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Fishing for glory

The America Cup brings top anglers to Eagle County

Adult book club

Vilar’s “50 Shades!” and the anatomy of a musical parody

A trail with no name After years of waiting, Eagle’s Haymeadow MTB loop opens

Olympians

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With a new facility and expanded Olympic roster, the latest generation of Ski and Snowboard Club Vail athletes prepares for Sochi

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A scene from “50 Shades!” Clifford Roles photo.

VA I L LIFE

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A musical parody of the erotic “50 Shades of Grey” book series comes to the Vilar Center. Interviewed by John O’Neill.

K, ladies, untie yourself or your boyfriends because “50 Shades!” is coming to the Vilar Center. The musical parody of the popular “50 Shades of Grey” book by E. L. James will be on stage Sept. 15 for a full night of … not holding back. You’ll turn “as red as the communist manifesto” with this smash hit Broadway show. The performance is framed from the perspective of a ladies book club reading James’ “50 Shades of Grey” and reacting to it all. SneakPEAK caught up with one of the show’s writers and producers, Emily Dorezas, for some quick insight on just what exactly will be happening on stage in Beaver Creek come Sept. 15. SneakPEAK: What can the Vilar audience expect from this show? Emily Dorezas: It’s a parody of the material. Really, it’s a big laugh at how this book has impacted our culture. And it all comes from the point of view of a ladies book club. You can expect to laugh a lot. SP: Do you need to have read the book to get what’s happening on stage? ED: The book club ladies frame the play, so not really. I’d say just about everyone has at least heard of the book if not read it themselves. It’s always a surprise for people who are along with their friends and are expecting a nice romantic novel and get our super x-rated comedy. I mean, it is the whole world of BDSM and domination. We have some really intense and hilarious sexual acts. The book, if anything, will give you some insight into what to expect, but you didn’t need to read it.

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What: “50 Shades!,” the musical When: Sunday, Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. Where: The Vilar Center, Beaver Creek Cost: $65 To purchase tickets to the one-night show, see www.vilarpac.org.

book from guys thanking us for cluing them into what this book was about. We also get some stories about the benefits at home after the show. We hear it especially turns out well if the guy buys the tickets! SP: How did you come about writing this piece? ED: It started with myself and two other co-producers, Al Samuels and Marshall Cordell. The show is only a year old. The idea came last summer when Marshall heard a story about hardware stores running out of rope because of this book. Of course he went out, bought the book and read it cover to cover. So you can imagine a guy in his 50s speed reading 50 Shades of Grey in an airport. A lot of women probably wanted to hook up with him when they saw that! He called me and Al said “We have to do something with this book.” SP: Be honest, were there any awkward moments in rehearsal? ED: Not with us. We all come from comedy. I guess when we held auditions we had to be very clear that we weren’t trying to make an adult film. But this group has been together for a long time. It would have been a lot different if we didn’t know each other!

SP: Do you have a favorite part of the performance that you worked on? ED: At one point, one of the book club ladies comes into SP: OK, so just how steamy does it get on stage? her own. Just how she does that is one of my favorite parts of ED: We are making fun of everything so we heighten it in the show. When she gets her confidence, she sort of screams a fun way. There are a lot of different sexual terms, a lot of out to the audience. It’s great. the sexual poise, a lot of innuendo. Where we “go there” is in what we say, not really in what we do. If we “went there” SP: How have you interjected originality into a perforin what we did, it would basically be our cast having sex on mance based on a hit book? stage, and nobody really wants to go see that. ED: It’s not word-for-word what is in the book. A lot of it comes down to how we envisioned certain scenes and how SP: Can the ladies bring a boyfriend to the show? they could play out. The attitude of the book club ladies ED: Really, that has been the most surprising part of this matches up to how passionate some women are about this whole thing. I assumed it was ladies’ night out. It’s not. A book. There is a lot of comedy in that. lot of husbands and boyfriends come. It’s happened enough SneakPEAK writer John O’Neill can be reached at after several cities that we’ll get private messages on Face- info@sneakpeakvail.com

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Fertile Waters

Devin Olsen, a member of Fly Fishing Team USA, casts during competition on the Colorado River at The America Cup in 2012. Photo special to SneakPEAK.

Fly Fishing Team USA Captain Anthony Naranja weighs in on the state of his sport before The America Cup in Vail.

Interviewed by Phil Lindeman.

or Anthony Naranja, one of the premier fly fishermen in the United States, quitting his day job to chase fish around the globe isn’t quite an option. Yet. The 41-year-old North Dakota native and fulltime dentist is captain of Fly Fishing Team USA, a group of 15 handselected anglers from across the country. They train and hold tryouts like any other sports team, then spend the year traveling across Europe, New Zealand and most of the U.S for competitions. The difference? A team like The New York Yankees isn’t fighting just to arrive at its next home game. “The U.S. team at this time is not a complete nonprofit, so the World Championship team is funded privately by donors and others who help pay the $50,000 to $60,000 it takes for an eight person team, which includes competitors and coaches,” said Naranja, who joined the team in Norway for the World Fly Fishing Championship earlier this summer. He subsidized those donations with his dental practice in Denver – hardly a bad base of operations for the foremost angler in the U.S. From now until Sept. 15, Naranja joins dozens of fellow fly fishermen for The America Cup, one of several fast-growing competitive tournaments in North America. The cup attracts teams from across the world, including the vaunted Czech Republic national team, and is a model for the sport’s rise outside of Europe. Competitive fly fishing isn’t too difficult to understand – teams are given a stretch of water and limited timeframe, then tasked with catching as many fish as they can – but it has fought for legitimacy. Since taking over as captain, Naranja has been part fisherman, part ambassador for a sport considered little more than a hobby, at least in the U.S. Naranja’s team has played catch-up with European heavyweights since he took over in 2006, but he’s slowly winning converts. The squad now puts emphasis on training young anglers – the sort who will grow up to dominate stateside tourneys like The America Cup. Before bringing a multi-cultural fly-fishing team to Vail – yet another way Naranja is breaking boundaries in a tradition-minded sport – the U.S. captain spoke with SneakPEAK about the U.S. team, fishing Vail’s finest waters and

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The America Cup

Want more? To read an extended version of the interview with angler Anthony Naranja, go to SneakPeakVail.com and find The America Cup under “Events.” his search for the first Michael Jordan of fly fishing. SneakPEAK: The USA fly-fishing team has really improved in the past few years, including impressive finishes at the? World Championships. What have you done to make the team competitive on the international circuit? Anthony Naranja: The captain’s job is to help the team prepare and build strategy, and we want to build a team that can really implement those strategies. I think the biggest difference you’ll see is that in competitive fly fishing in the U.S., we now have a lot more regional events and competitions to hone skills. Early on in the formation of this team – we’ve actually been around since the early ‘80s – we didn’t have that, and we were never competitive until the early 2000s. When I came on board, we really wanted to do more competitions at home. The Europeans have so many competitions that they can practice, and that ends up being a major advantage.

The five-day tournament is the largest FipsMouche event in the country, and thanks to the clout of fly fishing’s governing body, it attracts 80-plus anglers from across the world. Many of the events take place in remote portions of Eagle and Summit counties, but spectators can catch the men’s, women’s, youth and adaptive divisions in action throughout the week and into the weekend. Visit the venues at Sylvan Lake State Park or on the Colorado River at Colorado River Ranch near Gypsum to watch pros, or try your hand at Thursday’s open casting competition. Beginning at 4 p.m. at the International Bridge in Vail, pros and amateurs go head-to-head in a targetbased casting competition, featuring five targets with three tries at each. The entry is $5 per try and the winner takes home $100 cash.

AN: When I make reference to that, there are specific techniques that come out of every country. When you look at the format we use (for competitive fly fishing), you’re looking for the best and most efficient technique for the time you’re given, usually three hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon. In competitive angling, there’s a lot said about European nymphing and European fishing. What I’ve tried to do is really build our skills to be just as efficient and SP: What do you enjoy about the waterways in Eagle effective as those age-old skills. What we’ve done is take County, and why do they make good venues for a fly-fishing portions of these other European skills and meld them into competition? something we can call our own. It’s all about fishing in a way AN: We all fish because we like to be on the river. As a that works for you. competitive angler, you want to catch fish in all conditions and at all venues. You want to have those competencies. SP: It’s a bit hard for a novice like me to wrap my head What Vail provides is such a different venue – we know we around the competitive side of fly fishing. Explain how you can showcase some of our American angling skills to these go from working fulltime to assembling an international aninternational anglers. Now that we have that bid for a World gling team. Championships in the Vail Valley (in 2016), it’s an even AN: One of the biggest challenges in anything is identifygreater chance to show off what we have. ing talent and abilities. I think you’re always trying to find someone who has the work ethic to make it far. Fly fishing, SP: You mention American angling skills. What makes a like golf and many sports, is a mental game. In the United skill distinctly American? [See THE AMERICA CUP, page 16]

Crushing competition BMHS girl’s cross country set to blow away the field By John O’Neill Battle Mountain High School hasn’t swept their home cross country race since 2008. Five years later, both the boy’s and the girl’s teams found their way to the top of the podium last weekend in Beaver Creek. The men just beat out Eagle Valley High School by 10 points – 58 to 68 – while the women put down one of the most dominating performances the Huskies’ home course has ever seen winning with 39 points to second place Col-

look to grow throughout the season, juxtaposing last year’s attitude of hanging on. “We didn’t win pre-state this year, but we came back and ran really well at our home race,” said Gaylord. “We don’t have an expectation all season. We have goals. That feels much better.” The lady Huskies return all but Mandy Ortiz, who just won the Junior World Mountain Running Championship in Poland and is now running for the University of Colorado. Head coach Rob Parish uses last year’s team as an example

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Members of the Battle Mountain High School cross country team. Back row, from left: Rachel Halverson, Christina Shearon, Jenai Denardol, Ethan Cotton, Kelly Bishop and Annie Todd. Front row, from left: Marlene Favela, Sydney Gaylord, Katie Materese and Bridget Courtois. Katie Anderson photo. umbine High School’s 93 points. “The girls felt really good about it,” said Sydney Gaylord, a senior at BMHS who finished fourth overall in the race. “A lot of people came out to watch the race and everyone ran well.” The entire girls team has set out with a fresh attitude toward this season, said Gaylord. After finishing fourth at the state meet last year, despite winning the annual pre-state meet at the beginning of the year, the girls appear reformed this season where they finished third at the pre-state meet. For Gaylord, it is all about the current attitude of the team. This year, the girls finished third at the pre-state meet and

how to learn and move forward. “We learned a lot from last year’s team in that we let the pressure of expectations get to us,” said Parish. “It was hard to enjoy the season last year at times. This year we won’t worry about the end until it gets here. We are deliberate about that. We’ll work hard and race hard all season.” The whole team has stepped up to fill the shoes of the now World Champion Mandy Ortiz, but perhaps no one more than a group of three sophomore girls: Hannah Gaylord, Rochelle Denardo and Anabel Johnson. All three of the girls ran last year, but their improvement

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In an Olympic season, the young athletes of Ski and Snowboard Club Vail quietly prepare for the grandest stage in winter sports. By Phil Lindeman. Cover photo by Charles Townsend Bessent.

Sochi

The contenders

SSCV freeskier Aaron Blunck trains at the club’s facility in Minturn. Charles Townsend Bessent photo.

t 16 years old, Aaron Blunck suddenly had to grow up.

It was moments before the elimination round at the 2012 X Games in Aspen, and the Crested Butte native felt twinges of irrepressible nervousness. With 15,000 screaming fans wrapped around the superpipe and Buttermilk base area below, Blunck was beyond the point of no return. He cinched his boots tighter, stepped into signature Head twin tips and pointed down the pipe. The first run left Blunck solidly in the middle of the pack, but a second-run score of 78.33 was enough to push him through the elimination round and into the 10-man finals. Simply sessioning the Aspen pipe was a surprise – strong finishes at FIS World Cup and U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix earned a last-minute invited – but the Ski and Snowboard Club rising star was prepared for the challenge. He just had to get that first run out of the way, like a seasoned baseball player fouling out before taking the ball deep. “I’m a thrill seeker when it comes to competition,” Blunck says. “It’s the best of the best – it defines who has the mental strength to win. I love the adrenaline rush when I’m at the top and finding my zone. Sometimes I can hardly speak.” The next day, beneath glaring lights and the enamored gaze of nearly twice as many fans, Blunck finished ahead of heavyweights like Tanner Hall and Jossi Wells to take

seventh place at his first-ever X Games. By the end of the season, he was ranked fourth overall on the Association of Freeskiing Professionals circuit. He even returned to Buttermilk and won the Aspen/Snowmass Freeski Open, solidly beating a veteran field. Now 17 years old, Blunck is older, wiser and bolder. He’s already feeding off that breakout season: Nearly three months before Vail opened, he earned a silver medal during his first trip to the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup in New Zealand. The weather was sketchy, but with the help of SSCV Freestyle Program Director Elana Chase, he overcame frustrating practice runs to miss gold by three points. “I said, ‘Today is a new day, today is a good day,’ and just forgot what happened in the past,” Blunck says. “Elana always says when I ski and have fun, I do well. It’s simple, but it’s true.” The jitters from that frigid evening in Aspen have faded and Blunck is ready for the next step in his burgeoning career: the 2014 Winter Olympics. The Sochi Games mark the first time in history that ski halfpipe is on the Olympic roster, and like a handful of fellow SSCV athletes, Blunck is coming of age at the exact right moment. “There will be a Cinderella story out there and heartbreak out there, but that’s the Olympics,” Chase says. “I’m excited to see who comes away with the Cinderella story, but I don’t have a crystal ball. It’s a great ride, and all these stories have

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Ski and Snowboard Club Vail has produced a respectable number of Olympians, from Vail native Sara Schleper to the town’s adopted daughter, Lindsey Vonn. Although nothing is certain at this point, SneakPEAK took a look at the club athletes and alums poised to podium at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Sylvan Ellefson – While notching top-three finishes at nearly every race of the Vail Recreation District’s summer trail series, the 26-year-old had his sights on Nordic gold come February. The SSCV alum is part of the club’s “Team Homegrown” squad, a group of Colorado natives and FIS World Cup competitors, including top-ranked Noah Hoffman. Ellefson has until Jan. 12 to make the U.S. Ski Team roster, and after barely missing the cut for Vancouver, he’s ready to bring a medal back to his hometown. Ayumu Hirano – The 15-year-old Japanese snowboarding phenom began training with SSCV last season and his move to the states couldn’t have come at a better time. He placed second at Vail’s inaugural Burton U.S. Open – he nearly upset perennial favorite Shaun White – and was crowned Overall Halfpipe Champion by the World Snowboard Tour. Hirano will compete for Japan’s Olympic team, but his time at SSCV won’t be overlooked. Heidi Kloser – Last season was hit-or-miss for the 21-year-old mogul specialist. She earned four top-10 finishes on the World Cup circuit, starting with an early silver medal – her best finish ever – before slowly tapering off. But quietly earning points has its perks: Sochi marks her first shot at the Olympics since joining the U.S. Ski Team five years ago, and she enters the season in her prime. The daughter of legendary adventure racer Mike Kloser is a born competitor – she could easily earn an Olympic berth (and medal) this winter. value and sacrifice.” An Olympic season With the Olympics just a few short months away, the mood at Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy – the scholastic branch of SSCV – is surprisingly calm. Blunck and nearly 400 fellow student athletes returned to school in late August, and between new classwork and daily dryland train-

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visit to the Vail Valley often puts you at the top of a 14,000-foot mountain or ripping down the Eagle River. Getting outdoors and being active is, for many, the reason they call this place home. Organizers with the Vail Living Well Summit are no different. Thursday, Sept. 19, kicks off day one of a weekend devoted to connecting locals and visitors who seek a positive change in their health and well being. The Living Well Summit is a culmination of efforts from Discover Well founders, John and Jamie Stone, in collaboration with Vail Village’s Sonnenalp Hotel. The plan, Stone said, is to bring in the best wellness experts from across the country to offer lifealtering information that can be applied to an attendee’s everyday life. “The ripple effect that happens from the Summit can not only touch Vail, not just Colorado, but it really can make a difference throughout the world,” Stone said. The three-day conference focuses on changes in fitness routines, nutrition and cognitive health, with activities and seminars spread throughout the Vail area. NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana and NBC News’ “Today” host Natalie Morales will get things started on Thursday evening with rare insight on how they manage their physical and mental health on a daily basis. On the Living Well website, Montana said that “participating in the Vail Living Well Summit is a great opportunity for me to share some of the things I found work in maintaining balance in my life before, during and after my career in the NFL. Like many people, a healthy lifestyle is a constant pursuit in my life.” Morales said this is a “jump-start to making those small changes into big changes in life, leading to a healthier you.”

Vail Living Well Summit brings meditation, Joe Montana and pro-led bike rides to town this weekend. By Daniel Leeper.

The science of meditation Come Friday morning, participants are encouraged to put on their comfortable clothes and head out to embrace all that the Summit has to offer. Beginning at 8 a.m. and running until 5 p.m., activities offer attendees a variety of different health and wellness opportunities in Vail Village. Each session is labeled with an easy, moderate or difficult tag. The sessions are also broken into categories, such as longevity, personal health and nutrition. Cognitive health expert Dr. Clifford Saron will lead a session on the benefits of meditation with the support of scientific research. During the Friday afternoon session, titled “When the Stars Come Out Inside,” Saron will take a look at the importance of slowing down and taking the time to analyze what is An amped-up attendee at last year’s Vail Living Well Summit. Photo special to SneakPEAK. going on internally. As a worldwide speaker, Saron said his past involvement with the programs connected to Living With so much to do at the Vail Living Well Summit – each day Well Summit have been the “most transforming exfeatures dozens of seminars, including four to five dining opperiences of his life.” tions at Vail restaurants – it’s best to have a plan. Our top picks: After a day of exploration, participants will join Thursday, Sept. 19 – Keynote address with Joe Montana and one another at a Farm to Table dinner where they Natalie Morales will continue their growth. The dinners are designed The NFL Hall of Fame quarterback joins the Today show host to encourage community and discussion, while enfor an overview of balancing professional and personal health. joying local meals designed by local chefs. You will With an interview format, attendees can ask the all-star panel often find yourself sitting right next to doctors, reabout performing at the top. The hour-long session at Sebassearchers, or athletes from a session earlier that aftian Hotel begins at 6:15 p.m. ternoon. Saturday, Sept. 21 – Small group rides with Tom Danielson

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A wellness destination Saturday will function much like Friday, with sessions beginning in the morning and continuing throughout the day. Customizing each day is essential if guests want to fully grasp what the Summit is all about. With class sizes limited to 20 people, guests have the opportunity to ask questions and make the learning experience more personal. You might spend one session learning the effects of constant vibrating, ring-

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A trail all their own After years of waiting, the pro-designed loop at Haymeadow in Eagle opens for autumn riding. By Phil Lindeman.

t’s the most talked-about trail in Eagle, and it doesn’t even have a name.

For eight weeks this summer, professional and volunteer trail builders were bustling around the Haymeadow property near the Eagle Pool and Ice Rink, moving dirt and cutting underbrush for five miles of highly anticipated single- and doubletrack. While they worked, it was known simply as the “Haymeadow” trail – quotes included – until Town of Eagle officials called on residents for name submissions, almost like parents naming their infant in A cyclists makes laps on Eagle’s newest trail, found on the Haymeadow property a communal village. The trail is the town’s first-born son in a new era of tourism. It’s the $60,000 cornerstone near the east end of town. Scott McClarrinon photo. of a marketing push to attract mountain bikers from across region, and this Friday several Most unusual is that vertical gain. The majority of trails in Eagle and on federal lands suryears of planning and waiting will come together when Haymeadow finally gets a name. rounding the town have at least one or two brutal climbs, the sort to scare off cyclists who The public dedication ceremony will begin at 5:30 p.m., and after the unveiling of its official are either learning or getting back into the sport. Thompson was impressed by local trails – trail signs and a few words by Eagle Mayor Yuri Kostick, everyone is invited for a baptismal he’d never considered riding in Eagle before landing the Haymeadow build – but he admits ride led by the Vail Valley Composite High School Mountain Bike Team. they’re more challenging than expected. And those inaugural few laps make sense: Along with general tourism, the trail was cus“Eagle has an outstanding inventory of trails you never hear about, and I’ve been riding tom-made for the Colorado High School Cycling League Championships on Oct. 20. in Colorado for years,” said Thompson. “That said, you have to have some level of fitness For high school racers, casual cyclists and town officials alike, Haymeadow is a long-de- to access the goods and that can be off-putting for a beginner rider.” layed addition to just eight miles of town-owned trails. They all want the area to be billed as Stavney, a longtime down-valley mountain biker, recently rode the Haymeadow trail and a mountain-biking Mecca on par with Fruita and Durango – communities much farther from was pleasantly surprised by the rolling route. Denver and the Interstate 70 corridor. Haymeadow is a logical compliment to local favorites “You don’t have the grind you would on something like Bellyache (Ridge) or Tick Alley,” like the nearby Boneyard routes, with Eagle’s trademark mix of brush-lined straightaways said Stavney . “(Haymeadow) is great for people who haven’t ridden in a few years but want and rollercoaster curves. to get back on their bike. We really do feel we’re sitting on a best-kept secret here.” “This has been a high priority for the town board, and we put a significant amount of time and money into it,” said Eagle Town Manger A new beginning Jon Stavney. “It’s a great intermediate-toThe Haymeadow trail could’ve easily beginner trail. It makes biking in this area turned into a debacle, with too many people accessible to everyone – this will help put us asking for too much from a single project. What: A dedication ceremony and community ride at the as-yet-unnamed on the map.” This isn’t to say the trail came together easbiking trail on the Haymeadow property, a recent collaboration between Eaily – construction itself was relatively quick, gle and the Colorado High School Cycling League From the ground up but the entire process took several years. When: Friday, Sept. 13 at 5:30 p.m. Where: Haymeadow trailhead, Eagle (near Eagle Pool and Ice Rink) Though the trail is nameless until Friday, The property is part of nearly 1,000 acres in Cost: Free it’s been open to an anxious public since open space owned by the town, and thanks After the ribbon cutting and the sign unveiling, local high school racers crews built the final berms and bridges in to the neighboring Boneyard system, it was will lead cyclists of all ages and abilities along the trail. The ride will be folearly July. One of the first cyclists to ride pegged early on as an ideal location for biklowed by a benefit showing of the documentary “Singletrack High” at the it was Matt Thompson, managing partner ing and hiking trails. Dusty Boot in Eagle Ranch. All proceeds from the showing go to the Vail Valat Denver’s Momentum Trail Concepts and “This was the narrow corridor we were ley Composite High School Mountain Bike Team. To find out more about the lead designer for the Haymeadow loop. He looking for, with the rolling hills and flats trail or grand opening, see www.eagleoutside.com. worked closely with the town, property ownand steeps,” said John Staight, the town’s er and high school cycling league to build open space coordinator. “It was almost like a trail that made the most of fast, flat terrain near the trailhead and a breezy climb in the we got lucky, finding property that could be used for mountain biking but might not be middle sections. The end result incorporates a touch of everything mountain bikers crave, good for development. Other trails were really afterthoughts in a lot of ways – things like from moderate uphills and winding berms to optional connectors for the Pool Ice Rink ride Turniphead and others around Eagle Ranch just followed corridors. Haymeadow is a truly of Boneyard. designed trail.” “I know the term flow is greatly overused in the mountain bike world, but this whole thing Going from undeveloped open space to a ground-breaking trail system wasn’t simple. flows,” said Thompson. “It works – there’s nothing out there that doesn’t make sense.” Kostick and the Eagle Board of Trustees wanted to bring the high school championships to Along with an eye for natural terrain, Thompson and his four-person team made sure the town two seasons back, but the area didn’t have any loops suitable for league racing. trail was primed for October’s high school championships. 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The plywood classroom Six-year-old Nicholas Rainville of Red Cliff drops in at the Vail Skatepark. Katie Anderson photo.

chool’s now in session at the Vail Skatepark. Every Wednesday since Aug. 28 – a week or so after most Vail-area students returned for the fall semester – a handful of die-hard skaters have taken to the small, seasonal park on the upper level of the Lionshead parking structure. Decked out in pint-sized skinny jeans, stickered helmets and graphic tees, the youngsters are part of the Vail Recreation District’s after-school skateboard clinics, a laidback compliment to the district’s summertime skate camps. The hour-long clinics are open to elementary and middle school students and cost $15 per session. Barry Parent, the group’s coach and de facto teacher, can’t think of a better classroom. “There are a lot of young kids out there who want to skate and the camps with the rec district get them started in the right direction,” says Parent, a lifelong skater who also owns Vail Skate Supply on the far west end of Lionshead Village. “It’s a fun, safe way to get out for a little after school and enjoy being on a skateboard. For 6-year-old Nicholas Rainville of Red Cliff, perfecting ollies and bombing the quarterpipe with Parent and a few other elementary-aged kids is his favorite subject of the day. Ramps and rails take the place of desks and computer screens, while battered skate decks fill in for pencils and paper. On Sept. 4, he was busy mastering basic skills and already dropping in on the quarterpipe, despite the fact he wasn’t quite sure how to spell his last name. Two (or possibly three) sessions remain in the clinic, and even after the skatepark is torn down for winter, Rainville can easily transfer his skills to a snowbound terrain park. As Parent explains, skateboarding is perfect for kids in a mountain town

Vail Recreation District hosts after-school skateboard clinics for young skaters on the rise. By Phil Lindeman.

that’s steeped in extreme sports culture. “Skateboarding is just a lot more mainstream now,” said Parent. “These kids see it on TV, and chances are they’re already on skis or snowboards. More impressive than skating itself is just watching these kids progress and have fun. They have a great time together – the parents show up and the end of the day and they’re just so excited to show what they learned.” Skateboarding 101 Cutesy metaphors aside, the VRD clinics really are an extension of the school day, albeit a unothodox one. Parent walks with his students from Red Sandstone Elementary School to the skatepark, all the while chatting about the unexpected benefits of skateboarding. Each session begins with stretching – something Parent overlooked as a young skater and BMX rider – and segues into snippets on the fitness perks of skateboarding. It’s a natural requirement for any rec district camp, but the coach buys into it wholeheartedly. “I want the kids to understand this is actually exercise, even if they don’t think of it like that,” said Parent. “It’s impossible to get kids to stretch, but this is showing them that exercise can be awesome. It doesn’t have to be a chore.” After stretching and a quick group talk, Parent takes the experiential-learning approach to skateboarding. His students are on skateboards within a few short minutes, and while they cruise around working on everything from manuals to kickflips, he meets with each individually. Drills and repetition have their place – dropping in is roughly equivalent to catching and throwing a baseball – but Parent doesn’t like to approach skateboarding like a team sport. It’s more

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What: A youth-friendly skateboard camp led by local skateshop owner Barry Parent and organized by the Vail Recreation District When: Sept. 18 and 25 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Oct. 2 depending on weather) Where: Lionshead Skatepark, Vail (top level of the Lionshead parking structure) Cost: $15 per session The clinics began in late August, but new attendees are always welcome. A helmet and skateboard are required. To find out more about the camp or to register for a session, call community programming director Chad Young at 970-479-2292.

your own, and unlike those team sports, it really doesn’t cost a lot of money.” Parent’s approach is perfect for the after-school clinics. As a relatively young group – the most experienced skaters are still in single digits – everyone is at a different level. Rainville is dedicated to perfecting his ramp skills, while

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As Vail Mountain School’s first new headmaster in 35 years, Michael Imperi brings fresh ideas to a storied campus. Interviewed by Phil Lindeman.

round noon last Thursday, just after the students at Vail Mountain School had eaten lunch and potentially were at their most manic, I walked through the halls of the East Vail campus with new headmaster Michael Imperi. Imperi, a teacher of 25 years before taking administrative roles in Boulder and Las Vegas, wanted to show me VMS’s revamped computer room, now known as a technology learning center. Verbiage can be tricky – the temporary term could easily be a cosmetic fix for a bland, boring, out-of-date classroom, filled with yellowed PCs and keyboards. When we left Imperi’s book-lined office, we turned a corner near the new technology center and heard a ruckus. Laughter mixed with the teacher’s voice, and although I couldn’t tell what was said, it was far more inviting than the emotionless tapping of my childhood computer lab. “You hear that? That’s basically a computer lab,” Imperi said. “I love hearing voices and laughter coming from there.” For Imperi, all that commotion doesn’t signal an out-ofcontrol classroom. It’s what he wants to foster – technology is vital to a man who lobbied for the first (and only) calculator at an early teaching gig. And the students don’t disappoint: A class on one half of the room built skyscrapers with dried pasta, while a class on the other half learned about the “rule of thirds” with digital photos. When Imperi first visited VMS in October of last year, the room shared much in common with the dimly lit labs I knew and hardly loved as an elementary student. Now, it boasts table-mounted computers, brand-new iMacs, teachermanned flatscreen TVs and, most importantly, a horseshoe layout. The kids learning about photography could watch the teacher and one of three teaching screens, no matter where they sat. None of this is to say Imperi wants to give VMS a complete facelift. He took over for Peter Abuisi, a beloved headmaster who practically hand-built the school’s first classrooms in 1979 and guided its curriculum for 35 years. Imperi makes one thing clear: He wants to build off Abuisi’s legacy, not dismantle it. Just a few weeks into his first semester as headmaster, SneakPEAK met with Imperi to talk about his vision for the school, teaching in Singapore and how the technology center is a sign of what’s to come.

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so I was able to see what needed to be accomplished. But to preempt even that question, I’m a Colorado guy, so I’ve know of the school and Peter’s reputation for a long time. I was at The (Alexander) Dawson School in Boulder for a few years, so I knew VMS’s core values and mission. This school has always been known for its experiential education and community service and sense of family. All those things are near and dear to my heart, so all those things were imbedded before I even arrived. What Peter has built here is incredible – we all stand on his shoulders.

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SP: Is this your first time replacing a long-term headmaster, someone who really defined entire generations of curriculum at a school? MI: I’ve never filled such big shoes. What’s daunting is replacing the longest-serving head of school in the nation, not to mention someone who spent 35 years of his life in the valley and created something from six students that became one of the premier mountain independent schools in the country. That said, it’s hard to replace an icon. Sometimes, I almost feel like an interloper. There are parents and teachers here who attended as students – they spent their whole life here, and somehow I’m expected to come in and take the reigns.

SP: Now that you’re an administrator, what makes for a solid headmaster for VMS, given where the school has been and where it’s going? MI: I think I have to be very careful to strike a balance between the traditions and core values of the school, and what I think the school should do and where it should go. I always joke about this, but I hire very smart people and get out of their way. I often hire people who are smarter than I am. I gave a speech in Las Vegas to the National Library Association and told them, “You have a giant challenge. If you walk a 21st-century student into a 20th-century environment, it’s alien.” I want our students to walk into a classroom that’s SneakPEAK: Before the school offered you the headmasalive with technology, all helping the teacher and the curter job, did you and Abuisi discuss a vision for the school riculum. Jobs of the future, we don’t even know what they and curriculum? are going to be, but we know what characteristics employers Michael Imperi: The strategic plan for the school is realare looking for. ly what’s driving us. Coming in monthly was able to fill me [See VMS HEADMASTER, page 18] in on the blanks – the strategic plan was already two years in,

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mole. Swing by from 4 p.m. until close (usually around 11 a.m.) for happy hour pricing on Maya’s signature lime-andtequila-based concoctions, like the sandia tajin, a mixture of tequila blanco, watermelon, tajin simple syrup and citrus, made from scratch at the bar. Between drinks, order one of the restaurant’s four versions of guac, made tableside by the Saturday, Sept. 14 server. Trust us: Bacon and tuna tartare with avocado isn’t as Devil’s Dash 5K in Gypsum Enjoy early autumn weather and support the Eagle Valley bad as you expect. High School cross country team with the Devil’s Dash, a benefit 5K run and walk. The third annual event begins at the Tuesday, Sept. 17 high school and winds through Gypsum before heading back Dinner and Dialogue series in Edwards to the campus. For information on race fees and registration, Join The Youth Foundation and Eagle River Youth Coalicall the school at 970-328-8960. tion for the free Dinner and Dialogue series, a popular addition to the nonprofits’ parent-specific programming. The event on Tuesday at the Edwards Fieldhouse near Battle Sunday, Sept. 15 Mountain High School covers underage drinking and drug Evergold 11K and 5K trail runs in Vail Join hundreds of trail runners for the Evergold 11K and use. From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., parents can talk with founda5K, the final races of the Vail Recreation District’s summer tion, coalition and law enforcement officials about drugs trail running series. The races are easily two of the most pop- and drinking in Eagle County. The event features free Child ular, beginning at the Vail Golf Club before winding through Care, free food and live Spanish translation. To find out town and across the front side of Vail Mountain. Both events more, see www.vvf.org.

Submit your event to SneakPEAK’s weekly community calendar by sending information to info@sneakpeakvail.com. begin at 10 a.m. and end with an awards ceremony and afterparty at 11 a.m. Registration is $29 by Friday or $39 the day-of. If you’re worried about Oktoberfest crowds, don’t: Thursday, Sept. 12 Parking for runners is available at Vail Mountain School in “Consciousness, Spirituality and the East Vail and includes a free shuttle from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. One Mind” presentation in Vail To find out more or register, see www.vailrec.com. The Vail Symposium plays host to Dr. Larry Dossey, former physician of internal medicine and Chief of Staff of Monday, Sept. 16 Medical City Dallas Hospital, for a talk on the connection National Guacamole Day at Maya between spirituality and wellness. In recent years, a growing Maya at The Westin in Avon is celebrating Mexican Inbody of evidence has demonstrated a profound correlation dependence Day and National Guacamole Day on Monday between spiritual practices and health and longevity. Dossey with an evening of $5 margs and delicious tableside guacawill examine this emerging image of the mind and the ethical implications of this view. The talk begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Grand View Room of the Lionshead parking structure. Cost is $35 for general seating, $25 for symposium donors and $10 for students. To find out more, see the symposium website at www.vailsymposium.org.

Friday, Sept. 13 to Sunday, Sept. 51 Vail Oktoberfest in Vail Village

For the second weekend in a row, the Vail Mountain and its namesake town host a massive Oktoberfest celebration. Vail’s final festival of the year is held in Vail Village, and as a companion to the rowdier Lionshead event, it’s perfect for families. Festivities begin at 5 p.m. on Friday, with live music, beer and Bavarian eats until 10 p.m. Things start up again Saturday at noon and run until 10 p.m., followed by Sunday’s final hurrah from noon to 6 p.m. Activities include Bavarian dancers, entertainer Helmut Fricker, keg bowling and stein lifting, most of which are free. For more info, see www.vail.com.

Saturday, Sept. 14 Vinyasa yoga workshops in Avon

Studio Anjali at The Westin hosts a vinyasa and backbending yoga workshop on Saturday with Ty Landrum, a leading instructor at Boulder’s Yoga Workshop. Landrum’s background in philosophy allows him to communicate subtle ideas in colorful and metaphorical terms. His workshops fuse the ancient wisdom of the classical Yoga tradition with experiential explorations of the mind, body and breath. Open to both beginner and advanced practitioners, the vin-

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Saturday, Sept. 14 The Haymaker MTB race in Eagle

Join Brett Donelson (above) of The Cycle Effect for The Haymaker, a brand-new, all-ages mountain bike race held at the newly constructed state championship trail on the Haymeadow property in Eagle. The event will include Strider races for toddlers, races for older children, races for high school riders and a two-hour night race for adults. In addition to races, there will be live music, food and beverages all day. Registration fees are $15 for youth racers, $25 for high school racers and $35 for the adult night race. Proceeds benefit The Cycle Effect, a developmental cycling team for local high school girls. To find out more or to register, see www.thecycleeffect.org.

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ing, they’ve hardly had time to think about SoInimitable style paired with invertchi some 6,000 miles away. With 360 skiers, ed 900s and 1080s keep him in the snowboarders and Nordic racers, SSCV is easupper echelon of pipe skiing, but he ily one of the largest ski clubs in the nation, but needs to find more amplitude with the academy is almost shockingly sedate. each hit. Chase says he can easily Blunck isn’t the only SSCV athlete poised go bigger – he averages 15 to 17 to visit Russia in February. Slopestyle-turnedfeet above the lip per hit – but she’s skicross racer Cristhian Ravelo is vying for most worried about the burgeoning a spot on the U.S. Ski Team, while Blunck’s sport’s greatest intangible: fame. training partner Torin Yater-Wallace would “He’s still sort of seen as an upshock the freeski world if he failed to make and-comer and an underdog, but the cut. he’s continually a threat and is startAnd yet, even the pipe jockeys who never ing to make a name for himself,” before had a chance for Olympic gold are Chase says. “He really just needs to relatively quiet. Perhaps they take after their not let it go to his head, let that fame coach: Chase has worked with David Wise, pull him away from the training.” Jen Hudak and nearly a dozen freeski innovators, but she calls the U.S. team almost impos- Olympic hopeful Paula Moltzan of SSCV. Photo special to SneakPEAK. Just the beginning sibly competitive, particularly against veterans Over the past five decades, SSCV eyeing their first Olympics. has helped dozens of athletes like Blunck and Moltzan blos“It will be a dogfight to make that team,” Chase says. som into Olympic contenders. Now it’s time for the club it“At the same time, it seems the veterans have realized these self to grow: In August, officials with the club and Town of To see exclusive images from the Aaron Blunck young Colorado guys are here to stay. Everyone is trying to Minturn broke ground on a new, 8,500-square-foot fitness photo shoot, go to Facebook.com/sneakpeakvail make their dreams come true and these guys are doing what center at Maloit Park, just steps from the academy campus. and find the “SSCV Sochi Preview” photo album. it takes. They’re making sacrifices and seeing the rewards.” The center will replace the cramped training center at Chase and the other SSCV coaches know sacrifice is built on the international circuit.” SSCV’s Golden Peak clubhouse – it’s little more than a gloMoltzan is in her third season on the U.S. Ski Team, but rified wrestling room – and comes complete with the ameniinto the Olympics. Eagle County natives like Nordic skier Sylvan Ellefson and slalom wunderkind Mikaela Shiffrin that doesn’t guarantee a ticket to the Olympics. She’s as ties soon-to-be Olympians need, from stationary bikes and train on-and-off with the club throughout the year, then trav- cautiously optimistic as the rest, with her attention solidly free weights to pneumatic squat racks and studio space. el the world for months at a time to rack up points on the locked on training at the team’s off-season headquarters in John Cole, human performance director for the club, says Park City, Utah. FIS circuit. the fitness center was a long time coming. It’s the first col“There’s not much time to think about the Olympics, but laboration of its kind in the nation: The center is open to all Although Shiffrin steals headlines – at 18 years old, she’s already the first non-European to win four World Cup slalom it’s still fun,” Moltzan says. “You see lots of people market- Eagle County residents, with rec center pricing for Minturn races in a season – fellow U.S. ski team member and slalom ing the team and looking ahead to what will happen. You locals and private health club rates for anyone else. Anyone specialist Paula Moltzan is hot on her trail. In mid-August, really can’t escape that. It’s a big deal, definitely, but who visits will have access to fitness care from Cole’s team, If sacrifice defines the Olympics, non-stop improvement is including alpine necessities like injury prevention and sportshe won gold at the Audi New Zealand Winter Games, just a few short months after her first World Cup start in Aspen. a welcome distraction and reward. Like a female counterpart specific training. Like Blunck, the 19-year-old Minnesota native returned to Bode Miller, Moltzan competes the best when her mind is “We’re been masters at making a lot out of a little for the from the southern hemisphere with a medal and plenty of almost completely blank. This isn’t to say she’s out of con- past 20 years,” Cole says. “We also want to show that perfortrol – instead, she trusts her athletic instincts. confidence – even if the win was a shock. mance training is not just for legends or Olympians. We live “I really don’t think a lot when I ski,” Moltzan says. “I in a very athletic community, and we’re excited to see how “It was pretty amazing going against that kind of competition and coming out on top,” Moltzan says. “I didn’t expect think that’s one of my strengths – I don’t overthink my that community will benefit from these programs.” movements and let my body do the work. It’s something I’ve it at all – I was incredibly surprised.” By the time the fitness center is completed in late April Moltzan grew up skiing on the fast, short hills of Buck done since I started racing, and it works well.” of next year – a tentative date, Cole is careful to add – the While in Park City, Moltzan balances training with a full- Olympics will be two months gone. Stateside competition Hill. She quickly learned the sort of edge control that bigmountain skier occasionally lack, and like fellow Midwest time nanny job. Both give her plenty of time to think, and will wind down for the bulk of SSCV’s athletes, and their darling Linsey Vonn, Moltzan practically exploded when although she shuts off her mind during competition, she’s attention will again return to algebra and U.S. politics. Chase she came to the long and steep Rocky Mountain courses as slowly pinpointing ways to improve. Oddly enough, her big- has been part of the cycle for years, but it’s the natural order a high school junior. SSCV Alpine Program Director Karen gest fault is linked to her strengths. of a sport she and Blunck and Moltzan love. “I’m working on control right now. Even though I like to Ghent recognized the teen’s potential – and raw talent – ear“You have to remember why you began this journey in the shut off, I still need to have a better idea of when I’m going first place, which is to bring our sport to the world,” Chase ly on. “She has a lot of training under her belt, with the combina- too fast or need to have a better eye for the gates,” Moltzan says. “You have to be happy for the moment.” tion of the gate training she had in Minnesota and the big- says. “There’s always something to work on, and in skiing it mountain experience she got once she came to Colorado,” changes day by day.” SneakPEAK editor Phil Lindeman can be reached at Back in Vail, Blunck is also weeding out his weaknesses. philip@sneakpeakvail.com Ghent says. “Those are the skills you need to be competitive

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Editor’s Note: Minturn-based sports fan Patrick Whitehu- ing job of hosting Saturday Night Live. Eli hosted the program as well and might be even rst writes for www.fanrag.com. Read his musings on the site funnier. Both brothers have an unrelenting desire to prepare each week. Both quarterbacks win or in SneakPEAK. games with their right arms and their football IQs. And each player will do whatever it takes As an older brother, I would go to great lengths to ensure to win on Sunday. For Peyton, that might mean spending time in defensive meetings scourthat my brother never beat me at anything, especially sports. ing over tape of the Giants and informing his Broncos teammates what Eli’s tells are. Eli I had an NBA playoff defensive mentality during our will no doubt diagnose trends from Denver’s formations and share them with the New York one-on-one games: no easy baskets. If he beat me with his coaching staff. For obvious reasons, I will be rooting for the Broncos this weekend. If Eli finally manwicked crossover and drove to the hoop, I would plant a forearm in his chest. I was the entire Bad Boys roster, bang- ages to best Peyton, I’ll crack a smile. But it won’t be as large or as lasting as the one on my ing MJ with no foul limit. I instituted “Hack-a-Shaq” be- brother’s face – and he’s not a Giants fan, either. fore it existed and never offered him free-throws. I would Patrick Whitehurst bury jumpers and hold my follow-through for a ridiculous amount of time. When I drove past him I’d call him soft, and I never stopped talking smack. I am six years older than my brother, so when we played football (tackle, of course) I had a distinct advantage. To counter this, he would wear shoulder pads, a mouthguard and a Buffalo Bills helmet that I convinced him was for his own protection. During our “Goal Line Stand,” he would get four shots at scoring a touchdown as I launched myself (a penalty in today’s safety-conscious NFL) at him with the intention of delivering a slobberknocker. I am pretty sure he even enjoyed it at times. My brother’s best sport was baseball. Even as a Little Leaguer he was much better than I ever was. Of course, I never admitted it to him at the time. When he crowded the plate, I would pitch high and inside. My control left much to be desired (probably why I played catcher and outfield instead), so my attempts to brush him back often ended by plunking him in the hip, back and shoulder. When I finally delivered pitches for him to hit, he looked like Dustin Pedroia spraying lasers all over the field and I’d act like I was doing him a favor by pitching batting practice. These days, my brother and I compete at fantasy football and baseball and choose to be on the same team when playing basketball or football (definitely flag or touch). We look back at our childhood battles fondly and are grateful we had the challenge of facing each other. Head coaches John and Jim Harbaugh squared off in the Super Bowl last February, a game in which the older brother’s team won. The Harbaughs matched wits and countered the other’s schemes flawlessly. When the final gun sounded, the two embraced and gave viewers a defining moment in sportsmanship and brotherly competitiveness. When the Broncos travel to New Jersey to play the Giants this week, NFL fans will be treated to another high-profile brotherly battle. I am not about to compare my brother and I to Eli and Peyton (we’re much better looking than the quarterbacks), but the intensity and anticipation of the latest Manning Bowl should be at an all-time high. This game is a treat for football fans and brothers everywhere. While Peyton and Eli Manning will forever be linked and compared in the annals of football, there is a mutual love and respect between them. They host the Manning Passing Academy every summer and donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities. They are ambassadors for the game and positive role models. The two share insights on common opponents and root for each other well beyond the scope of being a brother or fan. Both quarterbacks were the top overall picks in their draft classes. Peyton will be a firstballot Hall-of-Famer and should hold every meaningful passing record when he’s finished playing. Eli is deserving of that honor too, but voters will want to see more stats and wins from little brother. Older brother Peyton may go down as the greatest quarterback ever, but Eli has been incredibly clutch in the postseason. The face of the Giants franchise owns an impressive 8-3 playoff record, compared to the 9-11 mark that Peyton sits at. Eli has two Super Bowl rings while Peyton has one. Peyton has won four NFL MVPs and did an amaz-

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States, we have a giant pool of fisherman to pull from, but the idea of doing this competitively is very new and very fresh. We’ve really worked on going from “fly fishing is just fun,” to making it something that is respected and athletic. We’ve targeted those young kids because, again, they are so competitive. When they enjoy the outdoors and enjoy what they’re doing, they come into competition and really shine. We will find the Michael Jordan of fly fishing somewhere. SP: A 16-year-old, Cam Chioffi, just won the Youth Fly

Fishing World Cup in Ireland. Was he brought up in this system you developed? AN: He definitely is. It’s one thing to get a kid out on the water – mine are 8 and 11 years old and they love to fish, but I don’t have them even touching competition. I just have them in the outdoors, loving fishing. If you look at a kid like Cam, he’s being groomed in a way that is very different than just learning from your average fly fishing guide.

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go and just enjoy fishing? No need to give up secret pools. AN: My home waters for the longest time were near Grand Junction, really the Roaring Fork and Frying Pan areas. That’s where I try to take my kids when I want to have fun, just because I know it so well. That’s honestly my favorite place on the planet.

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given the go-ahead early in 2013, she had a hand in nearly every part of the planning and ed,” said Rau. “My intuition is that this course can really benefit the community in the construction. She’ll return the town’s favor by bringing roughly 400 cyclists and their fami- long-term. No races courses in the Vail Valley have really ever come together, and this is lies to the championships, but her hopes for the trail are more robust than a single race – or the first.” a long-awaited name. “The support the Eagle community has provided the high school league is unprecedentSneakPEAK editor Phil Lindeman can be reached at philip@sneakpeakvail.com

all come together in a very synergistic, beneficial way.” In Colón’s case, those synergistic elements are banned, but he opted for the treatment anyway in lieu of surgery. The pitcher’s doctor, Carmen Gerardi, is the CEO at one of the few biotech companies making cytokines, and one of the doctors Brandt believes is pushing the field forward. “Certain performance drugs are not really for performance enhancing, but are repair enhancing,” wrote Joseph Purita, medical director for the Institute of Regenerative and Molecular Orthopedics in Florida, in response to Gerardi’s article on the skewed perception of IGF-1. Of course, stem cell therapy is not a cure-all. Brandt says

it can’t replace surgery for something like a complete ACL tear. It’s better for issues like arthritis, tendinitis and partial tears. The price can be prohibitive – Latson paid nearly $11,000 for both treatments, none of which was covered by insurance – but Brandt also pairs with chiropractor Tom Palic for post-therapy care. After all, fixing bad mechanics is just as important as worn tissue. “Think of it as a car,” Palic says. “If your tires keep going flat because of an alignment issue but you never fix the alignment, it will never get better. You need that physiological care to go with the internal repairs.” Like Colón, Latson saw regenerative therapy as an attrac-

tive alternative to full-scale joint replacement. In fact, his Achilles tendon wasn’t even eligible for surgery until it tore completely, and he could hardly push through the pain just to face months of post-op recovery. “If you look at what I would’ve gone through with surgical repair of an Achilles replacement, this is nothing,” Latson says. “It’s like comparing apples to oranges. Now, I’m absolutely 100 percent, and I’m doing things other 67 year olds only dream about.” SneakPEAK editor Phil Lindeman can be reached at philip@sneakpeakvail.com

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9-year-old Kai Owens of East Vail is working on halfpipe reverts and flip tricks. No matter where a child is, Parent can foster style and progression – the two elusive talents any aspiring skater needs. “Working that way brings out the individuality of the sport, and that’s one of the great things about skateboarding,” said Parent. “It’s really not a team sport and I treat it differently. If a kid wants to just skate around or learn to ollie, I let them go with it. It’s all about them.” For the parents of future X Gamers, skateboarding can be nerve-wracking. Broken bones and bruised egos are always a possibility, but Parent says it’s the same with any sport. Learning through the VRD camp is often safer than going solo – the rec district requires helmets

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for all children, and other safety gear like knee and elbow pads is encouraged. In the current group, all kids wear some combination of the two, and Parent has gear for rent if needed. When the clinic ends and kids rest before another day of school, those bumps and bruises are almost a reminder to keep working, like earning a B-plus on a particularly rough test. “This teaches them that skateboarding can be fun and hard, all at the same time,” said Parent. “It’s almost like life – life isn’t easy, and things take more than one try to get right. That’s a good life lesson to take away from snowboarding.” SneakPEAK editor Phil Lindeman can be reached at philip@sneakpeakvail.com

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from last year to this year can be measured in minutes and exemplifies the gaps they have jumped. “Those three have legitimatized our team,” said Parish. “Last year at this time none of them were running varsity, this year they are three to four minutes faster. Last year was their first year ever, this year they seem determined to do very well.” Parish also said that they didn’t come out of nowhere. The three were ever-present at summer training sessions and running many solo miles on the trails. He pointed out that they have had some great leadership from girls like Sydney Gaylord and Val Constein. Even though the girls are running well now, it wasn’t long ago that they struggled just to make a state meet. “There is a crew of seniors that have run well for a number of years to push the program into what it looks like today,” said Parish. “Girls have pushed forward even when it wasn’t for first place. Those girls mean a lot to this team.” Senior captain Val Constein, who finished third overall in the race and continues to back up one impressive performance after another, now leads the girl’s team. “This year I’ve noticed that there are so many awesome leaders,” said Constein. “We have people stepping up everywhere. We have a really solid top five, but then even after that we are still running really strong. The sophomore crew is doing awesome and seems really pumped up.” The Huskies have finished fourth two years in a row at the state meet. With the attitude this year being one of construction throughout the season, Constein thinks that the girls will continue to impress each race so long as the team continues to savor the small victories throughout. “If we just step back for a moment and look at our team and the talent we have, and then look at the other teams around us, we’ll realize that we are just as good if not better,” said Constein. “We have one of the best coaches in Colorado. He knows how to coach champions. We could be champions. I think we are already doing good things and that will keep on happening.”

Huskies vs. Devils The BMHS boys just squeaked out their ten-point win over the Devils, but the two teams ran away from the rest of the field, beating out Columbine who finished third with 109 points. At the pre-state meet two weeks ago, the Huskies had again edged out the Devils in a larger field scoring 267 points to the Devils’ 301 points. In a big field, that mass of points equates to not much more than the 10-point differential in a smaller meet. Needless to say, expect the two teams to dual throughout the year. For the Devils, this year is all about October. Last year the team came on to have the best finish in their program’s history at the state meet where they finished 17. This year they traveled to the pre-state meet to get a feel for the course in hopes of returning in late fall to improve upon last year’s finish. “We are showing some solid early results,” said EVHS Head Coach Melinda Brandt. “Three of our guys ran faster times on the same course than they did last year. A couple of the guys hadn’t even seen the course before. They ran tough but I think we have a lot more left to give.” Next Saturday, Sept. 14, the Devils host their home meet on a fast down valley course. While the Devils get focused on their home meet next weekend, the Huskies are enjoying having pushed hard over the hills of Beaver Creek to reestablish themselves on a positive path after a few years of dissatisfying finishes. “Two years ago there were maybe nine teams at the home race and the guys were seventh,” said Parish. “The guys took it upon themselves to restore the tradition as a team.” Parish also says it wasn’t by fresh talent that the boys did what they did; rather, it was through hard work and grunting out a lot of miles that they are now seeing an improvement. “For two and three years they worked harder than could be expected,” said Parish. “This year there were 12 better teams at the home race and the guys won.” SneakPEAK writer John O’Neill can be reached at info@sneakpeakvail.com

LIVING WELL SUMMIT –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– tones and e-mails on your brain, and then head outdoors for something a little more invigorating. Saturday afternoon brings U.S. Men’s Road Cycling Champion Freddie Rodriguez and Tour of Utah Champion Tom Danielson to the Summit. The two will take cyclists out for a ride and give them the inside track on what it takes to ride professionally. With the Summit encouraging participants to change and

grow, it’s only right that the event itself does the same. Sonnenalp Vail President Johannes Faessler said Living Well is a perfect example of how to execute an initiative for a community. “(We) use the Summit as a catalyst to design year around programming,” said Faessler. “Vail is uniquely positioned to become a leader as a health and wellness destination. Living Well is an important step in that direction.”

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VMS HEADMASTER –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– SP: Your international experiences in Singapore and elsewhere make you a particularly good fit for VMS. How will you work those experiences into the curriculum and your new role? MI: We are looking at a number of good programs to advance our global position in curriculum. Here’s the 30,000-foot level: We’re reviewing our foreign language offerings. Right now we only offer Spanish, and my past school had five (languages), three of which I brought there. Second, we’re looking at an international student/guest program, bringing students from other continents to be guests at the school for an entire school year, housing them in Vail and everything.

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students. What people don’t understand is that more than 25 percent of our students are on financial aid. We have a very diverse campus – it’s a heterogeneous group, both economically and in terms of learning style.

SP: Are there ways to overcome that myth? MI: Part of it is to change that narrative. Peter built this school from very humble beginnings and is a very humble man. He never wanted to overshadow other schools in the valley because of funding or whatever. He tried to keep that narrative from being given to the community, and my thought is very different. It comes from a place of humility, telling our story in a broad way. That said, we still need more diversity. We need more financial diversity, and SP: Talk about the place of cultural diversity and cultural intelligence in a private school, more ethnic and cultural diversity. particularly one at which the students are predominantly white and mid- to upper-class? MI: Well, that’s the general narrative (about VMS) – white, upper class, high-achieving SneakPEAK editor Phil Lindeman can be reached at philip@sneakpeakvail.com

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Pizza & Pasta

Sandwiches

BLD

Hot Dogs & Soup

Mexican

Italian Food & Pizza

Rustic American

Organic/Local American Cuisine

BLD

$$$

Contemporary American

$$$

Steakhouse

$$$

Pizza & Sandwiches

Tex-Mex

BLD

Steakhouse & Saloon

BLD

Contemporary American

$$$

Seasonaly Focused Fine Dining

$$$

Seafood and Sushi

Coffee/Breakfast/Wine/Tapas

BLD

French Cuisine

$$$

Tapas Bar and Lounge

Gelato, Chocolate & Wine

Classic American Grill

Contemporary Colorado Cuisine

$$$

Seasonal American

$$$

Rustic American & Seafood

$$$

Italian Pasta Grill

$$$

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Vail 476-9026 Avon 949-9900 Eagle 337-9900

We help ordinary, everyday people with ordinary, everyday problems.

Appointments | 970.926.HELP (4357)

Come in!

Or weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll both starve Open Daily. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Rooms available! Sleep Sweet in a Sleep Suite $29.95

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Any 3-topping or House Combo 18â&#x20AC;? Large Pizza

* must present coupon when ordering

Good in all locations â&#x20AC;˘ One pizza per coupon One coupon per check â&#x20AC;˘ No other discounts apply

VALid MOn tHru tHurs OnLy ExPirEs 9/18/13 Thursday, Sept. 12 - Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013

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Eclectic American & Sunday Brunch

Comlets, burritos and more

Rustic Home Brew Pub/Muisc/Patio

American Cuisine/ Bowling

TexMex

American Fare

BLD

Steakhouse/American Cuisine

$ $$

Traditional American Diner

BLD

Hawaiian Style Food

Mexican

Chinese

Casual American

Coffee & Deli

BLD

Soups & Sandwiches

BLD

Pasta & Pizza

Pizza

Barbecue

BLD

Southern Eclectic

Creative American

Classic Italian

Italian & Pizza

Breakfast & Lunch Sandwiches

BLD

German & European Market

Coffee & Sandwiches

Colorado Wild Game Grill

Italian, Pasta

Eclectic American

American Cuisine

Homemade Bakery & Soup

Coffee & Crepes Sandwiches

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American

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Ristorante Ti Amo | 40982 US Highway #6 | 970.845.8153 Route 6 Cafe | 41290 US Highway #6 | 970.949.6393

Contemporary Italian

BLD

High End Tapas

Contemporary American

Tasting/Wine Bar, Paninis

Mexican

BLD

Kid’s menu Reservations Outdoor seating Catering Take-outs Live music/ent.

Ranch Western Atmosphere

Pricing

EAGLE/GYPSUM

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Colorado Wild Game Grill

Chinese, Asian

Rustic Pub

Pub/American

Chinese, Asian

Contemporary American

Organic Gourmet Fast Food/Burgers

Tapas/Wine Bar/Desserts

BLD

Pizza

American/Mexican

BLD

American Grill

Pizza & Pasta

Regional/Seasonal Fare

BLD

Pizza, Paninis & Salads

Sushi & Japanese Cuisine

Deli

BLD

Sandwiches

BLD

Tuscan Grill

Bar & Grill

Contemporary Italian

Southern BBQ

Traditional American

Steakhouse

Meditrainian/Greek Cuisine

BLD

Coffee and Sandwiches

Mexican/American/Western

American and Mexican Cuisine

BLD

Continental

American Brewery

Regional American

BLD

Casual American

American

BLD

New American

$$$

Pizza

Continental American

BLD

Casual American

American/Western

Authentic Italian

Pizza and Italian

American Bistro

Steakhouse, Aprés and Dinner

$$$

Mountain Fare/Steakhouse, Aprés,

BLD

$$$

Contemporary American

New American

American Pub

$ $$$ $

Custom Metal Work Including:

• architectural • ornamental • structural

Because you deserve it!

970-949-0961 41266 Hwy 6 Eagle Vail

$ $$$ $

Kid’s menu Reservations Outdoor seating Catering Take-out Live music/Ent.

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Home of Vail’s Piano Man, Mickey Page

Playing every evening

ry our new Tuscan Summer menu listening to Mickey at the Piano on our flower filled terrace 970-926-2111 676 Sawatch Dr. Edwards www.vista-arrowhead.com

Thursday, Sept. 12 - Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013

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Asian Cuisine

New American Cuisine

Sandwiches

BLd

Seasonal American

Northern Italian

Prime Rib/Steaks/Seafood

Creative American

$$$

French and American

French

$$$

Classic diner, Traditional Favorites

Contemporary American

Mexican

Contemporary American

$$$

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Family/American/European

BLd

International Café

BLd

Chinese

Japanese/Peruvian

Barbecue

Creative Seafood/Meat

Sushi/Asian

Southwestern Steak House

BLd

Pizza, Paninis & Salads

Steaks/Seafood

Sushi/Japanese

Italian/Pizza/Grinders

BLd

Continental/Wild Game

Mexican

American

Steaks/Seafood

Sandwiches

BLd

Sushi, Asian

Creative American

$$$

Traditional European

Contemporary American

Mountian American Grill

BLd

Contemporary American

BLd

Eclectic Pub

American Cuisine

Italian & Pizza

Steakhouse

$$$

Casual American

BLd

Sushi and Pacific Spices

Coffee & Sandwiches

Kid’s menu Reservations Outdoor seating Catering Take-out Live music/Ent.

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Dental Arts of Eagle Welcomes Frances Carthy as our new office administrator

970.446.7912 info@sneakpeakvail.com

“We Help Injured People”

Publisher Erinn Hoban

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Thursday, Sept. 12 - Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013

“28 Years of Service” VailJustice.com - Riverwalk at Edwards Edwards/Denver Offices -Emerald Building Suite G-1 970.926.1700

Todd H. Shainholtz, D.D.S. (970) 328 - 6347 DentalArtsofEagle.com

“We care about people... not just teeth.”

An Annual Charity Benefiting Local High School Graduates

Friday, September 13 Gypsum Creek Golf Club â&#x20AC;˘ 10:00 am Shotgun Start SPONSORED BY $110.00 per player for individuals $400.00 to sponsor a 4-person team (Amateurs only please)

Entry fee includes a great day of golf, aprĂ¨s party with live music, silent auction and lots of great prizes. Enjoy one of the last tournaments of the season and promote your business to other leaders in our community. This tournament raises money for the higher education scholarship fund for local high school students.

For more information, call 970-370-7065 Please sign up your team or to be a sponsor by Monday, September 9th

PRESENTED BY

Thursday, Sept. 12 - Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013

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EaglE liquor Mart First AnniversAry sALe in our new LocAtion

27% off all Wine 31% off all 1.75 spiriTs 5% off all domesTic Beer These discounTs are only Good WiTh This coupon

spirit discounts

BourBon/Whiskey Jim Beam 1.75’S $27.59 $42.99 Jack 1.75’S $27.59 fireBall 1.75’S Buffalo Trace 1.75 $39.99 $41.39 PendleTon 1.75’S $24.83 evan WilliamS

Vodka/Gin $18.97 Svedka 1.75’S $16.55 Pinnacle 1.75’S $25.50 Smirnoff 1’75’S TiTo’S 1.75’S $29.66 $31.79 SToli 1.75’S keTel one 1.75’S $39.99

rum/Tequila Bacaradi 1.75’S $23.45 $15.15 lady Bligh 1.75’S $28.75 caP morgan 1.75’S $26.21 Sailor Jerry 1.75’S $32.99 horniToS 1.75’S JoSe cuervo1.75’S $33.80 $26.90 Sauza 1.75’S $18.62 caSTillo 1.75’S wine discounts

cloS du BoiS 750 chardonnay oySTer Bay chardonnay 750 eSTancia chard 750 dreaming Tree 750’S

$12.99 $11.67 $12.32 $13.86

creme de lyS 750 menage a TroiS 750 Wild horSe PinoT noir lacreme PinoT noir

FREE bag of ice with every case. Best value in the Valley when you need ice and the coldest beer in the valley. 24

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Thursday, Sept. 12 - Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013

$7.94 $10.94 $16.78 $20.99

328-9463

Henry Doss, Owner