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COURTESY PHOTO: MOLLY PAGE
Kindercup’s Top Finishers
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he Papoose Club’s Annual Kindercup ski and snowboard competition took place on Dollar Mountain this past Saturday. There were hundreds of participants ages 3 to 12 and here are the names of the top finishers in each category. (first, second and third, respectively) 3 Yr girl: Callie Allen 19.46; Hadley Vandenberg 20.74; Cookie Cook 21.93 3 Yr boy: Sutter Ellison 17.93; Tristan Bolorx 18.85; Jamie Kelly 20.35 4 Yr girl: Scarlett Canuth 16.17; Norah Davis-Jeffers 17.61; Rowan Dessler 18.09 4 Yr boy: Tucker Smith 12.31; Slater Duval 15.34; Daniel McGee 17.67 5 Yr Girl: Sarah Ewing 10.82; Natalie Gowe 13.14; Lowie Watkind 14.21 5 yo boy: Jacob Uhrig 12.46; Elliott Burks 13.75; Jasper Toothman 13.97 6 Yr Girl: Samantha Smith 22.25; Laura Daves 24.03; Maya Lightner 24.46 6 Yr Boy: Tor Johnston 24.11; John Tumolo 24.17; Anton Holter 24.34 7 Yr girl: Svea Leidecker 27.75; Jacy Thomas 32.81; 7 Yr boy: Sebastion Buxton 24.31; Eric Parris 24.93; Emmett Ruggeri 25.17 8 Yr girl: Logan Smith 29.81; Maddie Charpentier  34.25; Maddox Nickume 35.41 8 Yr boy: Ryder Sarchett 26.05; Nathan Gowe 28.04; Jett Carnth 28.08 7/8 Girls Ski Team: Lily Dean 31.81; Gillian Simcoe 32.73; Zoe Bacca 32.81 7/8 Boys sti Team: Connor Campbell 28.92; Shaw McCoubrey 31.34; Carter Sammmis 33.26 9/10 Girls: Daisy Buxton 32.26; Gracie Doyle 33.61; Molly Doyle 34.94 9/10 Boys: Ethan Marx 29.3; Max Moss 29.33; Toby Molter 30.25 9/10 Girls Ski Team: Laci Jermunson 31.39; Adela Pennell 34.21; Julia Ott 34.28 9/10 Boys ski team: Axel Diehl 28.55; Benjamin Geitandia 32.12; Skye Leininger 32.66 11/12 Girls: Hanna Blackwell 30.44; Grace Gaddis 38.71; Emelia Morgan 42.68 11/12 Boy: Harrison Harper 40.98 11/12 Girls Ski Team: Dakota Castle 36.51; Lauren Baty 37.75 tws
ost Idahoans are familiar with the cowboy. But few have seen them as Kendall Nelson and John Plummer have. The Hailey photographer and videographer have watched a cowboy braiding a lasso from the hide of a horse that died on the range. They’ve watched cowboys caring for their cattle despite torn sternums and shoulder blades, busted ribs, even lungs that had been “knocked loose.� And they’ve talked with men who are the type to liken a fine mare to a Cadillac. The two have documented what they believe may be some of the last true American cowboys in a 52-minute film dubbed “Gathering Remnants.� The title was taken from a rancher’s description for gathering stray cattle. The film has been shown on the Documentary Channel, where it made the 2011 ‘Best of Docs’ Sweepstakes finals. And it’s making the rounds of Europe. But Nelson and Plummer have never had the opportunity to show it to hometown friends. They’ll get that chance this weekend during the inaugural Sun Valley Film Festival, which offers four days of indie films at the Sun Valley Opera House and Magic Lantern Cinema beginning Thursday. “Gathering Remnants,� which took two years to film, will be shown at 8:15 p.m. Friday at the Magic Lantern Cinema. The movie had its genesis in a coffee table book by the same name that Nelson did with Ketchum resident Felicitas Funke-Riehle a decade ago. Nelson was working in the Hollywood film industry when she had a month off and decided it would be fun to spend that month photographing cowboys. A “National Geographic� photographer put her in touch with a Texas rancher and pretty soon Nelson was cooling her heels in Texas where she waited for a week to see if the cowboys in open-crowned hats, chinks and high-heeled boots would allow a girl on a chuckwagon. Over the next three years Nelson photographed cowboys in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming, as well. “I might drive up to a ranch to find two coyotes that’d been preying on calves roped and hanging upside down on the fence,� Nelson recalled. “I found one group 50 miles from ranch headquarters and it was another hour from headquarters to the nearest town. All the modern stuff goes away and it’s just the chuckwagon and the men and the horses.� A couple of years after the book was published, Nelson took Plummer back to some of the ranches, near Bruneau,
COURTESY stills from gathering remnants
More on the film festival
Looking forward to a weekend of great films? Then you should definitely turn to Page 4 where you’ll find more on the Sun Valley Film Festival.
the Duck Valley Indian Reservation and north of Elko. “The cowboys had told all these terrific stories but we didn’t put their words in the book. The book was more poetic,� Nelson said. “The film gives them the chance to let them talk—there’s no narration.� Plummer was no stranger to ranch life, despite having spent his childhood in the Middle East and South Africa where his father worked for the State Department. But, he said, the ranches Nelson introduced him to were “really rough� compared to his friend’s grandfather’s ranch near Calgary where he worked the summer when he was 18. “Rusted box springs, nothing fancy,� Plummer recalled. “I remember one— Sticker Wiggins—talking about how he’d stay up all night for 30 days checking for newborn calves every two hours because they would’ve lasted only an hour in the freezing cold.� Following her book, Nelson became involved with the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev., which sent her on a two-week cowboy exchange to Mongolia. There she sat around campfires listening as American cowboys sang their songs of home on the range and Mongolians sang their songs about horses, five different places in their throat vibrating at once as they sang in a way that was reminiscent of Tibetan singing. “They have a hundred ways to describe their horses—from the colors to the fur,� she said. But that’s another story. tws
“The cowboys had told all these terrific stories‌The film gives them the chance to let them talk.â€? –Kendall nelson
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