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Juggling it all means balls drop Parents talk about the things they voluntarily, inadvertently skip.

By Johanna Love

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n the mind of every successful woman there is some angst over the myth of having it all.

Juggling a high-profile career and a family means that some balls are going to be dropped. That’s just how it is.

Women either plan to drop a certain ball or watch it as it goes skittering down the hall past globs of cat hair.

They accept it and keep moving.

On a breezy Sunday in September, Natalia Duncan Macker took a few minutes to talk about the dance her family performs from their home base, a rustic cabin perched above the Hoback River.

“I wanna watch ‘Paw Patrol’!” 2-yearold Alisdair demanded several times as Macker and her husband, Thomas, tried to gather their thoughts. They eventually capitulated, turning the volume down on the device, which in turn kept the volume down on the child.

“We’re both active in our jobs we get paid for and pursuing things we are passionate about outside of that,” Macker said.

Each holds roughly three jobs. Plus parenting.

Natalia Macker works as artistic director for the nonprofit Off Square Theatre Company. She owns a small consulting business for film and theater production. She serves on the Teton County Board of Commissioners. Oh, and now she’s running for re-election.

Thomas Macker works for the Art Association of Jackson Hole, heading its photography department and coordinating special projects. He is an art consultant at Altamira Fine Art. And he squeezes in studio time as a new media

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Mariam Diehl sees off her son Quinlan, 8, to school near their home in Hoback. Under a full-length down coat she can still be wearing her PJs at 7:35 a.m. and no one is the wiser.

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Then there’s Alisdair. He likes trucks.

He’s full-time at day care, terrorizing the family’s cats and creating dirty laundry.

Parenting and housework are fairly evenly shared.

“Pretty much everything we do around here we both do,” Natalia Macker said, “from diapers and litter boxes to washing dishes.”

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In the past as work for one partner has peaked the other one has filled in the gaps at home. Right now they’re both extraordinarily busy. Each Sunday evening is full of negotiation. Who is taking Alisdair to child care? Who will pick him up? Who will watch him in the evening?

Those are the basics. Other questions are answered on the fly: Who will cook?

Will we be passing like sleep-deprived zombies in the hallway and shoveling in takeout food or actually sitting down to a homemade meal together?

“Unfortunately, it means that full family together time falls by the wayside in the busy time,” Natalia Macker said. “And we don’t hang with our friends enough.”

Parenting a young child takes time that Thomas Macker was used to having for himself. He doesn’t like feeling disheveled.

“You try to be prompt and make the meetings, but you sometimes you forget that you have to get him fed and lunch packed,” he said, “and I have to get myself dressed, you don’t have any cologne on, don’t have your shirt tucked in, you have smudges on your pants. You’re always thinking in the pre-life of the child, how things worked so much more smoothly.”

Natalia agreed.

“You’re waiting for things to get back to normal,” she said, “and you realize it’s the new normal.”

Natalia is the more organized parent.

“The chaos that can be managed, I try to manage,” she said, “because there’s so much that can’t be.”

But all the things they’d like to accomplish just don’t fit in a day. They will purchase firewood this year instead of chopping it. They hire a housekeeper once every couple of weeks to surface clean, and the house is still far from tidy. Lines have to be drawn.

“We try to give ourselves permission not to feel guilty about doing what we need to do,” Natalia said. “It means deciding it’s OK for your house to be messy. We used to cook a lot more. Now it’s quesadillas or pizza or eating out.”

When Alisdair was younger his parents were more idealistic. They cooked from an organic nutritional baby book.

They went to swim classes with him.

Soon they realized all that focus meant little time for themselves and their careers, and they decided to refocus.

“We’re still very much involved and thoughtful and loving,” Thomas said, “but maybe we’re not feeling so dogmatic about how we do that.”

It’s a style of parenting that Natalia grew up with.

“Us having involved, fulfilled lives is better,” she said. “Everything isn’t centered around him all the time.”

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Heemstra sets Teton triathlon records

Jackson athlete completed Picnic and Moranic in a four-week span, unsupported.

By Clark Forster

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he Picnic has become pretty popular since mountaineer David Gonzales contrived the mountain triathlon in 2012. And with popularity comes records.

This summer two records went down. And they were both accomplished by the same woman.

At 4:24 a.m. on July 28, Julia Heemstra set out to tackle the bike ride from Town Square to Jenny Lake, the swim across Jenny and the climb to the top of the Grand Teton, the three legs of the Picnic. She then did it in reverse and returned to a welcome party of a dozen friends waiting for her at Town Square.

“It was pretty emotional for me to come back after 14 hours of being out there — on my own and having all these people I really love present for that,” said Heemstra, 42. “So many of them had encouraged me along the way, and each person played an important role in encouraging me in the adventure. It was really incredible to share that moment with them.”

Heemstra completed the feat in 14 hours and 47 minutes. She did it unsupported. That means she took all

Heemstra has biked, swum and climbed the Picnic and the Moranic, two Teton sports challenges.

of her shoes, food, wet suit, clothes and water with her. All of which were thrown on top of a boogie board that she dragged across Jenny Lake.

Heemstra became the first woman to complete the Picnic unsupported.

Less than 36 hours later, she wanted more.

“The night after I finished the Picnic I knew I wanted to do the Moranic, and I hadn’t anticipated it at all,” Heemstra said. “I felt like I finished the Picnic and I Julie Heemstra had more in the tank.”

WOMAN TRIATHLETE The Moranic is the same thing as the Picnic, just harder. The bike ride begins at Town Square, then triathletes have to hike 1.5 miles to Leigh Lake before swimming 1.6 miles and climbing the secluded 12,605-foot Mount Moran.

Heemstra chose to do the Moranic unsupported as well. And, although she wasn’t gunning for a specific time, she broke her friend Danny Beasse’s

“I felt like l finished the Picnic and I had more in the tank.”

record of 17 hours and 30 minutes.

Heemstra completed her trip in 16 hours and 13 minutes.

Heemstra said she just wanted to finish. But that her strategy helped her nab the record.

“It was really important for me to do each leg as fast as possible,” she said. “I knew that the longer I was out there the more tired I would become.”

She had decided to do the Picnic in April and focused primarily on her climbing and swimming. At the time she had no intention to ever do the Moranic. She had a bad history with the mountain and the lake that sits on Moran’s southeastern edge.

She wanted no part in free soloing a mountain that had given her fits and was fearful of swimming across a lake that nearly took her life.

“I had a really close call on Leigh Lake two springs ago,” Heemstra said. “I fell through the ice when I was returning from a ski tour and came really close to drowning. There was a mental hurdle that I had to overcome with Leigh Lake because I had that close call there.”

Heemstra also said she spent a day and a half without water or food on Mount Moran while attempting a 40-pitch climb in the early stages of

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her climbing career. She said the lessons she learned on Moran taught her a lot.

“Those experiences really helped shape why I prepare at such a high level for other adventures,” she said.

Heemstra’s prep work for the Picnic and Moranic included climbing each mountain to make sure she had the route dialed in. She wanted to be as confident as possible when the rope was off and consequences were the highest.

Her other prep work included swims across Leigh Lake and discussions with Beasse, which even included an hour of beta research on Google Earth.

Heemstra went on both missions unsupported, by herself, but she wasn’t alone. She took her former partner Steve Romeo’s ashes with her on both trips. Ski mountaineer Romeo died in an avalanche in March 2012.

Heemstra spread Romeo’s ashes at the top of the Grand, then again 200 feet below Moran’s summit on her descent.

“It was pretty powerful to share that experience with him,” Heemstra said.

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re you on a diet? How many times did you change outfits before you left your house? Do you say mean things do yourself in the mirror?

Don’t be hating.

Learning to love your body and be gentle with yourself might just be one of the hardest things anyone can do, but experts say it’s the most rewarding.

“We only get one life,” said Jordan McCoy, a dietitian and educator with the University of Wyoming Extension Office. “You want to be able to live happy and enjoy your life.”

Exercising in a sparse Crossfit gym rather than in front of a mirror has helped McCoy feel better in her skin, she said.

“It’s about how strong you are,” McCoy said, “and not what you look like.”

Body image is “a cultural disorder at this point,” said dietitian Mary Howley Ryan of Beyond Broccoli.

Even in a mountain town where most people look fit and healthy, a lot of self-loathing lies beneath the surface. In addition to people suffering eating disorders like bulimia, anorexia and bingeeating, others experience the same feelings to a lesser degree and over-exercise to compensate.

Growing up, Krista Gorrell was a ballet dancer who was always conscious of her weight and shape in front of mirrors in her leotard and tights. Decades later, she is an artist, clothing designer and owner of Teton Tailoring and Haberdashery who is more realistic about her anatomy.

“I had my body ripped apart enough as a child and a teenager that I don’t need to do it as an adult,” Gorrell said. “I

am just too bloody tired to deal with it.”

Finding clothes that fit and flatter help her feel better about her body.

She advises that people buy clothes on the loose side and have them altered if necessary.

“We can take little tweaks here and there that take a garment from fitting so-so to top-notch,” Gorrell said. “If you’re not tugging and pulling at your clothing all day, you’re going to feel better about how you look.”

Ryan said she tries to help her clients “without pretending this stuff is easy,” since she also has battled negative thoughts.

So what’s the answer?

Focus on feeling strong and healthy instead of thin. Focus on a body part you do like. Look in the mirror and tell yourself that you’re beautiful, that you’re a good person.

Katie Shackelford Holmes takes baby steps toward body love.

“Small daily affirmations are a good place to start,” Holmes said. “I am trying to love me — all of me. And most days if I start with a smile and a gentle hug from myself I win the battle of being me over the quest of perfection.”

There’s more at stake than just your own self-esteem. Think about the next generation who might overhear and think self-loathing is normal.

When talking to or around young girls, McCoy advising against using the F-word — no, not the expletive, she means the word that’s even more damaging to girls: fat — or making other body-shaming comments.

“I would really make sure I didn’t say horrible things about my body in front of her,” McCoy said. “Those little things, she’ll catch onto them. By giving our girls a healthy body image, you help them be successful in whatever they do.”

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yoming has a long history of electing women to political office.

It was the first territory to give women the right to vote in 1869. Residents in 1925 elected the nation’s first female governor, Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross. Jackson voters selected one of the country’s first all-female town councils in 1920.

That tradition continued through the mid-1980s when a quarter of the Wyoming Legislature was female.

However, as women fought for and won greater equality throughout the country during the ’90s and 2000s, Wyoming has elected fewer of them to political office.

Today just 13 percent of the state Legislature is female, with only one female state senator, Bernadine Craft, and 11 female members of the state House of Representatives. Five are Democrats.

According to the National Conference of Legislatures, 12 female state legislators ranks as the lowest total of any state in the union.

The Wyoming Women’s Legislative Caucus, a bipartisan group founded in 2006 by Rep. Rosie Berger, is attempting to combat that trend by promoting women to run for office.

“I think it’s important for young women to be ambitious and run for office if they think they have something to give,” said Mary Throne, the House minority floor leader and co-chair of the Wyoming Women’s Legislative Caucus along with Rep. Ruth Ann Petroff. “Politics works best when different people are represented and have different life experiences. If there were more [women], gender wouldn’t matter. When there are just a few of you, your differences stand out.”

As part of the campaign the Wyoming Legislative Caucus created Leap into Leadership in conjunction with the Equipoise Fund, a women’s advocacy organization. It provides candidate development training, like learning to craft a stump search, opportunities to network with other politically minded women who can help during campaigns and speakers targeted for Wyoming women seeking to cultivate and expand their leadership skills and opportunities.

Each year Leap into Leadership hosts an event in Cheyenne during the legislative session at the state House but also holds smaller conferences throughout the state to reach as many

young women as possible.

“It varies from year to year,” said Kristen Walker, coordinator for Leap into Leadership, “but we generally always have programs that speak to the nuts and bolts of running a campaign, the barriers women tend to face in terms of holding any leadership position — not just public office — and how we can overcome some of these obstacles both as individuals and as a society.”

Walker said roughly 100 participants attend the workshop, and 200 to 250 attend that legislative dinner, which features a different keynote speaker every year. Last year featured award-winning journalist and author Brigid Schulte.

Leap into Leadership alumnae serve on Wyoming school boards, city councils, county commissions, the state Legislature, and within the State Auditor and Superintendent of Public Instruction offices. Locally, Commissioner Natalia D. Macker and Rep. Petroff are both alums. Jackson Mayor Sara Flitner, Councilwoman Hailey Morton-Levinson, Commissioners Barbara Allen and Smokey Rhea have all supported and participated in Leap into Leadership events after being elected.

In addition, former county commissioner Melissa Turley ran the caucus and Leap into Leadership until 2015.

“Women who decide to run are asked to do so, often more than once,” Turley said, referring to the work Leap into Leadership does to inspire women to run for office. “More run for local offices, unfortunately we’ve not had the same success with state offices.”

That lack of success in attaining state office and eventually moving to the national stage is largely attributed to family pressures. The legislative session in Wyoming takes place during the winter, in the height of the school year, making travel to and from Cheyenne difficult.

Also, due to the citizen legislature in Wyoming, legislators are not well paid and aren’t provided health insurance.

Taking three months off from their jobs, if it is even allowed, further discourages women from running.

“That’s absolutely the biggest deterrent to me going to the state level,” council member and Vice Mayor Hailey Morton Levinson said. “Even though my family is super supportive and my husband could be the main caregiver, I would really have to consider if I could be away from my kid that long.

“Also the state legislators get paid a really minimal amount and there is no health care involved. So being a mom and having a real job, because you can’t live on your two months in Cheyenne, but you having to have a flexible enough job to where you can leave for two months, makes it really not conducive for women and young people [to run for office]. If you’re an older, retired man See POLITICS on 8

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— which means that the Diehl household suffers in the work-life balance department. Even though Quinlan is 8 and pretty self-sufficient, an undercurrent of anxiety courses through their lives.

“I feel like I live in a constant state of frenzy,” Mariam Diehl said. “What have I forgotten? Both of us run that way. It feels like it’s a constant.”

Scott’s desk is covered in sticky notes: “If I don’t write it down, something gets dropped.” He has clients calling at 8 a.m. on Sundays.

Mariam firmed up baby-sitters in June for her whole summer’s gallery receptions. Of course, some sitters canceled last minute anyway. She gets home at night and is still texting clients or an art shipper on the coast.

Because Scott leaves the house early, Mariam almost always has to get Quinlan to the bus at 7:35 a.m., regardless of whether she was up late working. Her full-length down coat sometimes hides her PJs at the bus stop.

“It makes it look as if I’ve really got it pulled together,” she said.

Owning their own businesses means their schedules can be more flexible when Quinlan needs picking up or has a special event. But the trade-off is the added responsibility and extra hours of being the boss.

At home a housekeeper does the deep cleaning: toilets, showers, changing sheets. Scott maintains their home and yard. Yet there still aren’t enough hours in the day for Mariam to fit in fitness.

“I have yet to figure out how to get him fed, dressed and to the bus stop, run my business and go the gym and exercise,” she said. “And on the weekend if I have some spare time, I’d rather be outside or on a horse.”

They’re cognizant of the idea that if one child is difficult to schedule around, more would be a circus.

It seems like the only way to stop the madness is to leave town. They

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it’s a lot easier.”

Natalia D. Macker, a county commissioner and state legislative candidate in 2014, noted that if some changes were made at the state level more women would consider running.

“I would agree with all of those hurdles ... but I also think many of them are practical things that we could choose to do something about,” Macker said.

“I don’t think we would be doing those things just to help women, I think it would just make the legislature better for the public.”

Practical ideas include providing health care, child care and adjusting a antiquated schedule that was formed to allow ranchers time to work during the warmer months.

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find solace in off-season vacations, both together and separately. This month Mariam escaped to France with her mother. When she gets back it’ll be time for Scott’s annual steelhead fishing trip.

In November they’ll take a family trip.

Just over a year ago Melissa Turley made the difficult decision to leave the Teton County Board of Commissioners in the middle of a term. There were many reasons she left politics, but prioritizing her family was a big part of it.

She and husband Chris Stump are parents of 7-year-old George.

“Being an elected official means a lot of nights and weekends, on call,” Turley said. “It did take a toll on my family.”

She has a supportive partner: Stump does dishes, laundry, and most of the child drop-off and pickup duty. He grocery shops, cooks and scrubs the bathtub.

Fitting in exercise is so important to Turley’s physical and mental health that she has gotten creative about how to squeeze it in, often early in the morning. In summer she tries to cycle to her job as executive director of the Teton Village Association. It doubles her commute time but makes her happier. She has worked as an instructor at Revolution Indoor Cycling as a way to get her aerobic workout in and make money.

“It’s easy to hit snooze on the alarm if there aren’t people there waiting for you to unlock the door,” she said.

Since work, sleep and time with her family take the majority of her hours, Turley finds that cooking meals from scratch, time with her friends and time alone are the things she sacrifices. She tries to remind herself that these years will pass and her hours will once again be her own.

“This time with George is so precious, I don’t want to miss too much of it,” Turley said. “I had many good years of riding my mountain bike as much as I wanted. I’ll have those again when George is 15 and doesn’t want to hang out with me.”

Contact Johanna Love at 732-7071 or features@jhnewsandguide.com. people there who recognize they need to be made,” Macker said. “But the people who recognize they need to be made can’t get there.

“It’s not necessarily the most urgent thing that our state is dealing with right now, and that’s OK, but improving diversity in every way will lead to a more effective governing body no matter at the local or state level.”

While the hurdles are certainly a factor for women weighing the option of running for political office, it can be done and is often done successfully.

Both Throne and Berger are in leadership positions.

“We need to stop assuming women can’t do these things because we have children,” Throne said. “I’m not saying it’s easy, but there are plenty of young women whose mothers were in the legislature when they were growing up.”

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ifteen years ago, when Tracy Stephens first took a job at the local Wyoming Game and Fish Department office, she got some strange looks when she’d meet colleagues or people for the first time in the field.

Quickly, she recalled, those looks transitioned to warm greetings.

Stephens came in replacing a male fisheries biologist, as did her counterpart, Diana Miller. Regional fisheries supervisor Rob Gipson is now at the helm of the all-female group, and a female aquatic habitat biologist, Anna Senecal, works just down the hall.

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Obviously, on the outerwear and clothing side of skiin and snowboarding there are significant differences in and sizing. But unlike hard goods’ slow evolution, hig quality women’s outerwear has been available for year Gore-Tex, three-layer technology, targeting insulati and new features are available, along with a growin variety of colors and fits — less of the bright and tigh “Fashion is fashion, but from a function standpoi the cut of the jacket matters,” said Larry Hartenstei general manager at Jackson Hole Sports in Teton Villag More companies are making bibs for women — whi may be a hassle in the bathroom but are a godsend in t backcountry — with flexible bib fronts or straps that a farther to the side to accommodate a woman’s anatomy

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hat makes women’s specific gear so special?” “Do I really need to buy the women’s backpack?” “Is there even a difference?”

There is no easy answer to those questions. In the ski and snowboard world, where women are still the minority, it can be hard to find your way through the piles of gear. Some companies make products specifically for women, some don’t and others market gear as unisex.

But what does it all mean? A lot of research has been compiled by companies to make products to work with the female anatomy — hip angle, face

Ski boots Salomon Quest Pro 110 W $599

Skis Sego Ski Co. Up Pro $799 “Pink it and shrink it” is not a good thing. That’s when companies take a men’s ski, make it smaller and slap a bright topsheet on it, doing nothing with its technology to make it advantageous for women. “We don’t like to see that,” said Larry Hartenstein, general manager at Jackson Hole Sports in Teton Village. “We want to see specific items that are designed for women.” In recent years companies have hired engineers to design highquality skis for women. The technology has grown, but a lot of companies still use lighter-weight woods and tighter side cuts and make skis generally lighter and softer. But some smaller brands like Sego Ski Co. in Victor, Idaho, which pro skier Lynsey Dyer works with, are building hard-charging women’s planks in a variety of sizes.

The difference in ski boots is dramatic when it comes to sex. A woman’s calf position is generally lower, so women’s boots have a lower cuff. Women’s boots also tend to be a bit warmer, with more insulation, said Larry Hartenstein, general manager at Jackson Hole Sports in Teton Village. A lot of boot manufacturers are starting to make women’s boots with a higher flex number — more advantageous to advanced skiers. Unless you’re a racer, boots are all about comfort and performance, not necessarily a skintight fit. Whether it’s a plush liner or a heat-moldable shell, having a comfortable boot will keep you on the slopes longer. But that’s not saying women are more prone to complain about sore feet. “Anyone who can have a child can deal with a lot more pain than I can,” Hartenstein said.

Snowboard Jones Solution $899 Unlike skiers, most snowboarders will use a women’s snowboard. Most snowboard companies use a different type of wood for a different weight in the boards, said Jessica Drozd, who sells gear at Hole in the Wall in Teton Village. The different, usually lighter, weight makes the board easier to pop. “Women think you have to keep up with men by getting a bigger board, but I think it’s about body type and what’s right for you,” Drozd said. And instead of just a single board for women, snowboard companies like Jones have started to make a variety of boards from a groomer cruiser to a powder slasher and now even a women’s specific split board.

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While a lot of women still buy men’s equipment, and with some equipment it doesn’t matter, it’s worth it to look into what women’s offerings are out there. In fact, according to Snowsports Industries America, sales of womenspecific products were up 4 percent in dollars sold, and women’s AT/ Randonee equipment sales increased 87 percent overall.

These pages highlight some of the latest gear for skiers and snowboarders, why it’s different and what you should be looking at the shops.

Goggles Smith I/O Women’s $210 depending on lens color Goggles, for the most part, are interchangeable between sexes. Goggles with smaller frames will fit better on women with smaller faces. Smith Optics makes a variety of goggles for women with small faces, a larger frame, and there’s even an Asian fit to accommodate facial skeletal differences. One of Smith’s most popular sellers, the I/O series, is the same for both sexes but is separated by colors in the market. So pick your favorite, men or women’s, unless you have a particularly small face.

Snowboard boot Burton Supreme $449 A women’s snowboard boot has a lower cuff and sometimes a bit more insulation. Drozd recommends getting a women-specific boot to get the tightest and most secure fit.

Contact Erika Dahlby at 732-5909 or features2@jhnewsandguide.com.

Ski binding Tyrolia Attack 12 $250 Ski bindings are pretty straightforward, and most companies already offer smaller release force settings (DIN) for lighter-weight people. The Tyrolia Attack 12, pictured, is marketed as a women’s binding on half the online sites, while others call it unisex and the Tyrolia website doesn’t list any gender. Pick your binding by your ability and weight, talk to a shop and then decide what color you want.

Backpacks Dakine Heli Pro 20L $90 While backpacks may look the same, some companies work hard to make sure the pack will fit perfectly. Dakine has a women’s-specific fit, with a sternum strap that sits higher on the chest and a back panel length that has been shortened to match a woman’s torso.

Dakine’s women’s packs also have a canted angle of the hip belt to match narrower waists and wider hips. For those of you with a shorter torso, wider hips or a bigger chest, it might be worth checking out women’s packs.

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Coffee biz brews equal opportunity Snake River Roasting gets beans from co-ops that aid women.

By Erika Dahlby

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hen representatives from Organic Products Trading Company visited a coffee co-op in Mexico, they asked the members what the community needed.

The men wanted new equipment and things related to coffee production, said Snake River Roasting founder Ruth Ann Petroff.

But during a dinner later in the evening the women took the representatives aside, Petroff said, and explained what they thought the priorities should be: a schoolhouse and teachers for the community’s children.

That’s where the Cafe Femenino Foundation came in. Created by the Washington-based Organic Products Trading Company in 2004, the foundation helps women and their families in coffee-producing communities. The program has not only funded community gardens, health programs, water projects and educational systems but also elevated the value of women in those communities.

Snake River Roasting, a Jackson Hole company in business since 2007, discovered Cafe Femenino coffee a year and a half ago and began sourcing about a third of its beans from co-ops that champion women. Petroff met some of the foundation’s representatives and female producers.

“We have things so differently than they do, we have so many more opportunities,” Petroff said. “Meeting them was

It’s more than

reaching her goals.

sort of a heartwarming moment. You’re looking at them as individual people whose lives are being improved by some pretty small choices that we’re making.”

The coffee comes at a premium of about 5 percent, but it’s a price Petroff is happy to pay.

In the past about 90 to 95 percent of coffee co-ops were men, and women were not represented equally in the chain. Women would normally help pick the coffee but were never responsible for the transportation or sale of beans.

Now, with the help of the foundation, women are involved more than ever. To participate in the program they must be landowners and be equally involved in all aspects of coffee production. It doesn’t have to be a lot of land: Most coffee farms are tiny places, Petroff said, and some women grow beans in gardens near their homes.

In the Sumatra co-op, where Snake River Roasting buys a large amount of beans, there are 494 females members, and women hold all leadership positions.

“It’s just dramatically changed their culture,” Petroff said.

The women in Sumatra built a community center with the funds from the foundation.

“It’s the first time that women have had a place where they can come out and get together,” Petroff said.

A lot of things are sold as women’s coffee, Petroff said. Some people claim to sell coffee picked by women, saying they will show you pictures of the women. Cafe Femenino is different. It really is the first one that has been focused on empowering women through its programs, Petroff said.

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“We bring people in that fit in well and not necessarily for a specific job,” Continued from 12 Petroff said, “and then we figure out making sure that the lots of coffee how they fit in. Everybody brings in that you’re buying actually come from their own talents, so it’s worked for us women and that there’s a direct con- at this small scale.” nection between the premium and the That’s not to say she would never projects,” she said. hire a man.

Petroff said she is able to pick a “I’m just as against that philosocountry to get beans from and then phy,” Petroff said. which project to support.

Snake River Roasting is classified “Looking at those individual proj- as a micro-roaster, meaning it producects is really cool, too,” she said, “be- es less than 100,000 pounds a year. cause then it seems like a tangible The company is close to bumping up thing instead of this sort of nebulous against that in coming years.

“There’s a sweet spot for us to hit,” idea.”

Petroff can Petroff said, “and see the progress we’re not looking of the project to be a big comthrough updates pany.” on the website Once you get and communito a certain size, cation from the it’s hard to get the communities. same high quality Snake River on a larger scale.

Roasting uses As of now, Snake Cafe Femenino River Roasting coffee from Peru, roasts beans sev— Ruth Ann Petroff en days a week on Guatemala and FOUNDER, SNAKE RIVER ROASTING a small roaster.

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The business uses Staying small nine types of reguis advantageous lar beans, including the Cafe Femenino, for the company. and two styles of decaf beans.

Staffers are able to roast to order, The Vertical Harvest and Nomadic hand-deliver the coffee and conduct Bean blends are the only ones that use intensive training with suppliers. solely blends of Cafe Femenino beans. When a new restaurant or shop starts Snake River Roasting also offers sin- carrying Snake River Roasting, its gle-origin coffees, Sumatran and Gua- employees get in-depth training, and temalan, in stores. the women help set up and troubleThe coffee beans the company uses shoot equipment later on. aren’t the only thing that’s produced Petroff said she would love to insolely by women, though. Two years corporate more Cafe Femenino beans ago, by chance, there seemed to be into the company, but the introduction only women working at Snake River of new beans is a lengthy process. And Roasting. It’s not something that was to stay small it’s good to not get overly done consciously, Petroff said, but just complicated. happened. There is still a staff of six To learn more visit CoffeeCan.org or women at the company.

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Everyone who works there had been a barista for a long time, and has a pas- Contact Erika Dahlby at 732-5909 or sion for coffee. features2@jhnewsandguide.com.

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Studio owners help clients get strong

Trainers prepare people for outdoor pursuits and injury prevention.

By Kylie Mohr

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here’s no doubt about it: Jackson is a fit community. Walk around in the fall and you’ll see men and women in running gear or yoga clothes casually talking about how they just finished a summit or a tough bike ride. Everyone has that friend who promises a mellow hike that’s more like a marathon straight up a mountain.

Some women are such fitness ambassadors that they opened up shop, making conditioning their business.

Julie Guttormson started teaching group fitness classes — step aerobics — when she was 17.

“I was hard core,” she said. “And by hard core I mean really into it. There has to be a sense of entertainment.”

Guttormson’s motivation to devote herself full time to fitness and open up her own studio came in the aftermath of having a blood clot in her brain that caused a stroke. She was just 31 at the time.

“It changed everything,” she said.

‘Sweat is magic’ Guttormson decided to take her stroke by the horns: She quit her job and threw herself into training for a triathlon after being given the goahead by a neurologist.

“It was a lot of change,” Guttormson said. “But I knew I was lucky.”

This is Guttormson’s 10th anniversary of battling her stroke, and she’s coming up on five years of founding Revolution Indoor Cycling, a studio that offers cycling and rowing classes with an emphasis on quality, efficient movements.

“I have gotten to know and help so many people,” she said. “From the physical to the emotional, sweat is magic.”

Guttormson believes that fitness should be accessible for everyone, and said she has everyone from professional athletes to 85-year-olds in her studio. “I love that there is no ‘type’ of person who

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Ownership aside, the classes and training sessions bring in plenty of men.

walks in our doors,” she said. “We work on efficiency and respect that not every day can be a ‘big’ day.”

“It’s authentic cycling,” Guttormson said. “I really believe in classes for the masses, and I try to stay authentic.

“Sometimes you’ll lose people to a trend, but they always come back if they love what you do.”

Loving the job Guttormson loves what she does.

“Nobody is in the business to make money,” she said. “But I believe in the fun aspect. I’m asking people to go nowhere, so it has to be fun. At the end of the day I think we do pretty well. I truly love what I do, and there honestly hasn’t been a single day I question my decision to open my doors.”

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the rehabilitation side of sports isn’t focused on as much as it should be.

“I’m passionate about strengthening for sports,” she said, “and I loved helping others see results. It’s really important to me to make sure postures are taught properly.”

After breaking her leg on a freeskiing tour and spending many years as a personal trainer, Wright said, this community, her clients and training helped her heal.

Having an injury prevention center was a dream for her.

“Everyone in college kind of made fun of me,” Wright said.

But look at her now. No one’s laughing.

In fact, they’re intimidated.

“I try to not make it intimidating,” she said.

Some women are intimidated by the intense atmosphere of the gym and tell Wright they’re scared of her. Others think that by training at her gym they’ll get “huge.” Some guys say they don’t want to train with a female.

Wright said she’s trying to break down the stereotypes surrounding strength training, one client at a time.

Her classes are pretty evenly split between men and women.

“What’s wrong with being strong?” she asked. “Strong is beautiful. It’s so rewarding to see women become strong, both physically and mentally.”

Wright Training, she said, is individualized to fitness goals, but it all comes back around to getting outside and being in the best possible shape for the activities people love.

“I strive to be the best coach possible,” Wright said. “I learn every day from clients because every body is different.”

Wright said athletes are often the most challenging to train.

“They’re the hardest on themselves, and they like to see themselves succeeding,” she said. “But everyone has injuries, and everyone is imbalanced in some way or another.

I want to help them build strength where they’re weak.”

She gave climbers as an example.

“Climbers need a strong core,” she said. “But they get it in here, not out there.”

At another business in town, the Core Changes with Carey studio, a chalkboard lists names of regulars — people who have been coming in to get their sweat on for 50, 75, 100 or more classes.

“It feels like home,” said Carey Clark, owner and founder of Core Changes with Carey. “Energy is contagious, and forming friendships is a big part of what we do here.”

Clark taught fitness classes for many years before deciding to strike out on her own. Her first studio was in a tiny corner office space next to Lucky’s Market, where she offered

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classes for free — for three weeks — to drum up business. Now she’s on the south end of town and is known for motivating, fun workouts that involve the TRX suspension trainer, which leverages gravity and your body weight to perform exercises.

Clark said she never planned to own her own studio.

“It was a leap of faith,” she said.

“You have to do what you love,” Clark said. “And I really brought an all-body workout to Jackson. Anybody can do it. I have 75-year-olds in some of my classes.”

Clark firmly believes body weight workouts are where fitness is going.

“You can literally do it anywhere,” she said, talking about how TRX equipment can be set up over a door or rafters while traveling on business, on vacation, you name it.

Balance is a major part of Clark’s fitness philosophy.

“Every aspect is important. Nutrition is important, mindfulness is important, you name it,” Clark said.

Clark is high-energy and seems to always be smiling. Maybe that’s why people come into Core Changes and leave with a completely different attitude.

“I do see a difference between when people enter my studio and when they leave,” Clark said. “But when people see and feel a benefit, that’s what keeps them coming back.”

Clark recognizes that people come into the studio for a functional purpose — getting outside. Like Guttormson and Wright, Clark noted that the gym ramps up in activity during the fall as skiers and snowboarders prepare for winter.

“People live in this town for a reason,” Clark said. “They’re not just working out to work out.”

No matter the season, Clark said women in this community inspire one another.

“Women here are badass,” she said.

“They’re competitive, but they’re humble. To be honest, it’s pretty inspiring.”

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A habit of saving creates freedom Financial advisor says socking away money now will allow more choices in the future.

level of success when people have money automatically taken out of checking and put into a long-term savings account and gradually bump it up,” McDermott said.

“I have about a dozen women 24 to 30, not married, coming to me with

By Jennifer Dorsey zero assets and start saving $100 or $200 a month,” he said. “They’re udgets. Saving. Discipline. taking that first step to empowering Personal finance can sound themselves.” kind of dreary.

Credit card debt, he said, is a So think freedom instead. “signal we’re not living a lifestyle “In general, financial freedom congruent with our income.” means that when the opportunities Attacking that debt is No. 1. But or experiences or things that are socking money away for old age ties important to you come up, you have for first place on the financial prithe freedom to do them or purchase orities list. them or act on them,” said Brendan “There will always be an excuse McDermott, a financial advisor in to not save for retirement,” McDerJackson with Northwestern Mutual. mott said. “Given the importance That includes having emergency of it and the importance of using funds and insurance for when prob- time to your advantage, in almost lems arise, and all situations we long-term savrecommend doings so someday ing it simultaneyou have the opously, even if it’s tion to not work a small amount for money or toward a Roth to stay at a job IRA.” just because you The idea is to want to. get used to not “How great having the monwould it feel ey to spend. to know you’re “That might — Brendan McDermott walking into the NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL be $25 or $50, office entirely by but it’s a start, choice?” McDerand it will start mott said. to compound,” American McDermott said. women are handling their finances “It’s easier to go from $50 to $75 with mixed degrees of success, ac- years later than to go from $0 to cording to the 2104 “Working Wom- $75.” en’s Financial Capability” report If an employer offers matching from the TIAA-CREF Institute and funds in a retirement plan, women the Global Financial Literacy Excel- should max that out, he said. lence Center.

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Sherwood aims to teach gun safety

Knowing about guns takes away the fear.

By John R. Moses

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ou might find Lynn Sherwood hanging out on the range with her colorful and occasionally talkative pals Audrey and Violet — the gun range, that is.

A founder of Jackson Hole Shooting Experience and High Caliber Women, wrote via email that she owns two custom AR-15s, each with names: “Audrey (my favorite color, ‘Tiffany Blue,’) and Violet, (my granddaughter’s name).”

While handling firearms isn’t fun and games, the 44-year-old self-acknowledged “serial entrepreneur” is years into the new family businesses.

The Shooting Experience runs classes and outings centered around the safe handling of weapons, and outings where those unfamiliar or even afraid of guns get to learn about them and experience shooting them in a safe environment.

That involves taking people who want to experience a bit of the Wild West out into it with a variety of pistols and rifles, with maybe some throwing axes added just for fun.

Even groups of “self-described East Coast liberals” come to the firm for some hands-on shooting time, Sherwood said “Three hours later they’re plastering photos of themselves with AK-47s all over Facebook,” she said.

In earlier days, however, you wouldn’t find Sherwood anywhere near a gun, much less teaching other females in a High Caliber Women event why they should not fear Smith or Wesson.

And she thinks weapons safety education is a family affair.

“With my fear of guns, I didn’t educate my kids properly” about gun safety, she said. Her mantra was, ‘Leave it alone and tell an adult.’”

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But what if the adult they tell doesn’t know anything about safe firearm handling, either? Worse, what if the curious child investigates the loaded gun instead of calling that adult?

“It was really, seemingly, an ‘aha’ moment,” she said, when she realized she was not afraid of guns per se, “but the bad guy behind it.”

Sherwood’s moment of epiphany came in learning how to shoot a gun, something she forced herself to do while “trembling and teary.”

And, after the first few rounds, a new attitude and interest was born.

“This is just so empowering to have moved past that fear,” she said.

More than just moved past — now it’s a business. Sherwood was among those who recently held a workshop at St. John’s Episcopal Church for people who wanted to learn about guns, and people who carry and own them. It was

a chance for people to learn about guns in a safe environment. Around 20 people attended.

As for women’s programs, Sherwood said women and men are different and have different ways of approaching gun education.

While teaching groups she noticed that women were “asking questions differently than their spouses were on the range.”

Sherwood has had many roles and businesses before the Shooting Experience, formed in 2010, and High Caliber Women, created two years ago.

The HighCaliberWomen.com website lists training courses and has interviews

by Sherwood and others about industry happenings, workshops and gun safety, as well as a roster of gun-handling and skill-improvement classes offered.

The website says the firm has “19 experienced firearms instruction coaches”

throughout the Rocky Mountain region.

Sherwood estimates she started working when she was 8, pitching in with her mom, who was also an entrepreneur.

She spent seven years as a full-time mom to two daughters (she now has three grandchildren) and worked as a nurse in several specialties, including in an emergency room.

She created a gift basket firm and once ran the area’s UPS stores, bringing them to the No. 4 ranking in the chain.

Now, instead of moving packages or wrapping baskets of tasty treats, she may be bringing out 70 types of guns for groups to try, and maybe some tomahawks and blow guns.

Sherwood also believes in concealed carry, and the importance of getting a concealed carry permit, which is reciprocally honored in 35 states.

Not only can you drive a route while traveling that allows you to keep concealed carry rights, “you get more training,” she said.

Sherwood said she reserves judgment on purse holsters, noting it’s a gun owner’s personal responsibility to keep control of their firearms at all times and keep them away from kids and unauthorized users.

She also favors the gun industry’s creation of products aimed at the female market.

“Yes, women can have black guns and pink guns and any color guns their hearts desire!” Sherwood wrote in an email.

“I care not about their personal choice for colors; I do care that they handle it safely,” she said, “and I am honored to be able to be a part of helping to empower women, men and families with a comprehensive approach in mind, body and attitude! It’s a blast.”

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the old crusty dudes anymore,” Stephens said jokingly while on a break from electrofishing Flat Creek in late September. “That was always the reaction that I got.”

Some segments of the Jackson Hole fishing scene remain maledominated. Female fishing guides, for one, are hard to come by. Grand Fishing Adventures teacher and guide Jean Bruun is one exception.

A longtime Colorado guide, Bruun’s been leading anglers to ply waters here for more than a decade and is involved with conservation groups like the Snake River Fund and Trout Unlimited.

Two Trout Unlimited staff members call Jackson Hole home, and incidentally both are women. Valley resident Beverly Smith is the nationwide nonprofit’s vice president for volunteer operations and Leslie Steen stepped into a new role as TU’s Snake River Headwaters project manager this spring. Overseeing the organization’s local chapter is a board that’s well stocked with women, with Barb Allen, JuliAnne Forrest, Marley Vaughn and Kathleen Doffermyre all donating their time to help keep Jackson Hole’s lake, stream and river fisheries in tip-top shape.

Showing up recently at Trout Unlimited’s Western Regional Conference, Steen said she couldn’t help but notice that there were a lot of “older white guys with white hair.”

“What I’ve learned that’s unique about our local chapter is that the board has been somewhere around half women,” Steen said. “Most of us are in the 30s and 40s, which is also different.”

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Stephanie Sloan talks to an all-girls robotics team at Jackson Hole High School. Female students have a different way of thinking about how to solve problems, Sloan said. “It’s not any smarter, it’s just different the way they attack a problem and come together to solve a problem,” she said.

Narrowing STEM’s gender gap Teton County’s picture is complicated, with successes and room for improvement.

By Kylie Mohr

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f you were asked to draw a scientist, what would he — or she — look like?

“Uniformly, the stereotypical scientist is a guy with crazy hair, wearing glasses and a lab coat and is holding beakers and a microscope,” said Leslie Cook, senior director of educator development at Teton Science Schools.

Cook does a lot of professional development work with teachers, including graduate students. And almost every time they ask students to draw a scientist, it’s a man.

Somewhere along the pipeline for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math careers, known as STEM, women and minorities become underrepresented. Does the same gender gap exist in Jackson?

The answer is complicated.

“Girls are just as excited to get dirty and take apart machines as boys,” said Julie D’Amours, education director at the Jackson Hole Children’s Museum.

Feeling intimidated That isn’t necessarily different at the high school level, but girls face a different set of barriers and challenges as they look into after-school activities like robotics.

At Jackson Hole High School the gender disparity in the robotics club is slowly starting to narrow. A group of talented, motivated girls — many of whom began robotics as eighthgraders last year — are the driving

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forces. The girls won all of the scrimmages last year except for one, and many of them joined for the challenge and to learn something new. Others had family or friends who encouraged them to get involved.

Senior Stephanie Salerno joined robotics when she was a freshman and is now mentoring younger students. Salerno had the experience that many girls have when entering male-dominated fields or clubs — feeling nervous.

“I always thought robotics was really cool, but I was intimidated by it even though I loved math and science,” Salerno said.

After coaches urged her to just turn in the form, Salerno became a member of the club.

“It’s been the best part of my life

ever since,” she said.

Salerno wants other girls to feel the same, but recruitment can be an uphill battle.

“There aren’t enough girls,” Salerno said. “You look at this club of all guys, and you ask your friends, ‘Don’t you think robotics is cool?’ And they say, ‘No, art is cool, theater is cool.’

“I want to do what my friends are doing so I can have friends,” she said.

“But then you don’t realize there are so many other girls doing that exact same thing.”

When Salerno started there were three girls on the team. Now there are a lot more.

“There’s a stereotype that it’s for boys,” freshman America Martinez agreed.

“A lot of people are intimidated be-

cause they think it’s for people who are a lot smarter than average,” Caitlin Huhn said.

Kirsten Rorke said the stereotype is that “it’s the nerd club.”

As the robotics program expands to have First Tech Challenge for grades eight and nine and the more advanced First Robotics Competition for grades 10 through 12, the support system is growing.

Stephanie Sloan, a counselor at Jackson Hole Middle School, is the head coach for First Tech Challenge.

She said about one-third of the participants are girls, which frustrates her.

“It’s not as though females are less capable or any less successful in the math or science classes we currently offer,” she said. “But I don’t think girls have been traditionally challenged or pushed into those kinds of classes.”

Even Sloan, whose father was a math and science teacher, said she wasn’t encouraged to delve into science. She doesn’t want to see that same thing happen to other girls, and she thinks they bring something special to the table.

Different ways of thinking “Girls have a different way of thinking about how to solve problems,” Sloan said. “That became so apparent while watching my all-girls group last year. It’s not any smarter, it’s just different.”

That and a “calming presence” and the “ability to maintain their focus,” especially when presenting in front of judges at competitions.

Adam Seery, program coordinator at the Teton Literacy Center, said getting girls into STEM programming at an early age is key.

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they’re all equally excited,” he said.

Seery is working on developing more STEM curriculum for the literacy center.

“I’ve been really focused on creating a STEM rubric that allows me to make programming more meaningful, age appropriate and engaging,” he said.

Right now the robotics club at the Literacy Center is predominantly male. The cartoon club, however, which focuses on illustration technology, is more evenly split.

“I am really conscious of that when creating the club names,” Seery said.

“Cartoon club is basically to get kids in the door and introduce them to the technology aspect of STEM by using iPads to create e-books.”

Camp Invention, a collaboration with the Teton County School District and the national Camp Invention program, is another example of how getting girls in kindergarten through fifth grade interested early can be wildly successful.

“I think girls in our community love science,” said Christi Roberts, the gifted education teacher at Wilson Elementary School, who has helped with the camp for the last three years. “You get them going and involved, and they are right in the thick of it.”

Students bring in a recycled electric item and dismantle it by themselves as part of the program, which also includes keeping inventors’ logs and doing their own engineering, planning and inventing.

“There are no little girls asking little boys for help,” Roberts said. “They are in there with their screwdrivers, hammers and pliers — really enjoying it.”

Roberts thinks this may be different across the country — but not in Jackson, where being adventurous

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Phoebe Kudar, 9, looks for supplies to build a prototype of the creative design she drew during an after-school program at the Children’s Museum.

and daring is almost a part of our community’s DNA. “We’ve got little girls who are mountain climbers and paddleboarders and surfers,” she said. “They aren’t afraid to step up and try stuff that is considered a little more extreme and a little more boyish.”

It’s OK to fail Is the fear of failure holding some girls back from success in STEM? “The vibrancy of girls’ interest in STEM-type activities at the elementary level come back to creating a safe space to try new things,” D’Amours of the children’s museum said. “Experiencing both success and failure at a young age are crucial.”

Sarah Kate Gessford, a middle school science teacher at Journeys School, agreed.

“Having success actively making discoveries early on is key for building confidence,” she said.

Gessford has noticed that girls can

be unnerved by the unknown.

“Engineering can be intimidating to girls, even when they are perfectly capable,” she said. “So how do you expose them to those concepts in a nonthreatening environment?”

Seery, who feels STEM is an important component of literacy center programming, had suggestions for how to create such an environment.

“Building that confidence and creating that space where it is OK to fail, realizing that is part of the process in science, and actively seeking out those mistakes and working on them until they’re solved are all ways to build up that resilience,” he said.

Teachers are key Teachers play a crucial role in encouraging girls to start, and stay, in STEM-related classes and programs.

However, Cook from Teton Science Schools has noticed that elementary teachers are nervous about science,

and elementary teachers also tend to be women.

“They feel like they don’t have the knowledge to be really strong science teachers,” Cook said.

She’s trying to encourage them to push forward, as they don’t need to know all the information themselves.

“Students can help them with the discovery process,” Cook said. “Having strong female role models for elementary schoolers makes a difference.

And if their teachers are psyched to go out and ask questions and not know all the answers, I think that’s such an inspirational thing for young women — and boys — to see.”

On the other hand, Cook said that there are 16 female students to one male enrolled in Teton Science Schools’ graduate cohort this year.

So there’s hope for the knowledge gap, and therefore the confidence gap, to decrease.

A unique perspective After observing fourth-grade boys and girls work on building circuits at the children’s museum, D’Amours noticed some generalized differences between the students.

“The way they approached the task and the problem at hand tended to be different,” she said.

She noted that the girls seemed more intentional while boys leaned toward spontaneity. She split the groups along those lines next time and said it worked — and illustrated why getting more girls into STEM fields is so important.

“Both voices and approaches are equally important,” D’Amours said.

“Different perspectives are crucial to success, and that doesn’t happen when you have just one type of person in a field.”

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Amanda Kern, the high school biology teacher at Journeys School, said she too noticed that girls tended to be more “methodological” when approaching labs.

“They tend to worry more about getting it ‘right,’ too,” Kern said, “But even getting crummy data isn’t the end of the world. It’s all a learning process.”

Teton Science Schools’ Young Women in Science program is an example of what happens when girls work with each other. The program is for eighth- and ninth-grade girls, who live at the school’s Kelly Campus and learn about the unique ecology of the valley while conducting stewardship and research projects. It’s happening this year from Oct. 30 to Nov. 4.

“Some of the research shows that girls get more engaged in science when they’re learning it together, rather than in a co-ed setting,” Cook said.

Design as a component of STEM is advocated across the valley. So much so, in fact, that Teton County School District No. 1 has made the acronym its own by pushing for STEAM with an additional “A” for Arts.

“I think it’s important to include the arts because the arts foster that creative, innovative thinking,” Superintendent Gillian Chapman said.

“It’s not just science or math or engineering, you have to be a creative problem solver and look at things in a new light. We’re really hoping that by applying all of those areas together, our students are really fostering a competitive edge.”

At the children’s museum D’Amours feels the same.

“It’s adding an avenue to learn,” D’Amours said, “one that encourages creativity and imagination.”

Teacher Sammie Smith’s Digital

Fabrication Lab at Jackson Hole High School is a great example of how blending artful design and STEM disciplines can lead to success.

Known as the Fab Lab, it’s a space for project-based learning where students identify problems they want to solve and prototype real-world solutions. Students have designed benches for the library, zippers and pockets for Stio — you name it.

The lab is based on Stanford’s design thinking cycle and blends a combination of engineering and art.

Even so, Smith said her classes are 75 percent boys and 25 percent girls.

“To me, it’s heartbreaking,” she said. “I truly feel like this is a fantastic place for girls to experience the combination of art and design and engineering. I’d expect the ratios to be more 50-50. The girls at this school are fantastic at math and science.”

Is there any explanation?

Smith thinks the high school is big enough to offer a lot of elective options but not big enough for there to be several sections of each elective, like Fab Lab. But that’s not all.

“As soon as girls have had experience in a group setting where the boys take over, they shut down,” she said. “They’re not interested in participating. And this starts happening in kindergarten.”

She thinks maybe a female-only class might be the way to get more girls into the lab — and STEAM fields in general.

“There are so many career paths that are STEM- or STEAM-based,” Smith said. “Girls sometime stop when they heard the word engineering, but just think — there’s archaeology, interior design, glassblowing, public art, you name it.

“They just don’t know how many fields are out there,” she said, “and they’d be really good at all of them.”

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Painted ladies penetrate ‘boys club’

More women are inked and more accept it — but a tattoo can still bring a bad response.

By Emily Mieure

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nyone who’s the least bit observant has noticed tattoos are no longer taboo, especially on women. At times in recent years inked women have even outnumbered men in tattoo culture.

Maybe it’s a sign of equality or a win for feminists, but, no matter your opinion, times are changing. Ink can be beautiful.

Suzi Woodward got her first tattoo in a Manhattan apartment when she was 17.

“That was way before there were legal shops as an option,” Woodward said.

The artist was a guy named Spider Webb, a renegade turned legend in the tattoo industry.

“I do not condone getting tattooed in anyone’s home as it is illegal in most places and really not safe,” Woodward said.

Woodward, owner of Sub-Urban Body Adornment, or SUBA, in Victor, Idaho, has always loved body art.

“I don’t remember a time where I didn’t think they were beautiful and just plain badass,” she said. “I’ve always had an affinity for art as a collector, admirer and dabbler. Tattoos seemed like a natural progression.”

As a body piercer Woodward recognizes she works in a male-dominated industry.

“The tattoo world is still kind of a boys club,” she said.

But Woodward believes today’s society is more accepting when it comes

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Elyse Archer estimates 70 percent of her body is covered in tattoos. That sometimes leads to some rudeness: “Some people seem to think by having tattoos, women are giving you an open invitation to comment on their bodies or touch them, which is not the case,” she said.

to inked ladies.

“As the baby boomers and subsequent generations mature, the stigma associated with tattoos is disappearing,” Woodward said.

That creates a more accepting climate for women, she believes.

“The industry as a whole has changed so much,” Woodward said.

“Shops now are in plain view or on the main streets. Unlike the back alley shops of the past, they look more like high-end salons, art galleries or studios.”

Half of Woodward’s clients, if not more, are women.

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women,” she said.

The tattoos of the past normally came off a wall chart or a catalog, Woodward said. Many of them were jagged and masculine. The tattoos of today, Woodward said, are custom and soft.

“There are many more women tattooers in the industry these days so I believe you’re seeing many more feminine-looking tattoos.”

In Jackson, Tattoo Artist Amy Dowell specializes in that new style.

“The work I do is feminine,” she said.

At her appointment-only shop the Painted Lady, Dowell gives more tattoos to women than she does men.

“I do everything custom for people, and once it’s done, it’s done,” she ex-

plained. “It doesn’t go on anybody else.”

Dowell waited until she was 18 to get her first tattoo.

“I got a couple Chinese characters.

It was just kind of a message to myself at the time.”

But her love for body ink started earlier.

“Ever since I was a little kid I was always interested in tattoos,” she said.

Dowell now has 100 hours’ worth of work on her body.

“When I got my first one, I went to a girl when I was going to school,” she said. “She was a good friend with a friend of mine. She was the only female tattooer in Laramie at the time.”

Dowell got a bachelor’s degree in art at the University of Wyoming with the goal of opening her own private tattoo studio.

“That’s where all my art started,” she said.

Her dream came true in April of last year when she opened the Painted Lady, just off Jackson’s Town Square.

The artist said tattooing and drawing tattoos consumes her life. She said works 120 hours a week and is booked solid most of the time.

“I try to make everything about the client who’s getting work done in here,” she said. “A lot of times it will be a closed session where it’s just the person who’s in here getting work done and me and maybe a friend. It’s more personable.”

Dowell’s clients are diverse. Many of them are professionals who work full time.

“Tattoos are becoming more accepted,” she said.

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“Women with tattoos are seen as being more promiscuous and given a lot more negative connotations,” Dowell said.

The entertainment industry has a lot to do with tattoos being more mainstream, she believes.

“The TV industry is good at normalizing things,” she said.

But some tattooed women still feel like they are singled out in a way men aren’t.

“I feel that tattooed women are subjected to unwanted or crass pickup lines or comments more than men,” Elyse Archer said.

Archer estimates 70 percent of her body is covered in tattoos.

“You have tattoos all over your body. When can I see the rest of them?” someone once said to Archer.

Strangers even stroke her tattoos sometimes, she said.

“Some people seem to think by having tattoos, women are giving you an open invitation to comment on their bodies or touch them, which is not the case,” Archer said.

Archer’s tattoo story starts in Brooklyn, where she got her first tattoo when she was 18.

“One of my co-workers at the time was apprenticing at B-52 Tattoo in Brooklyn,” she said. “My friend Amy and I went to get our first tattoos together. I got an outline of a triceratops, she got an outline of a crow.”

The level and style of judgment depends on where you live, Archer said.

Archer realized that when she moved from New York City to Tetonia, Idaho.

“That’s when it really hit me that I kind of stood out,” she said. “The inappropriate comments turned into disapproving ones, such as ‘You would be so pretty if you didn’t have tattoos’ and ‘Why are you ruining your body?’

The transition was hard because of that, Archer said, but she surrounds herself with accepting, like-minded people to cope.

“After discovering the roller derby team I found an amazing group of independent women I fit in with,” Archer said.

Archer has all types of tattoos.

Some are sentimental. Others are goofy but meaningful.

“When I went to visit a friend that had moved to Germany, my friends and I got matching beer mug tattoos,” she said.

She also has a Beavis tattoo that matches a friend’s Butthead tattoo.

She has others inspired by artists.

“I have a few tattoos of rats with umbrellas by street artist Banksy because they were so unusual and lovely to me,” she said.

Her roller derby name is inspired by her tattoos.

“One day I randomly decided to get a great white shark tattooed in my armpit, and I got the nickname Sharkpit from a chef I worked with,” she said.

But not all her ink is a joke.

“My father had one tattoo of his name in script on his right arm,” she said. “When he passed away I got his name tattooed in the same font on the same spot.”

Her most recent tattoo is in memory of her friend Jennifer Nalley, who was shot and killed in July.

“I got her roller derby number on my arm,” Archer said.

Bottom line, tattoos to women are funny or feminine or sentimental, but always individual. They depict substance as well as style.

Archer has one that’s perfect on her calf: the Dolly Parton lyric “It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”

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she landed in Jackson she decided to stay. While the Tetons lured her, she admits it’s not the easiest place to climb.

“It’s hard to get out and climb,” Manero said. “The approaches are long.”

For her one of the biggest disadvantages is trying to stay strong in the offseason, when the weather outside is wet and a gym is nonexistent.

“Not being strong is the biggest thing that comes to mind,” Manero said. “I ski all winter and don’t really climb. I started this climbing season the weakest I’ve ever been.”

The lack of strength can be made up, but one thing that can’t be is the shortage of climbing partners.

For Jennifer Econopouly, who’s been climbing in Jackson for the past couple of years, the lack of partners has reduced how much she climbs and what she climbs.

“If I wasn’t constantly praying for climbing partners, I wouldn’t climb here,” Econopouly said.

The problem is not that there are no women eager to climb but that there’s not a ton of experience among them.

“I find other women who want to climb, but we can’t climb together,” Econopouly said. “It’s a friend who wants me to teach her how to lead, and it’s like, ‘Whoa, let’s back up.’”

For her the inability to not only train but vet potential partners led directly to an injury.

“You can’t try out partners without a gym,” she said. “I busted my foot because my random Mountain Project partner was irresponsible. It would’ve been so nice to hang out with him in an Enclosure before we went out.”

The last time Jackson Hole had a gym was three years ago when Enclosure closed. Since then the only options are the outdoor Teton Boulder Park at Phil Baux Park, a small climbing wall at Teton Sports Club in

the Aspens, and Teton Rock Gym in Driggs, Idaho. But those aren’t ideal.

“We’re not always going to drive an hour to go pull plastic, so it’s definitely a hole in the community, and it’s preventing women from entry,” Econopouly said.

Emily Bodner has been in and out of the Jackson area for 12 years. She said the climbing community is better than it used to be, but there are still obstacles to overcome.

“The climbing community could be a lot stronger if we had a climbing gym, which clearly doesn’t exist,” Bodner said.

Bodner said the skill level issue, which Econopouly echoed, is a big problem here.

“There is a greater depth of people at the same skill level amongst males than females,” Bodner said. “Sometimes it’s hard to find a female that’s your equal.”

That isn’t to say that women aren’t as good as men, just that there’s nowhere for them to train, whether individually or together.

Other than the gyms mentioned above, there’s no solution to the problem. There are a couple of Facebook groups, MountainProject.com and other climbing forums. But unless you’ve managed to develop a strong social circle among climbers, there’s little chance you’re going to improve or find a good partner to grow and go adventure with.

“I can’t develop a partnership because there’s not a gym for the climbing orphans of Jackson,” Econopouly said. “You’re either in or out, and when you’re out you can’t find partners.”

Bodner said the only solution for women is to just put themselves out there. To say hi to other climbers, to organize group adventures and to just keep climbing.

“We need to come together,” Bodner said. “So, we’ll have that depth so people don’t just want to climb with boys.”

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Together they helped elevate the organization from a tight-knit group of friends working out of Dunford’s garage to a designated 501(c)3 that hit a notable milestone this year: half a million pounds of food diverted from landfills. Together they aim to continue to expand and continue to cut down on waste in Teton County.

“Our goal is to rescue more food,” Dunford said. “We rescue 20,000 pounds of food [a month], and that’s awesome. But we just know there’s so much more getting wasted.”

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he dumpster diving started discreetly, under the cover of night.

Ali Dunford would dress in dark clothes and try to make as little noise as possible as she lifted the lid of the Jackson Whole Grocer dumpster, stepped up on a milk crate and climbed in to rummage for food.

The idea to pick food from dumpsters started when Dunford was in school at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she dated a guy passionate about reducing food waste. When she moved to Jackson after graduation, scoping out dumpsters was as important as finding a place to rent.

“That was a really funny, free-spirited time in my life,” Dunford said. “For me it wasn’t a financial thing. I was working plenty. It was just really fun.

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“Then, over time, it just really started to bother me, just seeing the quantities just really started to morally upset me,” she said.

It also marked the beginning of Hole Food Rescue, a nonprofit run by Dunford and Jeske Grave, along with a band of nearly 100 volunteers who help pick up food donations around Jackson. The food is sorted, cleaned and boxed for places like the Good Samaritan Mission, Jackson Cupboard and Community Safety Network.

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She remembers the maroon armchair she was sitting in, the same chair that now lives in the corner of the Hole Food Rescue office, when she had her epiphany.

A few people climbing into one dumpster wasn’t enough.

“We’re not going to change anything,” Dunford announced to her friends. “We’re rescuing a fraction of the food getting wasted.”

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few factors: inches of snow per season, proximity of an airport, and the selling point, inexpensive public transit.

“I moved to Jackson because of the START bus,” she said, laughing.

The girls took a weekend trip to Jackson to find housing, and they lucked into finding a place owned by a guy who lived in Boulder, an instant connection. They also made sure to check out the dumpster scene while driving around.

Jackson Whole Grocer fit the bill.

“Food waste was really a part of my life ever since I moved to Jackson,” said Dunford, 27.

She made friends quickly, and the activity that was once something she just shared with her roommates started to gain momentum. She found more people interested in doing what she was doing. They made twice daily trips to the dumpster to grab what was often marked expired but still good for consumption.

“Eventually we just got super ballsy.

We were empowered,” she said.

Instead of stopping by at night they started swinging by at all hours of the day. Whole Grocer employees started setting food aside, loads they would haul to her house to sort.

They came across boxes of ripe pomegranates, a find that led to weeks of creative dishes. They nabbed a box of dark chocolate, which they froze and nibbled at for months. Once, and only once, Dunford found a six-pack of Wind River beer — well, technically a fivepack, as one can had exploded.

“That was the only time I found alcohol in the dumpster,” she said.

They plucked out fruits and vegetables, dairy products and bread. They ate as much as they could, finding they were easily able to keep their pantry stocked and refrigerator full. She only occasionally had to buy a few things to fill in the holes.

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The nonprofit saves about 20,000 pounds of food a month from going to waste.

“Everything was fair game,” she said. “Even if a banana was touching a piece of meat. I thought I’d just wash the banana and then eat it. It think it’s really that common sense. You just know if something was not going to take.

“I never got sick off eating food from the trash,” she said. “It’s like the nose knows. You just know what’s good and what’s not good.”

She worked various seasonal and part-time jobs, holding positions at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Jackson Hole Health and Fitness, the SHIFT festival. But reducing food waste was her driving passion and the more she laid down roots in the community, the larger her effort became.

They started packing up boxes for friends and neighbors, and after a couple moves around town, she settled into her rental home on Kelly Avenue, where operations commenced in the garage.

“Whatever we were finding was so far beyond our capacity to consume,” she said.

The waste started to wear on her, especially the meat. She’s not a strict vegetarian, she said, but finding wasted meat broke her heart.

“It’s never ending when you think about all the things that go into producing food,” she said, noting the money, time and resources spent raising, processing and transporting stock. “It’s bullshit that this animal isn’t even getting used, and then we’re going to pay to ship it to Idaho to go into our trash.”

She wanted to do more, and that night at the potluck she vowed to do just that. The next day she emailed the Boulder Food Rescue, where she earned her chops dumpster diving, and asked how to set up a more formal program that would have a larger impact.

Hole Food Rescue started to take shape in June 2013, after a little advice

from the Community Resource Center that suggested “in the nicest way possible, ‘Please don’t start another nonprofit,’” Dunford said.

Instead, Community Resource Center representatives suggested Dunford partner with the Jackson Cupboard, a nonprofit aimed at providing food for those in need. She could work under its nonprofit status without having to set up her own organization, something she knew she wasn’t prepared to do at the time.

“It was solid advice,” Dunford said.

And the partnership was “the most logical thing to do with the food.”

That fall Grave found her way to the growing organization as a volunteer.

Grave had moved to Jackson the same year, after completing a master’s degree in education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Her roots were in biology, a degree she completed as a undergraduate at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, her home country.

She’d been dating a guy at the time — Mark Henderson, now her husband — who lived in Jackson and suggested she come to Wyoming for a summer while she looked for a job. She was hoping to combine her love of science and nature with education, in some form or another.

“I decided to get to know this community by going out and volunteering,” said Grave, 29. “I had so much time on my hands that I wanted to do something useful with it.”

She signed up for shifts at Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area, logged hours at the Teton Raptor Center and contacted Dunford to get started with Hole Food Rescue. At the time food pickups had morphed from Dunford and friends climbing into dumpsters to a growing group of volunteers swinging by local grocery stores to load up food that had been set aside.

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They drove Grave’s car to Albertsons, where an assortment of eatables awaited them.

“I was just looking at this pile of food that I was supposed to put in the car,” Grave said, “Soon I realized it was not going to all fit in my Subaru Forester. I was just so in awe of it. I didn’t even really know that was an issue in grocery stores.”

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Dunford said she solidified her position in the organization when Dunford went out of town for five weeks. Nine volunteers were left in charge.

“When I got back she was the basically the last one standing,” Dunford said. “Her coming in just completely changed the whole thing.”

It was a labor of love for the next two years as the women worked to expand and organize their efforts into an independent nonprofit. Grave volunteered her time during the day and rushed off to a restaurant job in the evenings. She made ends meet by tacking on another job, a catering position on the weekends.

They applied for grants, identified inaugural board members, signed a lease for a commercial space off Martin Lane. The move was a turning point, at least an emotional one.

“Things became even more real,” Grave said. “We were running an actual facility instead of just using her garage, which was really not possible anymore. Once we had this space, it was the real deal.”

Hole Food Rescue received its nonprofit designation in March 2015.

Dunford was hired on as the executive director the following summer, along with Grave, who was hired as the associate director.

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Dunford manages the volunteer base, a pool of about 100, half of whom are actively involved on a weekly basis.

She holds two to three orientations a month, and manages the office a couple days a week. Grave also mans the office a couple of days a week while managing the budget, writing grants and spearheading the nonprofit’s educational campaign.

Both help with processing and unloading food donations, organizing perishables into a line of refrigerators in the back room and packing up customized boxes for partnering organizations.

They attend community events together, like the Jackson Hole Eco Fair and Jackson Hole Farmers Markets.

They’re working on a research project, an undertaking that aims to identify and establish new partnerships in the community. The project, which is expected to conclude next year, inspired a food map that shows people where to go and when to pick up free groceries, meals and snacks around town.

They want to start working with catering companies. They want to find more ways to get food to the people who need it. They lose sleep thinking up ways to do more.

And when it gets too overwhelming they remind themselves to “think globally, act locally.”

It’s their mantra.

“We love this job so much because there are so many problems nationwide and worldwide but we feel like we really are doing our part in this community,” Grave said. “Every day we’re making a small difference.

That’s what makes it all worth it.”

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LOOKING BACK ... ON WOMEN Here are some stories from the Jackson Hole News&Guide and its preceding publications, the Jackson Hole News and the Jackson Hole Guide.

45 years ago …

Pat Nix and Patty Ewing hosted a baby shower on the shores of String Lake. The guest of honor, Linda Satterfield, received a Gerry Kiddie Pack. …

The Jackson Hole Chapter 50 Order of Eastern Star hosted Worthy Grand Matron Viola Weber’s visit. Among those who attended were Ardath VanDeburgh, Betty Joan May, Elva Dahlquist, Lela Lloyd and Ruth Ridenour. … The Jackson Hole Business and Professional Women club scheduled a breakfast at the Elks Club following the Firemen’s Ball. The event was to raise money for a scholarship for Jackson Hole High School girls. … Betty Franzen and Clarene Meadows were among the people elected to serve three-year terms on the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce’s board. Holdover members included Virginia Huidekoper, Ginny Knowles and Betty May. … Kathleen Plew was the newest addition at the Gai Mode Beauty Salon. What she liked about being a beautician was “to do hair — long, short, straight or curly.” … Troop 221 Girl Scouts gathered Mount Ash berries on Teton Pass and pine cones in Sheep Creek to make Christmas wreaths.

30 years ago …

Margaret Smith Craighead, Margaret Bedell Wyess and Ann Sharples Franz, three of the four climbers who made the first “manless ascent” of the Grand Teton, attended the Teton Living Legends banquet. On Aug. 3, 1939, the trio, with Mary Whittemore, started early so no one could beat them to the top. “If anybody else had summitted first, people would say that party helped the women,” Franz said. ... For a lifetime of achievement, Margaret “Mardy” Mu-

rie was honored by the Wilderness Society with the Robert Marshall Award. ...

Feminist, filmmaker and author Bonnie Kreps was working on a book, “Fond Illusions: Romantic Myths and the Independent Woman,” in a cabin in Moose. ... Lisa Larson-Hoyt was named Woman of the Year by Jackson’s Business and Professional Women’s Club. The gerontological nurse practitioner worked with Dr. Martha Stearns. ... The only woman in the races for Board of County Commissioners and Town Council seats was incumbent Town Councilor Nancy Baudisch. ... Jackson resident Penny Dykes, wife of Noel Dykes, gave birth to Teton County’s first set of triplets: Jess, Justin and Sarah.

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15 years ago ...

Carmina Oaks, a valley resident born in Mexico, was named Outstanding Woman of the Year by the Business and Professional Women’s Club. … Ann Vinciguerra was spearheading the campaign for a public radio station in Jackson Hole. … Carney Architects won Western Mountain Region Design Awards from the American Institute of Architects for two buildings in Jackson Hole. “It’s nice when your peers acknowledge you,” said Nancy Carney, one of the principal architects. … Photographer Anne Muller mounted “Some of Us: A Photo Essay of the Latino Community of Jackson Hole,” at Teton County Library. ... Sue Muncaster and her five teammates on the U.S. Women’s Rafting Team placed third overall in the World Rafting Championships in Virginia. ... At the 69 Days ’Til the Tram Opens party at the Mangy Moose, some women in the frozen T-shirt contest frolicked naked on stage as men cheered, the paper reported. “Women have come so far for this?” an onlooker said. But Jackson resident Lauren Smith said, “I’m not going to do it, but for the $300 prize, if they’re comfortable, good for them.”

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