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Bellevue Haunted Forest Nears
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Joey Markthaler gets pre
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Getting Youngsters Ready for Winter Sports STORY & PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
You never know what you’ll stumble into at the Bellevue Haunted Forest. STORY & PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
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hey look benign enough as the sunlight streams through the golden aspen leaves. But just dare to walk the woods of Bellevue at night. The woods along the Big Wood River in Bellevue are fixing to get spooky as the Bellevue Haunted Forest emerges Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 29 and 30. Those who dare enter the world behind Mahoney’s Bar and Grill at 104 S. Main St. will stumble into a world of ghouls and goblins played by live actors. The Sun Valley Ballet will be adding to the ghoulishness this year, performing every half hour at the Elm Street gate starting at 6:30 p.m. and ending at 9 p.m. The annual event has raised about $10,000 over the years for the Friends of The Howard Preserve to maintain the natural park-like area. Tickets are $7.50, available at The Bead Shop, Splash & Dash, Mahoney’s and at the gate. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. and close at 9:30 p.m. People may start their walk through the forest at any time. But, be forewarned: the forest turns scarier as the night darkens. tws
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welve-year-old Katie Markthaler gingerly steadied herself as she stood on an inch-wide band stretched over bed mattresses. As she gained confidence, she put one foot forward, then the other, relying on her poles for an extra measure of assurance. “One step at a time,” 7-year-old Tatum Ware encouraged her. Markthaler worked her way to the middle of the line, finally losing her balance as the wiggle in the line became too much. “It was weird when I first did this because I’m used to balance beams that don’t move. This is harder to get used to.” It may be harder but it’s another step that will make Markthaler as comfortable
on skis as she is standing on terra firma in her stocking feet. Freestyle coach Andy Ware is betting that dozens of kids will show a big improvement on skis and snowboards this winter, thanks to the Air Barn that opened in the Sagewillow Barn in Elkhorn last year in a partnership with The Community School. Ware and other Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation coaches—Galen Webster, Josh Zuch, Ross Falcone and Jeremy Lato—have added thousands of dollars of ramps and other equipment to outfit the barn with tools for building agility, balance and confidence. Trampolines help the kids learn to be centered before graduating to back flips, swan jumps, seat drops and twists. There’s a 32-foot-wide wooden halfpipe and a 13-foot-tall ramp from which snow-
boarders skateboard into a pit filled with foam blocks. There are ladder ropes to hop through and a zigzagging PVC pipe contraption to hop over from side to side. And there’s the Fitwall—an apparatus designed by a rock climber that offers unique approaches to pull-ups, back rows, ab pulls, cowboy squats, ins and outs, ab hops and more. It’s a state-of-the-art style of exercise apparatus that exercises every muscle from the neck down. It’s especially good for kids who are rehabbing knees, said Ware. “We don’t need to bring in a Total Gym that weighs a hundred pounds—we can get so much more done on this. I also like it because it’s safe for young kids. There
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