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ome of skiing’s greatest films will be shown for free at the Sun Valley Opera House in conjunction with Ski Heritage Week, today through Friday, April 1. Here’s the lineup: March 30 9 am, “Ski The Outer Limits,� 9:30 am “Blizzard of Aahhhs,� 11 am, Sun Valley Collection, Union Pacific’s “It’s On Ice,� “Moon Over Sun Valley,� 2 pm, “Ski Time,� Warren Miller, 4:30 pm, “Sun Valley Serenade,� 6:30 pm Roger Brown’s “Freestyle,� (rough cut) 7:30 pm, Barrymore Evening, “The Performers,� “Last of the Ski Bums.� March 31 9 am Ski  Racer, 9:30 am, “Legends of American Skiing,� 11 am Sun Valley Collection, Union Pacific’s “It’s On Ice.� “Moon Over Sun Valley,� 2 pm,�Der Weisse Rausch,� 7:30 pm,�Ski The Outer Limits,� 8 pm “Ski Time,� Warren Miller April 1, 9 am, “Ski Racer,� 9:30 am, “Legends of American Skiing,� 11 am, Sun Valley Collection, “It Happened In Sun Valley,� “Skifully Yours,� 2 pm, “Best of John Jay,� 4 pm, “Sun Valley Serenade,� 6 pm, “The FIS 100 Years,� 7:30 pm, “Blizzard of Aahhs,� 9 pm, “Winter Equinox.� tws
DID YOU KNOW
Martinez is a champ By KAREN BOSSICK
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ood River High School’s standout basketball player Kaitana Martinez was named the Twin Falls Times-News’ girls basketball player of the year in Saturday’s paper. The speedy guard averaged 17.1 points, 4.1 assists, 3.4 rebounds and 3.1 steals per game for the Kaitana Martinez 19-4 Wolverines while shooting 41 percent. She made The Idaho Statesman’s 4A Girls All-Idaho Basketball Team on Sunday, receiving raves from Shelley coach Burke Davis as “the most fundamentally sound player I’ve seen all year.� If you haven’t seen this 5-foot-6 guard, mark your calendar for next year when she returns for her senior season. Times-News reporter Stephen Meyers said Martinez is already practicing for that season, even though the high school basketball season ended a month ago. She’s lifting weights, doing agility work, dribbling two balls at a time— she even jogged around 7,000-foot Flagstaff, Ariz., during spring break last week, dribbling a basketball. It’ll all be worth it, she says, when she signs her letter of intent to play college basketball. So far, she’s being recruited by Oregon State, Utah State and Wyoming. tws
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Freestyle
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Free films at Ishpeming Filmfest
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g n i i sk
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t all started in 1969 when filmmaker Dick Barrymore spotted Bobby Burns banging the bumps on Lower Holiday, sitting back as if he were sitting on a toilet seat his arms waving 60-inch poles overhead. Hot diggety dog! Inspired by what he saw, Barrymore made a short film of Burns. And two years later, he introduced the sport of freestyle skiing to America by taking four Sun Valley guys and a skier from Mammoth on a three-month, 10,000-mile tour of American ski resorts. Barrymore took 100,000 feet of film for K2 Skis during that trip. And he produced “The Performers,� his most popular film ever. “That really started the ball rolling for freestyle skiing,� said Charlie McWilliams, a ski racer who went on to run the freestyle and racing programs for K2 before becoming a Sun Valley builder. “It was all about guys who loved skiing and loved expressing themselves on skis.� McWilliams, Jim Stelling and Pat Bauman are reliving that time this week as the International Skiing History Association pays tribute to the Founders of Freestyle Skiing during the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Saturday night at the Sun Valley Limelight Room. And Thursday night Whiskey Jacques and K2 are throwing a Freedogger Party beginning at 7:30 p.m. with a K2Cheeseburger Contest, K2 T-shirt Contest, music, ski movies and raffles for K2 prizes. Pat Bauman up “It was a dream come true for young skiers like us to front, Bob Grisw in red, John Cl endenin in blue old in the striped sweater, Ch travel to all those different ski resorts,� said Stelling, arlie McWilliam and Jim Stellin courte sy pH OTOs g in the rear. s who eventually became a painter. “We were celebrities—everyone wined and dined us. But the highlight was getting paid $7 a day. It hardly bought breakfast. But we said, ‘Hey, we’d do this for free. Let’s go ahead and take the money.’ � Stelling, McWilliams, Bauman, the late Bob Griswold and John Clendenin, whom Barrymore spotted at Mammoth Mountain, drove from resort to resort in a 25-foot “K2� RV painted in the red, white and blue colors that K2 adorned its skies with in the early 1970s. They put on exhibitions at each resort, even building their own 150-foot-tall jumps at Midwestern and Eastern ski resorts too flat to have their own jumps. Never wanting to be shown up, each pushed the limit, performing helicopters, back flips, double backflips, 720s and stand-up jumps as they skied fast zipper lines down mogul fields. “We were hotshot skiers. We liked to be noticed,� said Stelling, a rain-weary University of Washington student who moved to Sun Valley permanently after he took winter off and didn’t see a cloud in the sky for six weeks. “And everyone wanted to ski like them,� said Rich Bingham, now the snow safety director for the Sun Valley Ski Patrol. Bauman, who coached ski racing with the U.S. Men’s Ski Team and Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation for 30 years, had dabbled with skiing wearing wooden skis with leather be e world could straps across the toes on the mining roads around Kellogg’s tyle skiing to th ry one wanted es fre ed uc od ‘70s. “Eve Bunker Hill that his father built. But the Yakima Valley men who intr uls during the The Sun Valley off Baldy’s mog ps fli Community College student learned to ski in earnest when he ck ba g in . seen do lie Sather them,� said Or to ski just like
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