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Editor’s Letter

Bright-eyed and bushy tailed about summer is the time to celebrate all things bright and beautiful – June the sun, our gardens, summer concerts – as well as all creatures great and small.

I live with two indoor house cats and I suspect that I live with many outdoor creatures, too. My yard is home to multiple garter snakes, all called “Rupert,” and my feeder attracts chickadees, goldfinches, doves, junkos and my favorite, the jaunty-topped Steller's Jay. I see deer tracks, and my neighbors have alerted me to bears in the yard at night. I’m still wondering what critter dug up my flower bulbs this spring - not once, not twice, but eight times!

Perhaps Ken Krehbiel, whose motion-activated camera has captured hundreds of four-footed nocturnal visitors, could tell me. You can learn about Ken and his cameras in our Around Town department.

This issue of Roaring Fork Lifestyle brings together a full menagerie: Garden expert Lynn Dwyer writes about how to attract hummingbirds and butterflies to our gardens. Readers will get an inside look at WindWalkers, where Anne Merz offered me a chance to tag along during her weekly riding lesson. (This month's editor's photo was taken during that ride.) Readers will meet our Missouri Heights neighbor Susan Proctor and her llamas, and they will learn about the work of Martha Cochran and the Aspen Valley Land Trust. AVLT saves open spaces and habitat that supports creatures ranging from moose, lynx and bighorn sheep to toads, otters and wild turkeys.

The start of summer features festivals aplenty: The Glenwood Springs Art Guild updates readers on its All Members’ Show, which opens June 6, and the cancellation of a decades-long tradition, the Fall Art Show. Readers can enjoy images of the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo and check out the history of Strawberry Days. (I'm hoping that that eagles, owls and hawks that have been shown at Strawberry Days by the rescue organization HawkQuest will be back again this year.)

People here often tell me, “I came here for the winter skiing, but I stayed for the summer.” With art shows, concerts, festivals, races, running, hiking, fishing, swimming, boating and biking just minutes away, it’s easy to understand why. Get out there and go hog wild!

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June 2015

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Departments 10

Good Times

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Around Town

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Your Neighbor

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History 101

30 Animal Tracks 32

Artist’s Palette

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Lifestyle Calendar

42 Parting Thoughts

16 Strawberry Days Forever

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18 Carbondale's Wild West Rodeo

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Publisher’s Letter

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fter having a serious auto repair problem that turned out not to be so serious after all, this seems like a great time to give our business community in the Valley a little shout-out.

This is not Denver or the Front Range. Granted, the Front Range has thousands of small businesses, but very few of them have the small-town friendliness seen here in the Roaring Fork Valley. Try as they might, businesses in large metro areas have a difficult time remembering the names of businesses across the street, much less the names of their own customers. Urban areas simply don’t offer an environment that allows for the close personal relationships or the service we see here daily in our incredible Valley.

The Roaring Fork Valley is filled with small businesses, and most of them are locally owned. Even those that are affiliated with big national concerns operate a little differently; they are places where the owner and staff know your name, are happy to see you and treat you fairly. They often give us free advice and free services, just as Jimmy did when I recently came into Jimmy’s 66 in Glenwood, thinking I had a big, expensive repair in

the works. Turned out that the problem was a loose gas cap and what was needed was a good wrench and some better advice.

(Thank you, Jimmy!)

This is our seventh issue of Roaring Fork Lifestyle. People have been stopping me and my editor, Nicolette, on the street and in stores to tell us what a beautiful publication it is. Readers are writing to tell us that we have provided our community with a true local’s magazine, and each month it just gets better.

Our advertisers, those local businesses I just mentioned, are also sending us great testimonials.

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Good Times

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Jackie Newman, Mary Lee Mohrlang, and River Bridge board member Pam Szédelyi

Meghan Hurley, River Bridge board member Sonja Linman and Kurt Backofen

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Around Town ROSS MONTESSORI BREAKS GROUND ON NEW SCHOOL For the past 10 years, the founding parents and teachers at Ross Montessori Charter School (RMS) have envisioned a new building for the school of their dreams. They recently broke ground for that new school. The school will be located near the intersection of Highway 133 and Weant Boulevard in Carbondale.

New educational resources such as dedicated science, music and art facilities, a gym and beautifully-designed playgrounds and gardens will enhance RMS programs by giving students room to play, imagine, learn and experiment. RMS has raised over $1,250,000 from its community of supporters: parents, grandparents, teachers, staff and friends. RMS has also secured funding through the USDA Rural Development Program in the form of a $6,400,000 loan to build the new school's basic structure and campus. A grand opening will be held next spring.

“The dogs would start barking, and you would wonder what’s out there,” he says. “The camera turned up raccoons, skunks, coyotes, deer, foxes, and of course, bears.”

Krehbiel, who has run Signature Picture Framing in Basalt for 16 years, has come up with plenty of photos worthy of framing – and some odd ones too. He was able to capture mountain lions with a mule deer kill in River Valley Ranch, and last fall, he got some fairly intimate shots of a bear. After catching a glimpse of the bear, Krehbiel was able to locate its den up against some rocks. He set out four cameras.

“I ended up with nearly 1,000 shots of the bear, who turned out to be male,” he says. “It was fascinating to see the bear in and out of hibernation. He came out all winter long. He was curious about the cameras, but he didn’t bother them – until spring. Then he brought one with its tripod into the den. He was in the den, playing with the camera like a kid or a dog. He was chewing on the lens cap and the camera, but it kept on shooting. I got a whole series of photos of his nose, his claws, the inside of his mouth…”

How did Krehbiel get his camera back? “Very quietly,” he says.

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MOTION-TRIGGERED CAMERAS CATCH CREATURES GREAT & SMALL Ken Krehbiel, who lives in Carbondale’s Crystal River neighborhood, heard scuffling, snorting and skittering and he wondered what was going on at night in his yard. Over the past four years, motion-triggered cameras have enabled him to discover a menagerie of creatures that most people never see.

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Mountain Rural Philanthropy Days celebrates its 24th anniversary this year, holding a conference in Rifle from June 24 to 26. The program offers financial support and professional development opportunities to local community, arts and environmental organizations. The event features nonprofit development workshops and networking opportunities that convene representatives of foundations and nonprofits from the Denver Metro area with local foundations and government leaders for three days of capacity-building workshops and funder roundtables. Nonprofits can register online through June 3 at CRCAmerica.org/rural-philanthropy-days/.

“In traveling around the state, with my rural roots, it occurred to me that the rural areas were being left behind,” says Sue Anschutz Rodgers, president of the Anschutz Family Foundation. “Basically, all of the large funders are on the Front Range. With the help of the Community Resource Center, we started Colorado Philanthropy Days. It’s my job to bring the funders to the rural communities. Each year it has grown and grown. I’m so proud of the funders for the way they have all joined in. It’s important for these funders to go and see these nonprofits in their own environments. Most nonprofits, particularly in rural areas, would rather have a root canal than come to Denver.”

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CDOT will provide advance warning for several full highway closures that could take up to five hours, a time period that will be needed for blasting. CDOT plans to finish the $4 million improvement project by its September deadline. For details, call 970.417.8150, email rockfallproject@gmail.com or go online to COtrip.org.

GLENWOOD HOT SPRINGS STUDY DONE BY SGM The June issue of Roaring Fork Lifestyle incorrectly attributed an energy efficiency study done for the Glenwood Hot Springs Pool and Lodge to Clean Energy Economy for the Region (CLEER). The study was completed by Schmueser Gordon Meyer (SGM), an engineering firm located in Glenwood Springs. After the study, energy coaches from CLEER helped the Glenwood Hot Springs pool staff implement those recommendations and secure rebates to help cover the costs.

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Your Neighbor

Your Neighbor

Llama Mama

Susan Proctor and Stormy.

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usan Proctor plays llama mama to a herd of seven. Stormy, a nine-year-old “heavy wool” llama weighing about 300 pounds, was her first.

“He came up and laid his chin on my shoulder, and it was all over after that,” she recalls. “It was the first time – and the last time – he ever did that.”

Llamas are intelligent and curious.

“But they’re more like cats than dogs in terms of personality," Proctor says. "They’re a bit aloof, curious and everything has to be their idea. That’s important when an animal weighs 300 pounds.

A cat you can pick up, but with a llama, that’s not going to happen!” Llamas won’t bite – they have only lower teeth and a rigid upper palette – but they do spit. That’s usually reserved for other herd members rather than humans, and it’s usually about “food fights and personal space.”

Susan originally became curious about whether llamas would make good lawn mowers for the four-plus acres she owns in Missouri Heights. The answer is yes and no. Llamas come from high desert in the Andes, and they do well in the Roaring Fork Valley. They are two-toed camelids, related to alpacas, vicunas and guanacos. Their wooly coats enable them to stay outside during winter and they can eat our native grasses, but their digestive systems are so efficient that they will get portly if allowed to graze too long. Thus, their mowing must be monitored.

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Stormy and his herd actually prefer to be outside. A three-sided shed protects them from summer heat and rain – and like cats, they don’t like water. The llamas must be shorn at least once a year to keep them from overheating. Proctor took her shears to Stormy on Mother’s Day last year, only to be fooled by a late storm.

“It got down to about 20 and he was freezing,” she says. “I got him a purple tie-dye blanket, a foal blanket, because a horse blanket would have been too big. He loved it. You could tell.”

Proctor learned about llamas through Linda Hayes of Glenwood Springs, who is known as “Llama Linda.” Hayes is a certified judge in the Alpaca and Llama Show Association and she runs a llama rescue operation. Prices for llamas advertised on the internet range from $40,000 for show animals to around $300 for a pet. Recently, due to the poor economy, rising hay prices and aging owners, an increasing number have been surrendered or abandoned. (One rescued llama, Emma, now guards sheep at the Strang Ranch in Missouri Heights.)

All of Proctor’s llamas are registered, and at Hayes' urging, Susan began to show them.

“When Luna was born, she had such presence. Presence is a quality that you can’t train for,” Proctor recalls. “When I started to show them, I started to learn a lot about them, and I also got into fiber. Luna has wonderful fiber. Her shorn fleece placed third at the Grand Nationals and it has been made into a lovely lace shawl.”

Llama competitions categorize animals by age and by fleece type.

Llamas can compete in events that rank them based on fiber, on confirmation and on performance in classes similar to dog agility events.

Proctor’s llamas, a herd comprised of Stormy, his half-brother Buddy and five females, has filled her workshop with show ribbons, bags of fleece, “roving” which is spun into yarn, and bags of brown and warm gray llama yarn blended with silk or bamboo fiber.

Fleece quality depends not just on the individual animal's characteristics, but also on the llama's age and where on its body the fleece grows. “The prime fiber – it’s called the ‘blanket’ – comes from younger animals,” Proctor explains. “The first sheering, the cria coat, is usually the best.” (A baby llama is called a cria.)

Stormy has been competing in a performance class for five years now and is ranked as a novice champion.

“You walk in front of the llama and holding the lead; you can’t see what he’s doing and you just hope he’s going to follow you,” Proctor says. The event calls for the llama and its handler to go through gates, duck under obstacles and cross bridges, something llamas tend to want to avoid. The border collies have nothing to worry about. It’s an agility event for a slow, big animal.”

Llamas make good pack animals; their two-toed feet are padded like dogs’ feet, rather than hoofed like horses, so they don’t tear up the trails. “The two boys like to go out,” says Susan. “They move at a leisurely pace, but the real reason that we don’t get far is the people. Everyone wants to have their picture taken with a llama.”

Susan Proctor and Stormy.Susan Proctor and Stormy.Stormy

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History 101

Colorado’s Longest-Running Civic Festival: Strawberry Days

GLENWOOD ROCKS! ARTICLE BRIDGET GREY | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

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lenwood Springs rocks during Strawberry Days, as it has for going on 118 years.

Strawberry Days, Colorado’s oldest continuous civic festival, began as a community picnic back in June 1897. At that point, Glenwood had just booted out the less-than-desireable businesses that lined the Colorado River's south bank. The town was making big changes: Polo replaced poker as the new pastime, and the town’s guests changed from gunslingers to Victorian nabobs vacationing at the luxurious new Hotel Colorado.

The first strawberry picnic was an ice cream social where local families celebrated the harvest together.

But the festival grew and some residents started calling Sayre Park “Strawberry Park” in its honor. Crowds gathered, lured by

traveling ca r n i va l s and entertainment. One year, the famous "Human Fly" from Kansas awed onlookers as he scaled tall buildings in downtown Glenwood.

Across the years, certain events – free strawberries and cream, a parade, music and art – have become community rituals, and they will again be part of this year’s Strawberry Days festival, which run from June 19 to 21. This year’s theme is “Glenwood Rocks” and it celebrates everything from the local rock formations to rock-out music.

Free strawberries and ice cream have been served since the beginning of Strawberry Days, and the Valley View Hospital auxiliary has sold home-baked pies for the last 52 years, raising money to fund scholarships and medical education. Strawberries, ice cream, pies and a food court with around 20 vendors are all on this year’s menu too.

Vern DeGroot has brought his mini-train to Strawberry Days every year since 1992. The train, built from a modified lawn mower and an assortment of barrels, is a favorite with kids.

The Miss Strawberry Days competition has evolved from a CONTINUED >

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beauty pageant where contestants modeled bathing suits at the Hot Springs to a scholarship competition. This year, four local young women will take home $8,000 in scholarship money. Contestants will model three outfits, write a personal essay, work on a creative project and volunteer for a day with Habitat for Humanity. The top three winners and Miss Congeniality will be announced on June 19th and will ride in convertibles during the parade.

A popular Strawberry Princess Celebration is also returning. This event, a tribute to all girls, is open to girls ages 5 to 11. The Strawberry Princesses will participate in a Princess Party on Thursday, June 18, and will ride in the Strawberry Days parade. Wearing their Strawberry Princess shirts, the girls will be introduced and celebrated on the FamilyFest Stage after the parade.

The parade will step off from 8th and Grand Avenue on Saturday at 10 a.m.

In keeping with the “Glenwood Rocks” theme, a few iconic rock n’ rollers are expected to make an appearance on some of

60-or-so floats that are expected.

Among the other traditions that will be carried forward during this year’s Strawberry Days are: An arts and crafts show that features around 100 artisans and runs from Friday through Sunday at Sayre Park.

The annual Strawberry Shortcut 5 and 10K race, which takes place on Sunday. (Register online at Active.com.)

A carnival at the Glenwood Springs Mall, June 17-21.

A FamilyFest that includes face painting, caricature drawings, Music that runs from Friday evening through late Sunday afternoon and includes the winner of the local Battle of the Bands.

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Carbondale Wild West

Rodeo A Labor of Love

ARTICLE NICOLETTE TOUSSAINT PHOTOGRAPHY GEORGE HENDRIX

ettle your britches in the stands for the Carbondale Wild West rodeo any Thursday night between June 4 and August 20 and you’ll see bronc bustin’, calf ropin’, mutton bustin’, barrel racing and bull riding, of course.

But before you get all involved with the critters and the cowpokes, take a gander at the crowd: Here, a row of the stands is occupied by a flaxen-haired Mennonite family, decked out in gingham, bonnets and suspenders. Nearby, a mom is chattering to two little boys in Spanish. Nearby sit a gaggle of retirees. Next to them, two gents are talking business – a real estate development near Aspen. Behind them, tourists from Denver and two visitors from France are asking locals about the trail to Hanging Lake.

It’s an amazingly democratic scene, and that’s just how the Wild West Rodeo Board likes it.

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Kennedy. “He didn’t. The first season he wanted $10,000 from the town to cover his losses, and the next year he did the same thing.”

That didn’t sit well, so Kennedy and Rodeo Vice President Dave Weimer, who were both volunteers at the time, attempted to put things right. They soon found that the promoter had left a burr under more than one saddle by mismanaging funds and breaking promises. “Many of the sponsors were so mad we had to beg them to come back,” Kennedy recalls.

“He was abrasive and ended up irritating us too,” adds Weimer. “We said we didn’t need him, and he insisted that he was essential. We said, ‘Just watch.’"

A decade later, there’s plenty to watch. Today, the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that sponsors 13 different events each week, fields 90 to 100 competing teams and draws more than 1000 spectators in to watch.

What makes it all go? Volunteers!

“The volunteers have been there from day one,” says Weimer.

The rodeo board members – Kennedy, Weimer, Treasurer Tom Harrington and Secretary Melanie Gianinetti Cardiff – contribute hundreds of hours preparing and producing the summer rodeo.

At the first rodeo she attended, Cardiff asked herself, “How can I be a part of this?” She volunteered to check in contestants in 2008, and in 2009, Kennedy asked her to join the board and coordinate volunteers. Ever since, she has managed the 20-plus volunteers needed to organize competitive events during the rodeo season.

“It’s like herding cats,” she laughs.

"There is a ton of work that goes into pulling off 12 great rodeos,” Cardiff continues, “but I grew up ranching, and I was fortunate that my family took the time to let us rodeo.” Cardiff, the daughter of a local ranching family and a former rodeo queen, adds, “It’s my heritage and it’s important to keep it alive.”

Weimer, who was raised on a Wisconsin dairy farm, concurs, saying, “One of the reasons we moved here was that we wanted our kids to have a Western-style up-bringing, and the rodeo was part of that. We have always wanted to have activities for kids because that’s the next generation of the rodeo. We have developed lots of children’s events, including some for parents with kids. We have mother-son and father-daughter roping teams, mutton bustin’ and plenty of junior events.”

“It’s my heritage and it’s important to keep it alive.”

The Rodeo Board has taken pains to keep sponsorship local and to emphasize community. Although a few well-heeled patrons have asked to buy private boxes and reserved parking – some even waving $1000 under their noses – the board has nixed elite access in favor of tailgate barbeques and families. Tickets are $10 per person or $30 per carload, and it’s strictly first-come, first-served. Those who want to park around the arena fence and have a tailgate barbeque can show up at 6 a.m. and wait for the gates to open. They pay $20 for parking along with their entrance fee and bring a whole truckload of folks. “It’s almost like the Oklahoma land rush,” says Cardiff. “I have sat out there at 4:30 a.m. to get my spot. Lots of people host bachelorette parties and birthdays at the rodeo. It’s almost a separate rodeo event.”

“The sponsors and the volunteers have been key to keeping this going,” says Kennedy. ‘We can’t stress that enough.” The rodeo’s sponsors chip in from $450 to $1,000 a season and receive recognition in the program and on signs around the Gus Darien Rodeo Arena.

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CARBONDALE WILD WEST RODEO (CONTINUED)

Many local nonprofits collaborate with the rodeo: Senior Matters, the Cub Scouts and the Garfield County Fair Royalty serve snow cones and popcorn from a ringside booth, while the Valley View Hospital Calaway-Young Cancer Center, the Komen Foundation and 4H have pitched in to help with various events that change from year to year.

Last year, Alpine Animal Hospital sponsored free horseback rides and their veterinarians helped educate kids about horses and their care.

This year, spectators will be getting a roof over their heads thanks to a $48,900 grant from the Garfield County Mineral District, plus $10,000 each kicked in by the Town of Carbondale and the rodeo. “One critical part of the rodeo’s success has been its great relationship with the town,” comments Weimer. “We can’t say enough good things about Jeff Jackel (Carbondale’s recreation director). He has been great to work with.”

When it comes to putting on a rodeo, it takes a village, or perhaps a town. Why do all they all do it?

Kennedy says, “It’s about the community participation. Most of the contestants are local; they come from between Aspen and Parachute.

The rodeo gives them a place to go to compete and showcase their skills. For spectators, it’s a place to go to on Thursday nights, a place where you see friends and neighbors you sometimes don’t get to see.

It’s a big-time melting pot. The people there are rich and poor, working class and retired; they are kids and parents and grandparents.”

Cardiff agrees and says she will continue to be there every Thursday, bringing her three-and-a-half year old grandson along with her.

“I do because I love it, and I want him to love it too.”

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t’s quiet – silent enough to hear the soil sifting off the horses’ hooves during lulls in the conversation. As two riders and three staffers move around the indoor arena, instructions and laughter punctuate the calm. The parentheses of my mount’s fuzzy roan ears, attuned to every nuance, follow the sounds as Anne’s mare nickers and is answered by horses in the paddocks outside.

Today, Anne Merz has invited me to join her riding lesson at WindWalkers.

When we entered the arena, Anne walked deliberately and determinedly, using two hiking poles to supplement her dragging feet and weakened legs. The poles, she informed me, were a gift from the national Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society.

Merz has been riding Skippy for three months and has been taking therapeutic riding lessons at WindWalkers for a year and half.

Today, I’m riding Cody and following Skippy. As Cody moves, my backbone sways and my hips rock from side to side in answer to his gait. I feel the gelding’s warmth, his breathing and the coiled strength beneath the skin as I run my hand over his haunches.

I soon fall into Cody’s pace. It’s not just a physical sensation, not just a slowing down. I feel a palpable shift

away from the lickety-split, left-brain chatter that usually defines my days. I’m a writer, but also an artist, and I recognize the feeling as the right side of my brain takes over from the left. I begin to inhabit a place where words fade and space opens, where I become aware of color and scent, of rhythm and warmth. It’s something I experience while painting, skiing or during focused rituals.

Call it flow, mindfulness, meditation or communion. Whatever you call it, it renews the spirit. When we slow down our rapid-fire cognitive processes, we allow the heart to open. There’s time enough for emotions to flow up from that dark well into which we stuff them when we’re busy or preoccupied. It’s in that fallow space, open and quiet as this riding arena, that affection and connections can blossom.

Merz looks composed and in command as she and Skippy, accompanied by two “walkers” pace around the arena. We’re using flatter, hornless, English saddles; I think they make greater physical demands than Western saddles, but English riding is Anne’s preferred style. She grew up riding that way in Minnesota, where she had her own horse, an Arabian named Guinevere. That was before she was diagnosed with MS at the age of 18.

Merz is now 58 and rides at WindWalkers once a week.

“It is physically demanding,” she says. “It exercises and soothes both the body and the mind. I like that I get to spend an hour talking to the walkers, but I also have a bond with the horse.”

WindWalkers Equine Assisted Learning and Therapy Center, located in Missouri Heights above Carbondale, serves more than 40 clients each week and is home to nine therapy horses. A five-person, volunteer board of directors runs the organization, and the staff includes riding instructors, a psychotherapist, a physical therapist, a program director, a herd manager and a volunteer coordinator who stretches Windwalker’s $470,000 annual budget by keeping as many as 50 volunteers busy and productive.

WindWalkers is celebrating its 10th anniversary and has provided more than 12,500 service hours – “butts in the saddle”– to over 3,200 riders. It offers programs that range from therapeutic riding and equine-assisted counseling to horsemanship lessons and an all-inclusive summer camp for kids.

Executive Director Gabrielle Greeves says, “If someone has a developmental challenge or a disability – ranging from spinal bifida and MS to autism and even trauma in the brain – we can help them. We work with outside medical professionals to determine the lesson plan. That’s what all equine therapy should be.” What makes WindWalkers unique, she continues, is the organization’s family-centered approach; siblings, parents and grandparents are encouraged to come and ride with patients.

Two chest-high wooden platforms face each other across a horse-width passageway along the arena’s front wall. Stairs lead up the platforms’ sides, and one platform is flanked by a wheelchair ramp. At the beginning of today’s lesson, Beth Gusick, WindWalkers’ program director and a doubly-certified therapeutic riding instructor, led Cody into the slot and demonstrated how some-

one can be lifted from a wheelchair atop the platform onto a horse.

Encouraging me to play rag doll, she lifted me from the platform on Cody’s left to a sidesaddle position. Then Mary Jane Nunes, WindWalker’s herd manager, grasped my leg from the opposite platform, lifted it over Cody and tucked my foot into the right stirrup.

Gusick and Nunes, serving as walkers for Merz, led her horse and monitored Anne for a walking warm-up and then some stretching, a kind of horse-mounted yoga. If you’re reaching for the sky with both hands, you have to push down through your feet to stay anchored to your mount. It takes muscles and balance.

Next came “two-point” riding, where the rider perches on her feet and hovers above the saddle. That takes thigh muscles. Next came some posting, which calls for the rider to shift her weight from side to side in counterpoint to the horse’s stride. We finished up with a trot.

Throughout the lesson, Cody was eager to follow Skippy, but he was attentive to my every move. It took nothing but a cluck of the tongue and a nudge to get him moving. He would turn in response to a single hand’s tug on the reins – a far cry from many stable horses.

“It takes some experimentation to find the right horse,” comments Gusick as we dismounted. “They’re all good horses, but some you might have to squeeze to get going. That would be a problem if you didn’t have much thigh strength. We want to make a bond between the horse and rider, and that takes some time and trial…”

“And knowing where to find the carrots,” adds Merz, laughing.

(That explained why Cody seemed to be blowing in my ear and pushing his velvety nose into my pockets.)

It’s easier to experience why riding can be therapeutic than to explain it, but Merz does a good job: “It’s freeing. I don’t have to depend on my legs. The horse’s legs work for me. They lift me up in the world.

You’re up high. It creates a sense of independence and self-worth. Being on the horse and having a bond – it’s a wonderful thing.”

“Sometimes we work with kids who are hyperactive,” notes Gusick.

“Their little motors are just running full tilt. But when they get on the horses, they slow down. And slowing them down makes them less impulsive. They start to listen, and they get much more communicative.”

“Horses do mirror our emotions, and they’re intuitive,” adds Greeves. “When people mention this, we always laugh and tell them, ‘You know they are herd animals. And what is a herd? It’s a family. So when they are with humans, they adopt us. We become family. They are the healers, and they are on the job six days a week.’ ”

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AVLT lands at Hole in the Ground, above El Jebel on the west side of Basalt Mountain.

Heritage and Habitat Cattle in the shadow of Mt. Sopris, AVLT conservation lands.

Making Spaces Between Places ARTICLE PAUL ANDERSEN | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

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he land speaks volumes if your heart can hear it. For Martha Cochran, director of the Aspen Valley Land Trust, the message is loud and clear: Protect. Preserve. Conserve.

The fifth generation to grow up on a Missouri homestead, Cochran’s roots reach back to a family farm – a place that AVLT conservation land on the was anchored to the soil, to growing Rio Grande Trail. things and to integrated life systems that produce food.

For Cochran, saving a ranch from development allows agriculture to maintain its focus within the traditional culture of the Roaring Fork Valley region. It not only preserves open views and a traditional American heritage, but it also provides homes and forage for the wildlife that has equal claim on our landscape and needs open land to exist, to breed, feed and thrive.

Since 1967, the Aspen Valley Land Trust (AVLT) has helped private landowners preserve over 38,000 acres of family ranches, scenic view sheds, riparian and wildlife habitat and recreational

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areas. Colorado’s oldest land trust, AVLT is a trusted, community-based non-profit organization that serves the greater Roaring Fork Valley, including the Frying Pan and Crystal River valleys, and the Colorado River Valley west of Glenwood Springs.

Lands are conserved for agriculture, wildlife habitat, scenic views and recreation.

Much of the conserved land borders public lands, expanding the range for wildlife.

Many properties include miles of public trails and access to federal land.

Cochran points out that 70 to 80 percent of wildlife depends on riparian areas – meaning river and stream channels – at some point in their life cycle. That, plus water quality, is why conserving land along streams and rivers is important.

“What we do at AVLT ties the water to the land, and water is perhaps more important,” observes Cochran. “Water is about land, and land is about water. AVLT has protected the land along more than 60 miles of streams and rivers, as well as the water rights used on the land.”

MIDWESTERN FARM GIRL

“I grew up in a house and a barn built by my great-grandfather,” says Cochran. “He was Irish and settled in Missouri where there were a lot of Irish immigrants. The lush, hilly Missouri landscape reminded them of home.”

“When I was a kid, there was still a pump at the kitchen sink. I learned an existence that was simplified, economical and frugal.

We had cattle, hogs, sheep and chickens, and we grew corn and hay. This was an impoverished area,” she recalls.

“In the ‘80s, my father quit farming because he realized that chemicals and plowing were depleting the soil. He switched to pasture land to protect bird and deer habitat and raise cattle. His farm was greener that all the others in the area because he farmed organically. He was one of the first tree huggers, and he knew every tree on the farm.

That’s where I got attached to the land.”

FROM JOURNALIST TO CONSERVATIONIST

Cochran studied journalism at the University of Missouri, where she met Glenwood Springs journalist Dale Strode, who

hired her at the Glenwood Post in 1974. She quickly put down roots, buying a home and raising a family.

“I have lived in Glenwood for over 40 years – on the same street for 39 years,” she says. “We don’t move around much.”

Cochran became executive director of AVLT after leaving the Post Independent in 2002. It was a role that tapped her own deep roots.

“I always favor the land because, if we screw that up, we don’t have choices in the future,” says Cochran. “You can’t save everything, but you save what has long-term benefit because you can’t get a pasture back once it’s developed. You don’t have clean air and clean water without open land, and we need spaces between places.”

“We’re responsible in perpetuity for the land – and that’s a long time,” says Cochran.

“The biggest challenge is maintenance and enforcement of easements. Monitoring and enforcing are looming challenges in a changing world."

“Our job is to explore the neighborhood,” wrote Cochran in Our Place, the first of two books she authored commemorating AVLT’s conservation landowners.

“Those who make the choice to conserve land do so because they care about the future and they care about the land. For them, the two are inseparable.”

Wildlife Habitat Preserved BIRTH OF ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST

In 1967, Fritz and Fabi Benedict of Aspen donated land along the Roaring Fork River to a new non-profit environmental organization called the Park Trust. Freddie Fisher Park was the first donation, and it launched Park Trust on its mission to conserve land. The organization later expanded its mission and changed its name to Aspen Valley Land Trust.

AVLT doesn’t technically buy the land, but works to place the land into conservation easements. Easements translate into tax advantages for landowners who preserve the land from development while retaining private ownership.

“We’re a professional office and this is a serious business,” comments Cochran.

“We’re talking up to $100 million a year sometimes in development rights that are extinguished. AVLT is committed, and the landowners are committed to the long term.”

Cochran acknowledges that it’s hard for some people to understand how easements that have no public access still count as a public amenity.

“Conserved land has innate value even if I don’t get to walk around on it. It provides food and wildlife habitat, cleans the air and water. People are really lucky to live here with our public lands and with land owners who are willing to make decisions to do what’s right with their land.”

As generations pass, properties often turn over to heirs, requiring management flexibility and vigilance.

Statistics from 2013 show how wildlife has benefited from AVLT's nearly 50 years of conservation: Moose, overall range: 7,391 acres Lynx (threatened), potential habitat: 5,095 acres Bighorn sheep, overall range: 4,711 acres Boreal toad (endangered), current documented range: 3,664 acres Great blue heron, foraging areas: 116 acres Great blue heron, nesting areas: 93 acres River otter (threatened), overall range: 70 acres Wild turkey, overall range: 22,748 acres Bald eagle, winter range: 11,425

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aniel Sprick, whose paintings hang in the Denver Art Museum and in the Smithsonian Institution, was given a leg up by the Glenwood Springs Art Guild. Artists L. Dean Bowlby, Hiram Richardson, Dan Young, Larry Grant and Greg Call are among others who owe at least a tip of the hat to the Glenwood Springs Art Guild for supporting their early careers.

Since 1981, the Guild has awarded more than $330,000 in scholarships to young and aspiring artists, and it has given more $75,000 in art supplies to 31 schools and eight nonprofits between Basalt and Parachute.

The Guild’s annual fall festival, for years the largest and most popular non-juried art show in Colorado, has been the wellspring for this largesse. A five-day festival featuring more than 3,000 pieces of original painting, sculpture and pottery by 300 artists, it has racked up more than a million dollars in art sales since 2,000 – and the fall show has been the Guild’s only fundraiser.

Has been.

Recently, the Guild voted to end festival. Nancy Martin is more than a little choked up about it. “I’m still grieving,” says Martin, who joined the Glenwood Springs Art Guild 43 years ago. “It’s been part of my life since I was 13.”

Every Thursday, Guild members gather to paint and talk. Today, seven women – most of whom have at least hints of silver in their hair – have gathered at the home of Arlene Law. A large drop cloth has been spread across the living room floor and the artists work atop folding tables, painting in acrylic, oils or watercolor.

Martin, who is turning a gray metal fish into a rainbow trout, says that she understands why the Guild is short-handed when it comes to putting on the massive fall show. “People are working two and three jobs these days. They are stretched.”

Dot Mulligan, a retired accountant who serves as the group’s treasurer, concurs. “Financially, art is an expendable thing. It’s the first thing to go when people are struggling.”

It takes 10 people to hang the show and around 60 additional volunteers to run the week-long show. “Our sons, daughters, and even grandsons have been involved, reports Alice Davenport, 13-year Guild member. “Our spouses have always helped, and now they’re getting older and can’t do so much. Lack of volunteers is the problem.”

It’s a widespread issue. This year, Palisade canceled its April Peach Blossom Art Show. Hotchkiss ended the 50-plus-year-run of the annual Black Canyon Art Exhibit several years ago. Delta’s art fair died, and the annual art show in Montrose sputtered, died and CONTINUED > was finally revived.

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It’s not as if the Glenwood Springs Art Guild itself is dying. The or“This is my therapy,” adds Griefenberg. “And I can get input on my ganization counts more than 200 members from all over Colorado, work from a lot of people.” plus another 50 outside the state. They range from 93-year old charter It seems clear that the Glenwood Springs Art Guild will go on, member Tom Berger to high school freshman Donavan Hill, who origi- despite the demise of the fall festival. nally joined the Guild at the age of 10. This magazine’s editor, who was “The other guilds are all in shock because we’re the model they given an irresistible welcome, is among the Guild’s newest members. drew from,” says Martin. “We all love it. We are really in mournThe Guild continues to actively run multiple art events. ing. This has been such a big part of our lives. It benefits artists and Each month, on the second Tuesday at the community. We never did this with 7 p.m., the Guild sponsors a guest arttax-payer dollars. We showed that you can ist who gives a free, live demonstration do this without a grant. We sold enough at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in art to give scholarships and give away art Glenwood. The Guild sponsors artists’ supplies. And now...?” paint trips and workshops. And every “Our main goal was to encourage young Thursday, a group of Guild members artists,” adds oil painter Portia Griefenberg, gathers to chat, share potluck goodies a 43-year Guild member. “When you look at and paint as a group. the ones that have grown up – some of them Not all of the artists are silver-haired labecoming rather famous – they all came dies. Today Levi Law, a dark-haired, homethrough this art guild as young people. I think "Wild Turkeys Crossing the Road" by Elisabeth Parsons Vath schooled high school student, is among the that’s a great honor for us to be proud of.” group. The grandson of today’s hostess, Arlene Law, he’s an art show “We hope to grow something from the ashes,” says Elisabeth ribbon-winner. As he bends over a beautifully rendered charcoal Parsons Vath. “We hope the Roaring Fork Lifestyle article will help, drawing of hands bound with a rope, he says, “I have been coming because we want to continue to supporting students, and because to this painting day ever since I was two or three, so it doesn’t seem the event was a big draw for the town. It brought revenue to shops, too weird." lodging and restaurants. It was a financial benefit to the entire area.

“What’s not to like?” laughs Dot Mulligan. “Everyone is helpful, People came in by train and on bus tours, and I know some folks and we’re supportive of each other as artists. who made it their annual family reunion.”

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Rebates from Holy Cross Energy and the Garfield Clean Energy community program covered half of the project cost of $14,600, cutting Habitat’s out-of-pocket cost to $7,300. With annual electric savings of $5,700, the project paid for itself in about 15 months.

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“Adding LED lights and recycling old, working refrigerators were by far the most popular upgrades,” says Wiener. “People also replaced leaky windows, switched to programmable thermostats, swapped out their old holiday lights for LED strings and installed heat tape timers.”

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JUNE 6 ART SHOW RECEPTION GLENWOOD SPRINGS

The All-Member art show of the Glenwood Springs Art Guild will be held at the Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts at 601 East 6th Street from June 6 through July 10. Check-in for artists is June 1. An artists' reception takes place on June 6 from 4 to 7 p.m. Call Pat Winters at 970.945.7345 or email wint1774@me.com for details.

JUNE 4 WILD WEST RODEO CARBONDALE

Opening night for the Wild West Rodeo, held at the Gus Darien Riding Arena on Catherine Store Road. The rodeo will run every Thursday night through August 20, rain or shine. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. and Slack is at 6. Grand Entry at 7:30 p.m. Purchase tickets at the gate or in advance at the Roaring Fork Valley Coop. Tickets are $10 each or a book of six for $50. See CarbondaleRodeo. com/ for details.

JUNE 5 FIRST FRIDAY TRUE NATURE

Join True Nature Healing Arts in Carbondale for Five Rhythms Movement Practice with Sakshi Keeton from 6 to 7 p.m. Barry Chapman offers Gong Meditation from 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. Details at TrueNatureHealingArts.com

JUNE 6 FREE CONCERT GLENWOOD SPRINGS

Rock on with the Poser dance band at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park from 6 to 10 p.m. Free.

JUNE 12 FREE CONCERT SNOWMASS VILLAGE MALL

Come enjoy Old Man Canyon from 6 to 7 p.m. and Whitewater Ramble from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Free.

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MAMMOTH FEST CONCERTS SNOWMASS TOWN PARK

Saturday begins with a free chili tasting at noon on the Village Mall.

Bluegrass concerts start at 2 p.m. with Tallgrass. The Barr Brothers perform at 3:30 p.m. and Jamestown Revival performs at 5 p.m.; the Lone Bellow at 6:30 p.m. and Greensky Bluegrass from 8 p.m. until 10. On Sunday, gates open at 11 a.m. Roadkill Ghost Choir kicks off at noon. Futurebirds at 1:20 p.m., the Cave Singers at 2:40 p.m., Donavon Frankenreiter at 4 p.m., Doyle Bramhall II at 5:30 p.m., Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings at 6:30 p.m. and Tedeschi Trucks Band from 8:15 to 10 p.m. Festival tickets at SnowmassMammothFest.com.

JUNE 19 DEFIANCE COMMUNITY PLAYERS GLENWOOD SPRINGS

Glenwood Vaudeville presents the Defiance Community Players. All seats $30, doors open at 6 p.m. at 915 Grand Avenue in Glenwood Springs. Limited seating. Call for tickets: 970.945.2174

JUNE 19 RED HERRING THUNDER RIVER THEATRE

Opening night for “Red Herring” by Michael Hollinger, a play replete with farcical spy antics, convoluted trysts and Joseph McCarthy’s daughter in the wings. TRTC’s production also runs June 20, June 26-8 and July 2-4. Tickets at Thunderrivertheatre.com.

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Parting Thoughts

A Message from the Heart WORDS ELENA SLUSSER

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ne Sunday morning, I set out to climb an easy mountain in the Rocky Mountain National Park with a group of women I know. I was a little more tired than usual having spent the proceeding day in a learn-to-canoe class and in doing some weight-lifting as part of my exercise routine.

As I plodded up the trail, the tiredness increased and a vague pain occurred in my chest. That has been a fairly common experience for me and the pain usually disappears after a few minutes.

However, on this day it didn’t disappear. So I decided to head back to the car and wait for the group.

When the women had returned and were getting into their cars to go home, I decided I would like to hike in Beaver Meadows. My companion, Jean, and another woman joined me. After a couple miles, the pain came back, so I started looking for a trail that might circle back to where we started. We stopped by a small creek. As I sat collecting my breath, my eyes fell on a spot of sunlight on the creek’s bank; there was a lone beautiful pink calypso orchid, so perfect in the sunlight among the shaded rocks of the creek.

The pain persisted, and I realized I needed to get back to the car as soon as possible. The fastest way would be on my own two feet.

The image of the orchid clung in my mind as I hiked back. When I reached the car, I asked Jean to drive and told her that perhaps we should stop at the Longmont United Hospital on our way back.

Jean didn’t say a word and drove immediately to the Estes Park Medical Center. As the automatic doors opened and I walked in, a man came towards me. I didn’t say a word but put my hands over my heart.

I was whisked onto a table, my clothes pulled off and a cuff put on my arm. The man leaned over me saying, “Don’t leave us! Don’t leave us!”

The doctor called for a helicopter. I heard the blades, and as I was wheeled out in the purple light of the setting sun, I caught a view of Long’s Peak silhouetted by the sun, bathed in lavender and pink against the darkening sky. That beautiful sight was imprinted in my mind as helicopter door closed and we lifted off.

It seemed like forever as I dreamed of being on a gurney being wheeled at a high rate of speed over an immense asphalt parking lot. When I woke up, I heard the beeping of machines while a technician watched over me.

After several days and many tests, the doctor told me a third of my heart had been damaged. It took a long time to get my energy back. A short walk down the sidewalk took all the energy I had.

I soon realized after such a profound event, what happened in the past does not matter. It cannot be undone. And the future?

Who can count on it? Whatever I may plan or anticipate, it all can change in an instant!After that, I felt I needed to protect my heart, to listen to its beating and hold it gently. I started meditating, concentrating my attention on my heart, breathing energy into it and surrounding it with a sense of protection.

I realized it is the current moment that is important: the beauty that is all around me, a flower blowing gently in the wind, the grandeur of a peak, the sounds of music, listening as people connect with me, the sound of children playing and laughing.

Each moment is a gift to be cherished.

Crystal River Meats is protecting land and building soil to sustain food production for ourselves and future generations.

Help us build a healthier world.

Grass finished Lamb and beef available from our local partners.

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Roaring Fork Lifestyle | June 2015

118th Annual

Col Con orado’s tinu ous Oldest Fest Carn ival Gle ival at ! nwo od S the Mal prings l!

Glenwood Rocks!

June 19-21, 2015

Live Music!

• Familyfest Area With Interactive Entertaining And Creative Experiences For The Kids!

Battle • An Arts And Crafts Fair And Food Court! of the • An Old-Fashioned Carnival!

• A Parade Down Main Street!

Bands • A Full Entertainment Line-Up! • And FREE Strawberries and Ice Cream on Saturday!

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June 19, 20 and 21, 2015

W.J. Bradley Mortgage “Our Vision is to Operate as the Finest, Most Well-Run Independent Mortgage Banker in America.”

– William J. Bradley, Founder & CEO

Our Loan Officers Michael Picore NMLS#339742 Susie Meraz NMLS#623396 Susan HorningCARDNMLS#409870 BUSINESS ONLY Deb Onorofskie NMLS#389578

Locations New Branch in Basalt, CO Basalt Office 104 Midland Avenue, Suite 102 970-279-7095

Glenwood Office 1319 Grand Avenue 970-456-4821

Kirk Schneider Kristi Picore Ryan Parker

NMLS#281552 NMLS#422607 NMLS#1041550