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Where Am I Going? BY CONNIE LOVE
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ho am I? Who do I want to be? How am I going to get there? Stop for a moment and pretend you are walking down the street with a friend who is giving you directions to Hailey. There is a couple behind you talking about how to reach a destination in Stanley. Do you change your plans and go to Stanley? Of course not. You simply treat the conversation as a minor distraction. You ignore it, and concentrate on how to get to Hailey. Unfortunately, we too often fail to ignore the distracting voices in our minds when it comes to our own futures. If we continue to be lost in our own minds, we will never really get to know who we really are, much less arrive at the proper destinations. Begin to notice your thoughts. Become aware of your dreams. Distinguish between what you are watching and who you really are. If you really want to grow, be aware of the “person inside.� When irrelevant chatter begins, relax and learn to lean away from it. In other words, be aware of the distracting thought and give it room to pass through. Ask yourself if the thought is serving you well; if not, let it keep passing. We usually cause most of our mental anguish by amplifying and overemphasizing our thoughts. Instead, learn to be in the seat of quiet. It will let you look at the reality and then make a decision. You will have true freedom of yourself, not from yourself. At the same time, remember that change is the very nature of life. When we try to create situations that we think will make us be OK and they don’t work, we become fearful. Remember to sit back and let the fear, too, pass through. Don’t try and fix it. Harmonize and work with it. You will learn how to interface and interact with life. Letting go of fear is not letting go of life. When you learn to sit back and listen to your voice, you begin to learn to see if that voice is really giving you good advice and if it is serving you. You can take the higher road instead of reacting to life. Connie Love, a certified life coach, can be reached at 208-720-2216 or connie@lifecoachconnielove.com. Additional information is available at www.lifecoachconnielove.com. tws
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Hummingbird Flits Into Hall of Fame STORY & PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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e looks like a bumblebee in the distance, buzzing up a long hill on Billy’s Bridge and scissoring his way right past other skate skiers out for a “Sunday stroll.� At 65, “The Hummingbird Man,� as he’s been nicknamed for his constant need to be on the move, may be bragging about how little he paid out of pocket for cataract surgery now that he’s a card-carrying Medicare member. But you won’t find Bob Rosso retiring to a rocking chair any time soon—or giving up his tireless promotion of the sport of Nordic skiing in Sun Valley. On Jan. 30 he will be inducted into the Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the nexStage Theatre. Hall of Fame inductees are chosen because they excel in their sport and have given back. And Rosso has easily done both—from winning the first Boulder Mountain Tour in 1973 to plotting many of the Nordic trails that now make up the Blaine County Recreation District’s 140 kilometers of trails. Rosso was not a Nordic skier when
Longtime sales clerk Nappy Neaman irons Bob Rosso’s shirt to make it look good for his Hall of Fame picture. “What’s rewarding about the Hall of Fame is the number of people who show up of all different backgrounds,� Rosso said. “Sometimes we kinda forget we have this huge history in skiing.�
he came to Sun Valley in 1970. Having grown up on a California chicken farm on Lido Island, he was a Yosemite rock climber and a surfer boy who had swam on a national championship swimming team at Cal-State at Long Beach. But one of his beach buddies came back with stories about a secret powder stash known as Sun Valley where there was no one to ski all the powder. Rosso spent a winter playing in Sun Valley. Then he went to Mexico for a month after the ski lifts shut down and picked up his clothes in California on the way back through. He set up a climbing school for Snug Mountaineering and opened The Elephant’s Perch in 1976 in a white clapboard building that once was the home of Horace Lewis, who operated the Big Hitch ore wagons that used to haul silver and lead from area mines. When Rob Kiesel took over Leif Odmark’s fledgling Nordic ski team in 1972, convincing the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation to include it in its program, Rosso pitched in even though he only knew how to coach swimming. “Kiesel was such a pioneer—he’s wellrespected in Norway because he taught the Norwegians so much they didn’t
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know,� Rosso said of the former U.S. Nordic Ski Team head who was inducted into the Hall of Fame before his death in 2011. “He was so knowledgeable about waxes— he was wax technician for the U.S. Ski Team and had a long career with Swix. In the old days they’d run green wax on the whole ski and Rob figured out how to put a little alpine glide wax on the tail and tip and kick wax under the foot. “We’d hold the klister with a pair of pliers and use a blow torch to heat it up to let it drip into a pot. Then we’d paintbrush it on the kids’ skis because we had 30 skis to wax. Of course, the kids would get it all over their sweaters.� In those days Nordic skis were made out of birch or hickory—the ends would snap off when the kids crashed, Rosso recalled. When American Bill Koch introduced skate skiing at the 1976 Innsbruck Olympics, the locals began cutting the tails and tips off their classic skis to make them shorter for skating. “I remember one race out at Elkhorn where the racers first began to wax with no kick wax so they could skate the whole way,� Rosso recalled.
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