors led by Foster Friess have destabilized the market and unprecedented emergency action is required.

It appears Friess has transferred several University of Wyoming students

to the area to drink all the Bud Lite they can, and as supplies shrink and prices rise, Friess sold AAA collateralized debt obligations (CDLs). Based on an expectation of increasing Bud Lite prices, Hog Islanders rushed to buy. The consortium made millions but Hog Island investors are finding that the CDLs they considered safe consist of sub-prime brews such as Miller Lite, Busch, Pabst, and other brands that are toxic in the Hog Island area and whose underlining value is unknown. Market panic has reached such proportions that people are hording their supplies of Bud Lite and some households have taken to drinking Coors.

While the panic is mostly localized, there is concern that financial chaos will spread, perhaps as far as Hoback Junction and will affect prices of not only beer, but pizza, ammo, and pickup trucks. As the entire Hog Island economic system is tied to these four variables, there is fear of a major economic meltdown in the entire Hog Island metro area.

Despite some objections from inflation hawks who feared expansionary beeratary policy would cause inflationary pressures on not only beer but on liquid assets like Old Crow Bourbon, the Hog Island Open Market Committee voted in favor of a round of quantitative easing. I called my cousin who worked for Dunlap Distributors, a beer wholesaler, and we ordered a semi-truck load of Bud Lite.

The Bud Lite will be distributed to all members of the trailer park who can produce documentation that shows they are merely illiquid (out of beer), as opposed to being insolvent (out of money). We will provide liquid assets (beer) to those with collateral in trucks or guns, and maybe even collector issues of Playboy, and whose underlining liquid assets have been reduced by market speculation to three six packs of Old Milwaukee. PJH

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