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The Long Journey Back

Wolves, People and Reconciliation in the West

BY adam tanous

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I Am of This Land

Voices from the Land of the Nez Perce

BY laurie sammis

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river pioneers

Tall Tales from Those Who Were There First

BY kira Tenney

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seven wonders of idaho

Raw Beauty in the Gem State BY kelly hennessy 16 sunvalleymag.com | summer 2016

on the cover Portrait of Chief Joseph (himatôowyalahtq’it) of the Nez Perce, taken in April 1900, four years before his death, on one of his many trips to Washington, D.C., advocating on behalf of his people and their homeland.

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68 Body & Soul Mountain Might to Infuse the Fight St. Luke’s new infusion center

Changing of the Guard

Lisa Wild leads Wood River Hospice

Medicines All Around Us

Native American natural remedies

76 Get Out There W ild and Wonderful Spectacular lake hikes

Riding High

Seeing the Valley on horseback

‘Take Me to the River’ A day on the water

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New construction drives Valley growth

132 In the Arts Capturing the Light

The art of James Cook

Outside the Box Michael Liener rethinks artist residencies

A Fresh Perspective on History

Contemporary Native American art

152 Food & Drink Idaho Wines Shine

The latest upstart in the wine industry

A Scoop of Summer Heaven Artisanal ice creams that delight

162 weddings Enchanted Summer Nights

Caitlin Andrews & Derek Steffein

84 also in this issue 22 From the Publisher 24 Contributors 44 Calendar of Events 54 Summer Camp Guide 60 Favorite Finds

Idaho Rustic Meets City-Hip

144 At the Galleries

Pretty in Pastel

158 Dining Guide

Emily Joy & Ladd Fritz

Caitlin Mary & Brian Gustafson

168 Wedding Resource Guide

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90 Innovation Hailey’s Quiet Conductors

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36 Local Buzz ‘ Feastival’ in the Mountains

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n the midst of stitching together the pieces of this Summer 2016 issue of Sun Valley Magazine, I found myself driving north out of Boise in a rainstorm, en route to Nez Perce tribal headquarters in Lapwai, Idaho. Twenty minutes into the trip, the clouds parted and the rain slid east across the horizon, revealing the slightly misted fields within the Weiser River Valley. Sheets of shuddering green stretched outward from the slice of U.S. Highway 95 that led to my destination in north central Idaho. The gently sloped river valley soon gave way to pine, and the road climbed up, then dropped down below rocky outcroppings of granite and basalt with place names like Tower of Babel and the Seven Devils, before winding into steep canyons that ran in fits and curves along the wild rivers of central Idaho—the Little Salmon and Salmon, and further north, along the Clearwater just before it meets the Snake.

North past Lapwai, after crossing the Clearwater River, U.S. Highway 95 climbs up onto the wide bench of the Palouse, a 4,000-square mile region of rolling hills and fertile prairie that stretches from north of Lewiston nearly to the southern end of Lake Coeur d’Alene and across state lines into Washington. Now one of the richest agricultural areas in the region, the Palouse is a stunning landscape of haphazard hills that tumble and knock against each other as if they were blown in place.

To the east of the Palouse, the country is cut by deep rivers fed by winter snowmelt and backed by a scenic landscape of soaring mountain peaks, lush forests and pristine lakes and streams. Idaho claims America’s deepest river gorge (Hell’s Canyon, which plunges 7,913 feet from its east rim to the mouth of Granite Creek and is deeper than the Grand Canyon) and tallest waterfall (Shoshone Falls, which, at 212 feet, is 45 feet taller than Niagara Falls).

It is an impressive and formidable landscape defined by wide-open spaces, valleys and knife-sharp ridges, mountains of towering rock and clinging sage, all of which is interspersed by high plains and rich agricultural farmland. This is Idaho. Raw. Untamed. And, for the most part, undiscovered by those outside its borders.

It was this quality of Idaho that inspired the stories within this summer issue—our Raw Idaho issue of Sun Valley Magazine.

Merriam-Webster defines the word raw as being “in a natural state” and not treated or changed in any way. Raw suggests an uncompromising point of view, strong and undisguised. This is Idaho in its true state, which is why readers will find within these pages a story on wolf reintroduction—a story that delves into both the complex and controversial process of returning a natural predator to the wild and the uncertain path of reconciliation for the stakeholders involved. (“The Long Journey Back,” page 100). It features the story of one of Idaho’s native cultures, the Nez Perce tribe, which had called a large swath of central Idaho their home before government treaties carved up their traditional homeland and led to conflicts prompting the Nez Perce War of 1877—this was less a war and more of a nearly 1,500-mile flight to preserve a way of life and a relationship with the landscape of Idaho and the inland Northwest (“I Am of This Land,” page 110).

These pages explore diverse and spectacular landscapes (“Seven Wonders of Idaho,” page 124) and the pioneering men and women who have attempted to test the strength of their spirit against them (“River Pioneers,” page 118). Step back in time to travel with Doug Ammons, Walt Blackadar, Yvon Chouinard, John Dondero, Sean Glaccuum, Melissa Coriell, Rob Lesser, Ryan Casey, Whiz McNeal, Gerry Moffatt, Brian Ward and many others down first descents and other feats of river prowess.

Adventure awaits, rare and unfiltered.

Go ahead, get out and enjoy your own version of Raw Idaho!

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dev khalsa From Santa Fe to Sun Valley, photography has taken local studio owner, Dev Khalsa, all over the map. During a ski vacation she and her husband took to Sun Valley in 2002, the two fell in love with the area and decided to make it their home. After four years as a staff photographer for the Wood River Journal, she launched her own business, Dev Khalsa Photography. Over 10 years later, the studio has become a Valley go-to for family portraiture and wedding photography. Dev credits her success to her roots in photojournalism and the lasting relationships she has built with each of her clients. For her, photography is an act of storytelling. It is, first and foremost, an exercise in observation and empathy. (“A Ride in the Sky,” page 48; “Changing of the Guard,” page 72)

jon duval like many residents in the Wood River Valley, took a circuitous route before arriving here in 2006.

The Boston native’s divergent career path has taken him from the world of high finance with the illustrious firm Lehman Bros., to the waist-deep powder of Hokkaido, Japan, to the rainslicked streets of Auckland, New Zealand, where he worked as a bike messenger. Jon now runs the Ketchum Community Development Corporation, and moonlights as a freelance writer and washed-up hockey player. (“Soldier Story,” page 42)

lisa carton is an award-winning broadcast and print journalist who has previously worked in San Francisco and New York. She is an avid skier, runner and cyclist, and an all-around outdoor lover, who now makes her home base in Bend, Oregon, and in Sun Valley, where she spent her childhood. (“A Ride in the Sky,” page 48)

mike leeds Born and raised in Idaho, Mike Leeds is an avid outdoorsman known for his exceptional talent as a kayaker, photographer and marksman. His love of the outdoors is a legacy inherited from his father Greg and shared with his son Caleb. Mike’s unique visual perspective and ability to capture the essence of an outdoor landscape coupled with his keen sense of composition and color are trademarks of his wide array of action and landscape photography. In fact, three of his action photography shots were included in the top 250 photographs in the prestigious Red Bull Illume image quest in 2013. (“River Pioneers,” page 118)

also in this issue photographers: Kirk Anderson, James Bourret, Joey Cardella, Kristin Cheatwood, Steve Dondero, Ray J. Gadd, Sergio Garzon, Matt Leidecker, Rob Lesser, Hillary Maybery, John McGlaughlin, Charlie Munsey, Amanda Nagy, Glenn Oakley, Neil Ever Osborne, Tal Roberts, Tessa Sheehan, Kirsten Shultz, Kat Smith, John Webster and Caroline Woodham

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writers: Julie Bramowitz, Karen Bossick, Bryant Dunn, Matt Furber, Cheryl Haas, Kelly Hennessy, Taylor Holden, Patti Murphy, Margot Ramsay, Laurie Sammis, Adam Tanous, Kira Tenney and Gwen Ashley Walters

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‘Feastival’ in the mountains

A Celebration of Fall Connects Food, Music and Friends

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We are well used to the changes fall brings: falling leaves, dropping temperatures, shortening days. For the past seven years, Mat Gershater and Whitney McNees have celebrated these changes, hosting an annual “Feastival” at their Idaho BaseCamp. This gathering, a longtime dream of Gershater’s, is a potluck-concert-campout hybrid, a kind of family-friendly Valley version of Burning Man. It always falls on the third weekend of September each year as a celebration of the harvest and the fall equinox.

There are few better places to celebrate the shifting of the seasons than the Idaho BaseCamp, a 13-acre eco-retreat located along the Big Lost River. The Idaho BaseCamp mission is to connect people with nature, their community, and the self. In addition to Feastival, the group hosts wellness workshops, yoga and meditation retreats, workshops, and a kids’ camp called Mountain Adventure Tours.

Community is a central tenet of Feastival, and everything about the weekend is a group effort.

The site is a web of trails, leading down to the river and between yurts and houses.

Attendees of Feastival are encouraged to bring their fishing gear and coolers, so they can kick back with a drink while searching for trout.

Community is a central tenet of Feastival, and everything about the weekend is a group effort. While Idaho BaseCamp provides the entrée, generally a stew or soup, attendees are expected to bring a dish to share. Before everyone digs in, the “tribe,” as McNees refers to it, circles up to give thanks. “Some people call it a blessing, some would call it a prayer,” explained McNees. “It is a nice little way of gathering up everyone and looking at who is there with you in that space, who showed up this year, who you’ll spend the weekend with.”

The weekend is not just for those who personally know McNees and Gershater.

Attendance ebbs and flows between 150 and

300 people and the couple is overjoyed when they see unfamiliar faces. While the first two years they relied on word of mouth, McNees recalled, “sitting by the fire with Matty on the third year and looking up and seeing someone we didn’t know. We were both so excited to see that what we had built was growing.”

Feastival strives to offer a different kind of festival experience in which the barriers between people are gone. Meredith Richardson, a local who has volunteered every year, said her favorite memory was jamming with the bands that had come to play Feastival, an experience practically impossible at any other event. After clearing out “the yellow house,” an old brothel brought down to the BaseCamp from Mackay in the 1950s, volunteers helped outfit each room with a different theme, including one room dubbed the “208 lounge,” intended as a late night venue for the festival. After bands’ sets were over, they could come into the lounge and, Richardson reminisced, “play way into the morning, with everyone there. There was a crossover between artist and festivalgoer, this very intimate thing. You had the opportunity to go jam with somebody in the 208 lounge!”

The event is not just for those looking to celebrate until the wee hours. Feastival is all ages and family-friendly, one of McNees’ favorite aspects. “One year, I was walking around all the pathways and trails below the property, when I ran into one of my friends who had her two kids with her. We were listening to the cheerful shrieking of children running around, playing on the pathways, splashing in the streams, and the mom said that it felt so good to be able to allow her children to run and be free, because she knew there was a community of people looking after them, a tribe, where you’re all going to be looking out. Everyone will be taken care of.”

This year, Whitney McNees hopes to take it to the next level, adding even more activities and workshops for kids, with music and food that they can enjoy with their families.

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If you’re on the festival circuit and don’t want the fun to stop, check out some of these events happening all summer long! ketch’em alive Tuesday Nights | Forest Service Park During the summer months, every Tuesday night, live music floats through the streets of downtown Ketchum. At the Forest Service Park, bands and beer vendors gather for a couple hours of fun and dancing. ketchumidaho.org braun brothers reunion August 11 - 13 | Challis, ID This country music festival was first started by, you guessed it, the Braun brothers—three generations of country music stars who have played everywhere from Challis, Idaho, to the Grand Ole Opry. braunbrothersreunion.com sawtooth valley gathering August 19 - 20 | Stanley, ID On the hallowed grounds of the former Stanley Music Festival, the Sawtooth Valley Gathering is thriving. Only on its second year, this event already includes over 15 live bands for two days of music, onsite camping, food and craft vendors, and one of the most scenic backdrops in Idaho. sawtoothvalleygathering.com occupy east magic September 9 - 11 | Magic City, ID The first ever “Occupy” experiment was in Hill City in 2012. This year’s event, hosted by local band Old Death Whisper, will take place at East Magic Reservoir with multiple Valley bands, artists, games, and ... “shenanigans.” olddeathwhisper.com summer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 37

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How Volunteer Pilots Fly Thousands of Animals Out of Death’s Reach by patti murphy

On a blustery winter day in Boise, Idaho, a small cargo plane touched down at the airport carrying within its belly some very special passengers—49 dogs of all sizes, ages and breeds who, just hours earlier, had faced the grim fate of euthanasia at an overcrowded Arizona animal shelter.

Tucked securely into crates for the short flight, these barking, wagging fur balls were getting their second chance at life thanks to Dog Is My Copilot (DIMC), a volunteer organization that uses private planes to transport animals from overcrowded, high-kill shelters, to no-kill shelters that are underpopulated and in need of more animals to adopt out.

The dogs on this particular flight were headed for Boise’s Idaho Humane Society, one of several shelters throughout Idaho that receive animals from DIMC. However, DIMC

also partners with the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley and last year delivered about 40 animals to the Hailey facility.

Nadia Novik, animal operations manager and veterinary technician for the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley, said the animals typically come in from California.

“They haven’t caught up with spaying and neutering services and, unfortunately, those shelters are filling up like crazy,” Novik said.

“Nobody wants to be a kill shelter, but when you’re out of space, you only have so many options. What adds to the problem is they can’t just drive the animals to the next shelter up the road because they’re overcrowded, too.

They have to fly them somewhere else.”

Flying Animals to Safety

Enter Peter Rork, a private pilot and retired orthopedic surgeon who practiced

medicine in Sun Valley in the 1980s, then retired to Jackson, Wyoming, in 1990.

That’s when he decided to dedicate his life to rescuing doomed animals from shelters.

“What we provide is long-distance transportation to a whole new set of shelters in a different region that would otherwise be unreachable,” Rork said about DIMC rescue flights. “You can’t pack 25 or 50 dogs into crates and drive them 20 hours in a van.

That’s tough on everyone, especially the dogs.

But we can knock a flight out in four hours.”

Rork said some animals get sick and pass gas while flying, which fills the plane with an uncomfortable odor. “I’ve gotten used to it,” he said with a laugh and noted that before the flight medical professionals and animal rescue workers carefully screen all the animals. All of the animals have medical certificates when they board.

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Ric Browde, volunteer director of logistics for Wings, recalled transporting a dog that was perfectly healthy and well behaved but was voluntarily surrendered to a shelter by his owner because, as the owner said, “he no longer matches the drapes.”

Novik said she is not surprised by such stories. “You learn in animal welfare that nothing is unbelievable,” she said. “People think, ‘Oh, shelter dogs are obviously discarded for a reason,’ but it is so untrue. The dogs we get in are incredible. There’s nothing wrong with so many of these animals. I think people just get overwhelmed. Perhaps they couldn’t afford to spay and neuter, and now they have 15 dogs and they end up at the shelter. The people are probably heartbroken, and I truly get it, but these dogs are just incredible.”

Browde described some of the amazing dogs that Wings has been able to save. “In February we flew 80 dogs to Seattle who were scheduled to be euthanized in a gas chamber in an Oklahoma shelter,” he continued.

“Among the dogs on that flight were two purebred Great Pyrenees, a St. Bernard, and several Labrador retrievers.”

But, amid the stories of abused and throwaway pets, there are also stories of how these rescued animals, in turn, can become the rescuers. “We flew a pit bull into Coeur d’Alene, and he was put in a big adoption event,” said Smith. “The backstory was this woman was driving by, and she was ready to just end it all. She was actually driving to go kill herself, and she happened to see the big event

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The stories behind some of these rescued pets are both heartwarming and heartbreaking and confirm why the life flights are so needed.

“We just transported a puppy that somebody threw in a dumpster,” said Cindy Smith, co-founder of Wings of Rescue. “He just had a big hernia and needed some surgery, but someone threw this 6-week-old, 2-pound puppy in the dumpster. There are all sorts of animals in shelters,” she added.

“You can’t pack 25 or 50 dogs into crates and drive them 20 hours in a van. That’s tough on everyone, especially the dogs. But we can knock a flight out in four hours.”

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“Moms with newborns who get put down.

Pregnant dogs and cats that get put down.

There are seniors and purebred dogs, all highly adoptable, that get euthanized every day, and it just doesn’t have to happen.

“I know there are dogs that will be put down because there is no room on one of our flights,” she sighed. “They could be adopted within days; it’s just that we can only fit so many on the plane.”

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Rork co-founded DIMC along with Arizona attorney Judy Zimet in 2012. He does the flying, often in his own Cessna, and Zimet serves as ground control, flight coordinator, and liaison to the media and various shelters. DIMC flies in and out of 11 states in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific West regions. In the past three and a half years the organization has transported almost 3,500 dogs and cats to safety. Recently DIMC acquired a larger Cessna Caravan aircraft that can carry up to 150 animal passengers at one time.

The Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley also partners with a second animal flight organization, California-based Wings of Rescue. Founded in 2011, Wings of Rescue has about 25 volunteer pilots who use their own planes to fly rescue missions, and also charters a larger Metroliner aircraft that can carry up to 160 animals. Since its start, Wings has transported about 16,000 animals and currently flies to 10 states and Calgary, Canada.

Both DIMC and Wings require that the receiving shelter is a no-kill facility and that the shelter must first help their local pets, meaning local animals won’t be displaced to accommodate the transfers.

Novik said that the Wood River shelter’s free countywide spay and neuter services have been so successful that it has resulted in more space for transferred animals. “We’re fortunately not seeing the number of strays or puppies and kittens in our area that used to overwhelm us, so about 40 percent of our animals come in as transfers.

“The concept of this is amazing,” Novik continued. “The fact that we’re getting animals from shelters in California where they are literally being euthanized for space and bringing them here relatively easily and in large quantities is incredible. Think of all the lives we can save.”

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going on. She stopped and ended up adopting the dog. This dog basically saved her life.”

Too Many Animals, Not Enough Room

An estimated 3 to 4 million animals are killed in U.S. shelters each year due to overcrowding, and most of them are completely adoptable.

“We have to keep in mind it’s not a dog problem, it’s really a people problem,” said Rork, who stressed that the primary reason for shelter overcrowding is pet owners who don’t spay and neuter their pets.

Browde agreed and said, “People tend to vilify the shelters that have to do the euthanasia, but it’s not the shelter’s fault, it’s the community’s fault. When they only have 192 kennels, and they get 100 dogs a day, what are they to do?”

them, foster them, socialize them and adopt them out,” said Rork.

“I will say that the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley is a terrific group and they never say no to transports. Also, they always bring me a sandwich and a bottle of water, which I so appreciate since I’ve been cooped up in an airplane for hours. We need to clone them.”

Browde agreed. “You can really tell there is a lot of love at the Wood River shelter.”

When asked what people can do to help, Rork and Browde both echoed an identical message: “Don’t shop, adopt. If you can’t adopt, foster. If you can’t foster, volunteer.

If you can’t volunteer, donate. Every animal that someone adopts saves two: the adopted pet and another animal that can take its place in the shelter and possibly be adopted as well.”

The Cost of Saving Lives

While flying animals from one state to another offers a new level of hope for thousands of dogs and cats, it is not cheap.

Both Dog Is My Co-Pilot and Wings of Rescue are nonprofit and depend completely on donations and the volunteerism and generosity of private pilots who offer their time, personal aircraft and sometimes pay for the fuel. Neither organization charges the sending or receiving shelters for their transport services.

“The way it works is that we pick the animals we would like to have transferred from a California shelter and we call that shelter, then they make arrangements for the transport. The animals are flown directly into Hailey,” Novik explained.

It can cost between $80 and $250 per animal on each rescue flight, which adds up quickly when you are transporting more than 100 dogs. There are also costs involved in vaccinating, spaying and neutering, microchipping, flea treatments, heartworm tests, and other necessary vet services prior to transporting the animals. Both organizations make several flights every week, and both are continually seeking donations, which can be made through their respective websites, dogcopilot.org, and wingsofrescue.org.

Saving Animals Is a Team Effort

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Furever Haus was founded by Kim Coonis, who was executive director of The Connection senior center in Hailey for 15 years. This shelter provides a home for senior dogs and cats whose owners have died, moved to a senior facility or are terminally ill and can no longer care for their pets. “We saw such a huge need for this program,” Coonis said, “because these older animals were being dumped at shelters and were the first ones to be put to sleep. Nobody wants to adopt an older dog. They were a forgotten population, so we wanted to create a safe haven where they could come and live, and their owners would know they are taken care of.” fureverhaus@gmail.com

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The Wood River Valley attracts all types: retired executives, eternal ski bums, recent college graduates eschewing the “real world” for at least another year, and the myriad other professionals, service workers and entrepreneurs who are drawn to the mountains and the opportunities that lie within. And without fanfare, a small but growing number of residents with similar backgrounds—namely, the most elite of the nation’s military—have also found their way to this slice of paradise for a hard-earned reprieve from their service to the country.

Monty Heath is one of at least three recently retired Navy SEALs who have made the Wood River Valley home over the past few years, all of whom were drawn by the possibility of exploring a passion for the outdoor world. For Heath, this means hiking, floating the river with his two boys and dirt biking.

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which were to Afghanistan after September 11, 2001. However, Heath continued to help other soldiers, only now it is as director of military programs for the nonprofit organization Higher Ground Sun Valley.

While the move from the Navy to Higher Ground seems like a logical step, the initial path for Heath to SEAL Team Six, arguably the U.S. military’s most elite fighting force, was much less apparent to Heath at the time.

“It’s all about attitude and choice.

You can decide if it’s going to be a horrible day or a good day.”

— Monty Heath

The 40-year-old Heath readily admits that he had a tough upbringing, split between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, where he started drinking at a young age and, without any role models, began getting into trouble.

And while he didn’t make much of an effort in school, he did excel at swimming during high

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school, which led him to his first important goal: “I saw myself as a SEAL, I just hadn’t had the training yet,” said Heath of his mindset when he enlisted in the Navy at the age of 18. He had a contract to go right into Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (or BUDS) training, the 24-week course that includes the infamous “Hell Week.”

That mindset helped Heath get through what is considered one of the toughest physical and mental challenges known, one that he nearly didn’t overcome.

“If you want it 95 percent, you’re not going to make it,” Heath said, noting that he got “rolled back” after failing a “drownproofing test,” but was able to start over with the next class.

Once through the training, Heath joined the SEAL teams and deployed to Germany and Bosnia, with the objective of those latter missions being to hunt down war criminals from the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s, capturing and bringing them to The Hague to stand trial.

After the attack on the World Trade Center, however, the focus shifted drastically.

“We knew we’d be going to war soon,” Heath said.

By that point, Heath had made it onto the prestigious SEAL Team Six, one of the foremost counter-terrorism forces in the world, which requires a minimum of five years on the regular SEAL teams and then six more months of intensive combat training for a vast variety of environments.

As soon as he was finished with this training, he headed to the Middle East, where he would spend approximately four months during each deployment.

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At left: U.S. Navy SEALs drop into the ocean from an HH-60H Seahawk helicopter during a capabilities exercise at Joint Expeditionary Base in Virginia Beach, Va. Below: Monty Heath (back row) and Neil Roberts (far left), the first SEAL to die in Afghanistan, with other SEAL members (faces blurred intentionally) next to the Olympic ski jump, Sarajevo, Bosnia.

For Heath, his first deployment on SEAL Team Six began in January of 2002. It started out well, until the third month, when the first SEAL was killed in Afghanistan.

“It was an eye opener because we realized we weren’t invincible,” Heath said.

After two more deployments and his marriage in 2003, Heath decided it was time to get out, especially if he was going to have children. After running a resort in Nevada, he happened upon Sun Valley, in part due to Erin Rheinschild, the director of philanthropy for Higher Ground. As luck would have it, the nonprofit had an opening that fit his interests and a budding passion for helping those who shared his background.

“It’s awesome to give back to veterans.

These guys and gals show up in tough shape and by the end of a week being here, they leave wanting to help other veterans themselves,” Heath said of the impact of Higher Ground’s programming, which includes outdoor activities like Nordic and alpine skiing, sled hockey, fly fishing and whitewater rafting. “It’s therapeutic recreation, and we help show (vets) how to take these activities moving forward. People need to have passions and need to do activities for their mental and physical health.”

While that might not be a surprise for people living here, Heath said, it can be life changing for the veterans who come to the Valley to participate.

For Heath, the lessons learned during one of the most intense military experiences imaginable carry over into his life as a civilian and every job he’s had after leaving the service.

“It’s all about attitude and choice. You can decide if it’s going to be a horrible day or a good day—if you’re going to look at other people with envy, or, instead, increase your own skills and attitude,” Heath said. “Being in the SEALs helped me create a growth mindset in which any obstacle is irrelevant, you just get through it.”

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June 4, 2016

Experience one of the most scenic and trafficfree courses imaginable. The Sun Valley Half Marathon, 10K, and 5K races utilize the Valley’s multi-user paved path system through the cities of Sun Valley and Ketchum. woodriverymca.org/sun-valley-half-marathon

Sawtooth Relay June 11, 2016

Relay teams of six begin the 62-mile race in Stanley, climb over Galena Summit and finish at Atkinson Park in Ketchum. sawtoothrelay.com

Relay For Life June 11, 2016

Relay for Life is a community gathering in which everyone participates in the fight against cancer. Runners help raise funds to support local programs and services provided by the American Cancer Society. relayforlife.org/blainecountyid

Sun Valley Brewfest June 18, 2016

The Ketchum/Sun Valley Rotary Club presents its third annual outdoor craft beer festival at Ketchum Town Square. The festival features fine beers and foods from the region. sunvalleybrewfest.com

Gallery Walks July – September

The Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts monthly gallery walks in which the public is invited to share wine and conversation with artists and their work. This summer’s walks are July 8, August 5, and September 2. svgalleries.org

SVCA Summer Concert Series July – August, 2016

Top-notch musicians from around the country perform each year during the Sun Valley Center for the Arts’ summer concert series. Lined up for this summer are Mavis and The James Hunter Six, Emmy Lou Harris, and Lake Street Drive and Gregory Alan Isakov. sunvalleycenter.org

Fourth of July Festivities July 1–4, 2016

Hailey is host to the annual Fourth of July events, which include the world famous pancake breakfast, children’s carnival, antique fairs, Main Street parade, and fireworks. A highlight is the Sawtooth Rangers 4th of July, aka “Days of the Old West,” rodeo held in the evenings. haileyidaho.com

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July 2 – September 3, 2016 Sun Valley Resort brings some of the best skaters in the world to perform Saturday nights at the outdoor rink in Sun Valley. This year’s

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There is no end to the joy of a Sun Valley summer. The season brings concerts, lectures, lawn parties with fabulous wine and food, art walks and studio tours, ultra marathons if you dare, parades, and festivals.

The days are long, the evenings delightful, and there’s always fun around the corner.

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Ketchum Arts Festival July 8–10, 2016

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Literary giants of our time descend on Sun Valley for four days of presentations, breakout sessions, and informal discussions. This year’s lineup includes Salman Rushdie, Stephen Breyer, Jamaica Kincaid, Strobe Talbot, and Abraham Verghese. This year also features a talk by “Game of Thrones” creators and a performance by Irish Repertory Theatre. svwc.com

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Enjoy three days of competitive races, concerts, clinics by Rebecca Rusch, guided rides and a product expo held throughout the Wood River Valley. Also, don’t miss the SheepTown Drag Race held in Hailey. ridesunvalley.org

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Sun Valley Summer Symphony

In Focus: July 24–28, 2016 Orchestra: August 1–18, 2016 One of the great pleasures of living in or visiting the Sun Valley area is attending the free, world-class Sun Valley Summer Symphony.

Bring a picnic and a bottle of wine and enjoy music in the mountains. This year, enjoy Kristin Chenoweth performing at the Gala, as well as the trio Project Tf3. svsummersymphony.org

Mountain Home Country Music Festival July 29–31, 2016

Enjoy three days of the best country music has to offer. This year’s lineup includes Brantley Gilbert, Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, Colt Ford, Randy Houser, and Tyler Farr. mountainhomefestival.com

SVCA Arts & Crafts Festival August 12–14, 2016

This three-day outdoor exhibition of artists from around the country features a wide range of fine arts and crafts. In addition to the exhibition, there will be food, music, and artist demonstrations. sunvalleycenter.org

Wood River Valley Studio Tour August 16–21, 2016

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Standhope Mountain Races August 18–20, 2016

The Standhope races, held in the White Knob Mountains and the Copper Basin area, are not for the faint of heart. These 60-kilometer and 30-kilometer ultra races reach elevations of 11,000 feet. Some of the country’s most elite athletes compete. runwildidaho.com/standhope

Wagon Days

September 1–5, 2016 The annual celebration of the early days of the Wood River Valley features the Big Hitch Parade, the Papoose Club Pancake breakfast, a children’s carnival, the always-popular duck race, and arts, crafts, and antique fairs. wagondays.org

Trailing of the Sheep Festival October 6–9, 2016

The Trailing of the Sheep Festival preserves the stories and colorful history of sheep ranchers and herders. Come celebrate all aspects of these rich cultures, including sheep dog trials, sheep shearing demonstrations, a crafts fair, and culinary events. trailingofthesheep.org

Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree October 19–23, 2016

The “Jazz Fest,” which first began in 1989, features five days of live music, including 40 bands, 200 musicians and 250 shows. sunvalleyjazz.com

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A Ride in the Sky

Valley Teens Excel in Competitive Horse Jumping

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Chemistry and connection—it’s vital to all great relationships. However, what about the relationship between horse and rider? We’ve all seen that moment captured as they move effortlessly together—the magic as they share that strong connection, moving as one.

Three Valley teens understand that connection—a special relationship between horse and rider is critical to competitive show jumping—one built on strong ethics of hard work, endless hours of practice, dedication, and skill. Emma Coulthard, Macy Mitchell and McKenna Norris all thrive on that irresistible smell of the arena: part sweat, part fly spray and part dream-come-true.

McKenna Norris

“It takes years to build essential relationship ingredients between a horse and rider,” said 16-year-old WRHS junior McKenna Norris, who began riding at age 3.

“I have a photo of me when I was a couple months old in diapers on my mom’s quarter horse with her in a Western saddle, so there was never a time horses haven’t been a part of my life.”

Norris, who maintains a 3.8 grade point average, grew up in Seattle, but for the past five years has called Sun Valley home. She takes her sport seriously with her eye on qualifying for the Olympics.

“You build a relationship with an animal that doesn’t speak, so you have to communicate with your hands and your body,” Norris offered, as she groomed her horse Socke (pronounced Saki). Socke seemed quite familiar and pleased with his owner as she fed him hard candy peppermints. “You learn responsibility

because you have to learn how to feed it, take care of it, and understand how to do the right things when it gets injured.”

Norris has competed in the quarter horse, Arabian, and currently in the hunter jumper circuit. During her time in the Arabian circuit, Norris was U.S and Canadian national champion. She currently competes in the junior hunters, junior medals, and international derbies. She takes four classes in school every day to get out at noon, including two classes online. This is all done so she can ride both her horses, Spanky and Socke, Tuesday through Saturday, year-round.

“A horse that weighs 1,000 pounds and not only allows you to sit on its back, but is actually prepared to work with you because it wants to work with you, that tells you it’s a pretty special relationship,” Norris explained.

“But, if a horse doesn’t want to cooperate with you, well, let’s just say it’s not going to go well!”

Norris got sidetracked last season with a late start in competition due to a pulmonary embolism: a blood clot in her right lung.

“I was out for three and a half months and missed the biggest horse show of the season.

It hurt me in the point situation,” she said.

But Norris made up for lost time, having already qualified this year with her junior hunter for the West Coast Championships in Sonoma, and is planning to qualify her equitation horse to go back east for Nationals. For those unfamiliar with equestrian competition terminology, hunter horses are judged solely on style, movement, and conformation as they navigate a jumping course. Judging in jumper competitions is more objective—based on faults, rails down

and time to complete the course.­ “It’s all worth it when you overcome the ups and downs because there are ‘lots of downs,’” said Norris. “But it makes you stronger and you really appreciate the success and reward—all of the hard work pays off.”

Macy Mitchell

“I’ve been riding since I was 5. It’s become such a huge part of my life. I’m here at the barn six days a week,” said 17-year-old WRHS senior Macy Mitchell, saddling up her Irish sport horse, Ringo, at Sagebrush Stables in Hailey. Ringo seemed to tower over his young owner.

“I could never find a sport that I enjoyed, and I tried several. I knew I loved animals, so when my mom said, ‘I’m done trying to figure out a sport you like,’ I said I wanted to ride horses. At that moment, she knew she was in trouble!”

Mitchell recalled the moment she met Ringo. “We just connected; I can’t really explain that. He certainly wasn’t the easiest horse. For about three years we battled with him, teaching him lead changes, changing from hunters to jumpers, then back again to hunters, but it’s all been worth it to see what we’ve accomplished together in and out of the show arena.”

And accomplished she is: Mitchell is a 4-star United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) high school athlete and qualified for the Regional 3’6” Junior Hunter Championships in Del Mar, Calif., in 2014, 2015, and 2016 on Ringo. She also qualified, competed and led the team to a silver medal in 2014 in the Children’s Regional Jumper Championships in Sacramento, Calif., on her summer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 49

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Emma Coulthard

Emma Coulthard grew up in Las Vegas, and her riding career began at the age of 5.

“I remember pretty clearly: my mom got me a pony for my birthday party, and I would not get off. Ever since then I’ve been addicted,” Coulthard said with characteristic enthusiasm. Coulthard moved to Idaho in the third grade and is currently a junior attending Community School in Sun Valley.

“My mom didn’t think I would stick with it this long. It’s every day going to the barn.

You think that you’re only going to be there for a little bit, but I always end up spending the whole day.”

For much of the year Emma trained out of Seattle, Wash., heading to the airport every other weekend to ride her jumper, Stormy. “I felt that training out of the Valley might give me more opportunity,” she said. “Missing school here is difficult, but they allow me to make up the time and are very creative with my schedule.”

“Emma is a talented rider and super dedicated,” said trainer Jen Koval.

“Committing to flying here twice a month tells me that. She wants to learn and improve her riding skills, and she has.”

In February 2016, Coulthard and her mare were awarded Reserve Champion Modified Jumpers, in a class of 75 competitors at the HITS Desert Horse Park in Thermal, Calif., where competitors were drawn from across the U.S. It was a highly competitive jumper field in which the fastest time with no faults took the blue ribbon.

In late 2015, Coulthard also finished at the top of the field in Thermal, and was awarded both Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion in her jumper class.

“It’s figuring out our partnership,” said Coulthard. “You’re communicating nonverbally with this huge animal. You’re asking a horse to jump over seven fences in a row as fast as you can, along with doing crazy turns.

You have to be a unit, for sure.

“My ultimate goal is to do the big stuff— Grand Prix jumping. I’m not quite there,” she said. A beat later, she added with a confident grin, “Yet!”

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because they have to fit it in as a priority, but it’s such a great joy seeing them do the things they love.”

photos left to right: barbara dudley photography

jumper Kantos.

“Competition is intense. There’s a lot going on between you and your horse in the ring when you compete. You have to remember and maneuver the jumping course, and also ask your horse what you want from him with hand and leg signals only.”

Mitchell is conscious of the financial commitment required in her sport, as well as the necessary dedication that comes with it. With maturity beyond her years, Mitchell observed, “If you are one of those people who complains about having to do something, this sport is not for you. No one talks about cleaning their stalls and scooping up horse poop, picking out their hooves, or tending them when they’re sick. You have to come here and know that this is what you want to do, or you’re not going to go anywhere.”

Veteran horse trainer Teresa Englehart works with both Mitchell and Norris. “I’ve known both girls a long time—Macy since she was about 4—and they’re extremely talented, driven and dedicated. They are super role models for our young riders. For the girls to accomplish their goals, they have to travel to a lot to horse shows, and it’s very challenging (coming) from the Sun Valley area. The nearest ‘A-rated’ show is in Bend, Oregon, and you have to haul horses, all the equipment and the riders at least an eighthour distance away.”

“This is definitely a huge commitment of five to six days a week,” offered Kelly Mitchell, Macy’s mom. “Both Macy and McKenna travel to horse shows in Canada, Southern California, and even Washington and Oregon. They juggle school and sacrifice their social life. School is that much harder

heather coulthard

Above: Macy Mitchell on Ringo at the Rose City Opener in Bend, Ore. Right: Emma Coulthard on La Rosa at Del Mar showgrounds in Calif.

SUMMER AT COMMUNITY SCHOOL

classes

classes (cont.)

sports

outdoor

ELEMENTARY First in Math Mandarin for Kids Reading and Writing Camps Mad Scientist Chemistry Camp Kids’ Technology Camps Vellotti’s Chess/Lego/ Minecraft/Coding

UPPER SCHOOL English History Junior Thesis Chemistry Field Biology Wildlife Biology-Yellowstone Park Field Experience Algebra 1 Geometry Algebra 2 Intro to Computer Science Intro to Robotics Visual Art: Ceramics High Fire Digital Photography: In the Field Music: Listening and Appreciation Study Skills Driver’s Education

5B Basketball Player Development 5B Lacrosse Camps 5B Volleyball one.Soccer School Elite Star Soccer

Young Explorers’ Camp Wilderness First Aid White Otter-Swiftwater Rescue Level IV White Otter-Learn to Kayak Rock Climbing-Beyond Top Roping Ski Mountaineering Expedition

MIDDLE SCHOOL Middle School Art First in Math Technology Camps Creative Writing Mad Scientist Chemistry Camp Maker’s Lab Experience Study Skills

test prep PSAT/SAT ACT Prep Course

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON SUMMER OFFERINGS

Please visit communityschool.org or contact Mike Wade, Summer Operations Director, at mwade@communityschool.org or 208.622.3960 ext. 109

PRE K-12 DAY & BOARDING SCHOOL IN SUN VALLEY, IDAHO

360°kids // sustainable lunches

school lunches go sustainable

Local Food Alliance Partners with Valley Schools by margot ramsay

Above: Jack Herlinger, Kelby Whitehead, and Hannah Clark step up for a healthy lunch at Syringa Mountain School.

Gone are the days of school lunches on shiny plastic lunch trays filled with indeterminate and unrecognizable mush.

Now, think local, sustainable vegetables, fruits and meats served on compostable dishes with real flatware and cloth napkins. This is the kind of scene that is becoming a familiar sight at a few Wood River Valley schools and is part of the sustainable lunch program that the Local Food Alliance helped to create.

The mission of the Local Food Alliance, based in Hailey, Idaho, is to create a vibrant local food system in the Wood River Valley.

Its goal is to increase access to food grown and produced in and near the Valley. The Local Food Alliance provides a backbone of coordination, awareness and support among local organizations. Ali Long, the organization’s founder and executive director, said, “Our aim is to ‘connect the dots’ for 52 sunvalleymag.com | summer 2016

greater efficiencies and to further existing efforts toward a healthy local food system.”

A logical endeavor for the Local Food Alliance was to partner with local schools and create a sustainable lunch program.

“When Syringa Mountain School (a Waldorf-inspired charter school in Hailey) began, we learned that they had not contracted with a food corporation,” Long said. “So, we coordinated between Syringa and ourselves, and soon the farm-to-table lunch program was born!”

Long explained that the Local Food Alliance is also working with Community School, and that they are close to launching the “20/20 Local Lunch Option,” inspired by the class of 2020’s food unit. The group continues to facilitate the program’s improvement and expansion. “Our long-term interest is that this pilot will

demonstrate the feasibility of such programs, and that the Blaine County School District will adopt something similar,” Long added.

Upper school science teacher and Community School’s sustainability coordinator Scott Runkel said the idea of providing healthy, locally sourced and sustainable lunch to the students has been “in the works” for some time. Runkel’s role as the sustainability coordinator is to ensure that Community School’s building initiatives, programs and everyday life are sustainable, and that the school is actively working to cultivate environmentally educated citizens.

photo : courtesy local food alliance

Gone are the days of school lunches on shiny plastic lunch trays filled with indeterminate and unrecognizable mush.

“There’s so much power in eating healthy, nutrient-dense food,” offered Runkel.

Eighth-graders at Community School start their year with a food unit. The class of 2020 decided to develop a lunch program for their final project of the unit. Runkel tried to impress upon the class that, from an environmental perspective, how we eat determines the way land is used and is a huge part of our footprint. The kids had to include in their lunch program types of food, possible menus, logistics and prices, so that when the project was over, they could put it into practice. Working with the dorm chef, Head of School Ben Pettit and the Local Food Alliance, the class’s plan is to have the program together for the start of the 20162017 school year. The students are looking to the program in place at Syringa Mountain School for guidance.

“The lunch program will go a long way at eliminating waste,” Runkel said. “If we could get 30 to 50 lunches going twice a week at the start, that would be brilliant.”

“One of the core values of Syringa Mountain School is sustainability,” said Mende Coblentz, education director at Syringa. “We currently have a 2,500-squarefoot garden area in which our students enjoy project-based learning that focuses on health, nutrition, science and sustainability. We have an edible school garden, various citizen science projects and a composting program.”

The program at Syringa is a joint partnership with the Local Food Alliance, the Wood River Sustainability Center, and the school’s student garden program. “We are a school lunch pilot program for these two organizations,” Coblentz said. “They hope to be able to offer this program to all schools in Blaine County. We’re helping them work out the logistics of offering nutritious food to a moderately sized student body before launching a larger program.”

The Local Food Alliance helps the school with networking, educational materials and fundraising efforts. “It’s a team effort, and we feel really fortunate to be working with such visionaries in our community,” Coblentz added.

The Sustainability Center writes the menus for Syringa’s school lunches, publishes menus monthly and tracks the families that participate in the program. Sample meals from the menu are impressive and are nothing like school lunches—public or private—of yesteryear. One of the most popular items on the menu is the taco salad, which includes grass-fed beef, roasted tomato salsa, and rice and beans with jalapeños, garlic, tomato and cilantro. The fourth- and fifth-graders at Syringa have high praise for their school lunches, which is a seemingly uncommon sentiment among the general elementary school population. In an admittedly unscientific survey, a student named Skyler told me, “I love all the food.”

Gavin thought that his school lunches are “healthy and natural.” And tellingly, Camas summed up the sustainable lunch program’s offerings: “It’s all really delicious.”

bonni’s garden

The YMCA greenhouse was built in 2015 in memory of local Bonni Curran, whose husband Peter wanted to aid in the fight against childhood obesity and diabetes. The greenhouse now offers programs that teach children, from preschool to age 9, how to plant, grow and harvest their own healthy food from seed to plate. “We want to teach children where their food comes from and get them excited about eating it,” said greenhouse coordinator Tira Scott. “Arugula has been a big hit.” They have been working alongside the Wood River Sustainability Center and The Hunger Coalition and are currently undergoing an expansion of the exterior garden to provide even more space.

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Providing Blaine County kids and families with healthy, active recreational opportunities for over 30 years.

Aquatics • Baseball • Basketball FitWorks • Galena Lodge Gymnasium • Harriman Trail • HUB Youth Center • Indoor Playground Lacrosse • Pump Track • Soccer Summer Camp • Croy Nordic Sand Volleyball • Track and Field Wood River Trail 208-578-BCRD • www.bcrd.org

360°kids // kids camp listings

summer camp

Pioneer Montessori Ages: 3-5 Dates: June 20-Aug.19

Weekly sessions run Monday through Friday.

Half day (8am-12:30pm) or full day (8am5:30pm) options. pioneermontessorischool.org; 208.726.9060

mountain adventure tours

Mountain Adventure Tours Ages: 4 & up Dates: June 20-Sept. 1

Camping, rafting, biking, paddleboarding and more! To see a full list of camps, adventures and schedules visit mountainadventuretours.org; 208.309.1005

ymca day camp

kids camps day camps

arts & academics

science

sports

movement

YMCA

Ages: 5-9 Dates: June 13-Aug. 19

adventure

Bring your kids to the YMCA for the day or the week. Each week will have a different theme and adventure! Themes include Hear Me Roar!, Mission Impossible, Under the Sea, outdoor adventure, science, arts and Olympics. For a full list, visit woodriverymca.org; 208.727.9622

The Sun Valley area is often referred to as a big playground for adults. As it turns out, the kids do pretty well also. Our 360 Kids Camps Resource Guide details a wide variety of day and sleep away camps—from music workshops to mountain adventures. day camps

kids adventure day camp

Galena Lodge

bcrd summer day camp

Ages: 6-8 Dates: June 13-17 and June 27-July 1

Ages: 1st-7th Grade Dates: June 13-Sept. 2

Designed for younger campers to prepare them for the Galena Adventure Camp. Each day provides new adventures and activities while providing a safe and secure environment for young campers to learn and grow.

BCRD

An active, recreation-based camp that is safe, accessible and affordable for all. Kinder Camp for kids going into kindergarten, Explorer Day Camp for grades 1-2, Discovery Day Camp for grades 3-4 and Challenger Day Camp for grades 5-7. bcrd.org; 208.788.BCRD camp big wood

Big Wood School

Ages: 18 months-6 years Dates: June 13-Aug. 19

A fun-filled summer day camp with themed sessions weekly. Full-day and half-day options available. Themes include cooking, ecology, sports, pets, science, farm & garden.

208.726.9053

galenalodge.com; 208.726.4010

galena youth adventure camp

Galena Lodge

Ages: 8-12 Dates: Weekly from June 20-24 and July 4-Aug. 19

An adventure-based day camp for ages 8-12 (also offers weeklong camp sessions for ages 6-8). Activities include horseback riding, orienteering, paddleboarding, hiking, biking, climbing, rafting and an overnight in a yurt (during certain weeks). galenalodge.com; 208.726.4010

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young explorers’ camp

Community School

Ages: 2-3 Dates: June 20-July 28

Explore the world through field trips and our remarkable Trail Creek & Sagewillow Campuses. Our program is based on the belief that young children are capable and intelligent and that their own interests should drive their learning. communityschool.org; 208.622.3960, ext. 109

zenergy fitness for kids with zack taylor

Zenergy

Ages: 10-14 Dates: June 13-Aug. 19

This fun introduction to fitness will teach healthy and safe training techniques focused on getting their fitness off to the right start.

From 12-2:30pm, Monday-Thursday. zenergysv.com/registration

arts

& academics

creative writing camps

Community School

Ages: Rising grades 6th-8th Dates: July 11-15 and July 18-22

Do you like to write? Would you like to make

your stories more interesting, descriptive and engaging? Is it hard to get started with your writing or get organized or actually finish your story? Join this fun camp and learn to get your ideas on paper more easily. communityschool.org; 208.622.2960, ext. 109

svss music workshops the experience

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Sun Valley Summer Symphony Ages: 6-19 Dates: Aug. 1-5

Music instruction by professional musicians in piano, string instruments, woodwinds, brass, percussion and voice for elementary through high school age students. Applications online: svsummersymphony.org/education; 208.578.5464

svss music workshops the encounter

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Sun Valley Summer Symphony Ages: 16-23 Dates: July 26-Aug. 6

Training in strings and voice for advanced high school juniors, seniors and college undergrads. Application deadline: April 15th.

Summer 2016

Camp Big Wood June 13 - 17

SUMMER BEACH BASH

June 20 - 24

GO GREEN

June 27 - July 1 HOORAY FOR THE USA! July 5 - July 8 July 11 - 15

CAMP OUT WILD WILD WEST

svsummersymphony.org/education; 208.578.5464

bcrd theater camp

BCRD

Ages: All ages welcome Dates: June 29-July 23

Come and have fun with creative movement, expressive games and improvisation, with intentional progression geared toward a final performance! bcrd.org; 208-788-BCRD reading

& writing camps

Community School

Ages: Rising grades 1st-3rd Dates: July 11-14 and July 18-21

An individualized program tailored to the needs and interests of each child. They will develop and enhance skills in reading and writing through literature, improving comprehension and phonics. communityschool.org; 208.622.3960, ext. 109

study skills

Community School Ages: Rising grades 6th-9th Dates: Aug. 8-12

Designed to enhance study skills as students move through middle school and transition to high school: time management, reading comprehension, text annotation, note-taking, organization. Get prepared for the greater academic challenges that lie ahead. communityschool.org; 208.622.2960, ext. 109

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July 18 - 22

STAR WARS SPACE ADVENTURES

July 25 - 29

VBS SURF SHACK

August 1 - 5

UNDER CONSTRUCTION FUN

August 8 - 12 August 15 - 19

SUMMER OLYMPICS A SUN VALLEY SUMMER

Multiple weekly fun field trips, awesome art projects, games, cooking, music, full gymnasium and much more! Excited, experienced teachers are here to have a great summer with your child. Safe and fun for ages 18 months - 6 years.

Big Wood School Call today to enroll!

Space is limited!

208-726-9053

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mandarin for kids

Community School

Ages: Rising grades 1st-6th Dates: Aug. 8-12

Have fun cooking Chinese dumplings, singing Chinese songs, and playing Chinese games, all while learning how to count and learning basic Mandarin vocabulary and expressions. The times for this course coordinate with the “First in Math” course so that students can easily do both.

mr. d’s science adventures summer camp

Pioneer Montessori Ages: Grades 2nd-6th Dates: July 11-29

Choose between Motion Adventures (July 11-15), Exhilarating Science Adventures (July 18-22), and Hydro-Science Adventures (July 25-29)! Contact Tom Downey. pioneermontessorischool.org; 208.726.9060

communityschool.org; 208.622.2960, ext. 109

first in math

Community School Ages: Rising grades 1st-8th Dates: Aug. 8-12

Concerned that math skills may have deteriorated over the summer? This is the answer.

This class develops and supports appropriate, grade level math skills and problem solving for students in grades 1 through 8. Take this opportunity to brush up on your math with a veteran teacher right before school starts. communityschool.org; 208.622.2960, ext. 109

science

Classes run September through May. Sun Valley Ballet Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit 501 c(3) organization.

Ketchum Studio at the YMCA 101 Saddle Rd

Hailey Studio Meriwether Building 111 N. 1st Ave (Opening August 2016)

To donate, register for classes, or for more information, please visit our main office at the Hailey Studio or go to:

5b sports camps

Community School Ages: Grades 5th-8th and Grades 9th-12th, boys and girls

Community School offers sports camps designed to develop core skills, fundamentals and agility for all levels in a fun and supportive environment. Camps include:

5b basketball clinics Ages: Grades 5th-12th

Dates: Various times June - August

mad scientist chemistry camp

Ages: Grades 5th-9th Dates: July 25-28

Community School

Providing education in the art of ballet, dance in all forms and performing arts for children and adults.

sports

Join the Mad Scientist herself in our state-ofthe-art lab for this fun camp performing real chemical experiments. communityschool.org; 208.622.3960, ext. 109

5b lacrosse camps Ages: Grades 5th-10th Dates: June 27-30 and July 11-14

5b middle school volleyball camp Ages: Grades 6th-8th Dates: June 27-30

soccer camps Ages: 7-18 Dates: July 11-15, 25-29, and Aug. 1-5.

For more information and detailed descriptions, please visit

makers’ lab experiences

communityschool.org; 208.622.3960, ext. 109

Ages: Grades 6th-9th Dates: June 27-July 1 and July 18-22

Lost River Outfitters

Community School

Unleash your imagination in our new Makers’ Lab. Make a working piano using bananas, or a sculpture triggered by sound. Electric bling anyone? Science and art come together! communityschool.org; 208.622.3960, ext. 109

kids’ technology camps

Community School

Ages: 10-14 Dates: July 18-21 and July 25-28

These exciting, challenging and one-of-a-kind technology focused camps are designed to advance critical thinking skills, promote fluid intelligence, and teach problem solving techniques. communityschool.org. communityschool.org; 208.622.3960, ext. 109

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lost river outfitters Ages: 7- 12 Dates: June 15-Sept. 5

The most knowledgeable fly shop in town offers the best kids flyfishing camp for the summer! Your kids will learn casting, entomology, streamside etiquette, catch and release, safety and more with our fun filled summer camp.

Mention this listing for a free hat. lostriveroutfitters.com 208.726.1706

development peak performance three-day tennis camps

Zenergy

Ages: 10+ (intermediate to advanced) Dates: June 7-9, June 28-30 July 5-7, July 1921; and Aug. 2-4, Aug. 9-11

Coached by Director of Tennis USPTA Pro, Rob Kolb, and professional staff. Includes

daily USPTA Tennis coaching, video analysis, sport-specific swim training with Coach Ed Flory, hiking, and daily sport-specific stretching (9am-noon). Rkolb@zenergysv.com sports leagues

BCRD

Ages: K-7th Grade

The most fun you can have on three wheels!

KICKBOARD SCOOTERS FOR ALL AGES Fuel-free, foldable, smooth gliding, and a convenient way to get around . . . test drive our demos today!

The BCRD provides enriching programs to develop fundamental youth sports skills in a friendly and encouraging environment, with sports leagues offered in Baseball/Softball/TBall, Basketball, Lacrosse, Soccer, Swimming and Track and Field. Visit BCRD.org for more information, dates, and registration forms and signups. BCRD.org 208.788.BCRD movement sun valley ballet summer camp

Sun Valley Ballet School Ages: 4-6 (9:30am-12pm) Ages: 7-10 (1-2:30pm) Dates: July 25-29-Aug. 2

A fun-filled two-week program that is fun for everybody!. Camp runs Monday, Wednesday and Friday. www.sunvalleyballet.com; 208.806.1441

sun valley ballet summer intensive

Sun Valley Ballet School

Ages: 11-18 (Jr. & Senior Level) Dates: Aug. 1-5 and Aug. 8-12

Two 1.5 hour classes with technical instruction in Jazz, Ballet and Pointe featuring nationally-acclaimed guest instructors (subject to change): Phyllis Affrunti, Jake Casey, Colton West and Adrienne Kerr. Camp runs Monday through Friday. www.sunvalleyballet.com; 208.806.1441

adventure bike, raft

& sup

Mountain Adventure Tours

micro kickboard

Ages: 9-12 Dates: July 25-28

Combining elegant Swiss design and cutting-edge technology

Get ready for a big adventure—a private bike course at the ranch, rafting the Salmon or Payette with experienced guides, then stand-up paddleboarding at Magic Reservoir.

Includes one overnight. mountainadventuretours.org 208.309.1005

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The Village Shops Sun Valley www.toystoresunvalley.com

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GALENA YOUTH ADVENTURE C A M P

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fish, bike, hike

& fun

at 7:00 a.m. on Monday, July 18 and return by 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 21. Taught by our Outdoor Program and Outdoor Leadership Academy Director Rob Landis.

Mountain Adventure Tours Ages: 7-11 Dates: July 21-25

Do you feel you are a ready for a challenge?

Now is the time to learn to pack a backpack, read a map and leave no-trace camping. Includes a double overnight at a beautiful alpine lake. mountainadventuretours.org; 208.309.1005 camping

101 & 102

Ages: 7-11 (course 101) 11-14 (course 102) Dates: July 25-28 (course 101) July 11-14 (course 102)

chess/lego/minecraft camps

Community School

Ages: 4-12 Dates: June 13-Aug. 11

To see full descriptions of each camp, dates, and times, please visit communityschool.org; 208.622.3960, ext. 109

& ii

Ages: 10-13 Dates: Aug. 8-11

Parents, this is a chance for your children to go to a sleep-away camp only 45 minutes from Ketchum! We have created a week of wild adventure and cliff-hanging fun along the Big Lost River! mountainadventuretours.org; 208.309.1005

galena kids mountain bike camp

Galena Lodge

Ages: 8-12 Dates: Aug. 1-5

New this year! Learn bike-handling skills, ride on the new Galena Lodge trails and make new friends! Transportation provided from Ketchum, Monday-Friday, 9:30am-2:30pm, includes lunch. galenalodge.com; 208.726.4010 lead climbing

- beyond top roping

Community School Ages: 12-18 Dates: July 18-21

For more information & to register, please call 208.726.4010

www.galenalodge.com

Mountain Adventure Tours Ages: 5-7 Dates: July 5-8 and Aug. 15-18

mountainadventuretours.org; 208.309.1005

Do you feel you are ready for a challenge?

Now is the time to learn to pack a backpack, read a map and leave no trace camping. Includes a double overnight at a beautiful alpine lake. mountainadventuretours.org; 208.309.1005

Mountain Adventure Tours

mighty splash ‘n cave

Explore caves and discover how they were made. Go underground to see what’s inside, then check out local water life, swim, splash and have a great time!

Mountain Adventure Tours

idaho basecamp sleepaway i

communityschool.org; 208.622.3960, ext. 121

Spend four days at the world-famous City of Rocks National Reserve learning the skills you need to go “beyond top-roping” to multi-pitch and lead climbing. Leave Community School 58 sunvalleymag.com | summer 2016

splash bash with rafting

Mountain Adventure Tours Ages: 7-9 Dates: June 27-29

Get ready to explore the rivers and lakes of Idaho! Other activities could include standup paddleboarding, tubing and rafting. mountainadventuretours.org 208.309.1005

white otter adventures kayak/swiftsure rescue

Community School

Ages: 12-18, July 25-28 (Kayak); 16 and older, July 29-30 (Swiftwater)

White Otter Outdoor Adventures invites you to spend four days learning to whitewater kayak safely and competently on Idaho’s Salmon River (July 25-28). Swiftwater Rescue (Level IV) is a two-day course for private boaters, guides, and trip leaders (July 29-30). communityschool.org; 208.622.3960, ext. 109

wilderness first aid (wfa)

Community School Ages: 16 and older Dates: June 18-19

If you plan to spend time in the backcountry or leading outdoor trips, you need to be prepared. Fast paced and hands-on, this two-day course covers a wide range of wilderness medicine topics. communityschool.org; 208.622.3960, ext. 109

wild west montana adventure

Mountain Adventure Tours Ages: 10-13 (boys only) Dates: July 23-28

Get ready for ranch hopping. We will include fly fishing, hiking, river floating, zip lining, searching for wildlife, and exploring old ghost towns and more! Includes 5 overnights. mountainadventuretours.org; 208.309.1005

AGES: 4-14

W HAT ’S HAPPENING on campus this summer:

ENTERING GRADES 2-6

Summer kids camps focused on the concept of “Enviro-tainment” for ages 4-14.

208.309.1005

mountainadventuretours.org

Mr. D’s Science Adventures

July 11 - 29 • M - F, 9am - 3pm Please contact Mr. D for more information: tom@pioneermontessorischool.org AGES 3-5

Summer Camp

June 20 - August 19 • M - F, 8am - 5:30pm Please contact the office for more information: (208) 726-9060 ADMISSION INQUIRIES ALWAYS WELCOME.

211 2nd Avenue, Ketchum • 208.726.9060 www.pioneermontessorischool.org

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At the Symphony …

Personalized cutting boards offer the perfect touch when picnicing with your friends!

Willow Papery | 208.726.0456

Some of the world’s best classical musicians descend on the Valley for three weeks of free summer concerts. Enjoy a picnic, the spectacular Sun Valley Pavilion, and lovely music outdoors. Get ready with a few favorite finds here.

Dine in elegance while watching the show with this stylish cooler on wheels complete with dining set.

Ketchum Kitchens | 208.726.1989

Kick back and enjoy the tunes in your whimsical chair with a cool drink of your choice!

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The perfect cooler to store all your needs when you’re on the go.

Silver Creek Outfitters | 208.726.5282

Serve up sensations on these Italian plastic plates, then tow all your picnic perfections in this amazing wagon!

Bellissimo | 208.726.0702

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Battle the cool mountain nights with this snuggly soft blanket and sweater.

Madeline and Oliver | 208.726.7779

Revolution designs in water bottles with interchangeable pods allow you to take your water journey to the next level!

Barry Peterson Jewelers 208.726.5202

The unique, colorful stones showcased in these earrings make for the perfect summer accessory!

Barry Peterson Jewelers 208.726.5202

A fun, fashionable patterned dress paired with the perfect bag and shoes gets you ready for summer.

Brass Ranch | 208.622.2021

Stroll around in style, with these top-of-the-line Christian Dior sunglasses.

Armstrong Root 208.726.4250

Strut your stuff in this ideal summer outfit showcasing the hottest designs of the season.

Panache | 208.622.4228

Snuggle up in this fantastic cashmere sweater with matching tailored shirt, so spiffy!

Silver Creek Outfitters 208.726.5282

Turn heads in a beautiful, yet affordable designer outfit that is perfect for summer!

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These unique Idahome bracelets are the perfect finishing touch for every Idaho girl.

Ketchum Flower – Girl Friday 208.622.7364

For the Patio…

For those long, luxurious summer nights, what better way to spend time than with drinks and dining on the patio? We’ve collected some ideas to make your patio another great room of the house but with the Idaho sky as a backdrop.

Sporty, printed, cotton shirts offer whimsical fun!

Silver Creek Outfitters | 208.726.5282

Modern and functional, Open Room offers the perfect outdoor patio dining.

The Open Room | 208.622.0222

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Lounge on the patio in style and comfort with friends!

Ketchum Flower – Girl Friday 208.622.7364

Luminate the night with these decorative scented candles!

The Wildflower | 208.788.2425

Spruce up any chair, bench or sofa with this modern throw pillow­— the perfect accent!

Red Door Design 208.788.9075

Keep your hands silky soft with these buttery silk scents for your hands. Divine!

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French-inspired prints will have your guest enjoying the perfect meal.

Sun Valley Garden Center 208.788.3533

Invite your guests in with this perfect wool rug.

Sun Valley Garden Center | 208.788.3533

He looks so fine while sipping wine where the art is divine.

Brass Ranch 208.622.2021

Cruise through the gallery with this piece of delicious art around your neck.

Towne and Parke | 208.622.3522

Gallery Walk‌ One part aesthetic and intellectual conversation and one part moveable wine party, Gallery Walk is a perfect excuse for a night on the town. We’ve picked out a few treasures to take along on a warm summer evening at the galleries.

These rose-cut diamond with ruby and coral drop earrings are simply stunning.

Sister 208.726.5160

Designer dresses at affordable prices, Consign Design has the brands you will be drooling over.

Consign Design | 208.727.9466

Elizabeth Poole has done it again.

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Catch every eye with these delicious diamond earrings. Yes, please!

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Fun and flirty, this Tory Burch outfit will have you turning heads!

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This fabulous feather detail adds sophistication and luxury to your wrist and finger.

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Sun Valley Magazine’s Stylish pillows offer comfort in any chair.

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Gardening…

With summer comes fun days with the kids in the backyard, barbecues with friends, or just hanging out with a good book. To create the perfect backyard haven, try some of these outdoor treasures to spruce things up.

Spouting crows are a whimsical addition to your patio.

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Hummingbirds welcome!

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Relax and breathe in the aroma while picking out your perfect color for summer.

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Moss Garden is your one-stop shop for every gardening need. Plant your wildflowers, pot your favorite plants, and feed the birds.

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The best gardening gloves kept safe in your sporty tote.

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Gardening boots have just gotten glamorous!

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Plant your perfect herb garden and label it with these cute wooden signs.

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Keep hydrated on your hike with this perfect water pack.

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Patagucci hats provide relief from the sun.

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Poc sunglasses are sporty and provide the perfect protection for your peeps!

Image Eyes Optical | 208.726.8749 Backwoods makes hiking relaxing and fun with the perfect foot apparel, pack, and hiking poles. You’re ready to go!

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Pioneer Cabin…

The hike to Pioneer Cabin is a beautiful, sometimes challenging, day hike into the Pioneer Mountains. The view of the cirque at the top is something you’ll never forget. Be prepared; get the goods you’ll need for a wondrous day.

The best sunblock with the most amazing fragrance. Pack me for your hike!

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His and her ensembles are not only functional, but attractive and fashionable.

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Sun Valley Magazine’s

For the Kids…

Let’s face it; summer is really all about the kids.

With school out, it’s a nonstop play day for the little ones. We’ve picked out a few gems that will bring a smile to everyone’s face.

The perfect accessory for every little archer extraordinaire!

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Lady bug fun on this fun scooter. Hop aboard!

The Toy Store 208.726.5966 Stylish performance and function describe these biking outfits for your tot.

Matching helmets will protect their little noggins.

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Climb in, kids, fun guaranteed!

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Let’s go for a ride, kids. Hop in!

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Little swimmers will delight in these adorable suits.

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Be just like your stylish dad with these fun board shorts and soft tee.

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Psychedelic skateboards offer fun for little tots, grown-ups, too!

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Stylish and comfortable, these outfits will have your tots screaming with delight.

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These snuggly cute accessories will have your little one counting sheep.

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body&soul

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Mountain Might to Infuse the Fight St. Luke’s Brings Cancer Care Closer to Home by matt furber

The latest addition to St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center’s (SLWRMC) everexpanding suite of healthcare services—the Oncology Infusion Center—is focused not only on bringing to Valley residents and visitors cancer drug infusions, but other intravenous and oral treatments as well. For the newly expanded center opened in June, timing couldn’t be better: in April, the previous facility delivered more infusions in a day than it had any day in its entire seven-year history.

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department. In 2010, infusion services had 65 patient visits. By 2014, SLWRMC staffed 1,039 infusion appointments, and, in 2015, visits were up 35 percent.

This dramatic rise mirrors what is happening nationally: cancer will soon beat out heart disease as the number one cause of death in the United States. Incidence in Idaho in 2012 was 437 per 100,000 people based on the 2000 Census, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which translates into approximately 100 Valley locals with cancer.

The new space for the Oncology Infusion

Center is a welcome improvement for patients and the talented and compassionate staff that has been providing care in tight quarters for over seven years. With four infusion chairs, a comfortable waiting room and views of the mountains, the Center mirrors the tranquil atmosphere of the women’s imaging suite, another place where uncomfortable truths are faced.

“We are thrilled by the overwhelming generosity of the community, which (is making) our new Oncology Infusion Center a reality,” said Megan Thomas, chief development officer for the St. Luke’s Wood

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River Foundation. Thomas said that word of the great care at St. Luke’s has spurred more visitors and second homeowners to take advantage of the hospital’s infusion services.

The death rate for cancer is dropping, the CDC says, but, with our aging population, more people are sick. Some patients are considered cured after five years of cancerfree diagnosis. Reality for others is pain management through the hell of a terminal diagnosis. In all cases, care for loved ones as close to home as possible is the goal, offered Marvin Miles, the oncology nurse better known as Mouse. Miles’ boundless energy has established a healing environment, which many say helps foster solidarity and unequivocal support for patients, their friends and family.

“We all like to believe that there are healing components to our Valley in this landscape and in our community.”

— Megan Thomas, Chief Development Officer, St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation

Medication—oral and intravenous—can cost thousands of dollars per month. Part of St. Luke’s service is in maintaining a litany of specialized and expensive drugs made immediately available at the hospital pharmacy, a boon to patients and the local economy. The center can also be used to treat chronic infections, immune deficiencies, Lyme’s disease, Crohn’s disease, colitis, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis.

“The space is beautiful and will greatly improve the patient experience,” said Megan Dawson, a Foundation board member, interior designer and patient who had Remicade infusions for about a decade to treat her rheumatoid arthritis. “I probably would have had to go to Twin Falls once a month. The drive and sitting there for three or four hours for the infusion would have taken up so much time when I could have been at work. That’s tough, because the drugs are so expensive.”

The biggest plus: fewer patients have to leave town—that alone shrinks cancer’s shadow.

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Sitting Is the New Smoking

A common perception is that we can remain healthy and fit if we consistently exercise. While true to an extent, the ill effects from sitting at a desk are not canceled out by frequent exercise. Research shows sitting for 4-8 hours per day puts one at risk for “sitting disease.” Moderate physical activity isn’t enough to raise energy expenditure to the point of overriding this situation!

Sitting disease can predispose one to chronic diagnoses such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, metabolic syndrome, and obesity. Long periods of sitting or sedentary behavior can also cause low back pain, weak abdominals, tight chest muscles, and tight hip flexors.

To negate the consequential effects of sitting disease, one must stand up, sit less, and move more!

Here are some suggestions:

1. S hoot for 10,000 steps: Figure out how to walk more. Use a pedometer or activity tracker.

2. The 20-8-2 rule: For every 20 minutes of sitting at home or at work, stand for eight minutes and move for two minutes.

3. S tand up and speak: Stand when you talk on the phone. Set a precedence at the beginning of meetings that it is okay to stand or have walking meetings!

Ergonomic set up is important as well:

1. Adjust your chair so that the feet rest on the floor or a footrest, with hips and knees at 90 degrees

2. The monitor should be at eye level, centered, and 24-36 inches from the user

3. Keep elbows at 90 degrees and wrists neutral or flexed when typing

4. Keyboard should be centered to user, tilted negatively with the mouse on the same surface The treatment of “sitting disease” requires a paradigm shift in understanding the necessity of decreasing sedentary behavior time and increasing physical activity. In addition to activity, one must have ample hydration, a balanced diet, and know how to implement techniques for stress reduction.

- Kristin Biggins OTD, OTR/L ,CHT, CYT

For more information, contact Kristin Biggins at St.Luke’s Rehab in Ketchum, bigginsk@slhs.org, 208-727-8254. Kristin has her doctorate in occupational therapy and is a certified hand therapist.

Take Care Forward.

body&soul // infusion center infusion station

marvin ‘mouse’ miles infusion station

kitchen

reception washroom

infusion station

waiting area

Above: Floorplan of St. Luke’s new infusion center scheduled to open in June 2016.

trip is hard on the patient, and it’s hard on the support person.”

Not unlike sanitariums of the bygone tuberculosis era, mountain retreats have a new kind of draw but still offer therapeutic benefits.

“We all like to believe that there are healing components to our Valley in this landscape and in our community,” Thomas said. “The goal is to provide a healing environment while getting treatment. We know there are people who may not come to the Valley if they don’t have access to these services.”

Mountain States Tumor Institute (MSTI), based in the Treasure Valley, absorbed the oncology department in Twin Falls about a decade ago under the direction of St. Luke’s Dr. Charles Smith, a 40-year Boise resident and traveling doctor who is part of a decades-long push to bring cancer care closer to home for all Idahoans. With the new center, Dr. Smith travels to Ketchum on the first and third Thursdays of the month to back up the nursing team and Dr. Dan Fairman, an internal medicine doctor who oversees the center.

“In Ketchum, during the summer, there are a lot of patients who come in from elsewhere. We knew they were out there, but I was surprised at the numbers,” said Smith, who is originally from Nebraska. “They come in, and they are on chemotherapy through another organization. They may need their drugs on August 10 (in Ketchum).

Theoretically, they can do that now.”

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support the infrastructure and staff necessary for radiation therapy and surgery. With prostate and breast cancer, more common cases, however, once baseline treatment is established, patients can receive ongoing care in the Wood River Valley.

Dr. Fairman shared an example of a lung cancer patient unlikely to be cured, but, with ongoing infusions, his health is stable, and he will continue to enjoy Sun Valley’s mountain biking for a long time.

“People are indeed living with cancer longer,” Smith said. “They require occasional intermittent treatment and, then, most of the time, they function perfectly well. They do need monitoring and occasionally do need some sort of intervention.”

Better lifestyles and individualized chemotherapy cocktails are reasons people are more readily surviving, liver cancer aside.

Liver cancer numbers are up due to the complicating factors of hepatitis and other liver diseases like alcoholism.

“Overall survival is very, very good,” Smith said. “We are looking at curing, or survival rates, of, say, 60 percent now, compared to 30 or 40 years ago when it was about 20 to 25 percent.”

In worst-case scenarios, patients can be evacuated to a higher level of care, but locally managed care, drugs and testing are a boon for patients and the Blaine County economy.

“We won’t be everything to everyone,” Thomas said. “But we will keep more people from our Valley off the roads.”

St. Luke’s first certified oncology nurse, Marvin Miles, better known as Mouse, found her niche in the Wood River Valley in the 1960s, like many, as a skier.

The Calgary, Alberta, native has let little grass grow under her feet—too busy chasing adventures and careers—real estate, veterinary medicine, merchandise, restaurants. She’s been back to work in Canada and has lived in Washington, too, but not a decade has passed without some time in Idaho. Her latest and longest stretch began after nursing school in Utah, where, as a 45-year-old, she tackled a four-year degree.

She celebrated her 70th birthday in June, and, as is so often the case in this part of Idaho, you’d never know it.

“I have a lot of energy and nursing is a very well suited job for my personality,” said Miles, who, through her happily circuitous path in life, landed full time work as a nurse at St. Luke’s and eventually helped start the oncology service. She manages it with her nursing colleagues Karen Morrison and Nicole St. Germain. “We saw a demand for cancer treatment and other intravenous medicine.”

The trio rotates shifts and is managing increasing demand. They order and stock a profusion of often-expensive infusion and cancer drugs, about half of which are delivered intravenously, the rest orally. Miles says the nurses benefit from their MSTI relationship with ongoing training and from their close friendships outside work. Camaraderie is key to their success at all levels, she says. It is the purpose of the open floor plan in the new center.

“It’s important for patients to be with each other,” Miles said, describing the benefit of sharing not just information, but spiritually and emotionally. “They can talk about their treatments. It’s like a support system. We’re such a small community. You would be surprised how many patients already know each other.”

Miles says she’s learned a great deal about how differently people approach life and death and who can tolerate frank talk.

“We get pretty close to people. I’m kind of an impatient person. I’ve learned to listen a little better, maybe slow down and get to know their families. Sometimes we go to their services. Beyond the medical side of life, on the personal side, it’s been a big growing experience over the last six or seven years.”

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body&soul // hospice care

changing of the guard

Lisa Wild Leads Wood River Valley Hospice into the Future

Lisa WIld (left) takes over for Carolyn Nystrom (right) as the new executive director at Hospice and Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley.

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On the corner of 5th Street and 1st Avenue North in downtown Ketchum is a small barn-red building that stands quaintly behind its window boxes flush with wildflowers. Petite, as far as Ketchum buildings are concerned, this one-time residential structure houses the headquarters of Hospice and Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley (HPCWRV).

Inside this demure and well-manicured office resides a team of highly trained and compassionate nurses, volunteers and healthcare professionals who share a common goal: assisting in end-of-life care and bereavement services. But it is the focus on life and living that drives each of these remarkable individuals.

Lisa Wild, hired as the new executive director in 2015, is a smart, articulate, attractive woman in her mid-thirties who has a background as a registered nurse and a clinical coordinator, most recently for the hospice in Winter Park, Colorado. Wild is originally from Indiana and had never visited Idaho until the interview process brought her here last year.

Of her new hometown, Wild said, “I love it. This is a very warm and welcoming community.” And beyond the excitement and challenge of running a nationally renowned hospice care service, she loves to ski.

For someone relatively young, Wild has a well-formed philosophy that guides her professional life and caregiving, in general. “We should provide excellence in end-of-life care and bereavement services,” she said. “People want someone to be walking alongside them.

You learn from people who are facing hard times. We should all be living our lives to the fullest. It is an honor to be with people when they are fully focused on that.”

In 2015, HPCWRV served 2,799 individuals throughout the Wood River Valley, including 118 hospice patients and their families. Over 90 volunteers contributed more than 5,000 hours of service while driving over 20,000 miles within the Wood River Valley and surrounding communities.

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by bryant dunn

The organization is a successful entity based on a unique operating model within the hospice industry. According to Wild, “Nowhere else in the country has this model.

Yes, we serve the community in the ways that standard hospices do by focusing on the concept of care that values the whole person, fosters the quality of life and assures comfort, when cure of disease does not seem feasible.

But we offer many more services also, and we are entirely privately funded.”

One of the uncommon services the local hospice offers is immediate response to unexpected fatalities, whether those occurrences take place in residences, the local hospital or on the ski mountain.

“You learn from people who are facing hard times. We should all be living our lives to the fullest. It is an honor to be with people when they are fully focused on that.”

— Lisa Wild, HPCWRV Executive Director

The success of the hospice program is due to a great deal of effort and vision and is the result of superb guidance and direction from Carolyn Nystrom, the executive director emeritus. Originally from Oakland, California, and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Nystrom has been the driving force behind hospice since she accepted the directorship in 1990.

Nystrom comes across as an intelligent, focused person of purpose whose kind and heartfelt laughter softens the serious subject of her life’s work. “When I started, no one was talking about end-of-life care. Now people are doing advanced care planning.

People are talking about it, and people see the value of it.”

When asked about hospice’s operating model, which Nystrom designed from the ground up, she said, “We are the envy of the nation as far as this hospice’s relationship with the hospital and the community. More than 90 percent of people who die in Blaine County are serviced by the Wood River Valley Hospice. No other hospice can claim such high penetration rates.”

The hospice’s website addresses the fact that the hospice accepts no federal funds: “HPCWRV has chosen to remain a freestanding, volunteer-intensive hospice in

order to give patients, their families and the medical community the greatest amount of flexibility and access to end-of-life care.

HPCRWV is able to respond to and provide services for our community needs, goals and priorities and to the people we serve. We are not limited by the restraints of being funded

by Medicare. Our community has made a significant commitment to quality hospice and palliative care, bereavement services and caregiver support through its contributions to hospice.”

This speaks to the quality of the hospice’s services but also illuminates the challenges of providing such significant and valuable services based on the generosity of community donors. “We are 100 percent privately funded through the generosity of Wood River Valley residents,” Nystrom said. “This hospice is part of the fabric of the community, a community that values a high quality of living. Our organization and the way we function is a reflection of this unique community. Everything that we do for patients, individuals, families, and community members is provided free of charge.”

Nystrom, recipient of many national awards for hospice care and the Idaho Mountain Express’ 2015 Woman of the Year, is now focused on the next chapter of her life and that of the hospice as well.

She is spearheading an endowment fund that will ensure that the Wood River Valley will benefit from the hospice’s services for generations to come.

Personally, Nystrom looks forward to morning drives to Stanley and reading on the shores of Alturas Lake. Laughing, she mentioned a line from a book she is reading, Beverlye Hyman Fead’s “Aging in High Heels”: “When you’re 80 years old, you don’t retire, you reign.”

When asked what advice she would give the new executive director, Nystrom said, “Strive for excellence, manage the mission of excellent end-of-life and bereavement care and listen to the community.”

Wild certainly shares these goals. In a profession that is centered on the challenging focus of end-of-life care, Wild sums up the hospice’s approach, “We serve the community by focusing on life and living life to the fullest. Everything we do and every person we serve is a direct result of the community supporting that person. It truly is an honor.” summer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 73

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body&soul // natural remedies

medicines all around us

Natural Remedies in the Native American Tradition “Just scrape a little of the bark off,” said Alvin Yellow Owl as his knife slid under the bark of the aspen tree. “Chew on it a little ‘til it’s kind of pulpy—it’ll taste a little bitter— and then put it on your skin. The bark and the sap of the aspen tree contain salicylic acid.” He grinned, “Tree power!”

Salicylic acid is the active ingredient in many commercial dermatological products intended to heal a host of skin conditions ranging from acne and psoriasis to warts and wrinkles. It is also a chemical precursor in the synthesis of aspirin.

“My ancestors used local plants for trade, indicators of the season, food, paints and dyes, medicine and ceremonies. All those plants are still here.”

— Darren Kipp, member of the Blackfoot tribe

For thousands of years, the native peoples of the Americas roamed the continents, hunting and foraging for food and using the plants that grew locally for both healing and ceremonial purposes. Documentary filmmaker Darren Kipp Long Gun and his friend Alvin Yellow Owl, both members of the Blackfoot tribe, are working to revive what Kipp calls “traditional ecological knowledge” about local plants that can be used medicinally and for food.

“Having this knowledge is very empowering,” said Kipp, “because it’s about our relationship to the land and passing that knowledge on. It keeps me connected to my tribe, my community and the area where I live. My ancestors used local plants for trade, indicators of the season, food, paints and dyes, medicine and ceremonies. All those plants are still here—in your front yard, by the river and in the mountains. You don’t have to go deep into the Sawtooths to find plants such as rose hips, yarrow or camas.”

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Alaska to New Mexico and is abundant in the Wood River Valley. The Blackfeet call it “aohtoksooki” and use it in smudge sticks as an insect repellent. Applied externally, yarrow soothes scrapes, rashes, poison ivy, stinging nettle and mosquito bites.

Alvin Yellow Owl demonstrated for me: “Pick a little bit, stick it in your mouth and chew it up, then put it on your skin and rub it around. It’s one of the many things in nature we can use.” Considered a “medicinal wonder,” yarrow stems bleeding in minor wounds, can reduce inflammation in the digestive tract, acts as a sedative, and can alleviate toothaches when taken orally.

Master herbalist Darcy Williamson, author of “Healing Plants of the Rocky Mountains,” often teaches medicinal uses of local plants to tribal groups who have a new-found interest in that part of their heritage.

“The Shoshone and Bannock tribes wintered in the Fort Hall area during the ‘season of the snowy moon’ and that’s when the knowledge was passed down through storytelling,” she said. “But when the children were forced to go to public schools, the storytelling stopped, the language was forgotten and the knowledge lost.”

Anyone traveling up Highway 20 in the springtime is familiar with the blanket of blue blossoms that give the Camas Prairie its name.

The camas plant was a staple of the Native American diet and this area is where the Bannock tribe summered. Boiled or roasted, camas root tastes like sweet potato; the dried bulb can be pounded into flour for bread or mashed to a pulp and used as a sweetener.

The healing plants found in the Wood River Valley area and used by the Shoshone include arrowleaf balsamroot—easy to spot with its bright yellow daisy-like flowers— holly grape, chokeberry, rose hip, and horsemint or wild bergamot (see sidebar).

These and others are detailed in herbalist Michael Moore’s book “Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West.” In addition, Williamson offers classes on the subject in both the Sun Valley and McCall areas.

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by cheryl haas

your herbal medicine cabinet Yarrow Also called: Plumajillo, Milfoil Uses: Fresh leaves can be used on cuts to aid in clotting. Can also be boiled to make a drink used as a stomach tonic.

Holly Grape Also called: Oregon Grape, Creeping Barberry, Yerba de Sangre, Rocky Mountain Grape Root Uses: Used to purify blood and strengthen the liver. It can also be used externally for bacterial or skin infections.

Grapes are edible and turn dark purple-blue when ripe.

arrowleaf Also called: Breadroot, Oregon Sunflower Uses: Leaves can be used as a poultice for burns and boiled roots as a salve for wounds, cuts and bruises. Today, the root is used as an immunostimulant and the seeds can be used to make cooking oil.

rose hip Also called: Apothecary Rose Uses: Fresh rose hip can be used to treat cold and flu symptoms (it’s high in Vitamin C). Dried seeds and fruit can be used for stomach disorders such as ulcers and also for kidney disorders, diabetes, high cholesterol, gout, sciatica, and high blood pressure.

chokeberry Also called: Aronia Super Berry Uses: Can be used to reduce inflammation and improve insulin production. Recent studies discovered that it is not only anti-bacterial and anti-viral, but it contains several compounds that are natural cancer fighters. summer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 75

etoutthere

shangri-la Distance: 6.8 miles Time: 3 - 4 hours Elevation: 8,250 feet Elevation Gain: 2,000 feet Difficulty Level: Difficult Trailhead: Located at Redfish Inlet Transfer Camp at the southern end of Redfish Lake (accessible by taking a boat from Redfish Lodge).

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wild and wonderful

Spectacular Hikes to Alpine Lakes Abound

historic charm • modern comfort

photo : james bourret

by karen bossick

It’s a mere 25 miles from Sun Valley. But the road to Kane Lake reminds Sun Valley resident Tom Allen of driving in Costa Rica.

Once one turns off Trail Creek Road onto the Kane Creek Road, the road becomes as rough as a warty gourd. It fords Kane Creek more than once.

But Allen and his wife Jane quickly forgot about the drive as they hit the 3.2mile trail. It wound through woods and across talus slopes marked with cairns before emerging into a box canyon with waterfalls splashing down tall granite walls into an emerald green lake.

“Kane Lake has been on our bucket list, but we had never gotten around to it,” said Tom. “Finally, last summer we made it and now it’s one of our favorite lakes. It’s close, yet you feel like you’re really out there because of the road. It’s absolutely wild and wonderful, a really great hike.”

Sun Valley boasts plenty of great hikes along tumbling creeks, through meadows of wildflowers and up mountain paths. And Valley residents, young and old, are quick to share their favorites with others.

One of the most popular destination lake hikes close to Sun Valley is the hike to Baker Lake, a small alpine lake ringed by granite peaks. It’s close—just 25 miles from Ketchum—and it’s just 2.5 miles round trip, which makes it ideal for families with small children and visitors still trying to catch their breath in the Wood River Valley’s milehigh air.

“I grew up hiking to it with my Bernese Mountain Dog, Puddington,” said journalist Desiree Fawn. “It’s a beautiful hike—one in which I felt comfortable going by myself. And you can do it in a short amount of time.”

Sun Valley freestyle skier Luke Rizzo agrees: “My class hiked it after the Beaver

Creek Fire,” he said. “It was cool to see what the fire had done to the ecosystem. And the views at the top were awesome.”

Another short popular lake hike is that to Titus Lake, a small emerald green lake perched at 9,120 feet, just below Galena Summit. It’s accessible via a 1.5-mile descent.

“We did it as a family—the kids’ first hike,” said Valley resident Brad Musbach, who hit the trail with Ashley Burr and 11and 9-year-old Colton and Lillian Whitesell.

“It made a great picnicking destination that wasn’t a bit crowded.”

Those looking for more of a challenge will find it in Goat Lake, nestled in the Sawtooth Mountains and accessible from the Iron Creek Transfer Camp near Stanley.

Don Lappin took it with a group of six attorneys. They had to work at crossing a river and climbing a steep ledge past Goat Falls. “You have to work to get to it, but it’s so beautiful,” he said.

Another beautiful but challenging lake hike just 13 miles from Sun Valley is Upper Box Canyon Lake situated under Johnstone Pass at the end of East Fork Road.

“It’s stocked with cutthroat trout,” said Patti Fallon. “But it’s not crowded because you have to take a four-wheel drive road past Federal Gulch Campground to get to it.”

Shangri-La, also known as the Saddleback Lakes, ranks up there as one of the most stunning lakes in the area surrounding Sun Valley. Renoir Finizio and her friend Julie took the 10-minute boat ride across Redfish Lake and followed the Redfish Lake Creek Trail a few miles. The turnoff wasn’t marked but it’s easy to identify, thanks to all the climbers using it to get to the iconic Elephant’s Perch climbing wall. The two crossed a fairly challenging creek and navigated a steep climb uphill.

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getoutthere // lake hiking

alice lake Distance: 11.4 miles Time: 5 - 7 hours Elevation: 7,000 feet Elevation Gain: 1,600 feet Difficulty Level: Advanced Trailhead: 43 miles north of Ketchum, turn left towards Pettit Lake from Hwy 75. After 1.5 miles, turn right, cross the bridge and stay left. Park at the Tin Cup Transfer Camp parking area.

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titus lake Distance: 3.6 miles Time: 1 - 2 hours Elevation: 8,650 feet Elevation Gain: 700 feet Difficulty Level: Beginner Trailhead: From Ketchum, drive 29 miles north along Hwy 75. Parking lot is alongside highway, half a mile from Galena Summit.

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Distance: 3.4 miles Time: 1 - 2 hours Elevation: 7,900 feet Elevation Gain: 900 feet Difficulty Level: Beginner Trailhead: Drive 15 miles north of Ketchum on Hwy 75 and turn left onto Baker Creek Rd. Follow this road for 9.2 miles to its end at the parking lot.

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Distance: 11 miles Time: 5 - 8 hours Elevation: 7,100 feet Elevation Gain: 2,480 feet Difficulty Level: Advanced Trailhead: From Hwy 75, approximately 37 miles north of Ketchum, turn onto Pole Creek Rd. Drive 10 miles to Champion Lake turnoff (4-wheel drive recommended).

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“The lake was ice cold but we went in anyway because the temperature was in the 90s. Then we laid on a flat rock like lizards.

It was so mesmerizing we missed the boat back. So we had to hike back. All I could think about was having a gin and tonic— something cool and refreshing to keep my mind off my sore feet.”

Central Idaho’s new Boulder-White Clouds Wilderness boasts numerous lakes, several of them accessible from the west side of the wilderness along Highway 75. Most hikers trek a few miles to Fourth of July and Washington lakes.

Two more spectacular destinations are Alice Lake and Champion Lakes. The former is reached from a trail leaving Pettit Lake in the Sawtooths. Though the Alice Lake hike is fairly strenuous, many make the trip for lunch at the stunning cirque setting and head home. There are, however, plenty of nice camping spots for those backpacking.

The first Champion Lake is reached from the Pole Creek/Valley Road opposite Smiley Creek Lodge. It’s just over two miles from the trailhead on this road. One can see it from a saddle. The trail then drops down a steep shale slope and crosses a meadow just before reaching the upper lake. The lower lake is another half-mile. The basin was touched by the 2005 Valley Fire, but it remains hauntingly beautiful.

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getoutthere // horseback riding

riding high

Trip atop Gentle Giants Offers a New Perspective by karen bossick

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— Rider Renoir Finizio

Ninety-minute rides that begin along Little Redfish Lake before climbing up to breathtaking views of Big Redfish Lake, Mount Heyburn and other Sawtooth Mountain peaks are the Redfish Corrals’ most

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“It was one of the biggest highs in the world because I love horses and I love nature. It reminded me of being a cowgirl in the old West, and that has always been one of my fantasies.”

popular. The rides are offered from mid-June to mid-September.

“It’s a very beautiful, very soothing way to see things,” said former Mystic Saddle Ranch owner Deb Bitton (Rebekah and Mathew Cain, employees for seven years, bought the business this spring).

Overnight trips go to high mountain lakes—there are 180 lakes in the Sawtooth Mountains so there’s plenty to choose from, she noted. And no one’s going to go to bed hungry—not with dinners of steak, salmon, chicken and pork chops cooked over open fires and topped with homemade desserts.

You won’t want to sleep in, either—not with homemade cinnamon rolls and bacon and eggs sizzling come morning.

Wildhorse Creek Ranch, nestled in the picturesque Copper Basin 22 miles northeast of Sun Valley, offers rides ranging from an hour long to a full day on Arabian crosses named Sampson and Delilah.

“We offer beautiful rides to lakes like Moose, Betty and Bella—or you can take a two-hour ride along a scenic creek behind the lodge,” said Dan Mulick, who owns the ranch with his wife Lani. “There’s a good chance of seeing big game. And the area has great trout fishing.”

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pants and hiking boots, cowboy boots or tennis shoes.”

Sun Valley Resort offers rides on thoroughbreds sporting such names as Nip and Tuck and Geronimo around Dollar Mountain beginning at 9 a.m. each day from late May through September. The rides cross springs under rock formations and traipse through aromatic yellow lupine—often to the yip of coyotes protecting their young or curious deer. The rides look over Ketchum and Sun Valley, as well as the valley stretching toward Bellevue.

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Above: A group of riders with Pioneer Outfitters takes a break from a ride that explores the country around Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch near Stanley.

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Valley resident Renoir Finizio has hiked to Alice Lake many times. But the trip she cherishes most is the one in which she pulled her classic Tony Lama boots over her feet and donned a 1920s cowboy hat she bought at an antique show. Then she climbed aboard a horse and let the horse do the walking to the lake.

“It was one of the biggest highs in the world because I love horses and I love nature,” she said. “It reminded me of being a cowgirl in the old West, and that has always been one of my fantasies.”

The outfitted horseback ride gave Finizio an opportunity to see the sights without sweat beads clouding her eyes. And the outfitter leading the group pointed out items of interest while discussing the history of the area on the 5.5-mile trip, which included lunch and free time to swim or hike.

A handful of outfitters offer would-be cowboys and cowgirls a chance to see the geological wonders of the Sun Valley area via horseback rides lasting from an hour to a day or even several days.

“There are more quality trails here than anyplace in the United States,” said Bryant Dunn, whose Sun Valley Outfitters covers 700 square miles. “I love taking people into alpine lakes. I love customizing their adventures.”

You don’t have to be able to ride like Clint Eastwood galloping up the Boulder Mountains in “Pale Rider.”

“Some of our riders are experienced. But most of the riders we get are not—a lot are first timers” said Calvin Hatfield, who works out of Sun Valley Resort’s Sun Valley Stables.

“We feel that everyone should ride a horse— it’s part of many people’s bucket list. All we ask is that they be 8 or older and at least 52 inches tall. We also ask that riders wear long

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south of Bellevue. There is no charge for the 110 riders who participate weekly—the tab is picked up by the annual Cowboy Ball and community donations. Riders must be referred by physicians; physical, occupational and speech therapists; school counselors or mental health professionals.

The ranch works with another 150 people each year through programs like Camp Rainbow Gold for children with cancer, the Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind, the Boise Veterans Administration and Higher Ground Sun Valley, which provides therapeutic recreation for wounded warriors and people with disabilities. Swiftsure’s staff assesses each rider to figure out a goal, which might include improving core strength or using the body’s weak side.

“Even brushing a horse before riding can help with muscle tone,” said Cheryl Bennett, the ranch’s executive director.

“Riders quickly learn the horse will sense if they’re anxious or depressed.”

The horses mimic the motion of walking for those with movement limitations. “And they’re not going to reject you as people might,” said board member Jeffra Syms. “The communication between horse and rider is unspoken but so prevalent.”

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rides at Galena Stage Stop Corrals 24 miles north of Ketchum. Outfitter Devan Jackson plans to continue the hourly trail rides that pass along historic mining and logging trails.

He also plans to partner with Galena Lodge to offer wagon rides in conjunction with Western barbecues of burgers, chicken, pulled pork, corn on the cob, berry cobbler and more, on Thursday evenings beginning in mid-June.

Pioneer Outfitters also offers trail rides at the 900-acre Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch beginning in mid-June. Riders need not be guests at the ranch to get in the saddle. But guests who stay at the ranch four nights get a free ride.

Jackson takes riders on full-day trips to the Chamberlain Lakes and past Fourth of July and Washington Lakes. He also takes shorter 90-minute and three-hour rides along the Gold Creek and Salmon River trails. And he offers multi-day trips, complete with Dutch oven lasagna and grilled tri-tips, to places like the Boulder Chain Lakes for those who want to get into the wilderness without packing gear on their backs.

The nonprofit Swiftsure Ranch Therapeutic Equestrian Center offers rides for children and adults who have been referred by a physician on a 191-acre ranch

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At left: Marielena Flores with her horse, Ben, at the Swiftsure Ranch Therapeutic Equestrian Center. Above: Youngster Gareth Teullet enjoys a ride with the help of staff from Swifture Ranch. The organization enables 110 riders to participate in their programs for free. The organization also works with Camp Rainbow Gold, the Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind, the Boise Veterans Administration and Higher Ground Sun Valley.

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Seeking Water, Finding Presence on River Day Trips “What’s so special about being on the water is that, these days, it is one of the last places where everyone can be completely present,” said Doug Fenn, owner of White Otter Outdoor Adventures. “It takes people by surprise in some ways, but the river quickly builds relationships that get shoved aside when we’re in cellphone range and iPhone world. That presence and building of relationships is what brings families back to the river year after year.”

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world-class options to get out on the water.

An hour drive north of Ketchum, the clear Salmon River meanders through the valley of the stunning Sawtooth Mountains. The “day stretch” near Stanley is a fun Class II-III section of river, perfect for family rafting and inflatable kayak trips. After bouncing down the waves and rocks of “Piece of Cake” rapid and then paddling in awe through the steep canyon walls of “The Narrows,” the second half of the 10-mile section is a place to kick back, relax and enjoy the warm sun.

White Otter Outdoor Adventures has daily scheduled morning and afternoon half-day

river trips on the day stretch, and a café that is worth the drive, boasting an organic and local menu and open Thursday-Sunday. With anticipated higher water this summer, White Otter will also be offering trips on the Class IV Shotgun section of the Salmon River, at least through June.

If you have river experience, White Otter provides raft and inflatable kayak rentals, as well as shuttles. This summer is the first season White Otter is launching exclusive trips in which a guide will pick you up at your door in Sun Valley and take care of everything, including a private trip on the

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At left: Kids on the day stretch of the Salmon River near Stanley going face-first into “Piece of Cake” rapid. Above: Floating through “The Narrows,” a rapid on the Sunbeam stretch of the Main Salmon north of Stanley.

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river with a catered lunch. They are also partnering with KULAvie Custom Getaways to offer women’s-specific getaway days on the water that include yoga, rafting, amazing organic and local food, and “lots of laughing.”

The South Fork of the Payette River near Lowman is a stunningly beautiful day trip and Payette River Company (PRC), owned and operated by Ketchum locals and whitewater

The South Fork of the Payette is truly a hidden gem and renowned as one of the top day river runs in the U.S. legends Ginger and Sean Glaccum, offers day and overnight raft and inflatable kayak trips on the Hellende and Canyon stretches of the South Fork. The crystal clear waters of the Class III Hellende wind through mini gorges and past a cascading hot springs, and the Class III-IV Canyon boasts 25 rapids and a portage around a waterfall. summer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 85

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River Valley are home to world famous hatches and world famous rainbow, cutthroat and brown trout. The fishing can be whatever you want it to be: a party, solitude, or anything in between.”

For the self-adventurer, getting out on the water is easy. For fishing, Idaho fishing licenses are available at a number of outdoor stores in the Valley. Backwoods Mountain Sports in Ketchum rents kayaks, canoes, rafts and stand-up paddleboards for exploring on your own.

No matter how many times you enjoy the magic of Sun Valley’s waters, you’ll find yourself yearning to return to them year after year to find that feeling of absolute presence that is rather rare in the day to day, but is absolutely abundant when you’re out on the water.

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“In recent years, since the 1989 Hellende fire, the wildlife has been coming back like crazy. We see river otters, wolves, badgers… you name it,” noted Ginger, co-owner of PRC. The South Fork of the Payette is truly a hidden gem and renowned as one of the top day river runs in the U.S. Rafting and kayaking aren’t the only ways to indulge in rivers. The waters around Sun Valley have long been a mecca for fly fishermen and women, as the Big Wood River, Silver Creek, Copper Basin and more are within a 45-minute drive of Sun Valley.

“Fly fishing gives you a connection to the river, to the water, and to fish that’s simply magic,” said Riley Berman, fly fishing guide for Silver Creek Outfitters. “The high concentrations of creeks around the Wood

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Clockwise from top: Paddlers get a taste of “S-Turn” in the Canyon section of the South Fork of the Payette River; casting for cutthroat on the Main Salmon River; boaters stop for a soak at Kirkham hot springs on the Payette River.

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getoutthere // flow trails

Flow trails are built to minimize the amount of braking and pedaling a rider has to do.

Until the early 1980s, the term, “mountain bike” simply didn’t exist. A few intrepid road bikers attempted to ride the rugged mining and motorcycle trails throughout the Wood River Valley on their 10-speeds fashioned with “knobbies” for tires, but this system was poorly suited for the task and resulted in a lot of skinned knees and elbows.

It was with the advent of purpose-built bikes from major manufacturers such as Specialized and Fuji in the early ‘80s that the mountain bike came to be. Suspension forks became widely available in the early 1990s and a decade later suspension brakes entered the scene.

Fast forward to 2016 and the world of mountain biking has reached a stunning level of evolution and specialization. Concurrently, the thirst for newer, bigger and better trail

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systems on which to apply the mature technology now inherent in a wide variety of bikes has skyrocketed. As a result, the recent development of directional flow style trails—one-way, downhill trails that are built specifically to minimize the rider’s braking and pedaling while giving bikers the sense of flowing down the mountain—has become the new rage.

Julian Tyo, summer trails coordinator for the Sun Valley Company, spoke to the varied 450 miles of bike trails—both single track and flow—that extend like a web throughout the Wood River Valley south of Galena Summit.

“There is an incredible organic trail network here unlike any in North America,” said the articulate and passionate Tyo, his mop of brown hair sticking out from under his ski

Not all great bike rides are loops, and not all great bike riders want to ride uphill. In such cases, The Mountain Fairy, owned by Sturtevants in Ketchum, offers bike shuttles that can transport you to biking destinations all over the Valley and beyond!

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cap in a new-school fashion emblematic of so many up-and-coming mountain athletes.

“This remarkable trail system was created over 100 plus years due to mining, horse travel, hiking and motorcycle use and has resulted in a dynamic trail system unlike anywhere else.”

Over the past few years, several new flow trails have been built throughout the Wood River Valley. In 2011, Punchline Trail was built west of Hailey in Croy Canyon. This was the first directional flow trail constructed locally and is administered by the Blaine County Recreation District. North of Ketchum in the Adams Gulch drainage is the Forbidden Fruit flow trail that was built and is overseen by the U.S. Forest Service.

Farther north in the forests and mountains surrounding Galena Lodge is the new Galena Trail System, which has been constructed over the past two years and features trails with flow-style concepts. And finally, there are the Saddle Up and Lupine flow trails on Bald Mountain that are overseen by Tyo and his trail crew.

An exciting aspect of the Bald Mountain trail system is the availability of ski lifts to access the summit of the mountain, eliminating the need for bikers to pedal

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A New Era in Mountain Biking

Sun Valley Resort offers lift access to its flow trails on Bald Mountain that descend nearly 3,400 vertical feet.

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up before descending. In fact, lift-access mountain biking is catching fire across North America and the four-season resort industry.

British Colombia’s Whistler Resort features North America’s largest mountain bike park, employing a full-time staff of 25 that focuses on trail building and trail maintenance with an additional 24 bike patrollers. Impressively, Whistler intends to invest a reported $345 million in “Weather Independent Recreation” such as mountain coasters, treetop ropes courses, zip lines and night skiing facilities.

It also plans to double the size of its already industry-leading bike park.

Locally, the Sun Valley Company has a new seven-mile flow trail in the works. When completed, the trail will connect the current four miles of flow trails that wind from the top of the mountain to the Roundhouse Restaurant to the base area in River Run. This will give riders the ability to descend continuously from top to bottom without the need to download on the gondola. The uninterrupted descent will total approximately 3,400 vertical feet, and, at more than 11 miles in length, will be the longest single flow trail in the United States.

And what does the future of the mountain bike industry hold? Tyo summed it up: “Lift-access mountain biking has the unique opportunity to look at the lessons learned by the ski industry over the past 80 years and apply them to flow trails. What are the best practices with regard to grooming and trail maintenance? What should be the structure of bike trail patrol and medical response?

How can we construct trails that are open and available to the widest array of users? These are practices that are being developed and analyzed right now throughout the industry.”

In fact, the National Ski Areas Association held its first NSAA Mountain Bike Summit in 2015 to address the many issues surrounding the topic. Its overriding conclusion was that the future of lift-access mountain biking is in the creation of quality intermediate flow trails—good news for those who have come more recently to the sport or for beginners looking to develop their skills.

“Sun Valley has been offering lift-access mountain biking to our guests for the better part of 20 years,” Tyo related with a tone of pride in his voice. “But the fact is, as far as the evolution of mountain biking and the development of trail systems here in Sun Valley, we are just getting started.” summer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 89

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Hailey’s Quiet Conductors POWER Engineers at 40

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Making toast is pretty easy. Getting 700 watts to the toaster from a coal plant, a nuclear reactor, a distant wind farm or the photovoltaic array on the roof—that’s trickier.

The task requires a wide variety of engineering talent and sometimes even bat biologists and archeologists who take into account environmental and cultural impacts of building infrastructure. Electrical ions take the path of least resistance, much like water. It’s a wonder that the electricity grid, the dream of inventor Nikola Tesla, has coalesced as much power as it has and delivers it to as many remote places as it does. In the United States the power grid is a remarkably firm system that functions with steady reliability today.

Toast electricity arrives thanks in large part to POWER Engineers, Inc.­—the 40-year experts in grid design best known for stringing high-tension power lines. POWER launched in the Bicentennial year in Pocatello, Idaho, on February 27, 1976. Wide collars and bellbottoms were hip. Blue Öyster Cult laid down power chords for the heavy metal hit “Godzilla” that still rocks the radio waves, and demand for the smooth flow of electricity in the grid was surging. Utah and Wyoming suffered a major blackout on the 200th Fourth of July. Idaho, with smooth transmission of hydroelectricity, avoided the fray. New York City in 1977 succumbed to a major blackout that lead to looting, fires and rioting.

When POWER’s Pocatello headquarters burned down, the founders of the company, including Pete Van Der Meulen, Hans Buhler and Joe Murin, moved the company to Hailey to a building by Friedman Memorial Airport and later to Woodside. The “Burnout” is now an adults-only winter party in honor of the formative event that brought POWER to Hailey. At the beginning, in Pocatello, the crew and their families enjoyed camping and recreatinging together in their free time. In summer, employees with each office (there are

45 worldwide) get together for the “Outage.”

“Employees bring their families, Hailey has rafting and an old-fashioned barbeque.

In Boise, we sometimes go rafting or to Eagle Island. There are two parties a year for everybody. POWER sponsors everything,” said Janet Metzger, POWER’s head of corporate communications and one of the company’s newest owners. “In 1997 it got to be where they were taking semis in to the campsite and building dance floors and bridges to get across the creek. It got to be a little too big. It hasn’t stopped, but it’s different since we have multiple offices now.”

North America’s top stringer of high-voltage and acrobatic wire is the Hailey-based company in South Woodside nobody knows about, although Peter Catchpole, now a retired project

manager, is famous for stringing cable for record-setting wire walker Nik Wallenda across Horseshoe Falls in 2012 and again in 2013 across a 5,000-foot-deep canyon of the Little Colorado River on indigenous land adjacent Grand Canyon National Park. As can be expected from an engineering company, human safety comes first, so the focus for the daredevil acts was controlling vibrations that could have kicked Wallenda off of his wire. Wallenda has sought to complete a five-mile-long highwire walk between The Empire State Building and The Chrysler Building in Manhattan, but that’s where safety-conscious POWER Engineers and building owners drew the line.

“I went into New York with Nik to look at it,” said POWER’s outgoing CEO Jack Hand who joined the company as a project

Cable Engineering for Nik Wallenda on the Little Colorado River, Grand Canyon National Park Anchor to anchor the cable spanned 1,400 feet and was 1,500 feet above the river. Wallenda’s walk across the cable was 1,219 feet.

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manager in 1992 and turned over the reins to Bret Moffett in May in time for the annual board meeting when members received “Tales of the Ram,” an anniversary look back at the company. “He’s really into doing these things without safety harnesses. We felt like we got lucky twice.”

It is true that engineers consider wire walks “simple, straightforward” projects because transmission projects pose technical challenges and risks to overcome for consumers, linemen, grid stability and the environment.

As the grid morphs and more intermittent sources of power like wind and solar come online, job one is maintaining grid integrity, which often includes voltage compensation with non renewables. Today, grid security challenges include terrorism threats and even electromagnetic disturbances from space. National security officials consider that the grid going down is not a matter of if, but when. All of this poses plenty of new challenges for engineers.

POWER’s first big project, complete with a dramatic helicopter crash, was in 1980—a mile-long string of wires and towers over Kinnikinic Creek for the Salmon Electric Cooperative. Everyone survived the crash and the line still stands.

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Nairobi and Helsinki. Gross revenue in 2015 was $395 million. Their revenue from international work was $40 million.

Geothermal projects are a big international draw with projects as far flung as Iceland, Costa Rica, South Africa and Turkey. Turkish projects, where POWER is the sole geothermal provider, came out of relationships developed during Gulf War contracts when grid building and repair supplies were trucked in from Turkey, Hand said. POWER has since sold its interest in Iraq to multinationals, as war-zone work, although dramatic, is crushing not only for infrastructure, but for the spirit. The same is true in Afghanistan, where POWER is still active, but transmission lines have had to be continuously rebuilt there, too.

As POWER has advanced, it still only owns one property­—its headquarters in Woodside—but it has acquired a dozen companies, with talent, including 38 former Enron engineers who joined forces with POWER in 2000 after that company’s dramatic fall. Such connections have helped the employee-owned company grow. More than half of its work is direct reward, Hand said. Ownership swings between 10 and 15 percent of staff. There are currently about 300 employee owners. Employees who move to part time or leave the company must sell their shares back. Every year employees are invited to become owners. The current structure was created in 1998 when, under

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The company was hired as the design engineer for the 47 MW plant.

pressure of a pending sale to a British concern, 54 employees, including Hand, scrambled to invest up to $150,000 each to buy out the founders.

“We are engineers. We didn’t have a lot of money,” Hand said. The scrappy company lives up to its icon borrowed from the coloring book of a founding engineer’s daughter and stays focused on what it does best. It has diversified and under Hand’s watch has grown from $28 million to over $400 million since 1998. Weekly, Hand turns down entreaties from big and small firms to sell out. The company’s approach is to stay private and support the work of engineers for the best projects. It’s a system by which an owner can stand to make a good deal of money if he or she stays for the long haul. It’s pretty well known in the electrical engineering field that POWER Engineers is a good place to work because of the way it’s structured, safe from the disruption of mergers and acquisitions.

“Freedom to make choices is powerful.

Having the ability to determine your own direction is very cool and fun,” Hand said.

“The risks are higher, but the rewards are, too.

Our simple philosophy is ‘do good work, have fun and make money.’”

POWER’s first design project to be built was a distribution substation for the Prairie Power Cooperative that was later sold to Idaho Power. Most have traveled by the 24.9 kV distribution substation just west of Fairfield

on U.S. Highway 20 without knowing the significance of the small facility on the north side of the highway. It was rebuilt after 35 years in operation, but two beige steel structures with angled legs from the original design are still visible.

Grid capacity has doubled in the company’s 40-year tenure. That expansion has provided great opportunity, especially in the last 20 years since deregulation pumped up demand from utility companies for consultants like POWER to fill in gaps in expertise that downsizing created.

“The United States is a booming economy in our business. It’s the best place in the world to work. You make the most money, and you work with the fairest people,” Hand said. “After we changed management in 1998, we doubled POWER in two or three years and we doubled it again in two or three more, just doing what we do. Occasionally we blew it, but we did it within our means most of the time.”

Worldwide, POWER is responsible for generation of some 160,000 megawatts (MW). That represents power plant electricity that is accessible to consumers at any given moment. The company has diversified and has even gotten involved in the food processing business with offices in Boise, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Revenue in that division has leaped from $1.7 million in 2003 to $40 million today, but 65 percent of POWER’s business is still power transmission.

Tesla turned 40 in 1896. Idaho POWER has been in business for a century. Conducting through wires, the potential electrical energy of gas, coal, geothermal sources, water and the sun will keep utility companies and engineering firms busy, arguably, forever.

For the past eight years POWER has been working with entrepreneur Philip Anschutz to support plans for a 3,000-MW wind power transmission project from a ranch owned by Anschutz in Wyoming—that’s 1,000 wind turbines and 780 miles of powerline designed to connect wind power to the grid south of Las Vegas. The Record of Decision is expected soon with more regulatory and financial hoops to follow, but the project would be the largest of its kind and is expected to take four years to complete, possibly by 2020.

“I believe the real Tesla (not Elon Musk’s car company) would be very proud of where the alternating current concept has evolved to,” Hand said. “He’s truly the father of the modern electric grid.” summer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 93

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Valley Entrepreneurs Pick Up Where Sports Retailing Heavyweights Left Off by julie bramowitz

Equipped with a WiFi connection and a clever idea, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to the city; indeed, some of America’s buzziest start-ups are percolating in the Wood River Valley, where the region’s natural draws and a liberal bring-your-dogseverywhere policy have inspired the area’s creative class to base their businesses here.

From mobile apps to military gear, Blaine County’s most exciting ventures are quickly filling the void left by former job providers Smith and Scott. Despite the drawbacks to headquartering a business in a resort town (seasonal air service, a small full-time workforce from which to draw), keep-it-local advocates such as Jon Duval, founder of the Ketchum Innovation Center, underscore that 94 sunvalleymag.com | summer 2016

living in the Valley is still considerably cheaper than Seattle and San Francisco, without the rain and away from the rat race.

Duval’s two-year-old incubator, a project funded by the city’s Community Development Corporation, is part mentorship program, part co-working space for the 80 companies in its portfolio. Prospective participants can look forward to the Innovation Center’s spacious new digs downtown, set to open this summer, though most notable is the center’s fundraising success: more than $1.25 million awarded to four different companies over six pitch nights.

Unlike nearby Twin Falls, which lured national corporations like Chobani and Clif to expand there, initiatives in the Wood River

Valley are decidedly homegrown. Said Duval: “The exodus of Smith and Scott revealed locals’ desire to create their own projects.

We’re fostering a dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem right here.”

Mobius

In the winter of 2012, Scott Watanabe was snowboarding down Bald Mountain when he received a cold call from the San Diego-based engineer Darren Fleming about a business idea. Watanabe, an action-sports industry executive for 35 years—he previously directed Scott’s motor sports division—was, in his words, “having a good time” on a mid-career break after the company shifted operations from Ketchum that fall. But he was intrigued

by Fleming’s pitch: a flexible yet super supportive knee brace that would revolutionize sports medicine with its lightweight construction and a unique continuous cable routing system restricting movement, and therefore injury, to soft-tissue ligaments.

Mobius launched its first model, the X8, in March 2015—the glass-filled nylon brace,

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available in multiple sizes and colors, retails as a pair for $599 at more than 1,000 stores worldwide (as well as at Ski Tek and PK’s Ski and Sports locally)—and has found a cult following among both professional athletes like motocross racer Ryan Villapoto and active amateurs battling aging joints.

Nearing patent approval for its continuous cable technology (partly inspired by the 19th century Möbius strip), the orthopedic surgeon-approved brand—which has piqued the interest of medical suppliers and even the NFL—will add a wrist brace and a

The Mobius knee brace helps protect the four main ligaments in the knee by resisting excessive bending, rotation and hyper-extension.

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Dobbie, along with three of his former colleagues at the ballistic optics manufacturer Eyewear Safety Systems, relied on input from past clients to produce a rugged, curvilinear camera that mounts, via Velcro, onto helmets without any attachments. Mohoc’s first model arrived in September 2015; six months later, the Ketchum company has shipped 2,000 products to members of the U.S. military (the low-profile design is favored by Special Forces moving in tight spaces) for training and intel gathering, and to SWAT and canine policing squads across the country (a harness mount for dogs is in the works).

While the line is geared toward specialty markets, Mohoc’s durability (the zinc aluminum-encased device can withstand a two-meter drop) has led skydivers and 96 sunvalleymag.com | summer 2016

paragliders to purchase the $549 camera online. With members of up to 25 international militaries also buying Mohoc, the next phase for its founders is to further disrupt the industry by contracting with the Department of Defense rather than distributing to individuals.

“Unlike eyewear or helmets, which must meet certain standards to be used in combat, there is no official camera program currently,” Dobbie explained. “At Mohoc, we’re developing a new requirement.”

SQN Sport

“For women like myself who wear Calvin Klein and Alexander Wang, there’s no activewear,” explained Megan Lengyel, founder of the emerging clothing label SQN Sport, “so I saw a market for performanceoriented designs with restraint.” The Portland native began sketching silhouettes for SQN (which stands for the Latin phrase Sine Qua Non, or only the essential) a few years back and launched the fabric-focused, monochromatic line (think The Row for yogis) with seven basics—seamless leggings, soft-on-the-skin tanks—before partnering with garment industry vet Sunny Mills on

production and retail operations.

SQN opened its first store, an airy, industrial-chic space on Sun Valley Road, in November 2014, and after a profitable Christmas season, added an outpost of SQN in Aspen the following summer. Now, the upstart boasts nine full-time employees, with more to come after two more boutiques, including a Malibu shop, open later this year.

Lengyel has big plans: expanding into menswear and teaming with a national retailer, but she remains steadfastly local.

The now-36-piece collection is Americanmade; lookbooks and logos are designed in Hailey; and when it comes to test-driving new concepts, Lengyel recruits Ketchum’s fitness experts (and a few Olympic athletes) to ensure that SQN’s mission—offering “materials that are bullet-proof but feel great,” she said—always stays on track.

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The crane towering over the Limelight Hotel symbolizes a renaissance for Ketchum’s downtown real estate.

The $35 million hotel’s 108 guests rooms, scheduled to open in December 2016, are expected to bring business to town. Its 14 residences are emblematic of a burgeoning interest in living downtown.

Three mixed-use projects point to that trend.

Lyn Stallard vacated her tanning salon in April to make way for a project with commercial space on the bottom and residences on the top two floors. Dr. Ben Franz has a similar project in the works and a third is going up on Sun Valley Road near Zions Bank.

“This indicates that people want to be in town, which will help make downtown Ketchum vibrant. It’s exciting for us because they’re all nice projects,” said Micah Austin, Ketchum’s director of planning and building.

The Auberge Resort Sun Valley Hotel, which will feature 62 rooms and 14 residences, is going up across the street from the Limelight Hotel. It’s expected to open in 2018.

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A farm-to-table restaurant is being completed on Washington Street and a conference center is expanding at the site of what was Zinc Restaurant.

The Ketchum Innovation Center is expanding into the old Ketchum Post Office.

The new owner of Bigwood Golf Course plans to remodel the clubhouse and, possibly, add mountain bike trails. And a new nineunit townhouse development is starting up at Thunder Spring.

The commercial investments mark a turnaround from recent years when nearly all building was residential, said Austin.

But residential building hasn’t subsided— and the residences being built are innovative.

One Knob Hill residence sports a wavy, or warped, roof that slopes on one side with the same configuration repeated on the other side, except in reverse.

Homeowners spent a quarter-million dollars and a month taking a jackhammer to the rock in the hillside behind their home on Knob Hill to create a 16-foot retaining wall.

And a home being built in a floodplain

in West Ketchum has been elevated so homeowners can walk underneath.

Recycled barn wood and other natural materials are hot, indicating an emphasis on green construction.

“All these guys go way beyond the minimum building code standard so we don’t have to babysit them at all,” said Ketchum Building Inspector Jim Lynch. “And it’s like there’s an architectural war going on to show what they can do.”

“I love being an inspector here,” added Ketchum Building Inspector Jeff Egan.

“Ketchum is a proving ground for alternative methods and technology and the use of the best, most innovative products. And the craftsmanship is the best I’ve seen.”

There are also plenty of remodels. Among them: Community School’s makeover of the three-story Smith Sport Optics building into a student dormitory accommodating 50 students and an athletic training center.

Planned opening: August 2016.

“I’ve never seen a community that does so many remodels—people just seem to like to tinker with their toys,” said Lynch. “Many may not change the footprint of the house but they completely revamp the interior.”

Hailey, too, is seeing plenty of activity.

King’s department store continues to move forward with its 8,139-square-foot expansion.

Natural Grocers is leveling two lots south of McDonald’s for a 15,000-square-foot building that could be augmented by a 7,500-squarefoot retail building in the future. And work has resumed on The Cottages senior care facility, which broke ground across from Albertsons last fall.

“Ketchum is a proving ground for alternative methods and technology and the use of the best, most innovative products. And the craftsmanship is the best I’ve seen.”

— Jeff Egan, Ketchum Building Inspector

Meanwhile, the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley plans to launch a public campaign this summer to replace its 33-yearold shelter with a new campus on 20 acres of flat land in Croy Canyon. The shelter hopes to break ground in s`pring 2017, said Brooke Bonner, the shelter’s associate director.

The City of Hailey also plans to address bike lanes, sidewalks and other projects this summer to help make the community safer and more vibrant, said Hailey’s Community Development Director Lisa Horowitz.

“It may take some trial and error—some things may work and some may not. But you don’t know until you try,” said Jeff Bacon, membership director for the Hailey Chamber of Commerce.

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The Long Jo Wolves, people and reconciliation in the West

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ong before all of the sound and fury—the lawsuits and ugly confrontations in town hall meetings, the livestock depredations and aerial gunning, before wolf reintroduction and the Endangered Species Act and even the Animal Damage Control Act of 1931 which sought to and largely succeeded in the extirpation of predators from the West—there was a story told by the Nez Perce people. It was a very different story from all that would follow. It was a story of creation, one told for thousands of years in the Nez Perce oral tradition, and one that two tribe members 100 sunvalleymag.com | summer 2016

and brothers, Josiah and Jaime Pinkham, both shared with me on separate occasions.

…Before humans walked the Earth, the Creator brought the animal-people together in council concerning a prophecy that foretold the coming of a two-legged creature. The two-legged creature would emerge naked, weak and unable to feed itself. Only those animals that could help the new creature survive, the Creator said, would themselves survive. The salmon came

forward first and offered his flesh to feed the new creature. His skin, he said, could be used to bind together bows and spears so the new creature could hunt. Then the buffalo and elk offered their flesh for food and coats for warmth and shelter. Finally, the wolf approached the Creator and vowed to teach the two-legged creature about family. He would teach the humans new to the Earth how to take care of one another and, most importantly, how to live together…

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The Scientist “If I could define a wolf, I would say they do three things: they travel, they kill, and they’re social,” said Doug Smith, project leader for the Wolf Restoration Project in Yellowstone National Park. Smith has been studying wolves not only since their reintroduction to Yellowstone and Idaho in 1995, but prior to that at Isle Royale National Park in Michigan and in Minnesota.

He is witness to and a participant in what is arguably one of the biggest biological and ecological laboratories in the world: Yellowstone National Park itself.

“Wolves choose to live how they want to live,” Smith explained. Specifically, they live in packs—approximately 95 percent of wolf packs comprise extended families—that can vary in size from a breeding pair and a pup or two,

to a dozen or more. As a wolf reaches 2 to 3 years of age, he or she will commonly, but not always, break off from its pack to find a mate and form a new pack, a process called dispersal.

“They have very complex behavior in terms of getting along with other individuals in their packs,” Smith said. “They have a pecking order and different relationships with different individuals in a pack. So, if you take out the wrong wolf—whether through hunting, livestock control or if another pack does it, it can have a greater or lesser effect on the functioning of that pack.”

The social nature of wolves, according to Smith, is manifested in two key aspects of their survival: hunting and defending territory. In hunting, for example, wolves prey on elk and bison, animals that far outweigh them, so the number of wolves involved in a hunt is critical to its success.

“The number of wolves optimal for taking down an item of prey varies with the size of the prey,” Smith said. In Yellowstone, where Smith and others have done extensive studies, the average number of wolves to kill an elk is four, whereas the average number of wolves to kill a bison is 10. Still, he pointed out, 80 to 90 percent of wolf hunts are unsuccessful. While two wolves can kill an elk and five wolves might kill a bison, the probability of success increases up to the optimal averages of four and 10.

This difficulty of bringing down big prey underscores the importance of cooperative behavior. “There are different ages and sizes of wolves in packs, and they tend to do different things,” Smith said. Typically, a full grown female is, on average, 20 percent smaller than its male counterpart, and, consequently, tends

to be speedier. The same is true of a young male 2 to 3 years old. These speedier wolves will be the ones out front in a hunt, choosing which prey to take down.

“Wolves, almost always, choose an animal that has a problem,” Smith added. “They’re very selective killers. Sometimes these are problems we can’t even see when we film and watch these hunts.”

Once the chasing wolves select an elk, they typically bite it in its hind legs, which slows the elk down so that the other wolves can catch up.

The bigger wolves will then take down the elk and kill it with crushing bites to the neck area.

It is worth noting that wolves live relatively short lives. The average age at death for a wolf in Yellowstone is 5; it is likely lower in Idaho, because human-caused deaths (hunting, trapping and lethal control) occur at a much higher rate in Idaho. While yearlings do help in a hunt, they aren’t very effective, and pups do not participate at all. The 2- to 3-yearolds are hunting masters. By the time they are 4 to 5, wolves tend not to hunt as much, particularly if there are other, younger wolves in the pack to hunt for them. There are exceptions, Smith noted: the oldest known wolf in Yellowstone lived to 12 and hunted until the day she died.

Another key aspect of survival in which social behavior is critical is in defending territory. “Most animals live in what are called home ranges,” Smith explained. “These are areas of use that overlap with other creatures of your species.” Wolves, on the other hand, live in exclusive areas of use—a rarity in the animal kingdom.

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The Story of a Species Over Time Events Prior to Reintroduction Pre-Colonial America Researchers estimate there to be upwards of 380,000 wolves in Mexico and what would become the Western U.S.

1915 Congress appropriates $125,000 to remove wolves and coyotes from public lands in the West.

1931 The Animal Damage Control Act is passed, which provides the Secretary of Agriculture broad authority for the control of mammalian predators, rodents and birds using “any action the Secretary considers necessary.”

Events After Reintroduction Four wolves are released at Corn Creek on the Main Salmon River in Idaho.

September 2001

January 17, 1995

The USFWS documents 30 pairs of wolves in the three-state area (Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming), which triggers the three-year countdown to delisting.

The Idaho Legislature rejects the Wolf Recovery and Management Plan, which, in effect, disallows Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG) from participating in wolf recovery. The Nez Perce tribe takes the lead role in monitoring recovery.

March 2002

January 20, 1995

The Idaho Legislature accepts the Idaho Wolf Conservation and Management Plan. IDFG is to manage wolf recovery in Idaho in conjunction with the Nez Perce people.

11 more wolves are released at Indian and Thomas Creeks on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River.

Wolves are extirpated from Idaho.

1967 Gray wolves are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966; however, the law is superseded by the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973.

The gray wolf is listed as endangered under the ESA.

The Idaho Legislature adopts HJM5, calling on the federal government to immediately discontinue wolf recovery efforts in Idaho and remove wolves by whatever means necessary.

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20 more wolves are released at Dagger Falls on the Middle Fork of the Salmon.

The estimated wolf population in Idaho is 115 wolves, marking one of the first milestones of recovery (100 wolves and 10 breeding pairs).

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1980 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) recommends reintroducing wolves to central Idaho.

November 1991 Congress directs the USFWS to develop an environmental impact statement (EIS) with regard to wolf reintroduction.

May 4, 1994 EIS is completed. The USFWS recommends reintroduction of the wolf to Idaho and Yellowstone National Park.

June 15, 1994

often depends on the size of the pack and experience of the pack. Bigger packs with older males fare better in territorial conflicts. To suss out potential threats to their hunting territory, wolves will communicate with neighboring packs in two ways. One is through verbal

communication; packs will howl back and forth and gauge the size and proximity of one another. A second method is through scent.

According to researchers, wolves can smell other wolves or prey up to 8 miles away. However, in the end, if there are elk in the neighboring

territory, Smith said, “Hunger may trump fear,” and two packs will have it out at the territory boundary for control of the hunting area.

It has been well documented in Yellowstone that when elk and deer become scarce in a given area, pack-pack clashes increase, wolves die and the wolf population goes down. This is what Smith terms “self-regulation.” There have been several incidences in the park in which a pack crossed into another territory and killed an entire den of pups from the neighboring pack. “Now, if that doesn’t tip the balance in your favor,” Smith said. Such efforts can give a pack a competitive advantage for a year or two, maybe more.

The Wolfer

Doug Smith, leader of the Yellowstone Wolf Restoration Project, with a radio-collared wolf under study.

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“I find it the most exciting part of my job to be surrounded by a pack of wolves,” Carter Niemeyer told me one winter day in his Boise living room. “When you get close to their den or kill site, … it’s upsetting to them and so there’s a lot of howling and howl-barking.

Man, I could just sit and listen to that for hours … and just hope they come closer.”

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The Secretary of the Interior signs the EIS Record of Decision supporting reintroduction and directs its immediate implementation.

Canis Lupus Gray wolves, though not always gray, are native to the northern latitudes around the world.

The average gray wolf measures 4.5 to 6.5 feet from nose to tip-of-tail and stands from 26 to 32 inches high (at shoulder). Males typically range in weight from 85 to 130 pounds, while females are, on average, 20 percent smaller.

March 2008 USFWS delists wolves from the Endangered Species List.

July 2008 A federal district judge rules that the wolf be returned to the list and afforded ESA protections.

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May 2009

Idaho becomes the agent for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and takes over day-to-day management of wolf recovery in the state.

USFWS delists wolves a second time.

August 2010 U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy vacates the previous delisting rule. Wolves are returned to Endangered Species status.

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Congress directs the USFWS to republish its 2009 delisting rule. Wolves are removed from the Endangered Species List for the last time. Wolf management reverts to the states.

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If there is one person who has lived in the thick of the long and sometimes nasty reality of wolf recovery in the Northwest, it is Niemeyer. As a trapper for Animal Damage Control (ADC) in the Department of Agriculture, later renamed Wildlife Services, Niemeyer’s job for 26 years was to kill or trap predators that preyed on livestock.

Based in Montana in the 1990s, Niemeyer investigated incidents in which a predator— whether wolf, coyote, grizzly bear, fox, black bear or golden eagle—came into conflict with livestock. A day at work generally involved a dead cow or sheep that had to be skinned for examination, an irate rancher, and, with luck, some hard evidence—predator tracks, scat or other signs of the alleged predator.

Niemeyer’s job was to determine what exactly had killed the livestock. He was also responsible for killing or relocating wolves that were determined to have caused livestock losses. On more than one occasion, Niemeyer, who is physically imposing but measured in demeanor, was toe-to-toe with angry and sometimes armed ranchers that didn’t hear

the conclusion they wanted to hear. Also on more than one occasion, Niemeyer was faced with single-handedly hog-tying in the wild a half-drugged wolf with little more than the shoelaces in his boots.

When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, under the auspices of the Endangered Species Act, began the process of reintroducing wolves to Idaho and Yellowstone National Park, Niemeyer was tasked with finding and trapping (along with other local trappers) wolves in Alberta, Canada, to be released in Idaho’s Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and in Yellowstone.

“I don’t think any of us could have foreseen the success of bringing 66 wolves—35 to Idaho and 31 to Yellowstone,” Niemeyer said. As of December 31, 2015, Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG) estimated there to be at minimum 786 wolves in Idaho. Well over 100 are thought to be in Yellowstone.

“Two words I use in all of my talks about wolves: they’re prolific and resilient … No, due to the rugged terrain, the abundance of deer and elk in Idaho, the wolves are here to

stay … However, I don’t accept the rhetoric that there will be 2,000 wolves, then 5,000 wolves, then wolves at your door. A thousand will probably be the peak in Idaho. There will be an eventual balance.”

Beyond their own biological success, wolves have had a significant effect on the ecosystems in which they were put. While wolf country in Idaho is too rugged for any practical studies, much work has been done in Yellowstone to document what’s known as a trophic cascades. Researchers William Ripple and Robert Beschta have done exhaustive work tracking the effects of wolves on the landscape.

Most immediately, and unsurprisingly, the elk population dropped. With less grazing pressure from ungulates, the aspen, cottonwood and willow trees have grown taller and the canopy cover has increased. With more woody-browse species available, the beaver population has increased, which has had dramatic positive effects on the riparian systems: reducing erosion, raising wetland water tables, improving the nutrient cycling, and providing healthier habitat for amphibians, reptiles and summer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 103

Carter Niemeyer, a retired trapper for Wildlife Services, gathers data from a drugged wolf.

fish. In sum, the biodiversity of the system has increased dramatically.

Though people are still fighting about wolves 21 years after their reintroduction, the argument has clearly shifted. Early on, the debate centered on whether wolves would be permitted to exist at all. Now, the issue has moved to “wolf management”—to what extent and how they will be managed.

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for so long, Niemeyer has had dealings with just about every constituency involved— ranchers, wolf advocates, biologists, the federal and state agencies, the Nez Perce tribe and the general public. Now retired, Niemeyer said, “I don’t have a dog in the fight one way or the other. But a lot of wolf advocate groups don’t accept the need for ‘management,’ which is just a long word for ‘kill.’ In a state like Idaho, I just don’t think it is realistic to think you’re

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not going to hunt, trap and control wolves.

There are groups that still envision that wolves and elk should be allowed to live out their lives and do their thing. But ranchers and hunters and wildlife biologists do not accept that. And herein lies the problem.”

Niemeyer’s relationship to wolves and all that they engender is no doubt complicated.

For 26 years he was a loyal soldier for Wildlife Services: when predators had to be killed because they had preyed on livestock, he was the guy who had to do it. He was blamed for killing hundreds of wolves; however, he knows exactly how many wolves he has killed: 14.

Reading his memoir “Wolfer” and talking with him about it at length, it is clear he got no joy from the task given him. In “Wolfer,” Niemeyer expresses more than a little anguish over his orders to kill the Whitehawk pack living along the East Fork of the Salmon River. A big chunk of his life and energy had been devoted to bringing wolves back to the Northern Rockies. Now he was killing them.

Like many others entwined in the wolf debate, Niemeyer has been changed by it. “I’m not a wolf-lover, but I appreciate them … My level of appreciation of them absolutely grew.”

Niemeyer sees a need for a distinction between policies on public and private land.

He makes the point that if a property owner wants to rid his property of every wolf, coyote, elk and fox, well, fine. But, he feels, that principle shouldn’t carry over to public land management. “Are we going to kill wolves? Yes. Do I like it? No. I’m tired of the killing. I lived that lifestyle, and that’s what changed me. I participated in all this because it was my job, and I did my job. But we can advance. We can move forward and do better.

There could be less killing.”

The lethal control of problem wolves is not cheap. Typically, a gunner in a helicopter is sent out to destroy the pack from the air. In 2014 the Idaho Legislature appropriated funds to create the Wolf Depredation Control Board, a unit within the Governor’s Office that disburses funds to kill wolves causing livestock

“Are we going to kill wolves? Yes. Do I like it? No. I’m tired of the killing. I lived that lifestyle, and that’s what changed me. I participated in all this because it was my job, and I did my job. But we can advance. We can move forward and do better. There could be less killing.”

depredations. The board receives annually $110,000 each from livestock industry assessments and hunting license fees, and, if approved by the Idaho Legislature each year, $400,000 from the state budget.

With funds left over from the previous year, there was approximately $924,600 available for wolf depredation control for fiscal year 2016, ending June 30. The reporting of lethal control of wolves is done by calendar year, so it’s difficult to accurately parse administrative costs and the precise expenditure per control action. However, intermediate reporting in 2015 showed that lethal control cost approximately $4,500 per wolf killed. In fiscal year 2017, available funds for the Wolf Depredation Control Board are projected to be $980,000.

— Carter Niemeyer, retired Wildlife Services agent

The Monitors On June 15, 1994, then Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt signed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife agency’s record of decision on wolf reintroduction. In that decision were provisions for the affected states (Idaho, Wyoming and Montana) and the Nez Perce tribe to manage the reintroduction. There was within Idaho, however, fierce opposition to the plan. Just three days after the first four wolves were released at Corn Creek on the Salmon River, the Idaho Legislature on January 17, 1995, prohibited the IDFG from participating in the recovery plan. In the wake of this action, the Nez Perce Tribe took the lead in managing recovery. This entailed hiring biologists, radio-collaring wolves, and monitoring wolf numbers, both the absolute

number and the number of breeding pairs and packs.

Jaime Pinkham, who was then the manager of natural resources for the tribe, said the Nez Perce stepped up to the responsibility because the majority of the recovery area overlapped with the ancestral homeland of the Nez Perce.

What’s more, the tribe had previously, and on its own accord, committed to restoring all animal species to their homeland. In the Nez Perce treaty of 1855, that homeland was recognized to be almost 14 million acres of north-central Idaho—then the Oregon Territory. While the tribe was ultimately relocated to a much smaller reservation, it was guaranteed “access” to their original homeland, which, Pinkham said, included their rights to maintain their lifestyle, get sustenance from the

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Wolf Distribution

Calder Mountain

Diamond Keokee

Documented Pack

Silvertip

Suspected Pack

Kick Bush

Dissolved Pack*

Surpise Dixie Pond Chilco Queen Peak Lost SkitwishBumblebee Capitol Hill Koolenai Highland Park Honey Jones Avery

White Pine

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Battle Ridge

Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG) documented 786 wolves and 108 packs alive in Idaho at the end of 2015, well above the minimum 150 wolves stipulated in the 2009 delisting ruling. For graphical simplicity, the packs’ territories are shown here as circles with 9.8-mile radii, which corresponds to an area of approximately 301 square miles each. Wolf territories are, in general, not circular. They take on a myriad of shapes and do not overlap, as they are exclusive areas of use.

IDFG and Nez Perce biologists use radio-collar data, field surveys, DNA samples, camera traps, and observations from the public to assemble their annual reports. The numbers are almost certainly minimum values, as much of Idaho’s terrain is too remote and rugged for a comprehensive survey.

Tahoe Pilot Rock Selway Earthquake Basin Newsome White Bird Creek Indian Red River Bat Rock Creek Gospel Silverlead Seven Florence Hump Hughes Devils Jersy Square Donnelly Creek Creek Top Sawmill Bear Pete Chamberlain Stormy Lick South Basin Peak Sagebrush Jureano Creek Fork MonuBaldy Mountain Jungle Peninsula mental Mountain Cobalt Creek CreekLittle Bear Horse Hoodoo Mountain Caton Thunder Moyer Creek Mountain Morgan Mahoney Aparejo BasinCreek Lemhi Woodhead Eagle Cottonwood Poison Pen Basin Nest Vulcan Hawley Timber Bear Valley Landmark Custer Gabes Bathtub Yankee Flatiron Scott Buffalo Dry Buck Mountain Ridge Elkhorn Arentson Casino Lone Pine Ola Valley Wilson Peak Breadwinner Nahneke Thorn Applejack Creek Hyndman Antelope Creek Steel Cayuse Mountain Point Red Warrior Van

Pleasant Valley

Bitch Creek White Owl Pine Creek Tex Creek

Little Camas

*dissolved pack refers to previously documented packs believed to be no longer in existence.

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Madison Jefferson Bishop Mountain Fogg Butte Biscuit Basin

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land, recreate there, practice their religion and gather natural materials for their medicines.

The tribe’s role in recovery was also a function, Pinkham said, “…of our role as a governing sovereign … so that any decision or action taking place on the federal lands had to be coordinated with the tribe.”

One of the key goals of recovery for the Idaho plan—the presence of 10 breeding pairs each year for three consecutive years— was met by the end of 1998. Pinkham has long felt that the experience of the wolves mirrored that of the tribe’s. “Both had been displaced from their lands by Western expansion and the taming of the new frontier,” he said. “But (with recovery), both the tribes and the wolves were regaining their rightful place, not only on the landscape, but also socially and politically.”

By 2002, it was clear that the wolves were in Idaho to stay. So, despite continued animosity toward wolves in general, the Legislature approved a management plan for Idaho and gave IDFG authority to co-manage the plan with the Nez Perce Tribe.

Today, the man responsible for compiling and editing the annual IDFG wolf monitoring progress report is Jim Hayden.

The task of counting and tracking wild wolves over millions of acres of central Idaho wilderness is a formidable one. Hayden and his team use a variety of tools to determine the number of wolves and packs in the state.

These include radio-collar data, remote camera data, field observations, and DNA collections. They also employ what’s called patch occupancy modeling, which uses this data to predict wolf distribution.

The number of wolves IDFG reports is almost certainly a minimum value. Hayden said that in counting breeding pairs, which is heavily dependent on radio-collar data (not all wolves are radio-collared; perhaps 20 percent are, but that number is a loose estimate), “The number of packs we identify is a function partly of effort. So, a change from one year to the next may not have anything to do with

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the number of wolves out there. It’s a function of funding, weather conditions and other variables … We spent $1 million one year and $250,000 a different year. So, you can come up with different numbers.”

As it turned out for 2015, IDFG reported 786 wolves and 108 packs.

While we were talking, Hayden pulled up a Google Earth map of Idaho that had dozens of clusters of dots, each dot representing a collared wolf. The map showed in real time where particular wolves were (each had a coded name). Hayden could track their movements, delineate the territories of given packs, even determine when a wolf was dispersing—that is, leaving its current pack to find a new territory, mate and create a new pack.

The agency also reports annually the mortalities of both wolves and livestock. In 2015, there were 358 wolf mortalities, 256 of which were due to legal hunting and trapping.

Fifty-four were killed through lethal control in response to confirmed livestock depredations.

Another 21 wolves in northern Idaho’s Lolo elk hunting zone were lethally controlled in an effort to increase the ungulate population there. Wolf depredations documented by Wildlife Services agents last year comprised 125 sheep, 35 cattle, three dogs, and one horse.

The Advocate Suzanne Stone, like others in this debate, has been involved with the wolf issue for many years—in her case for 28 years. She is the senior Northwest representative for the nonprofit organization Defenders of Wildlife.

Stone first felt the draw of wildlife conservation when she was 12 and read Aldo Leopold’s “Thinking Like a Mountain.” A few years later she read “Of Wolves and Men,” by Barry Lopez, and she knew she was hooked.

Like Niemeyer, Stone has seen the tenor of the debate change over the years. “Originally, it was the ranching community that was opposing wolves. They would fill meeting rooms with hundreds of ranchers, and they

Salmon resident Gary Beers shot this 107-pound wolf in a hunt in east-central Idaho. IDFG administers hunting permits as a means to limit the wolf population. During the 2015 hunting season, there were 256 wolves legally shot or trapped.

fought it as hard as they could and were completely threatened by wolves being back on the landscape,” she said. “After wolves were here for about a decade, we really saw a transition with ranchers; most of them that were living in wolf range didn’t fear wolves as much as they expected to.”

Stone feels, however, that while the reintroduction was a biological success, “Socially it could have been handled better.

There was no attempt to bring stakeholders into the process … A lot of people felt that it was forced on them, even though more than 165,000 people commented on it … However, it was a very one-way communication … It was never explained why we were doing what we were doing, why wolves were necessary or important. That hurt wolves more than

anything—not having any kind of social conflict process.”

Twenty-eight years into it, Stone clearly appreciates the perspectives of others in the debate and devotes her time and energy to finding solutions for all parties involved.

Still, Stone seems to be as passionate as ever about the issue and continues to press hard as an advocate for the wolves, particularly in the area of developing nonlethal wolf management techniques.

“The wolf is a native species to Idaho. To me, they have an inherent right to be here. To the extent that we have complete ecosystems, wolves should be a part of that,” she said.

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John Peavey runs a range-lambing operation out of Carey, Idaho. With this type of sheep ranching, Peavey says, the use of fladry, small enclosures, and other tools of nonlethal control are not practical. Due to wolf depredations, Peavey has had to move his early lambing operations farther south near Kimama, Idaho.

The Ranchers Brian Bean, president of Lava Lake Land & Livestock headquartered in Carey, Idaho, has since 1999 run sheep on approximately 875,000 acres of public and deeded land.

As Bean explained in a presentation to state legislators I attended at the Capitol, he has seen his share of wolf depredation losses. In one day in 2002, he lost 36 ewes and lambs.

Another night, in a few hours, he lost 25 ewes and lambs, two rams and one guard dog.

“The truth is, we didn’t really know what to do,” Bean said. So he reached out to Defenders of Wildlife to see if they had any techniques that might be effective in protecting his sheep. With their help, Bean said, “We became proficient in applying nonlethal tools and techniques to keep our animals and wolves separate.”

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in the Wood River Wolf Project (WRWP), which seeks to minimize depredation events and sheep loss, minimize lethal control of wolves, and save livestock producers money.

The organization brought together a number of stakeholders, including the Forest Service, IDFG, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Defenders of Wildlife, Wildlife Services, and several livestock producers.

The organization, Bean said, has since developed a protocol of nonlethal practices for grazing sheep in wolf country. The tools and techniques include employing greater human presence, more guard animals, active animal management to avoid dens and rendezvous sites, temporary fencing called fladry, foxlights, air horns, satellite phones and SPOT devices for communication, as well as telemetry devices for locating radio-collared wolves.

Over the course of seven years, the WRWP conducted a study (to be published

in the Journal of Mammology) that looked at depredation rates in areas in which these techniques were employed (“protected areas”) compared to those in which they weren’t (“unprotected”). They found that the depredation rate in the protected areas was three and a half times lower than that in the unprotected areas. Sheep loss to wolf depredation was 0.02 percent, which, according to Bean, is the lowest rate in Idaho for areas in which sheep are grazed in wolf range.

“We’ve been dealing with wolves for 14 years,” Bean said. With these deterrent methods in place, “…we’ll have a depredation event on sheep by wolves typically once every two to three years. When an event occurs, our livestock losses are on average one to three animals. When you are dealing with sheep in the thousands, then these losses, to us, are acceptable, particularly in the context of the

“There is a vast difference between what the plan was for the number of wolves in the state and what we ended up with. It’s just a problem we didn’t need from an agricultural and ranching perspective.”

much greater depredation loss from coyotes.”

John Peavey, operator and co-owner of the Flat Top Sheep Company, attends meetings of the WRWP, but he doesn’t subscribe to the nonlethal methods espoused by Bean and Defenders of Wildlife. Peavey’s operation combines about 25,000 acres of deeded land near Carey, Idaho, with half again as much acreage in the Wildhorse Sheep Allotment, a shared BLM grazing allotment south of Carey and north of Idaho State Highway 24. It is a ranch Peavey’s grandfather started putting together in 1925.

Peavey explained that Bean runs a shedlambing operation, whereas he runs a rangelambing operation. With the former, ewes give birth indoors and are fed hay and perhaps some grains. Lambs are paired up with their mothers in the safety of the shed for a significant span of time. “There used to be a lot of shed-lambing, but it’s a very expensive way to run sheep,” Peavey said.

In range-lambing, operators separate the ewes that have lambed from those that haven’t.

So, one day 40 or 50 ewes might give birth; Peavey then moves the others a little ways away, say, over a ridgeline. As ewes continue to lamb each day, new bunches are formed and become spread out over 4 or 5 miles. “You try to keep them in these little bunches as long as you can—at least two to three weeks—so they learn to find each other (mothers and lambs).

So, it’s very important to have lots of space.”

Herding them into small fladry enclosures, Peavey said, is not practical when you’re running sheep in this fashion.

Peavey also points out that depredation is not the only issue. “It’s just chaos when a bunch of wolves come in,” he said. “You don’t know how many there are—there could be one or six or seven. In the middle of the night they’ll run through these bunches spread over a couple of miles and mis-mother all of these lambs, and they’ll never find their mothers again … It’s just disastrous. You count the carcasses, but that’s just part of the problem.”

A few years ago, Peavey had significant

— John Peavey, co-owner of Flat Top Sheep Company

depredation losses on his deeded lands near Carey. He used the “flashing lights and noisemakers,” but, he said, it didn’t make much difference. It was then that he decided to move his early grazing and lambing south to the Wildhorse Allotment. “We’ve had no wolf deaths and no sheep deaths since we moved down to the desert. We were happy to do this, because nobody wants to agitate a bunch of people who truly love wolves. And we eliminated the conflict as much as we could.”

Sometime around mid-May or early June Peavey has to move his sheep north through what’s considered more threatening “wolf territory.” Come September, the process is reversed and the sheep move south.

Peavey has adapted to the reality of wolves disrupting his business, but he’s not particularly happy about it. The potential for wolf attacks adds to his operation a lot of man-hours and, consequently, cost to an already difficult way of life. For him, the burgeoning number of wolves is a concern, too. “There is a vast difference between what

the plan was for the number of wolves in the state and what we ended up with,” he said.

“It’s just a problem we didn’t need from an agricultural and ranching perspective.”

Beginning Again In January, the Salmon River at Corn Creek is a subdued, solemn version of its summer self. The river is slow and frozen in places; snow dots the landscape. One such morning— January 14, 1995—four wolves scampered out of cages and onto the banks of the river.

Though they could never know it, their purpose was about as momentous a one as any four animals could have—the regeneration of a species. Still, survival is the purest of instincts and, at heart, a simple one. Those who put the wolves on that riverbank and those who fought it, however, have had a much more uncertain and tortuous path forward. Reconciliation has been halting, but it has advanced. Whether or not the mythological wolf of the Nez Perce Creation story has fulfilled his vow to teach us to live together is harder to say.

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I am of this Voices From the Land of the Nez Perce

By Laurie Sammis “Kakoná híisemtuks hiwséetu wéet’u máwa héeneku’ tuuqélenu.”

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.

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in 1877, courtesy national anthropological archives, smithsonian institution,

portrait of chief joseph

ith these words, spoken on October 5, 1877, Chief Joseph, (hínmatóowyalahq’it), whose name translates to “the Sound of Thunder Coming Up Over the Land from the Water,” of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce, ended what became known as the Nez Perce War. The first official battle of the war occurred nearly four months before, on the morning of June 17, 1877, near the mouth of White

Bird Canyon, when 90 U.S. Army cavalry mounted a surprise attack on Chief White Bird’s village in the Salmon River Mountains. The U.S. army attack was in response to several young warriors who avenged past murders of relatives by killing several white settlers in their land (Joseph’s entire band was in essence voluntarily following Army orders at the time and was enroute to the reservation at Lapwai).

The fighting ended quickly, and, afterwards, 34 soldiers lay dead, with only three Nez Perce warriors mildly wounded. The U.S. Army was both embarrassed and enraged, and the Nez Perce found themselves swept into a fight that they had initially sought to avoid.

land

Tell General Howard that I know his heart.

What he told me before I have in my heart.

I am tired of fighting.

Our chiefs are killed.

Looking Glass (Flint Necklace) is dead.

Toohoolhoolzote is dead.

The old men are all dead.

It is the young men who now say yes or no.

He who led the young warriors (Ollokut) is also dead.

It is cold and we have no blankets.

The little children are freezing to death.

My people – some of them have run away to the mountains and have no blankets, no food.

No one knows where they are — perhaps they are freezing to death.

I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find.

Maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired and my heart is sick and sad.

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph's surrender speech as reportedly transcribed by C.E.S. Wood to General Howard and Colonel Miles late on the afternoon of October 5, 1877.

"All men were made brothers.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go

— Chief Joseph

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photos : chief joseph circa 1890, courtesy national park service, nez perce national historical park, nepe-hi-2278

where he pleases."

photos : nez perce on horseback, 1901 , courtesy national park service, nez perce national historical park, nepe-hi- 0029

Leaving the Homeland Over the next four months, somewhere between 750 and 800 Nez Perce desperately fled for their lives, leaving their home in Oregon and traveling predominantly along ancient ancestral pathways east towards buffalo country, an area they thought offered sanctuary. They took with them all of their belongings and somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 head of horses. Less than one-third of the band was an active fighting force, only around 250 warriors. The balance comprised women, children, the sick and the elderly. And yet, this group of niimíipuu (translating loosely as “us people” or “the real people”), as they called themselves, embarked upon a journey away from their homeland that took them on a circuitous route across what are now four states (Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana). Their route took them through rugged mountain terrain, across raging rivers and over high mountain passes, as they eluded numerous military commands totaling more than 2,000 U.S. Army soldiers, civilian volunteers and scouts from other Indian tribes. They fought valiantly in more than 20 military engagements, some of which are still studied today for their battle strategy and tactics.

And while Chief Joseph was known to the niimíipuu as the “Guardian of the People,” his position as a great orator awarded him the distinction of being branded “The Red Napolean” for a military prowess he neither deserved, nor wanted. In truth, much of the fighting was led by other chiefs, including Chief White Bird (payóopayoo x.ayx.ayx.), Toolhoolhoolzote, Chief Looking Glass-Wrapped in the Wind

(’elelímyeté qenin’) and Ollokut (Chief Joseph’s younger brother and the leader of the young men).

On August 9, 1877, having eluded capture for two months and thinking they were safe in Montana after successfully crossing out of Idaho over Lolo Pass, the Nez Perce encampment along the Big Hole River was attacked. Two young warriors, Lone Bird and Wahlitits, had told of dreams warning of death if they stayed, but Chief Looking Glass felt they were safe from harm and, after passing into Montana traveling up the Bitterroot Valley peacefully buying provisions from local settlers, even Chief Joseph stated: "We understood that there was to be no further war. We intended to go peaceable to the buffalo country and leave the question of returning to our country to be settled afterwards."

But the tensions that had begun months before were not to be resolved so easily and more than 70 years of peaceful relations between whites and the Nez Perce (the Nez Perce had aided the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805, sparing their lives and providing food, supplies and guides), ended in the summer of 1877 when General Oliver Otis Howard ordered Joseph and his people to the reservation at Lapwai, giving them 30 days to move their families and livestock, or be moved by the U.S. Army, by force.

Seeds of War The tension was slow to build but steady in form. Fueled by the westward movement of a country in the throws of Manifest Destiny, and later, dizzy with the currency of the gold rush, it rose to a fever pitch after gold was discovered in Idaho in 1860—the

In 1877, nearly 800 Nez Perce men, women, children and elderly fled U.S. Army forces in a 1,500-mile flight to preserve a way of life that ended in surrender 40 miles from the Canadian border at C’aynnim ‘Alikinwaaspa, now called Bear Paw Battlefield.

The treaty of 1863, leading up to The War of 1877 split the Nez Perce—between the treaty and non-treaty bands, and further between families who manageD to escape to Canada and those who surrendered and were sent to the Indian Territory.

Bear Paw September 30 October 5

Nez Perce Reservation

Aboriginal Homeland 14 million acres Treaty of 1855 7.5 million acres

Cow Island Landing September 23

Clearwater July 11-12 White Bird Canyon June 17, 1877

Big Hole August 9-10

Canyon creek September 13

Treaty of 1863 756,958 acres Camas Meadows August 20

progression of which is visibly highlighted in federal treaties and maps illustrating concentric circles of a shrinking Nez Perce territory.

The Treaty of 1855, signed by over 60 Nez Perce chiefs, provided for 7.5 million acres of clearly designated Nez Perce territory—a substantial reduction from the estimated 14 million acres of aboriginal homeland, but viewed as a way to keep peace between the niimíipuu and the increasing numbers of white settlers and trappers. Five years later, encroaching prospectors struck gold in Idaho, and the federal government responded with the Treaty of 1863, which further reduced the Nez Perce landmass to 756,958 acres. The trouble with the 1863 Treaty was that many chiefs refused to sign it and angrily left the council gathering in disgust.

It was these bands that became known as the “non-treaty” Nez Perce after their refusal to sign (those who signed were known as the “treaty” bands). And it was the non-treaty bands that were engaged in a desperate flight to freedom when Colonel John Gibbon and his 7th Infantry charged them near the North Fork of the Big Hole River in Montana on August 9, 1877. They had been gathering camas (an edible root) the day before and were asleep in their tepees when the troops charged. The fighting lasted two days and at least 90 Nez Perce were killed, most of them women and children.

More battles followed and by the time the Nez Perce flight ended on October 5 at the Battle of Bear Paw, they had traveled nearly 1,500 miles from the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon over treacherous mountain terrain through Idaho and Yellowstone and north into Montana, evading capture by two U.S. Army generals and numerous infantry and cavalry units. At the time of the surrender, they were just 40 miles from reaching the Canadian border where they hoped to seek asylum with Chief Sitting Bull, who had fled there after the Battle of Little Bighorn. Yet, even as Joseph was submitting his rifle to General Howard and Colonel Miles, marking the official end to the military portion of the Nez Perce War, White Bird was leading nearly 300 Nez Perce to safety in Canada.

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A Living History But the war was far from over. The Nez Perce, who, despite promises given during the surrender by General Howard and Colonel Miles that they could return to their homeland, were marched 265 miles to the Tongue River Cantonement in southeast Montana Territory. From there the approximately 420 Nez Perce prisoners of war (over 80 percent of whom were women and children) continued to Fort Buford, then the Dakota Territory before finally being loaded onto freight cars for the trip to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Conditions were appalling, with many Nez Perce dying, or worse, taking their own lives in despair. Virtually no infants born in Indian country survived, and Joseph would spend the rest of his days advocating on behalf of his people and looking for a way home.

In 1885, the 268 remaining survivors from the years in Indian Territory boarded a train for the trip home to Idaho. Only half made it there; the rest, including Joseph and the members of his band, were taken to the Colville Indian Reservation in northern Washington.

Chief Joseph was never allowed to return to his homeland to live. He died on September 21, 1904, at Nespelem on the Colville Reservation.

The trail the Nez Perce traced during the events of 1877 has since been commemorated as part of the National Trail System enacted by Congress. In addition, the burial site of Chief Joseph and many other historical and sacred sites have been memorialized as part of the Nez Perce National Historical Park, which was established in 1965 to: “facilitate protection and provide interpretation of sites in the Nez Perce Country … that have exceptional value in commemorating the history of the Nation.” The park was expanded in 1992 and now comprises 38 component sites that extend across four states—crossing borders and creating a network of cooperating sites whose landowners might be state or federal agencies, Forest Service, private landowners, county and tribal; thus effectively opening the dialogue of peaceful coexistence that the Nez Perce leaders were perhaps striving to achieve

Wrapped in the Wind – Chief Looking Glass (‘Elelímyete’e qenin’) led much of the Nez

photos : portrait of chief looking glass outside tipi 1871 , courtesy national park service, nez perce national historical park, naa inv 01005001 , lhoto lot 4420

Perce strategy and retreat across the Idaho, Wyoming and Montana territories in search of safe haven in the lands to the east of their homeland— their original destination was the buffalo country, a region representing peaceful cooperation Among various bands and tribes.

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affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with as I choose."

— Chief Joseph, 1879

leading up to the events of 1877. In recent years, many sites have been adjusted, in close consultation with tribal elders, to interpret history from the perspective of the Nez Perce people.

“It’s not the view, here, from the St. Louis arch looking West,” states Scott B. Eckberg, Idaho unit manager for the Nez Perce National Historical Park (NPNHP), “It is the view from the Nez Perce homeland looking out over thousands of years.” Eckberg continues by adding that it is no accident that the NPNHP headquarters are but three miles from Nez Perce tribal headquarters in Lapwai. “You’re here in the heart of Nez Perce country,” says Eckberg.

“Rather than thinking of this as a place where you come to settle and exploit resources, we are encouraging visitors to understand the Nez Perce view, which is to look at the resources as a part of the experience of who you are, who your people are.”

“The Nez Perce National Historic Trail is important for a reason,” declares Josiah Pinkham-Black Eagle (tipyeléhne cimúux.cimux.), ethnographer for the Nez Perce tribe. “When the average American sees it, they see it from a historical perspective, yet, when the Nez Perce look at it, it is seen as a living trail, a vein to follow that protects a lifestyle which allowed us to endure for years and years in this place.”

To the Nez Perce, it is a trail that represents the future almost more than it does the past. It is a piece of the Nez Perce story, but it is not the only piece. Even though much of the story is shrouded in pain and trauma, death and anguish, empty words and broken promises, the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, and the National Park that accompanies it, has become a touchstone and a symbol of resilience to many.

Story of the Land “To us, it is sacred ground, all along its length,” answers Nakia Williamson-Cloud (‘ipelíikt hil’amkaw’áat), Director of Natural Resources, Nez Perce Tribe, when asked about it at Nez Perce tribal headquarters earlier this year. “The ground you are walking on is made 116 sunvalleymag.com | summer 2016

up of generations and generations of the people that came before. It is a story that speaks to our long relationship with the land. Our beliefs and our values are not something that we imposed on the land, but something that the land imposed on us. Our way of life was something that we interpreted from the land itself. (toomalwit) Our law. It’s not written on a page in a book, it’s written on the land.”

It is an impressive and formidable landscape sandwiched between the Cascade and Rocky Mountains and defined by wide open spaces and knife ridge valleys cut by rivers and wedged between massifs of towering rock, volcanic lava and clinging sage. High plains are interspersed with mighty river valleys and forests of towering pine. The Nez Perce aboriginal lands harbor incredibly rich, fertile ground beneath the rolling hills of the Palouse, an unusually rich prairie billowing out from the eastern edge of Washington into the Idaho Panhandle, as well as primordial salmon spawning beds once teeming with fish. It is rugged country, shocking in its dramatic beauty, yet productive to those who knew its secrets.

It is a land the Nez Perce knew well. Their culture represents a way of life that had developed over generations of interacting with it, the story of which is inscribed within their history and written into their language, passed down with words from family to family. And it is a land they felt compelled to protect.

“When we talk about the land, the resources (salmon, deer, elk, roots, berries), culture, language, spirituality,” Williamson-Cloud continues, “we are not talking about different things, we are talking about the same thing. They are one thing. The land is a defining feature to Nez Perce people. So the War of 1877 wasn’t just a fight over real estate. It was a fight over trying to preserve that connection that we have between life and land. It wasn’t trying to protect or fight for legal ownership of the land because the idea of owning land wasn’t developed. It was about being part of the land, and it goes back to our origin stories and how we view ourselves within that order."

The origin stories are important.

Niimíipuu oral history, the stories of the people, records their presence in Nez Perce country since time immemorial. Place names reference events thousands of years old, and ancient petroglyphs and archeological records indicate that peoples have occupied the region for at least the last 11,000 years, which predates the great pyramids of Egypt. That represents countless generations following the same trails and pathways, carrying the stories of their people across eons of time.

Thomas Gregory (tátlo), language coordinator for the Nez Perce Tribe, cites the language, and specifically the oral tradition of storytelling, as an essential connection to understanding how to live more closely with the land. “Our language contains the knowledge of our survival and our being, so it is the language that will bring you back to our culture,” says Tátlo. “The words are living. The names are living, and the names tie you to the land. So when you pass on and they tell you your name, they will understand and recognize that concept because that name has been passed down as a piece of the land and the people.”

Bessie Walker, assistant language coordinator and a Nez Perce tribal member with direct lineage to Chief Looking Glass, adds that “if you can speak the language, then your ancestors can hear you, and you are connecting to something that is deeper than yourself.”

“It is our belief and our connection to this land that carries us and will continue to carry us as long as we adhere to those teachings,” says Williamson-Cloud when speaking about the connection to

photo : old -time warrior, nez perce, by edward s. curtis, courtesy library of congress

"Understand me fully with reference to my

photo : grand canyon and great fall of the yellowstone river, courtesy library of congress

events of the past. “When we’re successful here at the tribe is when we are able to be a voice for those things that are so important to us, when we are able to be a voice for the land and the resources and all the things we depend upon; because they are all the things that, also, depend upon us.”

“The tribe endeavors to protect a sensitive relationship with the land,” reflects Pinkham-Black Eagle, who adds that the events in 1877 were about protecting that as much as possible. To the Nez Perce, salmon recovery is important. Wolf recovery is important. Re-vegetation at the Hanford Reach Nuclear Site is important. The work in controlling noxious weeds at the Nez Perce Bio-Control Center is important. It’s vital, all of it. And Pinkham-Black Eagle believes that speaking the language is an essential component of that because it ties the Nez Perce people to the wisdom of their ancestors.

“Languages are dropping off the map, and people aren’t concerned about it. Once an indigenous language goes in any part of the world, the biodiversity is not far behind,” states Pinkham-Black Eagle. “Once it is gone, there is nobody there to step up and fight for those plant stocks.

It’s not just the language; it’s the cultural practices and the rituals behind it. And that’s why my speaking Nez Perce here in Idaho is important to somebody living in Los Angeles.”

Williamson-Cloud agrees, adding that the current approach to resource management views human existence as being separate from the natural resources, which creates a dangerously adversarial relationship with the landscapes in which we live. “That concept (natural resources), has no word and no precedence in our experience,”

states Williamson-Cloud. “We see ourselves as being a part of these resources, so ‘managing the resources’ is like saying we are managing ourselves as people. To me, the resources, the land, is who I am. It’s simply what I am and what I value.”

“A citizen of the USA might stand in front of a mountain and see the incredible mineral gain they could gather from it,” adds Pinkham-Black Eagle, “but a Nez Perce sees that mountain as, not only a living entity, but as a part of themselves and an extension of themselves.”

The Nez Perce story is about language and the weaving of story: both the telling of them and the listening. To the niimíipuu, all of it—the language, the story, the very heart of things—is so intricately interwoven with the land that it becomes indistinguishable from the landscape itself.

It endures, standing like the invisible bond that a parent feels to a child, even after they have been raised and moved on. As long as you are living, you are still a parent, always a parent or the child of a parent.

Honoring that relationship and that bond is something that is carried forward until your last breath—and that is how the Nez Perce view the land, especially the landscape into which they were born. From the verdant valleys of meandering rivers along the Wallowa to the rocky escarpment of Hells Canyon as it tumbles into the Snake and the clear running waters and mighty rivers once teeming with migrating salmon and steelhead within Idaho’s interior, that bond was so strong to the Nez Perce that they were, and still are, willing to fight for it.

“If you love something that much and are charged for the protection of something that is that precious and sacred to you,” says Williamson-Cloud, “you will lay down your life for it.”

We did not travel here; we are of this land. We did not declare our independence; we have always been free.

— Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee, 2016

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river pioneers Tall tales from those who were there first BY kira tenney The first descent of a river most overtly refers to the first time a person succeeds in traveling that river; however, there can be notable first descents in different crafts, on extreme water levels, by people of remarkably young or old ages, and by women or men.

Some seek the thrill of being the first ever, others simply end up on a first river descent purely by means of the love of being on the water—or because they hopped in a friend’s car not knowing what they were getting themselves into.

Among those who work and play on rivers, Idaho is informally known as the “white water state” for its number and variety of pristine rivers. From the steep creek drops in the Frank Church Wilderness, to big volume, Colorado River-style rapids of the Snake River, Idaho has it all. It also has a rich history of boaters with the skill and gumption to take on the unknown.

Here are some of their tales and, as with all river stories, they are mostly true …

Paddler Brian “B Real” Ward on the Boise River Diversion Dam near Lucky Peak Reservoir.

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Everthing was a first descent to us. it was all so new that we were just trying to survive.

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Left: John Dondero does an endo on 6-Mile Creek while practicing for the first descent of the Susitna in 1976.

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V being the most challenging).

Ward flowed down the river, recalling what he could from scouting on the hike up and getting out of his boat only when he absolutely needed to. He completed it successfully and recounted, “Having to be responsible for myself and having no one telling me what to do or what decisions to make created a real sense of freedom. I was responsible for everything that happened and my own well-being.”

Making his way down the crystal clear water, Ward found that most of the larger drops were “log choked” with enormous fallen trees, a characteristic of most Idaho creeks that has kept them virtually unrunnable.

“Most of Idaho’s creeks are just filled with wood,” agreed ever-humble Idaho white water legend Ryan Casey, who has done a first descent of an Amazon tributary in Peru, kayaked the world-renowned Class V North Fork of the Payette at its shattering high flow record in 2009, and set a speed record for paddling the 280 miles of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon in 35 hours and 50 minutes.

“But Idaho is unique because of the mileage of runnable whitewater and mileage of runnable white water without dams,” Casey added.

“To be able to do something like 400-plus miles on the Salmon with

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Right: Yvon Chouinard takes a photo at the junction of WY 292 and WY 120. Having just dropped a car at takeout, Chouinard and Rob Lesser and are heading back to the put-in for the first descent of the Clark Fork of the Yellowstone River on Sept 2, 1984.

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There was a distinct “pop” when Brian Ward, known to the river community as “B Real,” missed his footing with 60 pounds of kayak, camping and safety gear strapped to his back 8 miles into a 12-mile exploration hike. In 2009, Ward—almost always rocking some sort of flashy mullet or colored hairstyle—was on his way to do the first descent of the Upper South Fork of the Payette River from Elk Lake, and the only way to access the then-yet-to-be-run creek was to break through bushes and fallen trees, on and off trails.

The sudden snap of a log sent Ward into a forward projection and what he referred to as “rhino-ing,” in which a kayaker with his kayak and heavy gear load strapped to his back suddenly begins to fall forward and attempts to outrun his fall and avoid “turtle-ing,” in which he falls on his face with his heavy and loaded kayak acting like a giant turtle shell preventing him from getting back up to his feet.

Accompanied for the hike only by close friend and photographer, Mike Leeds, Ward was planning on soloing the creek. Despite the increased stakes of doing a first descent solo with a blown-out knee, Ward decided it was the best option for getting out: sitting and making challenging moves in a kayak would be easier than walking.

The Upper South Fork of the Payette runs through a spectacular and rarely visited amphitheatre, the backside of the Sawtooths towering on river right and the beauty of the Boise National Forest boasting on river left. Smooth granite slides and rippling smaller rapids create a mix of mostly Class II-III whitewater, with a couple of Class IV-V show stoppers mixed in (river difficulty is rated on a scale of I-V, I being the easiest and

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consistent gradient, no dams and no portages, is so rare and it spoils us. But the first descents of some river sections date back earlier than the 1800s to the days of Native Americans in canoes and then Lewis and Clark.”

While the very early inhabitants and explorers of Idaho did navigate some of its rivers, it wasn’t until the late 1950s that water-craft technology for whitewater kayaks and rafts developed to a caliber that allowed the men and women of the West to begin pioneering descents of rivers previously thought to be runnable only by those with death wishes. Rob Lesser, Walt Blackadar, John Dondero and many others began cascading down Idaho’s pristine river canyons in a heyday of exploration, some for the glory of being the first, but most solely fueled by the fun of the emerging sport.

Sun Valley local Whiz McNeal started kayaking in the early '70s with

Top left: Legendary kayaker Walt Blackadar at home on the Salmon River in Idaho. He was the first kayaker in history to make a solo journey down Turnback Canyon on the Alsek River in Canada/Alaska at the age of 49, what biographer Ron Watters called, “the river equivalent of the first ascent of Everest.” He would eventually die in Idaho, on the South Fork of the Payette River.

Top right: John Dondero doing a first descent of Alaska’s Susitna River during a 1976 trip with Blackadar and others for ABC’s “The American Sportsman.”

Bottom left: Idaho paddlers Charlie Munsey, Rob Lesser, Doug Ammons, Reggie Crist, Gerry Moffatt, and Wink Jones at the put-in of the Grand Canyon of the Stikine in British Columbia, Canada, in 1998. Considered one of the most difficult white water rivers in the world, the section has been successfully navigated by fewer than 50 kayakers in history.

Two images bottom right: Pioneering kayaker Rob Lesser (upper image) on the North Fork of the Payette in Idaho, and John Dondero getting helmet footage on the Susitna in Alaska for ABC’s “The American Sportsman” in 1974. Lesser was the first kayaker to paddle the “Triple Crown” of rivers—Devil’s Canyon of Alaska’s Susitna, Turnback Canyon on Canada’s Alsek, and the Grand Canyon of the Stikine.

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Taking on first descents in the current day and age, young guns scout and scour remote rivers of the world on Google Earth before running them. Still, in most ways, not much has changed. To do a first descent, one proceeds methodically, as best as possible, by stopping and scouting at horizon lines—sections of river that drop off so steeply that a boater cannot see what is below. Most river pioneers also do some research beforehand so that they know potential access points—areas where they can get out of the river canyon in the event that they happen upon an unrunnable drop that they also cannot carry their boats around.

For the Owyhee, the team scouted what they could by plane, but while running the river, they came upon a surprise 30-foot-wide thundering stair-step falls. A team member was washed over what is now called Wilson Falls, but, luckily, he survived.

Dondero later went on to do the first descent of the Susitna River in Alaska, that, to this day, is one of the most challenging rivers to run in the world. The team and the descent were featured on the ABC show “The American Sportsman.” Helicopters flew overhead and photographers shot from various islands and riverbanks.

Melissa Coriell, one of, if not the, first woman to ever kayak the Susitna during a trip in 2009, found herself calling Idaho’s rivers home

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This page, clockwise from top left: Sean Glaccum doing the first descent of Lady Lace Falls on Upper Stanley Lake Creek; Brian “B Real” Ward on the Boise River Diversion Dam near Lucky Peak Reservoir; Glaccum doing the first raft descent of Idaho’s Secesh River.

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a group of friends that managed to boat by sharing makeshift equipment such as a hockey helmet, a homemade Visqueen spray-skirt, and two canoe paddles Duct-taped together. McNeal chuckled in recalling that, in terms of first descents, “Nobody talked about that stuff or cared.

Everything was a first descent to us, it was all so new that we were just trying to survive.”

Ketchum resident John Dondero still remembers ordering a kit to make his own kayak and try it out. Soon after, in 1973, Dondero and partners started a kayaking manufacturing company, Natural Progression Kayaks, in an old dry cleaner’s shop on Sun Valley Road. The company sparked his career as an inventor and manufacturer; Dondero later founded the extremely successful company Eye Safety Systems (ESS).

Dondero’s quiet smile beamed when he talked about the early days of kayaking, as adventures that couldn’t fully be put into words unfolded.

“Kayaking introduced me to so much of Idaho and gave me such an appreciation for the wilderness and backcountry, from the high desert to the mountains,” Dondero said.

He described himself as the “young kid that tagged along” on the first descent of the upper sections of the Owyhee River. A kayaking dentist from Twin Falls had scouted out the Owyhee from his plane. And with little more information than that, Dondero, Blackadar, and a couple of dentists and doctors from Twin Falls and Boise headed in to do the first descent of that remote river.

Once i came to idaho, it was the place i wanted to return to every summer.

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-boater melissa coriell as soon as she discovered them. The daughter of a military pilot, Coriell started to learn how to kayak while in college at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Sporting a wool sweater under a wetsuit and wool hat under her helmet, Coriell kept going back to the freezing Colorado rivers, and, despite a lack of warm, waterproof gear, simply fell in love with kayaking. After boating all over the United States, she said that, “Once I came to Idaho, it was the place I always wanted to return to every summer.”

Coriell gravitated to Banks, Idaho, the epicenter of the Payette River system. The North Fork of the Payette is a Class V rumble of steep holes and inconsistent crashing waves. It is a training ground for the best of the best en route to tackling the Everests of rivers around the world. But for Coriell, it just became home. She reached a comfort and skill level such that she could run Jacob’s Ladder—the North Fork’s largest and steepest rapid—at night, under the moonlight. When pressed, she had no idea if she could claim a first woman’s night descent of Jacob’s Ladder, and she really hadn’t thought about it. All she remembered was “the total Zen of the water, and the unique support and humility of the Idaho riverrunning community.”

Sun Valley’s Sean Glaccum, owner of Payette River Company, was born and raised in just such an Idaho river-running community. He started inflatable kayaking on family river trips around the age of 9 and soon after learned how to roll and paddle a hard-shell kayak. Glaccum remembers at a young age pouring over articles in Paddler magazine and dreaming of first descents, cutting out pictures of newly run rivers and taping them all over his bedroom walls. As he grew as a paddler, he quickly realized how many giants came before him and how a first descent in his home state would be hard to come by.

As soon as he finished high school, Glaccum travelled to Nepal with

This page, clockwise from top left: Zak Sears, B-Real, Mike McKay on Lolo Creek in Idaho; Micah Kneidl and B-Real on the North Fork of the Payette; Defending North Fork Champion and Hailey resident Ryan Casey in “Screaming Left Turn” on the North Fork of the Payette River at 7,000 to 8,000 cubic feet per second.

Guy Robbins, a kayaker he had met on the Payette River, who spoke of the wonders of the virgin rivers of the Himalayas. Along with river pioneer Gerry Moffatt, Glaccum and Robbins completed multiple first descents in Nepal, but Glaccum would still return home looking for something to check off as a first in Idaho.

He completed what he believes is the first raft descent of the Secesh River in Idaho and, ultimately, he did find some first-ever descents, one of which was on Lady Lace Falls on Upper Stanley Lake Creek.

The splendor of Lady Lace Falls drops 25 feet. To run it, Glaccum motorcycled up the trail with his kayak on his back, kayaked down a small, tight granite gorge, perfectly ran the waterfall, and then very quickly made the most important and crucial move of the feat, which was getting out before the “Class VII death woodpile” just below the falls.

With the allure of first descents and the purity of exploration, one can’t help but wonder: is there anything left in the raw wilds of Idaho?

Many say, laughing, the only one left is Shoshone Falls, a 212-foot waterfall that flows over a 100-foot-wide rim. Currently, Tyler Bradt holds the world record kayak descent of a 189-foot waterfall, so who knows what is possible and what lies ahead?

Others say there are plenty of first descents left out there in the white water state. One simply has to believe in tall tales, have a thirst for adventure, and not be afraid of bushwhacking. Without a doubt, they are out there, but like so many other river stories, their happenings—past, present—and future may stay on the river, only to be told in the humble smiles and bright eyes of those floating by. summer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 123

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IDAHO

Places spectacular and diverse across the gem state

BY Kelly Hennessy Misconceptions about Idaho are rampant. Confused with Iowa, assumed to be all potato country, Idaho has most of the world fooled. The state is spectacular in grandeur, diverse in its geographic beauty—from the surreal Bruneau Sand Dunes to the unfathomable expanse of the central Idaho wilderness. It is a wondrous place that can defy imagination. For the uninitiated, or for those who simply doubt, here are but seven of the many wonders of the Gem State.

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Central Idaho Wilderness Areas Frank Church, Gospel-Hump, Selway-Bitteroot

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Idaho contains the second highest wilderness acreage in the Lower 48, only falling behind California. A large portion of this area lies in the center of the state, where the Selway-Bitterroot, Frank Church-River of No Return, and Gospel-Hump Wildernesses all meet. The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness spills across the Idaho-Montana border, demarcated by the glacier-tipped Bitterroot Mountains. It is the third largest wilderness area in the Lower 48, filled with approximately 1,800 miles of trails, countless granite peaks and hidden valleys. The 600-foot-wide Nez Perce Trail is the only thing that separates the Selway-Bitterroot from the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, the largest contiguous wilderness area in the Lower 48. Two white water rivers cut across the vast 2,357,715 acres, the Main Salmon and the Middle Fork of the Salmon. An expansive network of trails wind across the area, providing access for anyone who wishes to experience the jagged Salmon River Mountains that fill the interior of the area. Over 1.5 million acres remain trail-free, preserved for the wildlife that inhabits the wilderness. The Gospel-Hump Wilderness borders the Lower Salmon River and the northwest finger of the Frank ChurchRiver of No Return Wilderness area. It is equally spectacular in its “untrammeled� beauty and wild nature. The area is replete with moose, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, mountain lions, wolves and anadromous fish. summer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 125

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Bruneau Sand Dunes An Other Worldly Landscape

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Hike up the sand, calves surely burning, across the several large dunes that make up the state park.

Once you reach the peak, strap on a sand board or dune ski and you are off, carving your way down the highest single-structured sand dune in North America. It sits at approximately 470 feet, towering over two small lakes that sit below. This height is the result of thousands of years of wind.

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Unlike most dunes in North America, these form near the center, rather than the edge, of the natural basin. It has acted as a trap for the sand for over 12,000 years; some geologists believe the dunes may have started with sands unearthed following the Bonneville Flood, about 15,000 years ago. The millennia have crafted the perfect outdoor haven, with fishing and hiking, horseback riding and star gazing. It rises like a slice of the Sahara, complete with a lake oasis, just 65 miles southeast of Boise.

Hells Canyon The Deepest Gorge

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The foreboding name of this canyon seems fitting when talking about its size; at 7,993 feet deep, it is North America’s deepest river gorge. It stretches a monstrous 10 miles from rim to rim. The Snake River flows over a mile below the west rim, on the Oregon side, and 8,000 feet below He Devil Peak of the Seven Devils, a mountain range dividing two of the deepest canyons in North America, with the Salmon River sitting on the other side. The canyon rim is around 2,000 feet higher than the Grand Canyon, on both sides. There are no roads across the canyon’s 10 miles, and only three roads that lead to the Snake between Hells Canyon Dam and the Oregon/Washington boundary, making it virtually inaccessible to all but the most determined adventurers. You are rewarded for perseverance with stunning vistas and raging white water.

 more idaho gems City of Rocks Located at the south end of the Albion Mountains in southern Idaho, this 14,407-acre National Reserve is a rockclimbing paradise. Nicknamed “The Silent City,” climbers come from all over the world to tackle its granite spires and pinnacles. There are over 600 routes to scale, both traditional and sport, as well as mountain biking, camping, birding, hiking and horseback riding. summer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 127

Mount Borah The Top of Idaho

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Mount Borah is the highest mountain in Idaho, with Beauty Peak measuring 12,662 feet. It is the monarch of the Lost River Range, its bare grey limestone peak looming large over the surrounding mountains. The peak is prized among climbers, with nearly 6,000 feet separating it vertically from the lowest contour line encircling it, a measure topographers label as “prominence.” This distance qualifies Borah as a rare ultra-prominence peak. The peak was not recognized as the state’s highest until 1934, when it was verified to be at 12,655 feet. Legend has it that the difference in measurement was not a fluke, but rather the mountain grew since then. On October 28, 1983, Mount Borah rose 7 feet, when a massive earthquake shook the valley around it down and the ridge up.

With a plethora of routes to the top, Mount Borah is a mountaineer’s dream.

 more idaho gems Lake Pend Oreille Formed during the last ice age and cupped in Idaho’s northern Panhandle, Lake Pend Oreille is the fifth deepest lake in the country. During World War II, its southern end held the second largest naval training ground in the world, built after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Today, the Navy still conducts acoustic submarine research at the lake’s freezing depths.

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The Palouse Rolling Beauty

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The hills of the Palouse bloom erratically across the horizon. There are no continuous valleys. They do not follow the pattern of most mountains, carved in rows by rivers and streams.

This is because these hills were deposited across the plateau, rather than whittled from it. These peculiar, asymmetrical hills cover 4,000 square miles from north of Lewiston, almost to the

southern end of Lake Coeur d’Alene, expanding farther out of Idaho into the Northwest. The Palouse mimic dunes, blown in by prehistoric dust storms carrying fine silt. This silt was trapped when they hit wetter grasslands, accumulating into hills that hardened into loess. The hills flush green in the summer, before they ripen to gold in the autumn, making the Palouse both strange and picturesque. summer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 129

Craters of the Moon

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The Craters of the Moon appear mystical with tarblack rivers, frozen caves and sagebrush steppe spanning 1,117 square miles. The Monument and Preserve contain three major lava fields, all of which lie on the Great Rift of Idaho. Over 25 volcanic cones dot the landscape, with 60 discrete lava flows. These flows date back to as old as 15,000 years, to as young as 2,000. The youngest flows occurred recently enough that the Shoshone people likely witnessed their creation. More may witness these eruptions sooner than one would think; the volcanic fissures are considered dormant, not extinct, and are expected to erupt within the next 1,000 years. Some volcanologists predict that we will see an eruption in the next 100 years. Walk through and you will truly feel like you are traversing the lunar surface. As the explorer Robert Limbert said in his 1924 National Geographic article, the Craters of the Moon are, “bewildering in their immensity, mystifying in their variety of strange formations.”

 more idaho gems Shoshone Falls Located near Twin Falls, Idaho, on the Snake River, is the thundering 212-foot Shoshone Falls. Nicknamed the “Niagara of the West,” this spectacle is actually 45 feet taller than its eastern cousin, Niagara Falls. There is a scenic overlook and a shaded picnic area perfect for snapping photos in the spring, when water levels are highest.

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A Volcanic Wonderland

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Shangri-La & Redfish Lake

Pristine Waters, Majestic Views

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The sockeye salmon is the namesake of Redfish Lake, as its fire-engine-red scales used to make the crystal-clear water shimmer red in the summer spawning season. Before the development of hydropower along the path to the Pacific, thousands of sockeye would complete an annual migration of over 900 miles from the ocean up the Columbia. With eight dams standing in their way, fewer and fewer sockeye make the journey successfully; in May 1991, “Lonesome Larry” was the only adult sockeye to make it.

Thankfully, this grave situation shocked groups into action. The sockeye is considered endangered, and the count has grown to over 1,200. The lake itself is picturesque, easily enjoyed with an abundance of hiking trails and cabins, locations to rent boats, motorized or not. The ice-cold water reflects the surrounding mountains, the mirror image punctured only by the people playing within it. Just across and above the lake is the Shangri-La area, which comprises multiple alpine lakes and the famous Elephant’s Perch, a rock climber’s paradise. The area is pristine, the views breathtaking, and the hiking and climbing is virtually unlimited. summer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 131

inthearts Capturing the Light

Artist James Cook Brings a Unique Sensibility to Painting the Natural World by julie bramowitz

“Maple & Aspen – Pinal #2,” by James Cook, oil on canvas, 70” x 40.25”, Gail Severn Gallery

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Growing up in the Midwest’s Flint Hills, 10,000 square miles of tallgrass prairie spanning Kansas and Oklahoma, artist James Cook had few formal resources for cultivating his burgeoning creativity. But even at an early age, Cook was taken by the flaxen light that reflected on his stark surroundings, honing his eye for the natural geometries that would become a hallmark of his landscape painting.

While anchored in Arizona for the past 40 years, Cook has emerged as one of Idaho’s great visual documentarians. His large-scale oil-on-canvas works, represented in Ketchum

by Gail Severn Gallery, depict the Wood River Valley’s most mesmerizing settings, from the fly-fishing mecca of Silver Creek to the cool tranquility of Alturas Lake.

“Nature always gives you something new,” Cook explained from his home in Tucson, where he works when not traveling across the United States and around the world with his plein-air easel. But, he added, “I’m not interested in painting the same subjects over and over again. To be the poet of Silver Creek?

I couldn’t do that.”

Known in this region for his lively landscapes, Cook is also an accomplished urban anthropologist of sorts, shifting his vantage from the striated sunsets of the Southwest and the white-tipped peaks of the Rockies to the populated cubicles of a sleek high-rise in Manhattan or an empty sidewalk in Chicago.

Such contrasts suggest a polarity in Cook’s oeuvre, but for the artist—who descends from

“Sketch #10,” by James Cook, oil on paper, 37.75” x 30”, Gail Severn Gallery

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“Silver Creek – Cottonwoods #2,” James Cook, oil on canvas, 40” x 60”, Gail Severn Gallery

a line of what he called “Sunday painters,” including his grandfather and several uncles— where his land- and cityscapes converge is their form. “I’m trying to broaden ideas about what painting can do,” he said before revealing that a period of stagnation in the late 80s, when he felt boxed in by commercial expectations from his then-New York gallery, resulted in a freeing of his brush to “work more physically with the paint and to accept a certain level of chance and invention.”

Cook also credits his formal forebears, such as Monet’s lush water lilies, for this stylistic loosening. It is his distinctive take on Impressionism, along with influences from the brash strokes of Abstract Expressionists like de Kooning, that have positioned Cook outside the canon of American plein-air traditionalists. An industrious spirit—Cook arrives at his studio every day at 9 a.m. and concludes “when the light fades at five”—and few distractions (the one-time professor gave up teaching early in his career) allow him to produce an especially robust body of work.

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of July Creek to the Sawtooth range, which “connects them to his work very viscerally,” said Doley, who has placed a number of his pieces with collectors in the Wood River Valley. Severn, who first invited Cook to show at her gallery in 1991, echoed this sentiment, emphasizing not only the vibrancy of his impasto, but the myriad ways of perceiving it. Said Severn: “Close to the surface, one is drawn into the rich texture, but as one moves farther away, they discern a more recognizable reality dictated by his technical skills.”

Cook’s virtuoso use of color produces a kind of trompe l’oeil, an effect that fellow Gail Severn artist and friend Theodore Waddell admitted has had lasting impact on his own work. “I learn from everything he does,” said Waddell, who hosted Cook to paint at his studio on Deer Creek Road when he was recovering from shoulder surgery a decade ago. “You think, What is that?

The subject moves between being aspens and something else. Jim has an ability to manipulate color, to translate anything you think might be green into something that’s not really green.”

This mutability may be traced to Cook’s exposure to the Beatniks who passed through

Wichita and later migrated to Arizona when he was in his early 20s. Crossing paths with the Kansas-born assemblage artist Bruce Conner and the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, Cook absorbed their openness to creative cross-pollination, even if the furthest he’s ever strayed from the visual arts is sculpture. “I didn’t know it at the time—I just thought they were a bunch of crazy guys,” Cook recalled with a laugh, “but they had both a broad cultural impact and a significant personal influence on me.”

For his latest series, on display at Gail Severn last February, Cook gravitated towards new techniques and compositions.

In addition to works on paper, one sign of Cook’s shifting tides was a piece he described as “drawing in oil paint.” Said Cook: “I left a lot of naked canvas. It was intended as a radical departure.”

Upon his return to the Wood River Valley this summer, Cook plans to continue traveling down this unknown path. “There was something going on there besides the depiction of the landscape, something to do with the material and the energy of the painting,” he said. “I’m still pursuing that and expect I will be for a long time.”

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inthearts // artist residency

Outside the Box

Aurobora Gallerist Michael Liener Rethinks the Artist Residency by julie bramowitz

Over nearly two decades, Aurobora art dealer Michael Liener dedicated a portion of his San Francisco gallery space—an historic firehouse, constructed just after the 1906 earthquake, in the city’s Yerba Buena neighborhood—to a rotating cast of artists-inresidence. By inviting painters and printmakers to work onsite, Liener bridged the gap between process and end product; collectors

no longer viewed potential acquisitions within a commercial vacuum, instead engaging with pieces and their makers directly.

So integral was this guest-artist program to the Aurobora approach that when Liener relocated the gallery to Ketchum at the end of 2014, he was eager to secure a similar working studio in the valley. (Aurobora also featured an atelier at its second location, in the South

Park section of SOMA in San Francisco, from 2008 to 2013.) An email from a friend not long after Liener settled in Idaho led to his lease of a Bellevue barn off Glendale Road that, over the past year, has hosted a coterie of internationally recognized names, including Monique van Genderen and Lisa Williamson.

“I’d never been to Idaho before, and I was completely blown away,” recalled Austin,

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Michael Liener, relaxing in his Bellevue barn where guest artists are invited to work.

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• Theodore Waddell

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“Untitled,” by Lisa Williamson, monotype print on 4-ply matte board, 40” x 32”, Aurobora

Texas-based painter Dana Frankfort, who spent six days in Bellevue in late March.

“Being in the Valley had a direct effect on my work because I think of my paintings as abstractions based on the landscape,” she continued, noting that unlike her past residencies in Maine and upstate New York, “I was taken off guard by the mountains. I’d never seen anything like them before.”

“Being in the Valley had a direct effect on my work because I think of my paintings as abstractions based on the landscape. I was taken off guard by the mountains. I’d never seen anything like them before.”

— Artist Dana Frankfort

Israeli-born, Los Angeles-based artist Liat Yossifor, who worked for 10 days at the Aurobora barn last September, was equally inspired by its dramatic vistas. “My studio is on Hollywood Boulevard, and I arrived to this gorgeousness all around,” said Yossifor. “It threw me off completely. I respond to color, to light, to sensation, so when you switch spaces, it can create a crisis. The work that I was making in L.A. didn’t make sense to attempt in Idaho.”

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“Ghost Walk 5 and Ghost Walk 6,”

by Liat Yossifor, watercolor and gouache 0n linen, 18” x 16”, Aurobora

It was during this adjustment period that Yossifor, equipped with a pair of hiking boots picked up on her first day here, began taking walks both in Bellevue and along the Big Wood River in Ketchum. “There’s a lot of freedom and chaos in making art, so it helps to have a structure of some kind,” she explained, noting that she would often break up the day by walking for three hours, then working for three. “It was a direct, sitespecific response to any sensation I felt—like recording every experience.”

Traveling to Idaho—a destination not exactly on the art world map—asks Aurobora residents to take a leap of faith with the gallery. But beyond boarding a plane to the unknown, all of the participants must arrive, Liener emphasized, without any predetermined ideas about what they will produce during the program. Said Liener: “We have a philosophy here: without experimentation, there’s no discovery. Without discovery, there’s no regeneration. The artists that come here have to allow themselves to make dirty laundry, to throw things away, and to keep asking, ‘What if?’”

For Yossifor, that “What if?” was expressed by reconsidering the very materials with which she painted. It was a roll of Belgian linen, stocked in a corner of the barn, that served as the surface on which Yossifor’s sparsely colored water paintings came to life. “It was very hardened,” said Yossifer of the oil-treated toile, “so when I dropped it on the floor, it was

“Untitled,” by Monique Van Genderen, oil and wax on paper, 44” x 30”, Aurobora

almost like a carpet.” The linen’s absorbency allowed Yossifor to saturate it with water, and not unlike Jackson Pollock’s impromptu splattering, she began pouring daubs of pigment from above, likening the result “to a drawing that was swimming.”

Frankfort also found that charting new technical territory in Idaho has expanded her repertoire of processes and mediums back in Texas. Her time during the residency collaborating with a local printmaker and dabbling with etching ink on paper, said Frankfort, “tapped into a part of my brain that I don’t normally use. It opened my paintings back up.”

After the gallery selects several pieces from the residency (each artist also keeps a number of works), group shows are mounted at Aurobora’s Ketchum space. This summer, Liener hopes to team with Ketchum’s Harvey Art Projects on a dual-site exhibition that incorporates both barn-produced work and a smattering of Australian aboriginal paintings.

Though Liener prefers to maintain the Bellevue barn as a working studio only, he is considering collaborating with the Sun Valley Center for the Arts on a series of artist talks at the 1,200-square-foot space. Such an exchange would enable Aurobora’s visiting residents to further enrich their time here by interacting with a part of Idaho beyond its physical environment: the Valley’s fertile community of homegrown artists.

Jane Rosen

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C E L E B R AT I N G 4 0 Y E A R S SUMMER EXHIBITIONS Michael Gregory • Hung Liu • Marcia Myers • Jane Rosen • Julie Speidel • Laura Wilson Victoria Adams • Squeak Carnwath • Linda Christensen • James Cook • Raphaëlle Goethals • Morris Graves • Margaret Keelan • Judith Kindler Gary Komarin • Lynda Lowe • Laura McPhee • Kenna Moser • Kathy Moss • Ed Musante • Robb Putnam • Christopher Reilly • David Secrest Anne Siems • Jack Spencer • Allison Stewart

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A Fresh Perspective on History Contemporary Native American art delights and surprises by cheryl haas

On June 25, 2005, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his men of the 7th Cavalry stood planted on the rolling hills of the Little Bighorn battlefield as they faced the onslaught of Cheyenne and Sioux warriors. A week later, in Sun Valley, the same troops again looked toward the braves advancing under the command of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The figures were life-size, intricately painted wood cutouts, positioned as part of an installation by Santa Fe artist Thom Ross. Ross is one of several artists represented by Ketchum galleries whose work falls exuberantly outside the traditional scope of what most people think of as “Native American art.”

“It’s the responsibility of the artist to stay outside of the social law,” said the iconoclastic Ross. “I look at my subjects in the context of history. White artists created an Indian that never existed—the Indian who always looks so noble as he gazes off into the distance. We fawn over that crap. The truth is Sitting Bull killed more Indians than Custer. The truth is that the Indians were also pranksters and comedians.”

“Thom tries to expose the truth of the Indian experience,” said Cary Moulter, whose Kneeland Gallery exhibits Ross’ works. “He’ll paint from an eyewitness account of Indians playing ping pong or croquet, and take these moments to explore the root of what the West really means. He likes to subvert the clichéd idea of what people expect in Native American art.”

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“Indians Eating Calhoun’s Cake,” by Thom Ross, acrylic on paper, 32” x 40”, Kneeland Gallery In the artist’s words … “Lt. James Calhoun was Custer’s brother-in-law, having married Margaret Custer. Calhoun, along with three of the Custer brothers, all died at the Little Bighorn. Calhoun had a pound cake in his saddle and some Indians probably found it and ate it, which is what I show them doing here (although I changed the pound cake to my favorite type of cake, a chocolate layer cake!)...humor amidst carnage.”

“Custer’s Last Stand,” by Thom Ross, installation, 200 figures: 60 troopers, 140 warriors, Kneeland Gallery In the artist’s words … “Indians riding through the Custer installation on June 25, 2005 (the anniversary date) on the actual Little Bighorn battlefield. As the Indians (Cheyenne and Lakota) rode through the installation, the riders used their riding crops to “count coup” (touch the enemy). As they did so, some of their horses slipped on the grass, so you can see the upside down horse at center with the rider (in red jacket) being crushed beneath the horse…this gave the all-too-real illusion that the plywood cavalry soldiers were actually shooting the Indians off their horses…very strange.”

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Tom Bassett, who with work. His paintings depict Sandy Gregorak owns clothing, headdresses and Wood River Fine Arts, says utilitarian objects that were that when people think of part of Native American life Western art, they usually and ceremonies, and that visualize scenes of cowboys, carried special meaning to Indians and unspoiled vistas the wearer or user.”

by Frederic Remington and Villa uses vibrant Charlie Russell. “People want watercolor washes that imagery that reminds them Broschofsky describes as of an unspoiled world and a like no other. “He uses simpler time,” Bassett said. multi-layers of color to “The artists we represent are achieve an intense brilliance inspired by Native American for background,” she said. culture, and their work is “Leather and fringe appear to their interpretation of have real texture. Beadwork that culture.” is especially prominent. Each Dave McGary (1958bead is individually painted, 2013) is one of those artists, and then with a small drill, and he’s considered a master he pierces it down to the of realism in depicting white of the paper, giving it Native Americans. Two a three-dimensional quality.” of his bronzes are in the Broschofsky added that permanent collection of the Villa “likes to have fun” and White House. “Dave spent playfully puts his subjects a lot of time with different in a contemporary realm tribes and took the time to by forming objects such as educate himself on what taxis or martinis into the he was creating so his work beadwork of his paintings. has an authenticity and Two of the gallery’s a feeling that’s correct,” younger artists turn the commented Bassett. “His popular notion of Indian sculpture, ‘Emergence of imagery on its head. Russell the Chief ’, at Concordia Young is a British artist “Siksika Chief – Curly Bear,” by Russell Young, screen print on linen, 62” x 48”, Broschofsky Galleries University in Montreal, who began his career in Canada, is a good example. music videos but turned his To me that’s the romance, the real character The Iroquois confederation of five nations attention to pop culture in photographs and of collecting. A dress with pony beads can was a matriarchal society in which the clan prints. Broschofsky says he works in large fetch $100,000 in resale where one with seed mothers owned land and homes, and elected format and often finishes his screen prints beads may bring only $10,000 to 18,000.” the male chiefs. So Dave ended up changing off with “diamond dust”—literally crushed Seed beads were introduced after his original design to include a clan mother glass—that gives a piece such as Curly Bear, manufacturing techniques in Europe instructing a new chief on how to govern.” a portrait of a Siksika chief, what she calls improved to allow tiny beads of uniform Gary Lipton, owner of Lipton Fine Arts, “an ironic pop glitz.” size with a range of colors to be imported collects Native American antiquities such as Broschofsky’s son, Rudi, who grew up in bulk. After the tribes were relocated onto blankets, clothing and baskets. “I only deal in exposed to his parents’ Ketchum gallery, is reservations, Lipton says they often bought items that are pre-reservation,” Lipton said, now an urban artist in Portland. He often bolts of fabric in blues, greys and reds to “circa 1850-1875, when the Indians still lived incorporates Native American imagery, says make blankets and garments, and sewed with in the wild and used traditional materials.” his mother, but his style is generations away cotton thread.

Lipton will happily describe the difference from the pastoral scenes evoked by popular Theodore Villa is of Apache and Zapotec between a dress adorned with pony beads art. A product of the snow and skateboard (Mexican) heritage whose work hangs in and one made with seed beads. “Pony beads culture, Rudi uses street art methods the Broschofsky Galleries. “He was raised in were larger and introduced from traders who and employs spray paint and stencils— Santa Barbara by his maternal grandmother traveled with pony pack trains in the early often on boards themselves—to convey a who instructed him in the old myths and 1800s,” he said. “The Indians would kill contemporary slant on a time of American ways,” said co-owner Minette Broschofsky. an antelope and strip the sinew or gut, and history that people often view through a “Her stories provided inspiration for his use it to sew the beads on a hide garment. pastoral lens.

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New Exhibits Opening for the Summer Season It is perhaps no surprise that a community that so values the natural beauty of its surroundings would also cultivate a rich appreciation for the visual arts.

The Wood River Valley boasts exquisite art across many mediums and genres. Below you’ll find brief descriptions of some of the area’s fine galleries, as well as mention of the artists showing this summer. We’ve also provided a gallery map to help you get around on the always-popular Gallery Walk evenings, held this season on July 8, August 5, and September 2, 2016.

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“Tlingit Berry Basket,” by Preston Singletary, blown and sand-carved glass, 16” x 12”

Friesen Gallery exhibits contemporary paintings, glass and sculpture by widely recognized and acclaimed artists: Adela Akers, Christopher Brown, Mia Brownell, Rachel Brumer, Nicole Chesney, Ford Crull, Dennis Evans, Lawrence Fodor, Jeff Fontaine, Gregory Grenon, Isabella Huffington, Steve Jensen, Richard Jolley, Mary Josephson, Tom Lieber, Holly Lyman, Dara Mark, Nancy Mee, William Morris, Trinh Nguyen, Piper O’Neill, Lisa Occhipinti, Phranc, Chris Richter, Ginny Ruffner, Lino Tagliapietra and Barbara Vaughn, among others.

“Chief Joseph,” by Rudi Broschofsky, spray paint on board with resin, 54” x 34”

Established in 1987, Broschofsky Galleries features fine art with a focus on the West, historic through contemporary.

Artists include Russell Chatham, Michael Coleman, Edward Curtis, Ewoud de Groot, David Dixon, Glen Edwards, Jan Grotenbreg, William Matthews, Gordon McConnell, Ken Peloke, Theodore Villa and Andy Warhol.

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“Clay Drawing” (detail of installation, Archer Gallery, Clark College), by Alwyn O’Brien, 2013. Courtesy the artist and James Harris Gallery, Seattle.

The Center brings world-class arts to our community through concerts, lectures, classes, theatre and visual arts. This summer features Company of Fools’ “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” and “August: Osage County;” concerts with John Butler Trio, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and Wilco; the exhibitions “Moving Pictures: Early Animation and Its Influence” and “Defying Gravity: Interventions in Clay;” and classes for adults, families and kids. See website for details. wood river fine artS 360 East Avenue • Ketchum, ID (In The Courtyard) 208.928.7728 www.woodriverfinearts.com

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Wood River Fine Arts features traditional and contemporary works by artists who capture the natural grandeur and unique peoples of the American West. The award-winning paintings and sculpture of these contemporary masters have received national and international acclaim and appear in private, corporate and museum collections throughout North America. In addition to CAA gold medalists Grant Redden and R.S. Riddick, and Prix de West Purchase Award winners Christopher Blossom, Terri Kelly Moyers and Andrew Peters, the gallery proudly represents Kenneth Bunn, G. Russell Case, Walt Gonske, Logan Maxwell Hagege, Quang Ho, Richard Loffler, Dave McGary (1958 - 2013), Jim Morgan, John Moyers, Ralph Oberg, Daniel Pinkham, Mary Roberson, Amy Sidrane, Matt Smith and Kathryn Stats.

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Plein Air Exhibition This year marks the 25th anniversary of Kneeland Gallery’s popular Plein Air Exhibition. The event will take place on Aug. 1-5, beginning with a two-day landscape painting wokshop by Shanna Kunz. The following artists will paint together for public viewing on Wednesday, Aug. 3 and Thursday, Aug. 4: Steven Lee Adams, Fred Choate, John Horejs, Jack Braman, Lori McNee, Shanna Kunz, Robert Moore and Bart Walker. Their paintings will be on display at Gallery Walk on Friday Aug. 5 from 5-8 p.m. Please contact Kneeland Gallery for workshop sign-up information and event locations.

Gallery Walks & Public Art Hosted by the Sun Valley Gallery Association (SVGA), Gallery Walks take place from 5-8 p.m. and feature exhibition openings that are free to the public, often with artists in attendance. Meet the artists, mingle with friends and enjoy wine and entertainment while taking in new exhibitions by national and international artists.

Restaurants welcome Gallery Walk guests, and public art abounds along four blocks of Fourth Street in Ketchum, which is lined with sculptures from various galleries and artists. This beautiful outdoor display is juried by the Ketchum Arts Commission, and is in place spring through fall.

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Great wine produced in Idaho? If you’ve not sampled wines made in the Gem State recently, you may be surprised to learn the answer is an emphatic yes. To prove it, the “emerging” industry is racking up major wine awards and gaining national press. And it only took a mere 152 years.

Some background is necessary to understand how a century-plus-old industry is just now considered emerging. Grapes were first planted near Lewiston in 1864, and the first Pacific Northwest wineries were in Idaho, not Washington. If it weren’t for the buzz-killing Prohibition era—which in effect decimated the industry—the agriculture in Idaho might look 152 sunvalleymag.com | summer 2016

a lot different today. A long lull between the 1930s and the early 1970s saw no action on the grape front, and it wasn’t until the mid-1980s that a few forward-thinking Idahoans decided to get serious about wine making, establishing the Idaho Wine Commission (IWC), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to champion the industry.

Moya Shatz Dolsby, the executive director of the IWC, said there are 51 licensed wineries.

By comparison, Washington clocks in with 860 wineries, and Oregon with 600. Most Idaho wineries are located in the southwestern part of the state, in the Snake River AVA (American Viticultural Area), Idaho’s only designated AVA.

A sub-AVA of the Snake River AVA, Eagle Foothills, was named in late 2015, the first AVA entirely within Idaho (Snake River AVA spills into eastern Oregon).

Even though the industry is infinitesimal compared to its neighbors, a study commissioned by the IWC in 2013 revealed the Idaho wine industry had a $169.3 million impact on the economy, and created nearly 1,250 jobs. Still, the industry is on the cusp of exploding, according to Dolsby. While a smattering of Idaho wineries were established before the 1990s, most were established in the early to mid-aughts. A handful of boutique wineries making national news are clustered in Garden City, four miles northwest of downtown Boise, referred to as “urban wineries” because of their location. These wineries do not own vineyards, but instead contract with grape growers. Dolsby said approximately half of Idaho wineries own their own vineyards and the other half partner with farmers for grapes.

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largest winery in the state, producing 125,000 cases a year. Production among the rest of the wineries reflects the youthful nature of the industry. “There’s a big jump down to the next level at 15,000 cases, and then most wineries are in the 3,000 to 7,000 case range,” Dolsby said. “The learning curve in winemaking is huge,” Dolsby said. “We’re now in the second generation of winemakers who get that you have to know the terroir to know the right grape to plant.”

Melanie Krause, who started Cinder in Garden City with her husband, Joe Schnerr, in 2006, agrees. “Like every state, we tried the most popular grapes first,” she said, which didn’t always work in the high-desert climate of Idaho. “In the last 15 years, when I wanted to start making my own wine, I homed in on three: Syrah, Viognier and Tempranillo.” She said there are close to 13 or 14 grape varieties that can thrive in Idaho with correct vineyard management, but for her, concentrating on just a few main varieties was important. “I’d love to make all 13 or 14 varieties, but I have to focus.”

Viognier was the grape that brought Krause back to her home state. “I’d been spying on Idaho and what was going on. Viognier is just brilliant, with a gorgeous aroma. Some people make a sweet, clumsy wine out of it, but we make it with grace.” Krause began her winemaking career as a professional vineyard technician at Washington’s Chateau Ste. Michelle in 2001. By 2003, she was named assistant winemaker. Wine Enthusiast magazine named her in its “40 under 40: America’s Tastemakers” article in 2014. The 2012 Cinder Tempranillo snatched 92 points and the 2013 Syrah (made with a touch of Viognier in the style of French Côte-Rôtie) was awarded 90 points from the same magazine.

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budding industry is the need for more Idahogrown grapes. “We need more grapes in the ground,” Dolsby said. “We’re meeting that challenge by planting more vines, but in the next couple of years, the wineries are going to have to continue to buy grapes from Washington to meet production demands.” It takes three to five years for vines to produce enough fruit to harvest for wine.”

“The grapes that exist are what we have to work with,” said Earl Sullivan, a former biochemist who started Telaya Wine Company with his wife, Carrie, in 2008, renting space from Cinder. “Idaho has 1,200 acres of grapes compared to 50,000 in Washington.

We have caught flack from some (for buying Washington grapes), but our stance is we make the best quality, so we source the best grapes.”

Telaya moved into its own, brand new 12,000-square-foot facility just a few blocks from Cinder earlier this year. “It’s gorgeous,” said Krause. “We are all drooling a bit.” Wine Press Northwest recently named Telaya the 2016 Winery of the Year, and it bestowed a double platinum award on the 2012 Telaya Cabernet Sauvignon. Seattle Wine Awards awarded gold medals to Telaya’s 2013 Viognier, and a double gold to the 2012 Syrah.

No one expects the Idaho wine industry to grow to the size of Washington, or even Oregon, but Dolsby, who previously worked for the Washington State Wine Commission, said there’s no reason Idaho wines can’t compete— bottle to bottle—with its neighbors and beyond. Sullivan credits Dolsby for getting the Idaho wine industry on track. “Moya is tireless,” he said, “and the quality of Idaho wines has gone up since she took over the commission eight years ago.” One thing is for sure: some Idaho wineries, including Cinder and Telaya, are producing wines worth toasting.

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Tasting Notes inder 2015 C Dry Viognier

Serving irresistible homemade ice creams such as Sea Salt Caramel or Peanut Butter Cup. Milkshakes and Banana Splits are made exactly the way you like while you enjoy a sunny Sun Valley day!

Pale, silvery gold in color, an elegant wine full of floral and honey aromas, soft mouth feel with hints of citrus and peach, and clean, crisp finish. cinderwines.com

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inder 2013 C Syrah The winery suggests laying it down for a few years, but if you drink it now, expect ripe, almost jam-like berry flavors, a full-bodied mouth feel and a hint of floral on the nose, from a touch of Viognier in the mix. cinderwines.com

elaya 2013 T Mourvédre Dark berries on the nose and palate offset by a touch of pepper and plenty of complex earthiness. telayawine.com

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a Scoop of Summer Heaven Artisanal Ice Creams that Delight by cheryl haas

EXACTLY WHEN AREN’T THE STAKES

You’re involved in a business dispute.

Your employees, your company— everything you’ve worked so hard to build—are at risk. A lawsuit is agonizing. But there’s really only one thing worse than being in a dispute: losing one. And we’re not about to let that happen.

Summer in our slice of heaven that we call the Wood River Valley means warm weather, blue skies and days that stretch into twilight long past the kids’ bedtime.

And nothing heralds summer like a scoop (or two) of artisanal ice cream! Here’s a sampling of what’s out there.

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A self-professed “ice cream addict, “Toni Bogue used to daydream as a child about leaving anonymous gifts of ice cream on her neighbors’ doorsteps. As an owner of Toni’s Ice Cream, she creates ice cream that is a gift to the palate: extremely smooth and creamy, as well as lower in fat and sugar than many house-crafted creams. Bogue says this is due to a European gelato technique that uses less cream and more milk. She cooks the mixture longer so it emulsifies without starch fillers, or chemistry on the back end, as Bogue

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puts it. She uses non-GMO milk and cream that is also rBST-free.

Favorite flavors include salted caramel and Toni’s Bon Bons: vanilla rounds coated with dark chocolate and a surprise caramel filling in the center. Adventurous flavors include honey chamomile, vanilla and olive oil, and carrot cashew brittle, made with heirloom carrots caramelized in local honey. This season, she’ll introduce high-end popsicles with flavors such as cantaloupe, coconut mojito and watermelon.

Toni’s Ice Cream is available at markets and restaurants throughout the Valley. One can also find Toni herself peddling her ice cream bike (with freezer) in Hailey during Fourth of July festivities and in Ketchum during International Ice Cream Day, the third Sunday in July.

Ice Cream with a Cause

LeRoy’s Ice Cream Fact of the Day: It takes an average of 50 licks to polish off a single-scoop ice cream cone! Located on the Town Square in Ketchum, and with plenty of benches around the square, LeRoy’s is the place to see and be seen. The scoops are huge, but you can also ask for one scoop made up of two flavors. LeRoy’s is a nonprofit that donates its profits to local kids’ organizations. So, while you’re basking in ice cream nirvana, you can also have the pleasure of knowing your purchase is helping to make a child’s life a little better.

The retro-inspired A la Mode in the Sun Valley Village is a child’s sweet dream! (Okay, those of us who are young at heart will appreciate it, too!) One satisfied customer on Trip Advisor said: “If you’re an ice cream fan, this is the place for you! You can pretty much order any ice cream concoction you can imagine!” Try the huckleberry flavor, a root beer float or splurge on an eye-popping sundae. A la Mode also offers six flavors of gourmet hot chocolate—perfect for those cool summer nights as you stroll around the Village. Or ride your bike over with the kids.

Lawrence Loves It

Ice cream aficionados in Hailey don’t have to travel upvalley to savor an artisanal scoop or two: Yellow Belly Ice Cream is located near the corner of Main and Croy streets, and is open year-round. Why Yellow Belly? “We named it after the yellow-bellied Western meadowlark,” laughed owner Lacie Hernandez. “The bird on our logo is called Lawrence and kids love him!”

Hernandez rotates the flavors she makes in-house: salted caramel, fresh mint chip, toasted coconut with pecans, honey ginger snap, honey lavender (with locally sourced 5B Hive honey) and, of course, vanilla. One of her favorites is lemon blueberry frozen yogurt, made from Nancy’s organic yogurt infused with lemon oil and fresh poached blueberries. If you don’t see the flavor you want in the scoop case, chances are it’s available in a pint.

Hernandez began hand-cranking ice cream as a little girl with her grandfather.

Today, she makes small batches of addictive ice cream with a higher fat content, which creates a dense cream with very little air.

Her milk products come from Cloverleaf Dairy, located in Buhl, and she sources locally and organic when she can. In June, she’ll open Stanley Scoops at 615 Ace of Diamonds Street in Stanley.

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Dining Around Town

A Brief Guide to the Valley’s Best Eateries The Wood River Valley has a vibrant dining scene, one that offers both eclectic foods and venues. Whether you’re looking for a mid-mountain perch, golf-course view, or busy downtown sidewalk dining experience, you are bound to find it in the Sun Valley area. To help you navigate the many options, we’ve put together a quick guide to some of the Valley’s best places for food and drink. For a look at full menus and more in-depth coverage of the dining scene, check out Sun Valley Magazine’s dining and menu guide TASTE of Sun Valley, available for free throughout the Valley.

asian fusion

that delight in creating dishes that are as appetizing to look at as they are to eat. 260 Second

plement of artisanal coffee and hot chocolate drinks, plus house-baked European pastries.

Also known as “Dang Good,” Dang’s Thai Cuisine is a favorite among the locals! A newer addition to the Wood River Valley, Dang’s offers a wide selection of popular dishes ranging from Sushi, Green Papaya Salad, Pad Thai, and their famous Green Curry with Chicken.

If you like spicy food, don’t forget to ask for the little jars of Sambal and Thai Chili Sauce.

Highly recommend as an affordable, flavorful and fun experience in Hailey! 310 N Main St.,

St., Ketchum, 208.726.9319

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perry’s

dang’s thai cuisine

Hailey, 208.928.7111

sushi on second

Established in 1994, Sushi on Second is the Valley’s oldest sushi restaurant. But don’t let age fool you. Head sushi chef Zack Venzon is at the center of a talented crew of sushi chefs

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java coffee

& cafe

Truly a great coffeehouse! Baking from scratch daily. Serving the finest Fair Trade and organic coffees. Sound like a local and order the “Dirty Hippie Burrito” and a “Bowl of Soul.”

Wake up and live! Ketchum: 191 4th St. W., 208726-2882, Hailey: 111 N. 1st Ave., 208.788.2297

konditorei

Lunch dishes range from pumpkin spatzle with sausage and apples to roasted chicken crepes with spinach and spicy Liptauer cheese.

To satisfy sweet-tooth cravings or just to warm up on a chilly day, the café offers a full com-

Voted “Best of the Valley” by Mountain Express readers numerous times for breakfast, lunch, and sandwiches, Perry’s Restaurant has been a Ketchum fixture for 26 years. 131 West 4th St., Ketchum, 208.726.7703

wrapcity

Wrapcity is fast, fresh, and fun food! Located next to the Kentwood Lodge on Main Street, Wrapcity serves up creative wraps and salads, homemade soups, and unique quesadillas.

Wrapcity also serves breakfast wraps all day with special breakfast creations on Saturdays and Sundays. Voted “Valley’s Best Lunch” in 2011. 180 Main St. S., Ketchum, 208.727.6766

a la mode

pubs & grills

Sun Valley Resort has a new sweet spot serving irresistible gourmet cocoas, sundaes, shakes and sodas. A la Mode is located in the Village next door to the Short Line Deli. You’ll be tempted by 17 specialty cocoas such as the Raspberry Snowball, Sea Salt Caramel, or the Orange Dreamsicle. Sun Valley Resort, 208.622.2243

short line deli

From the deli case to the sandwich board, over 15 sandwiches can be made to order, such as The Challenger, Italian ham, dry salami, genoa salami, banana peppers, roasted red peppers and provolone piled high on a baguette. Sun Valley Resort, 208.622.2060

italian & pizza bald mountain pizza

& pasta

A family-friendly restaurant featuring handtossed pizza, pasta bowls and salads.Very casual and fun fare for kids. A full take-out menu is available and Bald Mountain Pizza delivers to Sun Valley Resort properties. Sun Valley Resort, 208.622.2143

the cellar pub

The Cellar Pub serves the best pub food in the Sun Valley Ketchum area. From traditional pub fare such as Buffalo Burgers or Fish & Chips to original dishes such as our Flank Steak Salad, we have something for everyone in your party. We have a full bar and feature a great selection of draft beer and fine wines.

Whether you live in the area or are visiting for the first time, come on down to The Cellar Pub; we’d love to serve you. 400 Sun Valley Rd., Ketchum, 208.622.3832

lefty’s bar

& grill

Lefty’s has been a local and visitor favorite for more than 20 years, and for good reason. Lefty’s has a great casual dining menu, including killer burgers served on fresh-baked bread, monster hot sandwiches, wings, salads and our specialty, fresh-cut French fries. For families, Lefty’s has all the foods kids love, at a price you’ll love. There is no better place to watch sports than Lefty’s, whose motto is “All the games, all the time.” Live music.

Great outdoor deck! 231 6th St. East, Ketchum,

Smoky Mountain Pizzeria Grill is a comfortable, casual, dynamic family restaurant in downtown Ketchum. Our extensive menu features unique pizzas and pastas, delicious salads, sandwiches, grilled steaks, hamburgers and more. You’ll also find a kids’ menu, an exciting selection of seasonal appetizers, entrées and desserts, daily lunch specials, an extensive beer and wine selection, TVs, catering and fast, friendly delivery service. 200 Sun Valley Rd., Sun Valley, 208.622.5625

The New York Times named KB’s as a must stop in its article of top 10 things to do in 36 hours in Sun Valley, Idaho. Travel writer Sarah Robertson wrote, “Even when people are far away, they’re still thinking about the food at Ketchum Burritos. This cheerful, laidback burrito joint serves delicious fish tacos and offers a make-your-own burrito, with a choice of 27 fillings.” Ketchum: 260 N. Main St., 208.928.6955, Hailey: 121 N. Main St., 208.788.7217

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Founded in 1986, Sun Valley Brewery Company is a favorite local spot to enjoy a beer and a meal. The Brewery serves 12 locally made beers, many of which are award-winners.

Located on Main Street in Hailey, the Sun Valley Brewery offers a full lunch and dinner menu. While listening to some live music, you can enjoy a salad, pizza, pasta entrée, Angus burger, or an Asian-inspired snack along with your freshly brewed beer. 202 N. Main St., Hailey,

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the haven

Ketchum’s food truck! The Haven is located in Ketchum at the Play Hard Give Back landing pad off Warm Springs Road and 7th Street. The food truck is open Monday through Friday from 12-2 p.m. as well as at a variety of locations throughout weekends, including next to Whiskey Jacques’ from 12 p.m. to 2 a.m. and evenings at the Sawtooth Brewery in Ketchum, filling a niche for late night bites. Warm Springs Rd. & 7th St., Ketchum,

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the power house

Bikes, beers and burgers! Outside Magazine ranks Power House as one of America’s Top 10 best bars for cyclists. With over 150 bottled beers and 20 on tap, there is something to quench the most basic thirst and challenge the most critical palate. The menu showcases the virtue of less is more. From the house-made ketchup to the hand-patted burgers and locally made organic challah buns, the menu delivers.

A few of the popular offerings include mahimahi tacos, fresh-dipped corn dogs, steak chili and hand-cut fries. 502 N Main St., Hailey, 208.788.9184

town square tavern

Town Square Tavern, established in June 2015, is a gathering place in the center of Ketchum serving fresh and inspired world cuisine. With flavors inspired by the Mediterranean regions stretching from the Middle East, to North Africa, to Spain, Italy, and France, there is something sure to please everyone’s palate. 260 N. East Ave., Ketchum, 208.726.6969

whiskey jacques’

Whiskey’s is the premier live music venue and sports bar in Ketchum, with eight HD bigscreen TVs and one projector screen. Whiskey’s kitchen is famous for their brick-oven pizza, awesome wings, refreshing salads and tasty grinders. The upstairs room is available for your private event. 251 N. Main St, Ketchum,

ck’s real food

Real food from real places featuring local and Northwest regional ingredients and fresh fish nightly. Great wines from all over. Dine in a comfortable, casual and energetic space. Eat here, eat well! 320 Main St., Hailey, 208.788.1223 elkhorn clubhouse

When summer hits, hit up the Elkhorn Clubhouse for lunch or early dinner, and recharge with a little Valley R&R. Dine inside for a touch of classic clubhouse ambience, or grab a table on the patio and breathe in the pristine Dollar Mountain view surrounded by the Elkhorn golf course. Either way, the seasonal, locally focused fare will treat you right with signature plates like legendary crab cakes, lamb sliders, and fresh, inventive twists on classic sandwiches and salads. 97 Badeyana Dr., Sun Valley, 208.622.2820

jersey girl

Jersey Girl offers fast, fresh, quality food that’s handmade with love. Fresh daily soup and salad specials complement a full sandwich board of local favorites like the Bacado or Godfather. Each sandwich starts with a fresh La Brea baguette. We roast our own turkey and beef daily, all of our soups and salad dressings are made from scratch and our desserts are all fresh-baked just for us. Come on in …

It’s all good downtown! 14 East Croy St., Hailey 208.788.8844

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regional northwest atkinsons’ markets

Atkinsons’ Markets serving you and your family at our three locations in the Wood River Valley. Ketchum: 451 E. 4th St., 208.726.2681, Hailey: 93 E. Croy St., 208.788.2294

bigwood bar

& grill

The Bigwood Grill is an outdoor restaurant with amazing views of Baldy, the Boulders and Galena Peak. It’s open for lunch and dinner from June through late September. The Grill features a full-service bar with daily Happy Hour specials from 3-5 p.m., lunch served from 11-3 p.m., with dinner service starting at 5:30 and ending at 9:30. Bigwood Golf Course 115 Thunder Spring Rd., Ketchum, 208.726.7067

rasberrys

Whether you are seeking a quiet getaway place for lunch or are wanting to host an elegant gathering for friends, Rasberrys’ two establishments in Ketchum and Hailey will meet and exceed your desires. Callie and Maeme Rasberry believe all the senses must be involved in meal preparation; therefore, the menu is eclectic, just like the chefs, with dishes prepared with fresh local ingredients when available and their own take on comfort and ethnic food.

Hailey: 315 S. Main St., 208.928.7711, Ketchum: 411 Building 5th St., 208.726.0606

roundhouse

Perched midway up Bald Mountain on the River Run side, the Roundhouse was built in 1939 by Sun Valley’s founding father, Union Pacific Railroad Chairman Averell Harriman.

Today this restaurant is a culinary destination

not to be missed. Serviced by the Roundhouse Gondola, the restaurant is accessible for skiing and non-skiing clientele. Bald Mountain, Ketchum, 208.622.2012

the club house

Possibly Sun Valley’s most popular lunch spot. The Sun Valley Club is open for guests and the public and doubles as the Sun Valley Nordic and Snowshoe Center in winter. 1 Trail Creek Rd., Sun Valley, 208.622.2919

vittles

Located in Bellevue, Idaho, this restaurant is well worth the drive. Famous for their “finely crafted comfort food,” Vittles serves a variety of dishes that will delight your palate. Come grab your favorite meals ranging from fried chicken to homemade mashed potatoes. Open nightly Wednesday through Saturday as well as Sunday for brunch! 118 S. Main St., Bellevue, 208.928.7955

steak & seafood the ram

Modern steakhouse with organic and local Idaho products, full service. Live music with Larry Harshbarger on the piano. Located in the Sun Valley Inn. Make your reservation now! Sun Valley Resort, 208.622.2225 trail creek cabin

A romantic hideaway since 1937, Trail Creek Cabin is a must Sun Valley dining adventure.

Wagons depart for the restaurant from the village near the Sun Valley Inn during the summer season, sleigh rides during the winter season, and you may also drive. The purchase of a wagon ride ticket confirms a reservation for dinner at Trail Creek Cabin. Dinner is additional and is paid for at the cabin. The seasonal menu has a Western flair all complemented by a great wine list and a full bar. 51 Trail Creek Rd., Sun Valley, 208.622.2800

jhony’s peruvian

Jhony’s Peruvian is a local gem serving Asianinfluenced culinary dishes along with fresh seafood and shellfish. The Ceviche and the Charcoal-Roasted Peruvian Rotisserie Chicken represent some of the locals’ favorite dishes.

The restaurant also offers a wine list complete with South American and Spanish wines to further complement the flavorful meals. 200 6th St., Ketchum, 208.928.7929

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the team Photographer: Hillary Maybery Wedding Planner: Heather Minor Events Flowers: Kurt McAuley, Botanica Caterer: Cristina's Hair: Danielle Anspach, Vertu Hair Salon Dress: Oscar de la Renta Makeup Artist: Britt Davis Bridesmaids’ Attire: Natalie Deayala Collection Invites: Jenna Rainey, Mon Voir

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Caitlin and Derek Tie the Knot in Starry Sun Valley by taylor holden

It simply doesn’t get any lovelier than this enchanted summer wedding. Caitlin Andrews and Derek Steffein tied the knot at her family’s private residence just north of Sun Valley on July 25th, 2015, with over 175 loving guests and family members by their sides. Caitlin's stunning Oscar de la Renta lace wedding dress, with a sweetheart invisible tulle neckline and floating skirt, gave the perfect touch of classic romance.

Their idyllic, garden-themed wedding was

ornamented with jewel-toned flowers that brought a quiet elegance to the ceremony, cocktail hour and into the reception. Antique farm tables with light blue runners softened the look, with lush centerpieces that picked up the rich shades of pink, plum and garnet.

Elegant French country cross-back chairs added to the natural and luxurious style.

Under a starry Sun Valley sky, the couple enjoyed champagne and danced the night away to classic Frank Sinatra songs.

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idaho rustic meets city-hip Emily and Ladd Celebrate at Trail Creek Cabin by taylor holden

Emily Joy and Ladd Fritz’s vibrantly colorful wedding showed the true colors of their bright and vivacious personalities.

From its eclectic palette of rich pink, delicate blush, cream and hints of sage, to the bride’s gorgeous style, to the heartfelt intimate ceremony that focused on family, every detail of their wedding day focused on their personal story.

Emily and Ladd married outside on a spectacular August day at Sun Valley’s Trail Creek Cabin—a true treat for the eyes and

heart. The panoramic and picture-perfect views of Baldy set the scene for an ethereal wedding day with plenty of classical charm.

Their nearest and dearest gathered around a beautiful rustic floral arch while Emily and Ladd exchanged their vows.

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pretty in pastel

Caitlin and Brian Keep It Classicly Charming by taylor holden

Every little detail of this glamorous Sun Valley wedding is to die for. A palette of ivory, peach, and luscious greenery set off the elegant natural shades of this beautiful outdoor September wedding.

The stunning bride wore a timeless dress from Vera Wang—her hair loosely cascading down her face as she walked down the aisle.

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with color with their friends and family by their sides.

A tidewater sailcloth tent set the tone with floating glowing globes that hung from the ceiling during the reception. The table linens, place settings and thickly entwined pastel centerpieces blended perfectly into the summer sun as the evening came to an end and the dancing carried on.

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Years of experience creating unforgettable events

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A Guide to the Valley's Premier Wedding Vendors Planning a wedding is no small feat. Some relish the challenge; others shudder at the enormity of the undertaking. Either way, help from the pros can be a lifesaver. In our listings below, we’ve highlighted some of the best vendors in the Valley—people who can make your day in the sun not only tailored to you, but stress-free. beauty simply skin

With over 12 years of experience in medical aesthetics, Deidra Piper is dedicated to serving her clients with the most result-driven, innovative procedures available. Her everyday mission is to help you feel beautiful in your own skin.

We offer many top grade medical aesthetic services, injections, fillers, Intense Pulsed Light, Laser Hair Removal, Sclerotherapy, Microdermabrasion, facials, chemical peels and more!

208.725.0150 | simplyskin511.com

zenergy day spa

Zenergy is the Valley’s premier health club and spa. This 48,000-square-foot facility features a world-class spa with nine treatment rooms, a variety of massage modalities, acupuncture, reflexology, a nail salon, Greg Hinshaw’s hair studio, and tanning services. The health club includes indoor and outdoor saline pools, tennis courts, cardiovascular and weight training gym, squash court, Pilates, group fitness, indoor cycling, and yoga studios—but that’s just the beginning of all that Zenergy has to offer.

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galenalodge.com • 208.726.4010

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entertainment & event rentals barbara’s party rentals

With 26 years of experience, Barbara’s Party Rentals has everything you need to make your special event perfect. Classic and transparent tents, wedding and party planning, beer and wine sales, tables, chairs, linens, dance floors, and casual to elegant place settings and clever accessories to personalize every detail. They’re the local know-it-alls that you can trust to deliver quality to your event.

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nathan hudson entertainment

Known as the best DJ in Sun Valley, Nathan Hudson started his career in 1995 in Pensacola, Florida, at the Grand Central Station Club (The Office). He then moved back to Boise, Idaho, where he helped open and launched three nightclubs. Nathan then added weddings and parties to his resume by starting Nathan Hudson’s DJ Services & Entertainment in 1997. He is currently a Mix Show DJ for Radio Boise, a resident DJ at Whiskey Jacques’ in Ketsummer 2016 | sunvalleymag.com 169

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chum and a mobile DJ for about 70-100 parties and events a year, spinning all styles of music. djn8entertainment.com

that's entertainment

Servicing events all the way from Stanley and the Sawtooth Valley in the north to the lower Wood River Valley, That’s Entertainment provides exceptional rental company services to the Sun Valley-Ketchum area.

They carry an extensive line of high-quality rental items including a variety of tent and table sizes, a selection of folding and ballroom-style chairs, dance floors, multiple china patterns, and more. That’s Entertainment provides free consultations along with CADgenerated tent floorplans and will happily assist you with your tabletop and linen design.

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event locations galena lodge

Natural beauty and romantic design are brought together to create the perfect secluded mountain venue. Nestled in the Boulder Mountains, Galena Lodge offers the perfect backdrop for your wedding reception, rehearsal dinner, bridal luncheon or a small intimate dinner. A unique mountain setting with incredible handcrafted food.

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idaho rocky mountain ranch

Privacy and breathtaking natural beauty create the picture-perfect setting for your wedding or private party at historic Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch. Charming accommodations, excellent cuisine and a gracious staff provide a perfect celebration event. Martha Stewart Weddings named IRMR an outstanding wedding destination venue.

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shore lodge

sun valley’s premier car service 208.720.3861 | millerslimo@gmail.com millerslimo.com

With a spectacular lakeside setting, generous accommodations and well-equipped facilities, Shore Lodge is the perfect place for your special day in McCall, Idaho. Our experienced on-site event planning and catering staff is available to assist with all aspects of your wedding to ensure a worry-free and memorable experience. Our combination of rustic elegance and natural beauty provides a backdrop for weddings like no other. No matter the season, weddings are always magical here.

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event & wedding planners absolute weddings

Absolute Weddings is a full-service wedding and event planning business that has been operating and making dreams come true in the Valley for over 10 years. We will help you with all details, from invitations and save-the-dates, to appointments, vendor selection and budgeting. Absolute Weddings’ hands-on approach allows you to relax and enjoy this special time with friends and family. We will take over all details to make your event, day and experience stress-free.

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heather minor events

Heather Minor Events offers creative wedding planning and event planning services that will help you create an event that reflects your own personality and style. We are here to make your magical day a reality from start to finish. Our proven approach ensures that your event will be meticulously planned and perfectly executed so you can sit back and enjoy. We look forward to working, with your help, to plan your big day or next event.

208.309.1014 | heatherminorevents.com

florists

flowers at will:

Located in Boise, Idaho, Flowers at Will offers custom floral arrangements for all weddings.

Don’t live in the surrounding area of Boise? No problem. Will Heatter, the owner of Flowers at Will, offers to design a custom floral arrangement for any destination. If you have a lower budget, Will is there to help. His Weddings a la Carte option allows you to choose the bouquet and floral arrangements you desire while leaving the ultimate design choice up to Will.

208.286.8184 | www.flowersatwill.com

tara bella gardens

& floral designs

Tara Bella specializes in beautiful destination weddings and eye-popping special events. Celebrated for her unique style and meticulous attention to detail, Tara Ooms and her talented staff tailor custom elegant floral designs for every occasion. Ooms’ passion for flowers shines through with the grace and hospitality that only a true Southern belle could possess.

208.788.4046 | tarabellaflowers.com

primavera plants

& flowers

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ties and home décor. Orchid plants, blooming and foliage plants, baskets, candles, pottery and planters. Gourmet gift baskets, fresh, silk and dried flower arrangements.

We deliver and wire flowers anywhere.

208.726.7788 | primaverasunvalley.com

gifts & invitations

ketchum flower co.

Ketchum Flower Co. provides the Valley with eclectic, affordable gifts and aweinspiring clothing. The store has created strong bonds within the community and continues to exude a vibrant, local feel.

208.622.7364 | ketchumflower.com

honey paper

Honey Paper is a paper and design boutique specializing in event graphics. Details are key to creating a special celebration. Whether it is a personal touch on an invitation or unique flavors, we will help you create your vision with a custom design or assist you with do-ityourself elements. Call for an appointment.

208.720.8200 | honey-paper.com

willow papery

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Celebrating in Sun Valley? Let Willow Papery help. A full-service stationery boutique, Willow Papery carries a wide range of invitations, gifts, greeting cards, wrapping paper, ribbon and Kristy Logan Jewelry. We’re also here to assist with last-minute printing needs: menu cards, place cards, gift tags and so much more.

208.726.0456 | willowpapery.com

jewelry barry peterson jewelers

Since 1971, Barry Peterson has been matching the elegant beauty and sophisticated elegance of Sun Valley with his stunning jewelry designs.

Along with the iconic “Sun Valley Sun” design, which was done at the request of former Sun Valley Company owner Bill Janss, Barry Peterson is well known and highly respected for his work with diamonds and precious stones, as well as his designer and unique collection of custom-made jewelry and wearable art.

NATHAN HUDSON ENTERTAINMENT 208.353.1731 | djn8entertainment.com

208.726.5202 | barrypeterson.com

towne

& parke jewelry

A visit to Towne and Parke Jewelry is always rewarding. Tom and Laury Keenan dedicate their hard work to the positive experience of the cus-

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tomer. Their knowledge, expertise and dedication to style and quality are unmatched. Come explore our fun, relaxed atmosphere where everyone is welcomed and appreciated. We are located in the beautiful, historic Sun Valley Village.

208.622.3522 | towneandparkejewelry.com

photographers cheatwood photography

Kristin Cheatwood began her photographic career in the field of motorsport racing, with images published in numerous national and international magazines. Seven years ago Kristin decided to turn her artistic eye toward capturing the joy of weddings. Kristin’s ability to capture unique moments, coupled with a refined sense of composition and intimate, photojournalistic style, has earned her a reputation as a sought-after wedding photographer in the Sun Valley area. Kristin is also available worldwide.

208.721.1641 | cheatwoodphoto.com

dev khalsa photography

I am a documentary photographer at heart, but, to me, photographing weddings is more than simply capturing the moments before me. Providing truly great images goes beyond technical expertise. It requires insight, intuition and the ability to connect on an emotional level. Success, for me, is measured by the amount of laughter and tears my images provoke. My goal is to create images that are

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208-726-7788

Sheepskin

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bold, authentic and enduring. As a wedding photographer, I am devoted not only to creating spectacular images, but also to ensuring a wonderful experience for my clients.

208.788.2849 | devkhalsaphotography.com

flaviu grumazescu photography

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I am passionate about life and photography because of the way pictures tell stories and evoke emotion. God’s beauty surrounds me, but nobody else can see what I see, so I share my photography.

208.309.2987 | flaviu_grumazescu@yahoo.com

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amanda rené photography

Amanda René is a multi-talented photographer offering a variety of services to the Valley while specializing in wedding photography.

If you are looking for a photographer to capture special images of your wedding and more, look no further. Amanda René also offers services for family portraits and senior pictures.

Weddings, Events & Floral Design

Tara Hoff Matteson 208.788.4066 •tarabellaflowers.com

since 1971

511 SUN VALLEY ROAD KETCHUM 208.726.3588

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kirstenshultz

fine art wedding & editorial photography

Barbara’s Party Renta ls

615.495.0789 | amandarene.com

kirsten shultz photography

An award-winning editorial and wedding lifestyle photographer, unobtrusively documenting the beauty of the day as it unfolds.

Recently featured in “Martha Stewart Weddings.” Available in Sun Valley and worldwide.

208.481.0138 | ksweddings.com

transportation miller’s limo

Miller’s Limo is owned and operated by Don and Barb Miller, a husband and wife team that moved to the Wood River Valley in 2002. We are capable of packing in your skis, snowboards, dogs, bikes and whatever else you need to enjoy your vacation. We’re perfect for taking you and your family for a day trip up to Stanley, or picking you up at the Boise, Twin Falls, Idaho Falls or Salt Lake City airports and heading up to the Valley. Whatever your needs, Miller’s Limo can deliver! We also provide transportation for weddings, private parties & special events.

208.720.3861 | millerslimo.com

wedding attire sheepskin coat factory

s Party Specialist Established 1985

Featured in Brides, Inside Weddings, Style Me Pretty & Martha Stewart Real Weddings 208.481.0138 | ksweddings.com

artyrental.com

www.barbarasp

208.726.3778

Sheepskin Coat Factory is the local place to rent tuxedos and related formal wear for men who want to look handsome on their wedding day or for any special occasion that calls for a suit or tuxedo. Ladies may also find elegant sheepskin coats for a winter wedding.

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