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Tuning Into Nature
Mel and Grace Dyck enjoy their fifth cross-country ski outing of the young season Sunday afternoon.
Nordic Trails Greet Winter STORY & PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
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unshine, mild temperatures and 3 inches of new, fine, powdery snow lured dozens of Nordic skiers to trails around Galena Lodge Sunday afternoon. Hailey residents Mel and Grace Dyck and others, including snow-happy powderhounds and a winter-ready physical therapist from Boise’s Idaho Sports Medicine Clinic, skated up the Northwood Trail, then threaded their skis in and around willows and tiny pine trees sticking up through the groomed ski trail as the trail neared its end near the highway. It was the Dycks’ fifth time out this year since the Blaine County Recreation District began grooming a few northernmost ski trails a couple of days before Halloween. “Our best day was last Friday as we followed the snow groomer along the Harriman Trail down to Prairie Creek,” said Mel Dyck. Galena Lodge will open this Saturday for the 2013-14 winter season. It’ll offer Thanksgiving dinner for Nordic enthusiasts on Nov. 28. tws
Ski Hall of Fame to Honor Eleven Plus BY KAREN BOSSICK
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984 Olympic downhiller Maria Maricich and three-time Nordic Olympian Jon Engen are among those who will be inducted into the Sun Valley Hall of Fame housed in the Ketchum-Sun Valley Ski & Heritage Museum. The induction ceremony will be held Jan. 29 during the Sun Valley Nordic Festival at a time and place to be announced. Maricich will be joined by fellow alpine skiers Don and Gretchen Fraser¾Gretchen who was the first American woman to win a gold medal in alpine skiing¾and Jimmy Griffith. Engen will be joined by Nordic Olympian Alison Kiesel Bradley, Teresa Heinz and her family, and Bob Disbrow and Kim Kawaguchi. Sun Valley Resort’s Carol and Earl Holding will also be honored for what they did to turn Sun Valley into a world-class alpine and Nordic playground. The Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame launched in 2011. Its list of honorees include Picabo Street, Warren Miller, Christin Cooper, Pete Patterson and Bobbie Burns. tws
Carol Blackburn does a “tree walking” exercise in which she moves her hands up and down the bark of the tree, tastes the tree and tries to “hear” the tree and feel its vibration as she explores what she can learn from hugging a tree.
Sawtooth Botanical Garden Workshop Focuses on Therapeutic Values of Plants STORY & PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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ony McCammon has long been familiar with the chemical properties of plants that aid in healing. Lavender, for instance, can help regulate blood pressure and alleviate insomnia. Rose can be used for bronchitis, asthma, tuberculosis, skin disease, wounds and ulcers, as well as depression, stress, dementia, epilepsy, arthritis and cardiovascular issues. And lemon is used as a germicide and to treat fever, anemia, gout and rheumatism. But lately McCammon has become interested in healing plant vibrations. “Everything has a vibrational frequency—even rocks,” says McCammon, an educator with the University of Idaho extension service. “Yes, plants provide food that is the basis for energy and cell development and regeneration. But they also feed our spirits.” McCammon was among those who participated in a recent workshop at the Sawtooth Botanical Garden that explored the therapeutic benefits of horticulture. The day-long workshop encouraged attendees to unplug from the technological world and plug into the natural world as they wandered and wondered, sat and pon-
Tony McCammon takes time to wander and wonder in the Sawtooth Botanical Garden.
dered while renewing their energy and contemplating the gardens of their lives. Using vibrations is not new, McCammon says. In the Middle Ages, practitioners banged on pots and pans and raced victims in carts over cobblestone streets, hoping the vibrations would heal broken bones. Chiropractors have recently begun sending frequencies into people’s bodies to speed the healing of injuries to muscles and other soft tissue. Emergency responders use defibrillators to revive those who have suffered a heart attack. Every living organism, whether human, vegetal, or bacterial, has an electromagnetic vibrational frequency. A human’s frequency range lowers when there is alcohol or drug abuse, cold and flu symptoms or diseases like cancer. Modern pioneers of vibration healing— Dr. Royal Rife and George Lakhovsky— simply rediscovered the energy work used by Asians and Native American cultures for centuries, McCammon says. Just as a sound vibration might shatter glass at a certain pitch, Dr. Rife found that certain vibrations may shatter other crystalline structures, such as those of viruses. There are at least 52 specific frequencies that could be used to treat such maladies as cancer, he determined. “Plants are smart—they don’t have a brainstem or a brain. But they are chemically reactive. They know what they’re doing,” McCammon says. Case in point: Corn. Corn researchers have found that corn staves off attackers, such as corn weevils, by sending signals
“Everything has a vibrational frequency—even rocks. Yes, plants provide food that is the basis for energy and cell development and regeneration. But they also feed our spirits.” –Tony McCammon
up and down rows to produce pheromones to fight them. Sunflowers, likewise, have a chemical that make them turn toward the sun all day. The reason they do that is for better pollination—bees like to be in the warmth of the sun when working. McCammon says his family has long kept essential oils culled from plants in the medicine cabinet. The essential oils put out high-frequency vibrations that have proven their healing worth time and
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