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’ve had a hard time with the concept of the Jackson Hole Woman section since I started at the News&Guide. The gender-specific section reminded me of a conversation I had with co-workers years back about the possibility of a race-specific beat. When I was a reporter at the Naples Daily News in Naples, Florida, the staff discussed hiring for a new role, a “Hispanic affairs” reporter. The conversation started as we, as a whole, recognized we were not adequately covering a large part of our demographic. There were few Spanish speakers in the newsroom. Few of us had connections to anyone in the Latino community. We knew our community was underrepresented, and we were honestly trying to find a way to do our jobs better. Did we need someone to focus on the Latino community specifically to offset the imbalance we had spotted in our regular reporting? Did that presentation offer greater impact? Did we need to capture a wider swath of the community in our regular reporting? Wasn’t this population, like all of the other populations in the community, affected by elections, environmental regulations, arrests and court trials, community events? The solution was never nailed down while I was a reporter in Southwest Florida. And in many ways, the Jackson Hole Woman section raises the same questions. Is the best way to represent an underrepresented population an annual 32-page section? It almost feels like an apology: “Sorry for not covering you adequately the rest of the year.” But, maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s a war cry. I recently had a conversation with Lindsay Linton Buk, a fifth-generation Wyomingite and Jackson Hole photographer. She and I met to talk about her new photo/podcast project, which documents, as the title suggests, “Women in Wyoming.” Like the Jackson Hole Woman section, her project groups women together. That is the point. But to Buk the presentation of this female cohort is part of what gives the series meaningful impact. “We are still behind in our state and the world,” she said. “We do have that power within ourselves to change those things. You have to have that agency to start. That has to come from

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inside of you.” She wasn’t blaming or shaming, by any means. Rather, her project, currently six episodes and in planning for more, seeks to inspire. The first “chapter” of her project includes stories from former Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Kite, state Sen. Affie Ellis and Jackson’s own Clarene Law, a businesswoman and former state legislator. The project was born from a personal desire to tell the stories of women who have pushed and pulled their way to their places in what Buk says is still a very “masculine” state.

It started with photography and evolved into a podcast. It’s still evolving, she said, and she wants it to grow organically. But one thing she sees as a constant is how the project shines a bright light on women. That is its strength. On its face that has been the goal of Jackson Hole Woman as well: to highlight and celebrate the fierce, independent, entrepreneurial and inspiring women who make up this valley. And it still does. This year’s section features female chefs, cops and Teton County Search and Rescue volunteers, highlighting some of the ways these women have found their place in typically male-dominated industries. Reporter Allie Gross tells the story of 13-yearold Natalie O’Brien. She looked to her dad for a special birthday adventure up the Grand, and her dad sought out two strong female climbers to accompany them on the trip. Reporter Kylie Mohr dives into the 10-year milestone of SheJumps, a nonprofit that was launched to give girls the confidence to venture into the outdoors. But the section also examines some topics intended to drive forward the conversation about gender equality and how females are represented in our community and our state. Reporter John Spina looks into the issue of pay parity (spoiler alert: At the rate we’re going, women won’t see equal pay until 2153), and reporter Tom Hallberg looks at why no women took the stage at the fourth annual Wyoming Global Technology Summit in September. It explores the division between girls’ and boys’ toys, asks questions about gender norms and the people — both women and men — who are working to lead conversations about gender equality, respect and society’s expectations of both genders. Together, the future is bright with possibility. “Wyoming is so ripe for opportunity,” Buk said. “You can create yourself here. And we do.” Help us continue to create the conversation that moves women, our community and our state forward — and tell us how we can do better. We are stronger together. — Melissa Cassutt, Jackson Hole Woman Editor

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Cassina Brown is Trio’s chef de cuisine. Only 19 percent of chefs or head cooks are women.

Fighting for a place in the kitchen It’s hard for women to secure a top spot in ‘back of house’ service. By Erika Dahlby

verall, the restaurant industry seems on equal footing. Nearly 55 percent of food preparation and serving-related occupations are filled by women, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2015 annual averages. But when you break the numbers down by position, disparity shines through: Females are 82 percent of hosts, baristas and lounge servers, 70 percent of restaurant waitstaff and 59 percent of bartenders. When it comes to the higher-ranking spots, women make up 39 percent of cooks, and 19 percent of chefs or head cooks. “That’s a really good example of indoctrinated institutional sexism,” Cassina Brown, Trio Bistro’s chef de cuisine, said about the greater proportion of women workers in the front of house compared with the back of house. “There’s something pretty at the door to entice people to come in and a hardworking sturdy man in the kitchen to be the backbone of the operation,” she said. “But women can be hardworking backbones as well.” Chef de cuisine title descriptions can vary from restaurant to restaurant, but Brown’s role is to oversee the general day-to-day kitchen operations. She plays a big role in menu creation and office duties, but

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After two years catering and working as a sous chef for The Kitchen, Hollie Hollensbe became head chef in 2015. Being a woman hasn’t hindered her opportunities in the kitchen, she said.

much of her job is managing and cooking in a busy kitchen. Though “women in the kitchen” jokes abound, the reality is that professional kitchens are overwhelmingly male. “The whole environment, it’s like a hunting camp,” Brown said. “It’s built around masculinity.” Brown has worked in the back of house, meaning positions within the kitchen, for over a decade. In some restaurants, especially back East, she said, people don’t know what to do when a woman is introduced into the situation. There are often plenty of sexist jokes thrown about, and the way the kitchen is physically set up can

be a hindrance to women. Brown said she once worked in a kitchen where all the other employees were over 6 feet tall, which required her, almost a foot shorter, to rely heavily on a stepping stool. “For me it’s not a huge obstacle,” she said. “But sometimes I have to work twice as hard and twice as fast.” Hollie Hollensbe, the head chef at The Kitchen, said she has never felt that division in her culinary career, though she attributed some of that perspective to being the only girl in her family in five generations. While she doesn’t think being a woman has hindered her

opportunities in the kitchen, she did say it’s a male-dominated industry. “It comes with a little bit of ego, and you have to have a little bit of tough skin,” she said. Hollensbe doesn’t have a reason for the lack of females in the industry, but she thinks it has something to do with the unconventional hours. Most chefs start their day in the early afternoon and work late into the evening. “We work when most people play,” she said. “And it’s not as conducive to the stereotypical get-married-and-have-kids type of life. The hours are different, but it works for my See kitchen on 5

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“In general, in modern America, things look much brighter for women Continued from 4 than ever before,” Brown said. “But it’s life, and I enjoy it.” still a constant struggle and fight that While Brown has felt a divide in people need to be aware of and cognilarger kitchens, her current position zant of.” is a little different. The staff is small, Still, Hollensbe said the job and its with only three chefs and cooks work- demands are easier for a man than a ing together at a time. woman. But she doesn’t think that’s “Everyone is just accountable for closed any doors for her. their actions that it’s pretty hard to get “It’s a real ‘work your butt off, show away with blatant sexism,” she said. that you’re good, show your skill and But Brown said she’s conflicted you’ll advance’ type of profession,” she about whether she would want to see said. “And it makes it equal.” more female chefs. But despite the imbalance the “In a lot of women behind ways I wish some of Jackson’s there were more best restaurants females so that keep on creating kitchen culture menus and meals in general was for diners. a less masculine “I love being environment by creative, and I nature,” she said. get to be creative But when in my everyday there’s more than job,” Hollensbe one female in said. “That’s just — Cassina Brown the reward for the kitchen, she Chef de cuisine at trio me, just maksaid, “it’s really ing people happy hard to balance with the food the dynamic.” She remembers just starting out that I’m making.” Brown is also passionate about the as a line cook and a fellow female employee created an uncomfortable act of cooking and the creativity that situation when she took on an “alpha comes with it. She explains her passion simply: “Everyone eats.” female” role. “It’s the oldest ritual that all hu“It’s kind of a complex thing for me,” mans share: eating, because we have she said. In Brown’s experience there is usu- to,” she said. “And to find beauty and ally only one woman in the kitchen, creativity in the necessity is a really which she describes as “a very finite beautiful thing to participate in.” It’s all about feeding people — men thing where you really want to establish yourself as the strong woman in and women. “You’re giving them something that the kitchen.” She said women sometimes feel the they need to live,” Brown said. “But need to stand their ground as an island. you’re making it fun and exciting “I really resent that notion,” she for them and something they have a said. “But I think more often than not choice in. It seems meaningful and it that’s how it plays out because of the seems special.” masculine nature of the industry.” But the restaurant industry does Contact Erika Dahlby at 732-5909 or features2@jhnewsandguide.com. seem to be changing.

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Play and toys make the boys and girls

Our sense of what is normal for the sexes goes all the way back to our early childhood. By Richard Anderson

alk into nearly any toy store and you have this experience. Strolling the aisles lined with jigsaw puzzles and action figures, model airplanes and plastic dinosaurs, you turn a corner and enter Pinkland. Pink princess dresses and shoes, dolls dressed and packaged in pink, even specially marketed sets of pasteltinted Lego blocks — lavender, baby blue, pink — all meant for girls and the adults who buy for them. It seems perfectly natural that at some point in childhood a girl will go through a pink princess phase and a boy will turn anything he gets his hands on into a weapon. And while most kids grow into more complex and complicated people, something of those early formative phases lingers. In fact these preferences are not entirely genetic, but they are cultural, societal and environmental. Being the incredible sponges that they are, children pick up on clues and cues that adults may not be aware of. “It starts at birth,” said Evan Daily, a marriage and family therapist, “and it’s both parents. Moms, too. Nobody does it on purpose.” And yet, he said, when our daughters want to go to school dressed as doctors, firemen or construction workers they are encouraged and praised for exploring themselves. And when our sons want to wear a tutu or a dress or play with a handbag or a doll, our reaction is often completely different. • Jennifer and Craig Beastrom have

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four children: two older daughters in their teens, and fraternal twins Ben and Hazel, who are 10. As with most twins, Ben and Hazel spent a great deal of time together. In fact, Jennifer Beastrom said, only last month the two moved into their own bedrooms after sharing for a decade. Beastrom said that Ben, despite being surrounded by girls and girls’ toys, did not gravitate toward them. “We would buy him remote control toys and robots … and he was more fascinated with those.” Likewise he never went for those pink and purple Legos marketed for girls, but naturally went for the sets made for boys. His mode of play tends to be more physical, playing outside, going on adventures, even if only in his backyard. While she wouldn’t call Hazel a tomboy, Beastrom said she has always been

more willing to play her twin’s type of games than the older daughters. On the other hand, Ben is more inclined to blur the gender border to play Hazel-type games, and even to sometimes play with the girls at school when they are setting up a ice cream stand or playing some other pretend games. “I don’t know if I can attribute that to him having three sisters” or if it’s somehow part of Ben’s DNA, she said, but he has grown into a sensitive and empathetic boy who shows his emotions, even if it’s hard to express them. He isn’t afraid to use a word like “pretty” to describe a landscape, for example. But he still won’t wear pink. • Lety Liera, director of the Head Start program at the Children’s Learning Center, observed that we as a society tend to treat people the way we see them.

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“You see a child in pink,” she said, “and the way you talk to that child is different than, say, when you see a child in a T-shirt.” But, Liera said, it is not the place of the center or its teachers to judge how or with what a child plays. “On the contrary, you want them to expand,” she said. Sometimes that includes asking children why they chose a certain toy, but that is more about helping them learn to put ideas and feelings into words, Liera said. “There is no judgment,” she said. “We let kids be who ever they are. … We want to be with them on their journey, not be their journey.” And they don’t want to disrupt or interfere with family culture. That takes a lot of communication between parents and the school. “Preschool is very different than school,” she said. “It’s much more intimate, so we need to know about the day before — was it a good night, a bad night, or did grandma just leave town. “One thing we do request is that children don’t bring toys from home,” she said. “We have number of families at CLC, and we want to respect everyone. If I come from family that doesn’t believe in guns, for example, we request that these things not be brought into the center.” One way around the gender-specific toy conundrum, Liera said, is to encourage more opened-ended kinds of play, like pretending and making things. “We bought for the Learning Center these huge blue foam blocks,” she said. “They’re incredibly fun.” Kids build houses or towers and then of course get to knock them down, which is very exciting for boys and girls. And because they are foam they are safe. “Those are the toys that you remember, See toys on 7

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the ones that you engaged in,” she said. “Who cares about the prefab, perfectly dressed toys … plastic things, already designed for a purpose? Open ended play and materials are more challenging, more expressive and, Liera said, more memorable. • Daily has two biological children, one in college, the other 18, as well as four step-children between the ages of 19 and 28. “My firstborn,” his son, “was never exposed to anything particularly violent on TV,” he said, “but when he could pick up a stick he would start swinging it.” Same with his daughter, he said: She was typical in her gender-specific range of behaviors. But we have “masculine” and “feminine” aspects to our personalities, and in a healthy adult they are balanced, he said. A child’s natural state is unencumbered by such polarities, “But that is interfered with through acculturation and environment and what we pick up on what is appropriate,” Daily said. “In terms of human development, especially early human development, from birth to 8 years old, whatever messages we get leave an impact,” he said. “Men don’t want their sons to be gay, so anything that looks effete gets shut down. … In some ways, our intention is sexually labeled. One way we think we control the illusion is not letting boys wear skirts or play with dolls.” But there is a cost to that. Men, Daily said, are shut down emotionally, limited in the ways they are allowed to express themselves. And that’s the way it is supposed to be, according to traditional societal norms. Is it any coincidence that men are more successful at suicide than women? That men die about six years younger than women, usually from heart attacks? That Wyoming, the Cowboy State, has one

of the highest rates of drug and alcohol abuse in the U.S.? Daily doesn’t think so. But, he said, things seem to be changing. He talked about a friend’s 13-year-old daughter who with the help of a group of women climbed the Grand Teton. It was a formative experience for her. “She had parents that I would say were much more conscious and aware,” Daily said, “sensitive to these kinds of things that the kids are exposed to regardless of our ability to control it.” Parents today, especially in Jackson Hole, are generally more open-minded and less bound by tradition. “I don’t know if my dad would have been OK with me wearing a tutu, but I’d be fine with it with my son.” And the media is getting on the wagon, too. Modern Disney films, he said, have much more positive female imagery, but also more males in nontraditional, more nurturing roles. “When kids are exposed to different ways of being, they are going to look in the toy store for something that resonates that way,” Daily said. The more they have in their environment, the wider the spectrum they will have of ways to grow up to be men. Until that cultural shift is complete — until boys have the freedom to express themselves however they need to — men are in danger of becoming “obsolete,” Daily said, of not being able to bring anything to the conversation when it comes to healthy relationships. “I think the question is how to expose kids to a wide variety of choices,” he said. “How do you feed them through the environment, especially media, movies, iPad, books. … There’s plenty of science now that shows video games reinforces this lack of relational capacity. … It’s why men are way more into porn than women — but that’s another story.” Contact Richard Anderson at 7327078, rich@jhnewsandguide.com or @ JHNGme.

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Natalie O’Brien reached the top of the Tetons’ tallest peak with her dad and an expert woman climber. By Allie Gross

atalie O’Brien blew out her 13th-birthday candle atop the summit of the Grand Teton. Well, she tried to. It was pretty windy up there. Natalie has been sport climbing since she was 5 years old but didn’t start taking on peaks until this summer. Her interest in mountaineering was deepened after she went on a Parks and Recreation trip to the Wind River Range, where she tackled Haystack and Steeple. “We were the only girls on the Winds trip,” she said of herself and a friend. “There were no girl guides.” That’s why it was especially meaningful for Natalie to achieve her goal of scaling the tallest peak in the Tetons with climber Julia Heemstra guiding her to the summit. Natalie grew up in Jackson and spent her whole life looking up at the Grand. She knew she wanted to get to the summit since she was little and watched her dad, an avid climber, wake up early on summer mornings to ascend the 13,775foot peak. “I decided I wanted to do that,” she said. Her father, Scott O’Brien, was game. He asked Natalie if she would prefer to be guided to the summit by his guy friends or by her mother, Diana, and Heemstra and Susi Schenk, two of his climbing partners. Ultimately, Natalie said she felt more comfortable bringing along female climbing companions. “It’s just a different environment,” she said. Her dad said, “Diana, Susi and Julia are great female role models to show that the mountains can be a place for women and young girls.” Heemstra said she was honored to be asked. For her it was meaningful to watch the relationship between the father and daughter.

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Natalie O’Brien, right, and her father, Scott O’Brien, take in the views atop the Grand Teton.

“What was the most special component was knowing Scott’s commitment to making sure that Natalie knows that pretty much anything is within the realm of possibility in life,” Heemstra said. “A lot of times when we’re growing up as young women, we’re told certain things are off limits.” She said it’s important for parents to help show daughters that they can accomplish their goals. “What’s unique here is we have a father who’s so determined that his daughter would not only climb the Grand but climb it in a certain manner

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only her climbing performance but also her spirit of determination. “If you don’t really want to do it,” Natalie said, “then there isn’t a point in doing it. You have to have confidence or it makes everything a lot harder.” Once the group reached the summit of the Grand it was time for the birthday celebration. “Natalie didn’t know that I had the little cake up there,” Scott said. “I snuck it out of my pack once we were at the summit, unwrapped it and stuck a candle in it. Then we all sang “Happy Birthday” on top of the Grand.” All the Exum Mountain Guides groups that were at the summit that day pitched in and sang along. Schenk hiked with Scott and Natalie on the way down from the Lower Saddle so that Natalie was able to hike with three women role models during the journey. Heemstra said climbing is unique as a sport because women and men are at the same level of ability, but women are still underrepresented in participation. She thinks women climbers mentoring other women is a way to fix that. “It offers a unique opportunity for women to really explore overcoming fear, cultivating leadership,”she said. “It’s a platform to help me understand my strength in a way I haven’t been able to in other realms of my life.” Natalie said climbing peaks is not different for her just because she’s a girl. “Especially climbing the Grand, there are boys that can’t do it,” she said. “It’s not like something boys can do and girls can’t.” She said she and her friend received special congratulations after summiting the peaks in the Winds on

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Julia Heemstra and Natalie O’Brien pause for a photo on the Belly Roll on the Grand’s Owen-Spalding route.

the Parks and Rec trip, and she didn’t like that people were impressed with her just because she is a girl. “We don’t want to be set apart,” she said. Her dad took a similar view. “It shouldn’t be that big of a deal,” he said. Natalie’s parents said Heemstra and Schenk are good role models because they are well-rounded: They’re not only climbers but also successful women in other aspects of their lives. Natalie is already planning her next climb up the Grand, this time via a more difficult route. “Every time we went into the park after I learned I’d be going up, I’d be so excited when I looked up at it,” Natalie said. “After, I was like, ‘Wow, I went all the way up that.’” Contact Allie Gross at 732-7063, county@jhnewsandguide.com or @ JHNGcounty.

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Founding females Cheers to the independent women of Jackson Hole who ‘didn’t give a damn’ what others thought.

omesteaders and early pioneers of Jackson Hole were incredibly hardy and self-sufficient. The isolation and extreme climate contributed to the town being one of the last settlements during the westward expansion. It did not matter — man, woman or child — all who made it out here were considered capable hands. This remote place was cut off not only from outside supplies and rail transportation but also, for the most part, from opinions of the time regarding gender roles. Women thrived as leaders, government officials, adventurers, authors and artists. They rode horses and repaired fences, hunted and climbed mountains, raised children, kept homes, crafted chairs from elk sheds. Many of them, like Geraldine Lucas, did whatever they damn well pleased, bucking societal trends and striking out on their own. From raising children to cattle, the women of Jackson Hole prided themselves on being self-reliant and “didn’t give a damn” what others, especially those outside this

special valley, thought. At least, that’s what Frances Dunn Judge, granddaughter of Jackson Hole homesteader Lucy Nesbitt Shive, had to say about it. Women made the same claim to the valley as men, as captured by adventure writer Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson, who traveled to Jackson with her husband and wrote about their experience in “A Woman Tenderfoot.” “There is no reason why a woman should be more uncomfortable out in the mountains with the wild West wind for a companion and the big blue sky for a roof, than sitting in a 10-by-12 whitewashed bedroom of the summer hotel variety with the tin roof to keep out what air might be passing,” she wrote. “A possible mosquito or gnat in the mountains is no more irritating than the objectionable personality that is sure to be forced upon you every hour at the summer hotel.” That independent spirit continues to inspire Jackson Hole women today, and for that, we are forever indebted to these founding females. — Morgan Albertson Jaouen, executive director of the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum, and Melissa Cassutt, Jackson Hole Woman Editor

Grace Miller and the all-woman Town Council

Elected to public office, 1920 Jackson Hole was settled much later than other mountain towns, only beginning to take shape in the 1920s. At that time the population of Jackson was 307, and new businesses were popping up to accommodate the growing community as well as visitors on their way to Yellowstone National Park. Still, the town struggled to maintain basic infrastructure. Some prominent townswomen decided they would take matters into their own hands. Grace Miller, Rose Crabtree, Mae Deloney, Genevieve Van Vleck and Faustina Haight ran on a platform promising to collect overdue taxes so that they could clean up Town Square, control free-roaming livestock and dogs, increase access to the cemetery and improve road conditions. They won all five seats, with Grace Miller beating Fred Lovejoy for mayor, 56 to 28. The all-woman Town Council was able to expand sewer and water systems, install electric lights around Town Square, extend phone service, and build drainage for the roads. The council also appointed women to prominent positions: Marta Winger as town clerk, Viola Lunbeck, town treasurer, and Edna Huff, health officer. Jackson could have melted into the landscape, but these women ensured its prosperity well into the future.

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In the early 1920s Jackson had an all-female Town Council. Its members were Town Councilors Mae Deloney and Rose Crabtree, Mayor Grace Miller, and Councilors Faustina Haight and Genevieve Van Vleck.

Geraldine Lucas

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Geraldine Lucas stands outdoors at Lupine Meadows near her homestead circa 1924.

Homesteaded in Jackson Hole, 1913 Born in 1866, Geraldine Lucas grew up in a typical pioneer family in Iowa City, Iowa. When she was young she did what was expected of her: She got married and started a family. However, six months into her pregnancy and marriage she decided to pursue independence and a new adventure. She divorced her husband, reclaimed her maiden name for herself and her son, enrolled at Oberlin College and graduated with an education degree in 1898. She moved to New York City and worked as a music, art and sewing teacher for 24 years. By 1912 she decided to retire from teaching to join her siblings out West in Jackson Hole. After surveying the valley for a year Geraldine filed for a 160-acre homestead parcel north of Moose and directly under the Grand Teton in 1913. She made the necessary improvements to the homestead but did not pursue extensive agriculture on the property. Instead she enjoyed a quiet retirement. Her cabin had no electricity or plumbing. She made her own clothes, and she amassed a library of 1,300 books. On Aug. 2, 1924, 58-year old Geraldine summited the Grand Teton with the assistance of 16-year-old Paul Petzoldt. She was the second recorded woman to make the climb. Geraldine was well-known in the valley for her unusual lifestyle. While many could not tolerate her eccentricities and openly obstinate opinions, those who did accept her knew her to be equally gentle and caring. Her closest friends and family affectionately called her “Aunt Ger.” Geraldine passed away in 1938. Her son interred her cremated ashes in a large boulder on the property, facing the Grand Teton, a peak she always referred to as “her mountain.”

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Geraldine Lucas stands atop the Grand Teton in 1924 with Paul Petzoldt, Ike Powell, Allen Budge and Jack Crawford.

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Pearl Williams Hupp was Jackson’s first female marshal.

Pearl Williams Hupp

Appointed town marshall, 1920 Pearl Williams arrived in Jackson Hole in 1900 at the age of 2 with her parents and five older brothers. The Williams family homesteaded a parcel of land between Wilson and Jackson along today’s Highway 22 to develop their family ranch. Pearl embraced that lifestyle and eventually became a talented horse rider and skilled marksman. When Pearl was old enough she began working as a clerk at the Jackson drugstore. Locally, she was known as the soda squirt. In 1920, at the age of 22, she was called upon by Grace Miller, the newly elected mayor of an allwoman town council, to become Jackson’s first female marshal. Despite her small stature and friendly demeanor, Pearl met with no trouble. At that time the legends of horse thieves and rustlers hiding out in Jackson Hole were long in the past. Instead Pearl spent most of her time dealing with newspaper reporters intrigued by the all-woman government in the Wild West town of Jackson. Pearl eventually retired from her post to return to the drugstore. When interviewed about her departure from public office she said that “the town is now so quiet they don’t need a marshal anymore.” She went on to describe a sensational story about how “she killed three men and buried them herself and that she hasn’t had no trouble with anyone since.” Tired of all the attention, Pearl was clearly giving the reporter a hard time, because in truth her duties typically involved bringing drunken cowboys to jail for the night or keeping stray cattle out of Town Square. Pearl eventually graduated from the University of Wyoming and married John Hupp in 1927. They raised a family in Cut Bank, Montana, and she died in 1994.

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Betty Woolsey was a climber, ski racer and owner of Trail Creek Ranch.

Elizabeth “Betty” Woolsey

Established ski touring ranch, 1946 Betty Woolsey was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1908. Her father was a U.S. Forest Service ranger in the Sandia Mountains and encouraged his four daughters to partake in an active outdoor lifestyle. After Betty graduated from Vassar College in New York, her father gave her a 120-foot climbing rope that she promptly took to New Mexico to climb as many peaks as possible. She eventually made her way to Switzerland to continue her mountaineering adventures. To access the higher peaks Betty taught herself how to ski. Just after her first trial on skis she participated in a race that qualified her to become part of the first U.S. Women’s Olympic ski team. In 1936, Betty competed in her first Olympics, hosted by Germany. She placed seventh overall and shocked the European skiing community. She continued to ski race and earned international recognition. Betty returned to America and the Rocky Mountain West with the start of World War II. The team landed in Sun Valley, Idaho, but Betty eventually settled in Jackson Hole, a quiet mountain valley with a reputation for soft powder snow. Betty bought Trail Creek Ranch in Wilson in 1942. In 1946 she opened a guest ranch that hosted summer and winter dudes, taking advantage of the beautiful trail rides and ski runs down Teton Pass.

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Cultivated literary presence, 1913 Katharine Newlin Burt moved to Jackson Hole in 1913 to join her husband, Struthers Burt, in running the Bar BC Dude Ranch. Inspired by the Western lifestyle, she wrote 23 novels including “The Branding Iron,” “Lost Isobel,” “Snowblind,” “The Red Lady” and “Hidden Creek.”

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Edna Huff was appointed the town health officer in 1920.

Women’s work

Katharine Burt wrote 23 novels.

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The following is a sample of the types of jobs women held in Jackson during the earlier 20th century, as compiled from the 1900, 1910 and 1920 census. While 90 percent of women in these years listed their occupation as “none,” the other 10 percent noted these professions: 1900: schoolteacher, at school (student), housekeeper, sawmill operator and house servant. Five women also listed themselves as farmers seated at the head of the house. 1910: schoolteacher, landlady, cook, laundress, waitress, cook, bank stenographer, department store saleswoman, postmaster, pharmacist, real estate lawyer. Three women also listed themselves as farmers seated at the head of the house. 1920: teacher, sawmill logger, cook, servant, ranch servant, writer, two homesteaders (Geraldine Lucas was one), merchant, housekeeper, general house work. Six women ranchers were listed as head of house (One was Maud Noble.) Note: The 1900s census used the term “farmer” exclusively, but the description started to differentiate between farmer, rancher and homesteader in later years. These occupations also illustrate how Jackson transitioned from an early pioneer town, where most were simply concerned with bare-bones subsistence, to a tourist economy with a bit more diversity in work.

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Cops thrive in male-dominated career

Women in Jackson’s police force and sheriff’s department feel well-respected at work, see advantages to being female. By Emily Mieure

f the almost 60 sworn law enforcement officers, deputies and troopers in Jackson and Teton County, less than 10 percent are female. But the women of the Jackson Police Department and the Teton County Sheriff ’s Office feel right at home alongside their male colleagues. “I feel like I’m their little sister,” sheriff ’s Detective Kirsten Larsen said. “We are here to help and support each other.” Larsen is the only female investigator in the Sheriff ’s Office. “I think it’s to my benefit sometimes because I think women are really great at verbally de-escalating situations in a different way than men are,” Larsen told the News&Guide. “I think that’s a really important component I can bring to the team.” Larsen said that even in a male-dominated career she doesn’t get treated differently in the office because of her sex. But when it comes to street work she faces different challenges than her masculine colleagues. “Every once in a while you’ll get a man who’s disrespectful or catcalling,” Larsen said. “But you just have to get through it and not take it personally.” The 35-year-old detective was used to a mostly male atmosphere when she started at the Teton County Sheriff ’s Office in 2014: She had previously worked as a ranger for Grand Teton National Park. And during her college years at Arizona State University she kept up with the guys while river guiding around Moab, Utah. “I guess I’ve worked in a male-dominated workforce for a while now,” Larsen said. “But I don’t have a problem with it. I don’t even really think about it.” Before moving to Victor, Idaho, she served as a volunteer firefighter. But relocating to Idaho forced her to quit because volunteer firefighters in

Jackson Police Sgt. Michelle Weber plans to run for Teton County sheriff in 2018.

Jackson Hole are required to live in Teton County. “I was living in a garage on High Country Drive, and I just was like, ‘I can’t do this,’” Larsen said. “I just didn’t want to be a law enforcement officer living on an inflatable mattress in a garage.” But firefighting is something Larsen hopes to do again in the future. “I would love that,” she said. “There are new options in Teton Village. We’ll see.” As for her law enforcement career, Larsen is committed to investigations for the next few years. She works everything from theft to sexual assault cases. She hopes to climb the ladder in a few years. “I would eventually like to become a sergeant,” she said. “But I might want to just stay in inves-

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tigations because I really like it.” Women in law enforcement are encouraged just as much as the men to get the most out of their careers. Jackson Police Department Sgt. Michelle Weber, one of only a few sworn females on the force, plans to run for sheriff in 2018. She has received nothing but encouragement from her male coworkers, she said. “I definitely have the department’s support,” Weber said. “I think it’s safe to say it’s 110 percent.” Like Larsen, Weber, 48, was familiar with a male-dominated work environment before she became a police officer. See cops on 13

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Kirsten Larsen is a detective with the Teton County Sheriff’s Office. Having previously worked as a ranger in Grand Teton National Park and a river runner in Moab, Utah, she was used to a mostly male atmosphere.

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She spent 22 years in the U.S. Army Reserve, commanding a mostly male platoon. Many of those years overlapped with her time as a Jackson officer. She retired from the military once she was promoted to sergeant in 2009. “It’s a lot like the military,” Weber said. But after 13 years in law enforcement she is convinced being a woman brings more benefits than drawbacks. “Being a female has its advantages when you’re dealing with difficult people,” Weber said. “It’s all about how you talk to people,” she said. “You have to treat people with respect regardless of who they are or where they came from.” Although she feels respected by her male colleagues she does believe

women have to prove themselves in a different manner. “I do think as a female you have to work a little harder to accomplish the same thing in a male-dominated field,” Weber said. When working the street Weber notices the differences between men and women. “It’s easier for me to give a complete stranger a hug,” she said, laughing. “I can assure you that the guys I work with would never do that.” But Weber thinks “first female sheriff” has a nice ring to it. “I’m different and I know that,” she said. “But that means I bring a different perspective that our community needs.” Contact Emily Mieure at 732-7066, courts@jhnewsandguide.com or @ JHNGcourts.

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This year’s topics focused on building capital, innovations in health care, using drones to deliver necessities to rural communities and improving broadband access and communications. Speakers came from around the country, from Silicon Valley to the University of Wyoming. Newcomb, the conference’s strategic counsel and a board member of the Jackson Hole Technology Partnership, which organized the summit, insisted that he and the other organizers were sensitive to the lack of women. He said that “by pure circumstance, there were no women driving the new tech,” though he also stated there are plenty women innovating and working in the industry. For example, organizers tried to bring Jennifer Doudna, a leader in CRISPR-mediated genome editing, a pioneering technology that may one day edit human DNA to ward off diseases and congenital syndromes. But she wasn’t able to confirm her attendance before the organizer’s deadline, he said. Even so, Doudna would have been one woman among nine keynote speakers and 23 panelists. Newcomb said his organization will ask Doudna to speak at next

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ecked out in pink face paint, yellow armbands, tutus, capes and brightly colored T-shirts, excited girls buzzed around the Center for the Arts. One rushed up to her dad with a smile on her face. “I’m a warrior,” she proclaimed. The girls would soon learn how to create shelters, administer first aid, build a fire and other handy outdoor skills thanks to a SheJumps Wild Skills camp. SheJumps is a nationwide nonprofit with a mission of getting more girls, especially ones from underprivileged communities, into the outdoors. Claire Smallwood, executive director and one of SheJumps’ three co-founders, said the mountains are a great place to build confidence. “We believe mountains are our greatest feature,” Smallwood said. “We’re all humans just trying to cling to rocks and walk up to walk back down again. Mountains don’t care about what side of the bed you got up on. But not everyone can learn in the Tetons.” Lauren Hugo, the regional director for SheJumps in Jackson and Teton Valley, planned the Wild Skills camp from scratch. It was her first event and drew 77 girls enrolled and 34 volunteers. “There’s no better way to learn,” Hugo said.

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Upbeat music blared from speakers as the girls met each other, some for the first time, and ran around to greet old friends. Volunteers, like Marisa Wilson, danced around to get energy up. “We’re here to keep the stoke level high,” she said. Stacey Moyer dropped off her granddaughter, Afton, 8, for the camp. Living in Grand Teton National Park, Moyer said, can be a little isolating. She hoped that Afton would meet other “outdoorsy girls” through the camp and learn outdoor skills. In the car Afton told Moyer that she was “excited to learn how to do something besides technology.” After a warmup of team pyramids, yoga stretches, a snow dance and pep talk, the girls were sent to stations grouped by age. The atmosphere was positive and silly — just how it should be, Smallwood said. That’s why there were girafficorns, combinations of giraffes and unicorns, on everyone’s T-shirts. Some

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volunteers wore unicorn-esque headbands. “It represents having your feet on the ground and your heads in the clouds, above drama,” Smallwood said. “It’s about taking a risk and getting out of your comfort zone, like sticking your neck out.” While it may be a funny mascot, Smallwood said, it’s a “greater representation of what we hope to instill in young women and women alike.” Smallwood said SheJumps’ mission is to make the outdoors a more inviting place. “A lot of of the outdoors is focused on very serious extremes,” she said. “Who can be the first and fastest up the Grand Teton? Who has the best gear? You can have a lot of fun in the outdoors without a lot of gear.” Approaching the outdoors with a prepared but

celebratory attitude can make a big difference. “It’s an inviting atmosphere for a first memory,” Smallwood said. “Light-heartedness is approachable for everyone.” That’s why SheJumps couples the idea of “not taking yourself too seriously” and fun costumes with teaching wilderness skills like the ones girls learned in September, like leave-no-trace habits, navigation and basic first aid. “We can instill a sense of confidence through our accomplishments in the outdoors,” Smallwood said. Making the outdoors a more inviting place includes making sure at risk, underserved girls have access, too. That’s why SheJumps earmarks 50 percent of its See she jumps on 22

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As SheJumps has grown over its almost 10 years, so has its programming. Day camps, adventure outings, mountaineering and more are available in several areas of the country. The Pacific Northwest tends to be a hub of opportunities and pilot programs, like a mountain skills class on Mount Rainier in Washington state. “Day camps are an initial foray,” Smallwood said. “Adventure outings are a great place to apply skills, and, eventually, we hope to host overnights. The goal is to build our curriculum to include them.” Smallwood said SheJumps also hopes to start hosting more hard skills clinics with the “big objective of climbing mountains.” Because it’s growing at such a rate, SheJumps will add more positions in the future to create more structure within the organization. Smallwood hopes more SheJumps opportunities will come to the Jackson area, too. “We want Jackson to be a community where it grows because this is where it all started,” she said. “And there’s such a strong female community here.” Contact Kylie Mohr at 732-7079, schools@jhnewsandguide.com or @ JHNGschools.

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Looking Back on Women 45 years ago ... • Virginia Blair was named Outstanding Business Woman by the Business and Professional Women’s Club. She was assistant vice president of Jackson State Bank, a member of the Chamber of Commerce board of directors and a past member of the Jackson Town Planning Commission. • Claire Lawton was named director of nursing at St. John’s Hospital. • The St. John’s Auxiliary elected Martha Clark president. Other officers were Nita Garaman, Grace Berg, Marriana Batson, Sandy Bommer and Kathy England. • The local chapter of the American Cancer Society received a statewide commendation for raising more than $2,100 in its April drive, exceeding its 1972 goal by more than any other chapter in Wyoming. The honorees were Randii Heide, Mary Stack, Linda Swope and Linda Homar. • Vera Cheney, one of the first members of SPARS, the women’s branch of the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, attended the group’s 30thanniversary event in San Francisco. SPARS stood for Semper Paratus, the Coast Guard motto.

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• Dr. Martha Stearn, a specialist in internal medicine, was named Outstanding Woman of the Year by the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Jackson Hole. Other nominees were Paula Campbell of C-Bar-V, Holly Dill of the Jackson Hole Alliance for Responsible Planning, and Gloria Lorenzo of Jackson State Bank. • Gov. Mike Sullivan appointed Francie Corbett, owner of Contract Design Jackson Hole, to the board of directors of the Wyoming Arts Council. She said Teton County Democratic Party leader Barbie Ahr pushed her to take the po-

sition because there “hasn’t been a person on the board from here in six years.” • President Connie Tafoya presided at the Teton Barrel Racing Association’s 30th-anniversary banquet. Betty Lucas was honored for her 30 years of service to the organization. • Stephanie Stegall became the new Nordic coach for the Jackson Hole Ski Club, succeeding Phil Steele. • Elaine Mercill was elected president of the St. John’s Hospital Board of Trustees.

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• Business and Professional Women of Jackson Hole named Clare Payne Simmons, executive director of the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, the 2002 Woman of the Year. The other nominee was Peggy Smith, director of education at the Community Children’s Project. • After eight years of friendly competition interior designers Pamela Stockton and Sharon Moore joined forces to create Stockton-Moore Interior Design. • Teton Village resident Joyce Jansa Corcoran, a progressive Democrat, was running for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Mike Enzi, a Republican. Nobody else wanted to challenge Enzi, who was firmly seated in a conservative state, and “it just makes me crazy when no one runs,” she said. • The Lady Broncs swim team won its first ever 3A West conference title. Senior Shane Crabtree was named conference Swimmer of the Year. Debbie Iobst won the Assistant Coach of the Year Award, and Jim Jenkins was Coach of the Year. • Local officials included Jeanne Jackson, mayor of Jackson, Charlene Gallina, town planning director, Carol Lewis, president of the St. John’s Medical Center Board of Trustees, and Sandy Oehring, superintendent of schools.

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“A lot of guys look at the class like it’s a touchy-feely class — these are sensitive topics we’re talking about,” Jenkins said. “And that makes it hard for a boy to be comfortable talking about that. But that’s all the more reason why I wish more boys took the class. It’s our society putting males and females into their gender boxes and pressuring them to act a certain way.” There’s value for male students to see him as the class leader, he said. “I like the idea that there’s a male teaching the class, because it shows the kids that hey, it’s OK for a man to talk about this,” he said. “It’s OK for everyone to talk about this, and we should be talking about this even more.” Critical examination of gender roles and stereotypes are an important part of the class curriculum, which includes watching films about the representation of women and masculinity in the media. Shannon Nichols, director of prevention and education at the Community Safety Network, helped plan parts of the curriculum related to stereotypes and sexual violence. She said that discussing gender issues and rigid gender roles is a preventive factor to help end violence. “What CSN wanted was to create people who were advocates for themselves around safety, authenticity and advocacy,” Nichols said, “creating a safe culture at their school that does not allow harassment on campus.” Nichols said that after Jenkins’ class, students felt more comfortable intervening in unsafe situations and holding peers accountable. Jenkins said the most surprising thing in the first two years of the class has been how interested the students are in learning

about privilege. “White males in our society typically have things afforded to them that nobody else does — not white females, not black males, not Latino males,” Jenkins said. “There are times that a woman might be nervous talking down the street at night — even in Jackson — and as a male, especially a white male, I don’t have to worry about it.” For Jenkins the most interesting part of the course is the topic of sexual assault and consent. He worked with Community Safety Network to develop the curriculum. He was inspired to pitch the course to the school district after learning that 1 in 4 women ages 16 to 24 experiences some kind of sexual harassment. “That makes me sick to my stomach,” Jenkins said. “Until we start doing something about this as a society, that number’s not going to change. My daughter’s almost 18 years old. When she was entering that demographic is really when I got passionate about this.” As a final project, students develop a project to spur change in the high school community. One group started a club to sit with kids who are sitting alone at the lunch period. Another made posters for the school bathrooms about victim blaming, sexual assault and consent. A third looked at gender stereotypes in Disney movies. “If I can get a group of kids every single year to think about these issues with a more critical eye and to be able to feel comfortable reaching out and doing something about it, things will change,” Jenkins said. “Even if it’s one pebble in the water and the ripple effect goes across the country.” Contact Allie Gross at 732-7063, county@jhnewsandguide.com or @ JHNGcounty.

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Rigid expectations of male and female roles contribute to domestic violence. By Isa Jones

eff Bucholtz stood on a table in the cafeteria of Jackson Hole Middle School in late September and said, loudly, to a group of Jacksonites, from adults to middle schoolers, that respect is a choice. The director of We End Violence has been coming to Jackson regularly over the past few years to talk to people, particularly teenagers, about issues like community change, respect and personal relationships. “The goal here is to have a conversation about when we can step in and make a difference and change the culture for the better,” Bucholtz said about the September talk. “And the kind of things that get in the way of that and make that hard,” he said. Bucholtz has been brought to Jackson by the Community Safety Network, a nonprofit that works with people in Jackson who have suffered trauma, including domestic and sexual violence. The idea behind his visits, and a lot of what the Safety Network has been doing lately, is to work to prevent, instead of combat, sexual and domestic violence by defying gender norms. “The reason we are talking about gender norms,” said Shannon Nichols, director of prevention and education for the Community Safety Network, “is there are not very many preventive factors for domestic vio-

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During a September presentation at Jackson Hole Middle School, Jeff Bucholtz of We End Violence has participants link arms. The Community Safety Network has brought Bucholtz to Jackson Hole several times to talk to members of the community, particularly teenagers, about ways to increase respect and prevent domestic violence.

lence and dating violence, and gender norms are one of the things that hits all three of those as a preventive factor, as determined by the CDC.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “belief in strict gender roles” is an individual risk factor for intimate partner violence.

Strict gender roles, commonly referred to as gender norms, are the construction, usually socially based, that determines how men and women should behave and what roles they should play in a society or culture. Gender norms, and the consequences of them, apply to men as well as women.

“When you think about it, it’s not that complicated,” Bucholtz said. “In the sense that strict adherence to any ideal tends to make someone less flexible in the face of an ever-changing environment and ever-changing world. It also requires and asks a lot of us to fit into a mold instead of be See safety network on 27

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the best person we can be.” Men are often asked to fit into a gender role more than women, but that mold can then influence what role women fit themselves into. “How many women learn that their value starts with how they look instead of what they say or think or achieve?” Bucholtz asked. “How many young men learn that power and domination and being in charge and to take charge is important or more important than compassion?” “When you talk about how men are supposed to act, women ingest these ideas, too,” Nichols said. “Women have these ideas about the kind of men they are supposed to be with. … We regulate ourselves.” The idea that gender norms are damaging is clear. What the Community Safety Network has learned, and is trying to act on, is that to prevent future violence the organization needs to imprint those ideas onto the community at a young age. “When we’re wanting to talk about crafting a safer community and doing prevention work, we do need to focus on young people, unfortunately,” Nichols said. “With adults so often it’s an aftermath of violence that has already occurred or them having witnessed it.” The Journal of Adolescent Health released a study this month stating that most health behaviors are developed during adolescence. “It Begins at 10: How Gender Expectations Shape Early Adolescence Around the World” detailed a fiveyear study across 15 countries that examined boys and girls from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. A major construction of gender norms was found across the countries and cultures. The study says, “Pubertal girls are the embodiment of sex and sexuality;

around the world pubertal boys are viewed as predators and girls as potential targets and victims.” To put it in simpler terms: “If as a young man I get taught that as a man I’m not supposed to express emotions,” Bucholtz said, “then as an adult I get into a relationship with a partner who’s asking me to communicate how I’m feeling with them. … My tools for that are so underdeveloped because I’ve been told I don’t need to do that. ... That ends up being very destructive and toxic.” The Community Safety Network thinks that having Bucholtz around, and having programs like Act JH, can help prevent that destruction. The Act JH campaign aims to remind people to have the mutual respect that Bucholtz talked about in his presentation and to act to change the community for the better. It seems to be working. “I see a change in our community,” Nichols said. “Our community is unique in that it’s small enough where he is able to blanket the community with this, so most of the young community has seen Jeff present a minimum of once.” Nichols pointed to the health class taught by Jim Jenkins at Jackson Hole High School. She said nearly 95 percent of the students in the class recently had the correct answer to the question “what is consent?” She plans to have Bucholtz come back, and she hopes the repetition will keep fueling change. “It isn’t something you learn once and then, like, OK, you’re done,” Nichols said. “We’ve all had years and years of unhealthy representations of what gender is. In the media, in our homes, by our own actions and beliefs. It is something that needs to be repetitive.”

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erage at ski areas around the country. (It was 57/43 a year ago, according to National Skiing Association demographic data.) “We skew more male than female,” spokeswoman Anna Cole said. “That’s pretty common in the ski industry. “We definitely target females,” she said, “and women’s camps are definitely our premier women’s product.” Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s four-day camps are dubbed “Elevate,” and are scheduled for mid-January and early March 2018. Professional skiers, some of whom are flown in, are the coaches, including Jess McMillan, Kim Havell and Crystal Wright. Last year the resort started a scholarship program to open the Elevate camps to Wyoming women who couldn’t otherwise afford to go. The going rate ranges from $1,250 to $1,850. Two working mothers, one from Casper and another from Jackson Hole, won, and another batch of women will have a chance to vie for the same opportunity this winter. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort is also exploring hosting a camp for teenagers, Cole said, part of the effort to turn the next generation of women onto snow sports. Although Jackson Hole’s marketing campaigns aren’t gender exclusive, an ad that’s live right now features a young girl standing at the top of a steep run. The text says: “I think I can. I know I can.” “I remember when I was that young girl,” Cole said, “and I stuck with the sport.” Contact Mike Koshmrl at 732-7067, env@jhnewsandguide.com or @ JHNGenviro.

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