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Soaring into Winter
Ski season opens for Thanksgiving
Taking advantage of early man-made snow on Bald Mountain,
15-year-old Ketchum lad Taylor Rothgeb defies gravity on Lower Warm Springs Sunday. The
run has been a pre-season playground for area residents for the past several weeks.
Express photo by Willy Cook |





Balloting confusion, losses
imperil another states right
After 22-year-old Nathan Hall was convicted of criminally negligent
homicide in the death of another skier with whom he collided on a slope in Vail, Colo.,
this quote from a Vail skier symbolizes what's wrong with the attitudes of a few gung-ho,
Hell-bent skiers, who can terrorize a ski mountain with their utterly irresponsible
behavior... Commentary by Pat Murphy
One really good (little) person
Whenever I am feeling "off," I am reassured by the certainty that
during my eight-hour day, some special soul will come up with a phrase or action that
stirs within me a positive response. Commentary by JoEllen Collins

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