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Holdings Announce Lodge Renovation
Christina Tindle’s 101 THRIVE
BY KAREN BOSSICK The historic Sun Valley Lodge will close for nine months beginning in September 2014 in order to build a full-service spa, expanded guest rooms and refurbished lobby. The Lodge Dining Room, which has hosted countless Hollywood celebrities and luxurious ballroom dances over the years, will be folded into the new spa. “It’s very scary to shut the lodge down,” said Carol Holding, who bought the lodge and other Sun Valley properties with her late husband Earl 37 years ago. But, she told those attending a briefing on the project, “It’s so wonderful to have your support and know that what we want for Sun Valley is what you want. “Sun Valley’s just special and that’s how we feel about it. We’ll need all your help and cooperation to get this done and it won’t be easy!” About 30 people attended the meeting held at the lodge, including Grand America Hotels CEO Bruce Fery, several Sun Valley executives and representatives of Sustain Blaine, Wood River Economic Partnership, Fly Sun Valley Alliance, Friedman Memorial Airport and the cities of Ketchum and Sun Valley. Also attending were principal architects Nick Latham and Jim Ruscitto and project architect Michael Bulls. Stephen Holding made the lion’s share of the presentation in what was his first major public presentation here. He said his family had been considering venues for six years before concluding that the lodge was a natural location. The design they finally signed off on will maintain the character of the historic building that was designed in 1935 by Stanley Underwood, the architect who designed lodges in Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Bryce Canyon and other national parks. Work will begin in April on a three-story, 20,000-square-foot addition on the White Clouds side of the lodge. It will have its own entrance at the front side of the lodge so Valley residents can access the spa without having to go through the lodge. About 5,000 additional square feet contained in a wing of the lodge that was emptied when housekeeping moved to the new Sun Valley Laundromat will be incorporated into the new facility, as will the Lodge Dining Room.
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any people watched the Olympic Games that just ended and saw the games the Nordic racers and short-track speed skaters played before making a break for the lead. Christina Tindle watched them with an eye toward the head games. Tindle, a Wood River Valley psychology counselor, has helped Olympic athletes get their heads back in the games following accidents.
to be an actor. But his parents had spent a lot of money to train him as an elite jumper. Once the young man was able to admit his real dream and his family made peace with it, he blossomed, Tindle said. He competed two more seasons, got to the Olympics where he did “really well,” then he went into acting. Another of Tindle’s clients was a speed skier who was traumatized by an
“Olympians need results. They need to perform under stress. They need to feel confident. Talking about what happened when they were three didn’t help, so I got into positive psychology,” -Tindle Her work in that regard even pushed her into the arena of positive psychology, which she has subsequently used with people from all walks of life. “Olympians need results. They need to perform under stress. They need to feel confident. Talking about what happened when they were three didn’t help, so I got into positive psychology,” Tindle said. One of Tindle’s clients in Steamboat Springs where she practiced for about two decades was a Nordic ski jumper who was good at what he did but conflicted. Jumping wasn’t his dream—he wanted
accident. Her coaches enlisted Tindle’s help after they saw their star skier shaking when she returned to the top of the mountain. Tindle did relaxation, hypnosis and talk therapy with the skier. She even went to the top of the mountain with her, enlisting visualization to get her down the top third of the mountain, then the next third and finally all the way down. “The key is taking their passion and translating it to performance. They’ve got the physical ability. What they need work on is the mind game,” she said.
Being all that you can be is not a selfish point of view but simply a way to do the most with what you have in terms of passion and skill, Tindle says. She turned that idea on herself when she decided she was spending too much time driving. She decided to get her pilot’s license, even though she was afraid of heights. “I climbed in the cockpit that first time and laughed at myself—I couldn’t even breathe. I thought, how irrational could I be?! Then I learned that many pilots have a fear of heights. But in the cockpit we feel safe. We’re in control—we think,” said Tindle, who moved to Idaho because there were no backcountry air strips in Colorado.
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Ski with Angels Event a Success!