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WELCOME MAT INSIDE this EDITION

The headline on the

story read like a bad

Fox knock-off: “The

gun owner next door:

What you don’t know

about the weapons in

your neighborhood.”

The gun owners are

livid and have a right

to be. As if their

weapons were sneaking

around and having affairs with

one another while they were

at work.

Jokes aside, while I defend the

paper’s right to publish, I question

the tactic of needlessly treating

at least half of your readers like

criminals. It reminded me of a

conversation I once had with a

sheriff in a nearby county. When

we met for the fi rst time, he

looked me in the eye, shook my

hand, and said, “I don’t mess with

people who print ink by the barrel,

and I advise them not to mess

with people who have a license

to kill.”

Deal.

Of course, that was

private. Th e New York

newspaper crossed a

line publicly, choosing

to highlight under

suspicious light a

certain section of their

readers who are legally

following the law. In

today’s extremely viral

culture, the exposure created a

line of strange circumstances that

are testing advocates of both the

First and Second Amendments.

For one, the gun advocates

shouted foul in unison, while a few

leaped out of the woodwork to

threaten the editors and reporters

and Gannett executives with

white powder envelopes and death

threats. Yet, the condemnation

of these acts from gun advocates

remains minimal at best. Th e door

for humanity, wide open,

stays empty.

Secondly, the newspaper’s

confused. Its editorial board

recently opined that more guns

are not the solution to the gun

violence question. I can only

imagine its internal conversations

at this point, especially as the

newspaper’s responses have

included hiring armed guards

to protect them … from

gun violence.

It’s sad to see these two groups

needlessly fi ghting against each

other. It’s like watching the last

two kids standing asked to wrestle

for a spot on the team.

Th e good news is, very little

is at stake when these two parties

confront each other, other than

the discussion about gun rights

and journalism ethics increases

its speed. I sincerely hope the

conversation continues. Both

sides have a lot to win. Both are

willing to enact their rights

often in defi ance of public

opinion; and both are mostly

responsible, upright citizens

who are tired of being tarnished

by a very small portion of their

membership’s actions.

This is Ryan Slabaugh’s last column.

1st versus 2nd | So a newspaper in New York decides to post a story online about who owns local gun licenses. For some reason, the editors attach a map to the story that includes the address of every gun license owner in the area. Th us and henceforth, let that be known as the formula for brouhaha.

25 COVER STORY

Writer Nelson Harvey explores how the Roaring Fork Valley rescues abandoned dogs, and fi nds them their perfect forever families.

29 A&E

Arts editor Stewart Oksenhorn learns how the arts helped shape local teen Sophie Ledingham’s childhood, and how they are destined to defi ne her future.

DEPARTMENTS

08 THE WEEKLY CONVERSATION

12 LEGENDS & LEGACIES

14 FROM ASPEN, WITH LOVE

17 WINEINK

18 FOOD MATTERS

20 VOYAGES

32 AROUND ASPEN

34 LOCAL CALENDAR

42 CROSSWORD

WHO SAVED WHOM?SEE PAGE 25

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THE WEEKLY CONVERSATION

DO YOU UNDERSTAND

the regulations that govern

banking in the United States?

If your answer was, “No,”

as I suspect it was for a

majority of you, you’re

not alone.

I sure as hell don’t

understand the U.S. banking

industry, and I don’t think

the regulators or the bankers

really do, either.

How else could we have experienced

the kind of meltdown that happened

fi ve years ago?

How else could regulators (that

means the government) have

permitted the rampant bad-lending,

bad-investment policies that

precipitated that meltdown?

Back in the early “oughts,” which is

to say staring around the year 2000, I

started doubting the wisdom of the so

called “no-money-down” home loans,

the low-interest loans that depended

on a huge “bubble payment” at the

end of a loan’s term, and other quick-

money schemes cooked up by the

banking and the real estate industry to

get more people buying homes.

Th e reason I suspected the validity

of those loans was simple: I knew I

couldn’t aff ord to take on one of those

loans, because it made no fi nancial

sense to saddle yourself with a balloon

payment that might bankrupt you.

Unless, of course, you were one of

those poor sots who believed your real

estate agent’s lies about how the insane

housing bubble would go on forever

and you’d be fi ne as long as you fl ipped

the house quickly enough. It was a

housing Ponzi scheme, as we all

now know.

Th ere is a lot of blame to be spread

around for the crisis, starting with

fools who believed they could get

something for nothing, the so called

NINJA home buyers (that stands for

“No Income, No Job Applications). But

just as much to blame was the industry

that perpetuated the foolishness, the

bankers and the real estate scammers

and their regulators.

All that media hype about the

threats to the U.S. banking system

was just that, hype. Oh, sure, some

banks closed or were killed by the

regulators, but that was just so much

political cover, since the assets of

those “dead” banks ended up in the

portfolios of the mega-banks as part of

the ever-increasing game of

consolidation and mergers.

So what happened was,

the big banks got bigger

as a share of the U.S. and

world economy. Smaller,

community-oriented banks

were swallowed whole, just

as little fi sh are gobbled

up by big fi sh, and the

concentration of wealth

simply got more and more dense.

And now, the federal regulators who

are supposed to police this industry

and keep it on the straight and narrow

are about to engineer yet another

monstrous giveaway to the bankers, in

the form of a “settlement” concerning

foreclosure abuses heaped upon

helpless home buyer and

home owners.

As I write this, the feds were getting

set to ink the fi nal details of a deal that

would have banks paying off trillions of

dollars worth of wrongdoing by forking

over a measly 10 billion, only a third

of which actually would go right away

to the distressed homeowners.

According to published estimates,

this country had 4 million houses

more than the market could sustain

as of 2010, the heart of the crisis. Th e

value of excess mortgage debt at the

time was estimated at 4 trillion, or

about a third of the U.S. gross domestic

product for that year.

I could not fi nd estimates for the

number of people whose lives were

ruined by that mess, but it clearly was

a high number, and it remains high.

Th e big banks, however, are raking in

record profi ts again.

So what I want to know is this: If

the Feds believe the banking industry

improperly profi ted from the housing

crisis and its antecedents, and are

still profi ting massively during the

aftermath of the crisis, how can the

4 trillion worth of pain and ruin be

balanced by 10 billion?

As former President Bill Clinton

admonished the Republicans at the

2012 Democratic National Convention,

“It’s arithmetic, stupid!” OK, I don’t

think he said “stupid,” but he meant it.

And I mean it.

Th is deal passes neither the stink

test nor the “arithmetic” test, my fellow

Americans, and it should be shouted

down like the scam that it is.

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PATCHES14-year-old Brittany

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FREDDYHandsome 6-year-

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CALIGentle, soft-spoken,3-year-old Pit Bull

mix. Gets along wellwith people + other

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knowledgeable home.

JACKIEBeautiful, friendly,11-year-old Huskymix who gets along

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LUCYGentle, friendly,

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ROXYLarge 7-year-old

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female. Must be theonly pet. Has

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to know you!

TIMBERSleek, friendly,

9-year-old Huskymix female. She is a

retired sled doglooking for aloving home.

BUCKMellow, friendly

11-year-oldAmerican

Foxhound/Huskymix who gets along

well with people andother dogs. Buck is aretired sled dog whocame to the shelter

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CORA1-year-old Boxer/Pit

mix female. Veryhappy, beautiful dog.Good w/ everyone--kids, adults, all dogs.Loves to play. Very

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edited by JEANNE MCGOVERNTHE WEEKLY CONVERSATION SEEN, HEARD & DONE

CHEERS & JEERS | To duct tape, which was No. 101

on Popular Mechanics list of “101 Gadgets Th at Changed

Th e World.” Cheers on making the cut. But from those of

us who skimp by on ski-town wages — and who use duct

tape for everything from its intended purpose of sealing

ducts to patching ski pants to making wallets — jeers on

not being acknowledged for the multi-purpose wonder

material that you are.

CHEERS | To dog-lovers everywhere. From those of

you who have rescued an abandoned mutt to those of

you volunteer to walk the pooches at the Aspen Animal

Shelter to those of you who can’t own a dog but fully

realize they are indeed man’s best friend, we applaud you.

And so do our four-legged friends at Th e Aspen Times.

JEERS | To irresponsible dog-owners everywhere. Pick

up your dog’s poo. Enough said.

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TWO MORE DOWNTOWN BUILDINGS SELL,CAPPING BANNER REAL-ESTATE YEAR

Two downtown commercial

buildings were offi cially sold on Dec.

31, capping a frenzied year of real-

estate transactions in Pitkin County.

What’s known as Ellie’s Building

at 101 S. Mill St. — the home of

American National Bank, Pinon’s

restaurant, and retailers Lululemon

Athletica and Bandana — closed

for 12 million. Th e buyer was

Aspen Branch Holdings LLC,

managed by Sturm Financial Group

Inc. of Denver. Sturm Financial is

the parent company of American

National Bank, which has more than

30 banking branches in Colorado,

Wyoming and Kansas, including the

Aspen location.

Another sale that was logged

at the Pitkin County Clerk and

Recorder’s Offi ce on Monday

involved Amelia’s Building at 407

E. Hyman Ave., in the Hyman

pedestrian mall. It sold for 3.2

million. Th e buyer was listed only as

407 E. Hyman Ave. LLC.

— Andre Salvail

SNOWMASS VILLAGE

AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER ISSUES REPORT ON FATAL SLIDE

Avalanche information center

issues report on fatal slide

Snowmass ski patroller Patsy

Hileman triggered the avalanche that

killed her Dec. 30 in the same area

where the ski patrol had performed

control work three days before the

accident, according to a report

fi led by the Colorado Avalanche

Information Center.

Th e ski patrol used explosives to

trigger an avalanche in the Ship’s

Prow Glades Dec. 27, the report said.

Th e report didn’t say if Hileman was

aware of the previous avalanche-

control work. She was skiing alone

on Dec. 30 and there were no

witnesses to the accident.

Hileman, 49, of Snowmass Village,

was a well-liked woman who had

worked for Aspen Skiing Co. for

26 years.

— Scott Condon

ASPEN

COUNCIL APPROVES NEW DEVELOPMENT

More robust background checks

for gun buyers and reinstatement

of a ban on semi-automatic assault

weapons are among the measures

outlined in a letter Pitkin County

commissioners with the intention

urging elected offi cials at the state

and federal level to take action on

gun control.

Before the holiday break and

after a December mass killing in

Connecticut left 20 schoolchildren

dead, Commissioner George

Newman pushed the county

to seek action on gun control.

County Manager Jon Peacock has

drafted a letter for commissioners’

consideration today, at their fi rst

meeting of the new year.

“Unfortunately, gun violence in

our country, especially among our

children, has reached epidemic

proportions,” the letter reads.

Th e letter calls on the Colorado

governor, Legislature, the president

and Congress to take action on gun

control and enhanced mental-health

services at the federal and state

levels. Th e latter should be a top

funding priority, the letter asserts.

— Janet Urquhart

Snow sculptures on the mall

Free apple strudel, at the Apple Strudel Downhill

Dogs in drag (and more at the Canine Fashion Show)

Free soup at Soupsköl

Fireworks, because you can never see too many

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“WE’VE BEEN THROUGH A LOT OF THINGS POLITICALLY THAT AREN’T FUN. BUT ASPEN, IN ESSENCE, IS A FUN TOWN.”

All eyes — in Aspen and across Colorado — have been on Peyton Manning and the Broncos, as they hope to reach the Super Bowl for the fi rst time since 1998.


THE WEEKLY CONVERSATION

IMAGINE A REPUBLICAN

leader who racked up the following

achievements: He fought smog

by regulating vehicle emissions,

kept dams from choking free-

fl owing rivers, set aside big chunks

of wild backcountry for

permanent protection,

and supported a strong

treaty to prevent harmful

gases from mucking up

the atmosphere.

Democratic operatives

might just invite this

candidate to switch

parties, though GOP

partisans might brand

him a RINO, short for

“Republican In

Name Only.”

Such a leader existed, and

his name was Ronald Reagan.

Th e Gipper knew better than to

pigeonhole the environment as a

partisan issue. He may have said

some dumb things about trees, but

he also said, “If we’ve learned any

lessons during the past few decades,

perhaps the most important is that

preservation of our environment

is not a partisan challenge; it’s

common sense.”

Conservation issues historically

have been bipartisan. Th ere is

no reason to accept nonsensical

assertions from elected offi cials that

environmental stewardship is for

liberals but not for conservatives.

Is this a naïve wish? Despite what

you might hear from talk radio

hucksters or politicians traffi cking

in divisive rhetoric, there is broader

agreement on the importance of

conservation than seems apparent

on the surface.

Last year, Colorado College’s

bipartisan State of the Rockies

poll found broad evidence in six

Western states that voters, by large

majorities, value public lands for

their contribution to quality of

life, support clean air regulations,

and believe renewable energy

development should have

high priority.

Western voters by and large

believe a strong economy and

strong environmental protections

can co-exist, rendering

conservation neither

red nor blue. Th at is

precisely the basis for

the partnership struck

up between the National

Audubon Society

and the Republican

organization,

ConservAmerica. It’s

called the American

Eagle Compact, and it

sends political leaders

a simple message: All of us have a

stake in good stewardship of the

air, water, land, wildlife and climate;

conservation ought to be a national

priority that transcends partisan

boundary lines.

So far, more than 64,000 people

have signed the compact, which

tells our political leaders that

America is best served when

governance is driven by shared

values and common purposes,

rather than extremism and

polarization.

To be sure, many “yes, but”

questions are bound to arise,

given the state of politics that

persists as we enter 2013. Perhaps

most questions — and the fi ercest

arguments — are likely to touch on

climate change. Can Republicans

and Democrats even begin to

fi nd common ground on this

complicated issue?

I think the answer is yes, because

the problem will not go away,

and fi xing it will require a set of

solutions that has buy-in from

both Republicans and Democrats.

Climate change will not be solved

by jamming through unbalanced

legislation along strict party-

line votes.

Don’t buy the stereotype that

all Republican elected offi cials

dismiss climate change. More than

a few Republicans in Congress

understand now that climate

change presents serious risks to the

economy, national security, and

the environment.

To step up to the challenge,

however, they need political cover,

which the compact helps to provide

by showing broad support exists for

dealing seriously with climate change

and other environmental matters.

Bipartisan support was

indispensable for our greatest past

conservation achievements. Th e

Wilderness Act, the Clean Air Act,

and other important environmental

statutes have all stood the test of

time in part because they were

enacted with broad support from

both sides of the aisle.

As California’s governor and

as our 40th president, Ronald

Reagan did not need reminders

about that lesson. He had a canny

ability to blend his conservative

principles with the pragmatism that

is essential to eff ectively govern a

large and diverse nation.

Reagan also didn’t need

reminders that sobering facts

about environmental risks cannot

be wished away; he knew that

responsible leaders, conservatives

and liberals alike, must face up to

them. During his presidency, the

politics of stratospheric ozone

depletion were strikingly similar

to the politics of climate change

today. Scientists issued warnings;

industries dismissed them.

Politicians evaded and temporized;

Reagan’s administration itself

was divided.

Reagan considered the facts,

weighed the consequences

of inaction and ordered his

State Department diplomats

to negotiate a strong treaty to

phase out chemicals linked to

ozone depletion. Upon securing

Senate ratification of the

resulting Montreal Protocol, he

called the treaty a “monumental

achievement.” It was not hyperbole.

The Montreal Protocol headed off

a serious threat to public health

and the environment. The treaty

is regarded as the most successful

international environmental pact

ever negotiated.

President Reagan showed what’s

possible when leaders put the

common good of conservation

above narrower considerations.

Th at’s the message carried forward

by the American Eagle Compact.

Jim DiPeso is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He has been policy and communications lead for ConservAmerica in Seattle, Wash., since 2001.

Let’s hear it for a bipartisan-minded initiative and politician

by JIM DIPESO of WRITERS ON THE RANGEGUEST OPINION COLUMN

JIMDIPESO

T H I N K S T O C K P H O T O


CLASSIC ASPENLEGENDS & LEGACIES by TIM WILLOUGHBY

P H O T O C O U R T E S Y O F T H E W I L L O U G H B Y C O L L E C T I O N

MY EARLY INTEREST in the

Himalayas resulted from my

parents’ connection to Andre Roch.

He seemed a distant uncle — every

once in a while a letter would arrive,

catching us up on his activities.

In 1953, he sent us two books with

his photographs of the 1952 Swiss

Everest expedition. I still have the

dog-eared volumes to remind me of

those years.

Roch, known locally as the

grandfather of Aspen skiing, is

better known for his avalanche

expertise and climbing expeditions

in his native Switzerland (where

mountain climbers of his day were

as notable as NFL stars are to

us now).

Th e year following his stay in

Aspen, Roch led members of the

Alpen Club of Zurich to penetrate

an unexplored area of Greenland

and conquer its peaks. Th at 1938

expedition to the mountain region

of Schweizerland involved a rivalry

among Swiss, Italian, French and

British climbers intent on nabbing

fi rst ascents, especially of Mount

Forel. Th e seven members of the

party summited most of Greenland’s

unchallenged peaks.

Toward the end of the Greenland

expedition, after several days of bad

weather, Roch and his team left at

1 a.m. to climb Laupersbjoerg. Roch

wrote, “Th e air was so still that we

stayed for four hours sitting on the

summit. We had to wait for the

snow in the couloir to freeze again,

as there was a danger that it might

avalanche while it was melting. We

did not get back until late in the

evening. After a few hours’ sleep,

we decamped and started on our

next march.”

Roch was an important member

of the 1952 Swiss attempt at Everest,

the one that pioneered the route

for the successful British ascent the

following year. Roch, the avalanche

expert with Greenland’s glacier

experience, led the team between

Camp II and Camp III through a

treacherous section of the

Khumbu icefall.

Seven unsuccessful Everest

expeditions between 1921 and

1938 had explored the north

face of Everest. One in 1922

nearly succeeded with climbers

topping 28,000 feet, but after

they disappeared, the Dalai Lama

forbade climbs for a decade. World

War II ended further attempts

until 1951 when Charles Houston

(an Aspen doctor of the late 1950s)

received permission to enter the

area that led to the south face. His

reconnaissance mission opened up

that approach for two expeditions

in 1952, a combination of New

Zealander, British and Swiss

climbers plus one composed of

Roch and other Swiss climbers.

Th e eff ort to establish base camps

took too much time and energy for

Roch’s Everest team, cutting off an

otherwise successful attempt. Using

oxygen — a new method — the

Swiss established the route for the

eventual British summit.

Roch, known for his climbing

photography, assumed responsibility

for all the color photographs. My

favorites as a child were one of two

climbers sitting at the entrance

to a snow cave where they stored

provisions, and one of a chain-link

swinging bridge that spanned a

gorge with Sherpas ferrying gigantic

packs of provisions. Th ose photos

suggested the enormous challenges

Roch and his fellow climbers faced.

Despite having emerged from

a couple of avalanches and losing

his son while climbing with him in

the Alps, Roch continued climbing

throughout his older years.

Tim Willoughby’s family story parallels Aspen’s. He began sharing folklore while teaching for Aspen Country Day School and Colorado Mountain College. Now a tourist in his native town, he views it with historical perspective. Reach him at [email protected].

Elvis, Eisenhower, and hula-hoops feature in childhood memories for many my age, but my strongest childhood memory is of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summiting Mount Everest.

ANDRE ROCH’S OTHER LIFE

ROCH, KNOWN LOCALLY AS THE GRANDFATHER OF ASPEN SKIING, IS BETTER KNOWN FOR HIS AVALANCHE EXPERTISE AND CLIMBING EXPEDITIONS IN HIS NATIVE SWITZERLAND (WHERE MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS OF HIS DAY WERE AS NOTABLE AS NFL STARS ARE TO US NOW).

After leading this Aspen Ski Club decent from Mount Hayden, Andre Roch lead a Swiss expedition to Greenland.


FROM the VAULTLEGENDS & LEGACIES compiled by THE ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

P H O T O C O U R T E S Y O F T H E A S P E N H I S T O R I C A L S O C I E T Y

I T ’ S A M A D W O R L D

1968WINTERSKÖL

“TWENTYTHREE ENTER SKOL’S Mad Hatter’s party” announced the Aspen Times on

Jan. 25, 1968. “At the Mad Hatter’s Party Tuesday night at the Aspen Shadow Lodge, 23 people

entered and Aspenite Jim Alderson won the grand prize for having the hat most in keeping

with the Winterskol Aspenglow theme. He wore a hat that glowed on and off in red. His prize

was a sheepskin hat from the Mountain Shop.”


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FROM ASPEN, WITH LOVE by GUNILLA ASHERGUNNER’S LIBATIONS

P H O T O B Y T H I N K S T O C K

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1 ounce of Cointreau

3/4 ounce of lemon

Shaken and served up with a sugar rim

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BARTENDER TIM KURNOS calls this cocktail

“perfection” at the Living Room at the Hotel Jerome

— and this may be one of the rare times I agree with

Tim. I had never had a Sidecar, and it is addicting. Do

yourself a favor and check out the Living Room at the

new and improved Jerome to try The Trump Sidecar for

yourself. Perfection!

Gunilla Asher is the co-manager of the Aspen Times. She writes about libations without any real training other than in the spirit of “She is not a connoisseur, but she is heavily practiced.”


“BELL PEPPER! I’m getting bell

pepper on the nose,” says one young

wine afi cionado with excitement.

“Yes, I got that too,” replies his

compatriot. “Th ere is an herbaceous

quality as well.”

For many wine drinkers, this type

of chatter makes for the kind of

experience that can a ruin a good

glass of wine. What’s wrong with

just pouring a sauvignon blanc and

tasting it without having to analyze

the “cut grass” or the

“steely profi le” of

the wine?

Well, nothing.

But on the other

hand, there is also

nothing wrong with

wanting to discuss

the characteristics of

the wine either. Th e

dichotomy comes

in when one person speaks the

“language” of wine and the other is in

the dark. Sometimes tasting with the

afi cionado and his compatriot can

make for a rather boring evening.

Kind of like going dinner with people

who speak Spanish when you only

took high school French.

In 1990, Ann C. Noble, a sensory

scientist and fl avor chemist (how’s

that for a dual-major?) at the

University of California Davis

Viticulture and Enology Department

(that’s the wine school), tried to

develop an easy-to-use tool to help

make it easier for people to describe

what they are smelling and tasting in

their glasses.

Her invention is as simple as it

is profound. It is called the Wine

Aroma Wheel. It consists of three

concentric rings that break down

the taste of wine into 120 separate

descriptive words that correlate to

other things that we may taste or

smell in our everyday lives. Th e goal

was to use words that would provide a

standard, nonjudgmental vocabulary

to describe what is in the glass. (You

can fi nd the Aroma Wheel at www.

winearomawheel.com.)

Th e descriptives closest to the

center, in the fi rst ring, use broad

words such as “fruity,” “earthy,”

or “chemical” to give an initial

identifi cation of the aroma of a wine.

Th e second ring breaks the fl avors

down even further. For example, if

you have identifi ed the smell or taste

of a wine as “fruity,” something that

is a fairly easy term for most people

to use, then the next step is to fi gure

out if the fruit you smell is similar

to a “berry,” or perhaps more like a

“citrus” fruit, or a “tree fruit,” such as

an apple or a pear.

Now we go deep. In the third ring,

if we have already determined that

the wine is say “fruity” and has a

berry fl avor, we can pick the

berry. Does it smell like

raspberries? Perhaps it

has a darker aroma,

blackberry, maybe?

With just

a few short

and decisive

choices, our

senses — both

our nose and

our palate

— have

determined

that the

wine we are

drinking is

fruity with lots

of berries on the

nose, most likely

blackberry. Th ere.

You’re speaking in

tongues, just like a

wine geek.

Like learning any language,

especially a language of the senses,

using the Wine Aroma Wheel

requires that you do some study and

memorization. Th ere is a companion

piece that suggests that the best way

to make use of the wheel is to set

up your own smell analysis using

actual items from the wheel mixed

with 2 ounces of wine. Put a drop of

vanilla extract into the small pour

of wine and get a solid nose full of

how it smells with the wine. Slice

a bell pepper and drop a piece into

the glass for a minute or two and see

how that smells.

Th ere are other tools to help

you learn how to become a more

communicative taster as well.

Alder Yarrow, on his acclaimed

blog vinography.com, features a

downloadable “aroma card” that is

fi lled with descriptive terms that go

far beyond Ann Noble’s objective

terms. Try “Red Vines,” or “umami,”

or even “peeled willow bark” on for

size and see how they smell to you.

Th e point is there are many ways

to see, smell, taste and drink a wine

— and there are just as many ways

to describe what

you have seen,

smelled, tasted

and drunk.

If you are

interested

in becoming

more facile

in the way

that you

communicate

with people

about what you

are getting out of a

wine, then there are

tools that can help

you do it.

And never forget, the

best tool to use is wine itself.

You can never taste enough.

Kelly J. Hayes lives in the soon-to-be-designated appellation of Old Snowmass with his wife, Linda, and a black Lab named Vino. He can be reached at [email protected].

by KELLY J. HAYESWORDS to DRINK BY

TALK THE TALK

KELLY J.HAYES

P H O T O B Y T H I N K S T O C K

WINEINK

Lewis Cellars “Race Car White” chardonnay, 2011, from Sonoma County

An unbelievably high-quality wine at this price ($36.97), whereas the grapes used to make this wine are also used in their Barcaglia Lane chardonnay that is at least twice the price and unavailable due to limited production. Randy Lewis is a former race car driver and has a passion for wine that he has come to Aspen to share many times over the years at tastings and meals with his many local friends. — Corey Campbell, of Four Dogs Fine Wines & Spirits

Corey has brought his talents from Kenichi, where he ran the wine and sake program, to the midvalley. Four Dogs shows its commitment to creating the best possible customer experience by providing a wine professional for clients. — K.J.H.

A SOM SELECTS...


FROM ASPEN, WITH LOVE FOOD MATTERS

P H O T O S C O U R T E S Y P I N O T & P I G S

I SPENT THIS weekend scheming

my next food event destination, and

I think I’ve got it fi gured out: Slated

for the weekend of March 22, chef

Charlie Palmer will take

over Wine Country with

top food and wine talent

by his side for the eighth

annual Pigs and

Pinot Weekend.

Th e 2013 Pigs &

Pinot event presents a

line-up of food and wine

seminars, tastings and

cook-off s, with all net

proceeds benefi ting the nonprofi t

Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry

campaign to end childhood hunger

in America.

Held at the Hotel Healdsburg and

its acclaimed restaurant, Dry Creek

Kitchen, this charitable celebration

has become a coveted event amongst

pork and wine enthusiasts eager to

experience the creations of more than

60 wineries and more than 20 chefs

who showcase their talents each year.

Th is year’s participating pork

authorities include Elizabeth Falkner,

chef and owner of Krescendo in

Brooklyn; Dean Fearing, chef and

partner at Fearing’s Restaurant in

Dallas; Jose Garces, chef and owner

of Garces Restaurant Group in

Philadelphia; and Craig Stoll, chef and

owner of Delfi na Restaurant Group

in San Francisco.

Th e Pinot pros include Brian

Maloney, of De Loach Vineyards;

Caroline Parent,, from Domaine

A.F. Gros; Michael Brown, of Kosta

Browne; Lee Martinelli, of Martinelli

Winery; and Victor Gallegos, from

Sea Smoke.

Here’s how the line-up for the

weekend is shaping up:

FRIDAY, MARCH 22: TASTE OF PIGS & PINOT

Friday evening’s kickoff event is

the interactive Taste of Pigs & Pinot,

where guests navigate throughout

Hotel Healdsburg, sampling

60 acclaimed Pinot Noir wines

contending for the ultimate prize, the

Pinot Cup. Th ese hand-picked wines,

hailing from California and beyond,

face a judging panel in a blind tasting

and the winner and runner-up of the

prestigious Pinot Cup will be revealed

at the end of the night. Tastings are

served alongside a variety of pork

dishes, including homemade sausages,

charcuterie, grilled pork, patés and

other special creations from chef

Palmer and Dry Creek Kitchen chef de

cuisine Dustin Valette, guest chefs and

local Healdsburg restaurants.

SATURDAY, MARCH 23: TOURNAMENT OF THE PIG

Pigs & Pinot guest chefs will be

divided into two talent-packed teams.

Th is “Iron Chef”-style competition

will be hosted by Palmer and Mario

Cantone. Th e two teams will be given

a whole pig, which they will use to

create two distinct dishes, along

with ingredients they can fi nd at Dry

Creek Kitchen.

ULTIMATE PINOT SMACK DOWN

Master sommeliers Keith Goldston,

Fred Dame, Drew Hendricks, and

Michael Jordan join forces for this

March Madness-inspired wine

seminar. Each master sommelier

enters the room with his or her

personal selection of four Pinot Noirs

from around the world and proceeds

to “sell” those favorites in this lively

head-to-head pitch contest, which

includes blind tastings where the

audience picks the winner.

PIGS & PINOT GALA DINNER Saturday evening’s Pigs & Pinot

Gala features a fi ve-course dinner at

Dry Creek Kitchen. As a collaborative

off ering, each course features a

signature creation from Palmer and

his guest chefs. Every course will be

paired with two limited-production

Pinot Noirs.

SPOONBAR’S SWINE & WINE DINNER

Executive chef Louis Maldonado

(a 2009 San Francisco Chronicle

Rising Star Chef) will play host to

the Bay Area’s most innovative young

toques including: David Barzirgan,

Fifth Floor’s executive chef; John Paul

Carmona, former chef de cuisine

of Manresa; and Evan Rich, of Rich

Table. Th e evening begins with an

artisanal cocktail from Spoonbar’s

mixologist Daniel “Cappy” Sorentino,

followed by four courses made

from a locally raised hog. Dinner

will be paired with wines from two

acclaimed Sonoma County Pinot Noir

producers, Cobb Wines and VML.

Amiee White Beazley writes about dining, restaurants and food-related travel for the Aspen Times Weekly. She is the editor of local food magazine edibleASPEN and contributor to Aspen Peak and travel website everettpotter.com. Follow Amiee on Twitter @awbeazley1 or email [email protected].

PIGS & PINOT GETAWAY:

AMIEE WHITE BEAZLEY

A WEEKEND IN WINE COUNTRY

Williams Selyem Winery winemaker Bob Carbral greets guests at the Pigs & Pinot Gala Dinner.


by AMIEE WHITE BEAZLEY

PIGS & PINOT

TICKETS TO individual Pigs & Pinot

events are available for purchase

online at www.pigsandpinot.com.

Tickets to the Taste of Pigs & Pinot are

$175 and seminars are $125. Packages

that include a stay at Hotel Healdsburg

are also available.

Celebrity chef Guy Fieri hosts the Tournmaent of the Pig.

Dry Creek Kitchen chef Dustin Valette, Casey Thompson and Charlie Palmer plate a course for the Pigs & Pinot Gala Dinner.


VOYAGES DESTINATION | COLORADO

THE LONELY VOLCANO

by PAUL ANDERSEN

A L L P H O T O S B Y P A U L A N D E R S E N

CAPPED WITH SNOW, its

monolith cone jutting from the arid

plains near the Colorado/Utah border,

Lone Cone is well-named.

At 12,614 feet, Lone Cone is the

westernmost peak of the San Juan

Mountains and the westernmost

12,000-foot peak in the Colorado

Rockies. Desert bean fi elds skirt most

of its western base while mountain

corrugations reveal the San Juans

to the east and the Uncompahgre

Plateau to the north.

For years, traveling to and from

desert trips, I had dreamed of setting

a course to Lone Cone. A car wouldn’t

do. Lone Cone deserved an approach

suitable only to a bicycle.

My 19-year-old son, Tait, who had

never done a self-supported tour, was

quick to sign on. Th e next victim was

my old friend Graeme. Any tour with

unknowns and long distances appeals

to him, and when I pointed out that

part of the route would drop us into

the narrow gorge of the Dolores River

Canyon, he was in.

From where we set off in July at the

top of Columbine Pass 20 miles west

of Delta, Lone Cone fl oated like a

distant cloud. After a long, washboard

descent into the San Miguel River

Valley, where we camped, the peak

stood up a bit more imposingly.

A rough dirt track the next

morning took us across hogbacks

timbered with piñon and juniper to

the main street of Norwood, where

the peak began to show more of its

grandeur. After lunch at a classic

Mexican restaurant, we saddled up

and rode several strenuous hours up

a series of ever-rising mesas to where

Lone Cone dominated the view.

At dusk we stopped in an aspen

grove at the base of the peak.

Graeme and I smiled discreetly to

each another as Tait lay inert on his

sleeping pad. We were all exhausted

from hauling 70 pounds of bike and

gear up several thousand vertical feet,

but we old-timers hid it from the

youngster.

Dinner and bed came early that

night, and we were up with the faint

light of dawn for what we assumed

would be the successful summiting of

Lone Cone. We left our camp and biked

up a steep, rocky logging road that

ended in snowbanks. We post-holed to

timberline, where the snow had mostly

melted, and trekked up the tundra to

the eastern ridge — and stopped.

Had we done the research, we

would have known that this approach

is a terror of loose, jagged boulders

that resemble broken crockery.

Unwilling to die for Lone Cone,

we returned to camp, humbled.

We packed up and rode out over

a high pass to the south, down the

fl ank of the peak, through forests of

ponderosa pine, and eventually to the

crossroads of Dove Creek.

We camped that night on the

Dolores River, which was bereft of the

usual throng of boaters due of drought

and low fl ows. We had the canyon

to ourselves — and to a pair of bears

whose tracks we followed on a dusty

double-track road for the next two days.

Swimming in deep pools provided

cool relief from the afternoon heat.

Th at evening, over quesadillas, we

glassed a pair of bighorn sheep

traversing a narrow ledge high across

the river, where they savored a saltlick

seep on the redrock cliff .

Th e climb out of the canyon near

Bedrock was a brutal push followed

by 30 miles of remote highway to the

garden spot of Naturita, where we

napped in the shade of cottonwoods

at the town park. With the sun low,

we climbed 10 hard miles to Nucla

and then a few more to a makeshift

camp hidden in the P/J forest.

Tait came magically to life the next

morning and easily dusted me and

Graeme on the last long climb, which

ranks right up there for tongue-

hanging, heart-thumping, eyeball-

popping endurance. We found him

sitting happily by a gushing spring of

icy mountain water at the top.

While Tait gazed with respect out

at Lone Cone, he viewed us old-

timers as comic fi gures who had

suckered him into a vainglorious

adventure in which the fi nal triumph

was all his.

Paul Andersen is a columnist and contributing writer

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THE CANINE UNDERGROUND

by Nelson Harvey

RESCUING DOGS IN THE ROARING FORK VALLEY

ABOVE: Jake, a 6-year-old springer spaniel mix, was adopted by an Aspen family through the nonprofi t English Springer Spaniel Rescue America.RIGHT: Dogs up for adoption wear a harness advertising their availability while on walks with Aspen Animal Shelter staff and volunteers.

P H O T O B Y J E A N N E M c G O V E R N


anyone who doubts that a rags-to-riches rise is still possible in America today should consider the case of Coco, a 5-year-old black poodle now living in Dallas.

ONE DAY LAST FALL, Coco was

wandering lost in Grand Junction

when animal-control offi cers there

picked him up.

Th e Grand Junction shelter

was overcrowded, so Coco was

transferred to the Aspen Animal

Shelter and into the hands of

executive director Seth Sachson, a

20-year animal-rescue veteran.

For years, Sachson has operated

a sort of informal, interspecies

matchmaking service out of the

Aspen shelter, recording the desires

of wanna-be dog adopters and

connecting them with matching

animals that cross his path.

When Sachson saw Coco — in

those days, his name was Franklin;

it has since been changed — he

immediately called Michael and Jolie

Newman, friends from Dallas who

vacation in Aspen and recently had

fi led a request for a pooch.

“We have two kids who are

asthmatic, so we wanted a dog that

didn’t shed,” Jolie said, speaking by

phone from Dallas as Coco barked

excitedly in the background.

After a trip to the Aspen Farmers’

Market to see how Coco handled

kids, Sachson was convinced.

“I called Michael and told him the

dog was too good for him to pass up,”

he said.

A few more phone calls won Coco

a seat on the private jet owned by

Dallas millionaire Sam Wyly, which

was scheduled to leave Aspen the

following day.

“Coco arrived in the private-jet

terminal, and we went and picked

him up,” Newman said.

Th ese days, Coco is a zealous

guard dog who sleeps in bed with

her son.

“Whoever had him before we did

trained him,” Nelson said. “He can

fetch the ball, and he does a funny

little dance.”

A somewhat utopian societyIt’s impossible to put a precise fi gure

on the number of homeless dogs in

the Roaring Fork Valley or anywhere

else, for that matter. Yet according

to the American Society for the

Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,

roughly 40,000 abandoned animals

are euthanized in Colorado every

year. In the United States as a whole,

the fi gure is somewhere around

5.1 million.

Th e abuse that shelter animals

endure makes some people think

twice about adopting them. But

in the Roaring Fork Valley, which

Sachson describes as “a somewhat

utopian society” for homeless pets

because of the quality of local

shelters and rescue groups, the story

can be diff erent. Shelter dogs can

actually prove more predictable than

their counterparts sold by pet stores

or breeders.

“I thought we wanted a puppy, but

after talking to Seth, I was so glad

we didn’t go that route,” said Jenny

Bombardier, who along with her

husband, Mark, adopted a one-eyed,

tiger striped boxer dog named Willie

from the Aspen Animal Shelter

about a year ago. “With puppies, you

don’t know their personality until it’s

too late.”

Willie came to Aspen from a

shelter in Cortez that, like many

around the country, has a policy of

euthanizing animals it can’t house

when overcrowded.

“Th ey told us he lost his eye and

burst an eardrum when he was hit by

a car down there,” Jenny said.

“He has no depth perception,”

Mark added, “and that’s good for a

laugh sometimes because when he’s

playing with other dogs, he runs

around in circles to keep his good

eye on them.”

Since the Bombardiers work

diff erent schedules — Mark is a ski

patroller, Jenny a dental hygienist

— they put Willie in doggie day care

regularly at the Aspen shelter. After

a few training classes, he has become

the standard by which other dogs’

temperaments are measured.

“He’s so sweet, friendly and

energetic that Seth uses him to fi nd

out how other dogs respond,”

Jenny said.

Th e infrastructure of second chancesWillie is one of many dogs that

arrive in the Roaring Fork Valley

from shelters across the country. Th e

area’s surplus of willing adopters,

combined with its dog-friendly

outdoor environment, has made it a

relative hotbed of canine adoption.

Th e area’s three publicly funded

shelters — in Aspen, Glenwood

Springs and Rifl e — are obligated to

take any dogs found in the cities or

counties that they cover.

But there are also at least three

private rescue groups in the valley

that operate by placing dogs with

volunteer foster parents until they

fi nd permanent homes.

Th ose dogs fi nd their way to

Colorado via a network of vans,

trucks and even airplanes that form

a sort of underground pet railroad

across the country. So-called “rescue

liaisons” based at kill shelters

nationwide transfer at-risk pets

to groups with names like “PetEx

Rescue ‘n Transport” or “Pilots and

Paws.” Th ose carriers then transfer

The nonprofi t Friends of the Aspen Animal Shelter relies on donations to maintain its no-kill shelter and adoption operations.

P H O T O B Y J E A N N E M C G O V E R N A N D C O N T R I B U T E D P H O T O

Bill Lukes and Bo, one of three border collies he has adopted over the years.

The nonprofi t Friends of the Aspen Animal Shelter relies on donations to maintain its no-kill shelter and adoption operations.


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them to others at gas stations or

in pet-store parking lots until they

reach a shelter or rescue group with

room to spare.

Many local rescue groups, such

as Lucky Day Animal Rescue based

in Aspen, advertise their dogs in

local newspapers to attract adopters,

or post pictures on the website

Petfi nder.com.

In such a saturated rescue market,

public shelters sometimes struggle to

place all of their animals in homes.

To stay competitive, they emphasize

services like behavioral screening

and reliable follow-up counseling

for adopters.

“We try to set ourselves apart

because we do so much for our

animals up here,” said Leslie Rockey,

executive director of the publicly

funded Colorado Animal Rescue

(CARE) in Glenwood Springs.

“When you adopt from us, you have

us for the lifetime of that pet. We do

a variety of behavioral assessments,

seeing how they will interact with

kids or with other animals or

whether they’re going to eat

your couch.”

Inventing historyDespite such thorough screening,

the early lives of many rescue dogs

remain mysterious, and perhaps

no American subculture outside

of sports betting is as rife with

speculation as the world of

dog adoption.

Having put so much into caring for

their animals, owners often can’t resist

the urge to explain dogs’ tics and odd

behaviors with an origin story.

“He was abandoned at the Aspen

roundabout, and I think he was

abused or neglected,” said Kim

Scheuer, an Aspen physician who

adopted Cliff ord, a mild-mannered

terrier-shepherd mix, from the

Aspen shelter 14 years ago.

“He had separation anxiety and

was very scared of me feeding him

chicken,” she said. “To this day he

will sometimes still freak out when

fed cooked chicken. He may have

been beaten for eating chicken at

some point.”

Aspenite Darlyn Fellman, who

adopted a Wheaton terrier mix

named Buff ett from the shelter about

four years ago, has a similar tale to

explain Buff ett’s idiosyncrasies.

“Th e house where he came from,

someone probably tortured him with

food — he’s very territorial about

his food,” she said. “He has also had

some issues with darker-colored

dogs. And at fi rst he didn’t like men,

so I made him my husband’s dog and

let him feed him and everything.

Now he always follows my

husband around.”

“It’s an interesting phenomenon,”

Sachson said. “If there isn’t a factual

history, people create a history,

and over time, their story becomes

reality. I have often heard people tell

the story of their dog on the streets,

and I know damn well that that dog

was born at the shelter.”

From the street to the podium Carbondale resident Bill Lukes, for

one, knows exactly how his border

collie Jackson grew up. In 2008, Lukes

was volunteering at CARE when an

animal-control offi cer in Glenwood

Springs found a cardboard box full

of Collie puppies near a Dumpster

behind a McDonald’s restaurant there.

Lukes, a longtime dog lover, was

a co-founder of the Animal Rescue

Foundation, which has since become

Lucky Day Animal Rescue. He

paraded Jackson around Carbondale

during First Friday one week to

attract an owner before deciding

that he would rather keep the dog

himself.

“He was so cute and so much fun,”

Lukes said, “and he was a complete

chick magnet.”

Lukes, who has always been partial

to herding dogs, adopted two border

collie mixes before Jackson. One of

those, Bo, is still alive.

Th e high-energy dogs, he notes,

are the most common breed

returned to animal shelters

after adoption.

“People love the way they look but

don’t realize that they’re not happy

just lying around the house,” Lukes

said.

To keep them active, Lukes

has made a serious hobby out of

training his dogs, and competes

frequently in sheepdog trial events

throughout the West. Jackson has

been to the sheepdog trial national

championships twice in recent years.

“I love doing herding and agility

events with them,” he said. “And Bo

has been great at training

other dogs.”

As a volunteer, Lukes raises and

trains far more dogs than he owns.

On this past New Year’s Eve, he

emailed the owner of the toughest

dog he ever trained, a border collie

mix named Willie, to see how the

dog was doing. Willie was adopted

three years ago, on New Year’s

Eve 2009.

“Th e owner wrote me back with

photos and all these stories from

Willy’s life,” Lukes said. “When you

see the dogs you’ve trained out and

about with their new family, it’s just

so gratifying. I wish I could do it

full time.”

C O N T R I B U T E D P H O T O

Coco, a 5-year-old black poodle, was adopted from the Aspen Animal Shelter by a Dallas family after shelter director Seth Sachson said “the dog as too good ... to pass up.”

Pup, a 2-year-old Austrian cattle dog-border collie mix, can be a bit shy and territorial, but Aspen Animal Shelter staff and volunteers believe he would be the perfect dog for certain owners.


ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC/ART/FILM/LITERATURE

four years ago, when she was starring as Nancy in a Basalt production of the musical “Oliver!”, Sophie Ledingham forgot her lines during one performance. She recalls a few minutes of fl ailing, speaking whatever words came to mind. She chalks up the lapse to an overwhelming amount of music, dance and theater.

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that worked with my character.”

Several years earlier, Ledingham

took two years of baton-twirling,

which involved rehearsals every day

after school. “So it was a lot of time.

But fi nally I said, ‘I’m done,’” she said

with a laugh.

Th ose might have been the only two

times when she had an overdose of

the arts. Since she started dancing, at

the age of 5, in her native Honolulu,

Ledingham has poured herself into

creative pursuits. Asked to list the

arts programs she has been involved

with since moving to Snowmass

Village in 2006, she mentioned Aspen

Santa Fe Ballet (three years of dance

lessons), Dance Progressions (where

she currently studies), Th eatre Aspen

(“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor

Dreamcoat,” “Cats,” “Into the Woods,”

“All Shook Up”), Jayne Gottlieb

Productions (“Hair,” “Rent” and that

memorable experience in “Oliver!”),

and the Aspen Music Festival’s PALS

program (three summers of training

in classical voice). Only later did it

come out that she also co-captained

the Aspen High School dance team

for two years, has been an assistant

choreographer for Carbondale’s SoL

Th eatre, in another production of

“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor

Dreamcoat,” done school plays and

“I HAD JUST DONE my big scene,

both singing and dancing, and that was

tough, really hard. I think I exhausted

myself,” she recalled. “I improvised —

not very good improvisation, but OK.

It cut it. Th e audience didn’t notice. I

almost started to cry onstage. Luckily,

Snowmass Villager Sophie Ledingham stars as Drowsy in the Theatre Aspen School Winter Teen Conservatory production of the musical “The Drowsy Chaperone,” at the Aspen District Theatre.

by STEWART OKSENHORN


taken private voice lessons.

A 17-year-old senior at Aspen High,

Ledingham is looking to deepen her

immersion in the arts, though she is

not certain exactly which direction she

will take. She has applied to the voice

programs at Juilliard, Oberlin and the

Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle,

as well as the programs at CU Boulder

and Colorado State. She also is waiting

to hear back from the commercial

dance department at Pace University,

in New York.

Wherever she ends up, Ledingham

believes she will take with her not only

a solid foundation in dance, theater

and music, but the bigger things she

has taken away from her arts training.

In addition to, as she notes, keeping

her out of trouble in high school,

she has learned about complete

dedication.

“You can’t fl ake out in theater,” she

said. “You have to go through with it

every time. When you’re performing,

or rehearsing to perform, when you

feel shy or secluded from everyone

else and your director says you have to

open up, you have to do it. You have to

go through with it 100 percent, every

time. Learning that at a young age is

diffi cult. But it gives you a mature view

of the world.”

Th e high school phase of her

career has at least two more big roles.

Ledingham stars as the character

known as Drowsy in “Th e Drowsy

Chaperone,” and she pulls double-

duty as choreographer for the musical

comedy. Th e show, produced by the

Th eatre Aspens School’s Winter Teen

Conservatory, runs Th ursday through

Sunday, Jan. 10-13, at the Aspen

District Th eatre.

“Th e Drowsy Chaperone,” which

earned Tony awards for best score and

best book in 2006, is a loopy comedy,

involving gangsters disguised as pastry

chefs, a mistaken identity, dream

sequences, wedding ceremonies on an

airplane, and a show-within-a-show.

Drowsy is likewise a loopy character,

an alcoholic who sings the boozy “As

We Stumble Along.” “She’s completely

drowning in alcohol. I’ve got a martini

glass in my hand the entire time,”

Ledingham said.

But Ledingham fi nds Drowsy to be

as honest as she is sauced. “She’s real,”

Ledingham said. “And so truthful,

because she’s drunk.”

Th e musical opens with a low-key

Broadway buff , known as Th e Main

in Chair, listening to a recording of

his favorite show, the ’20s-era “Th e

Drowsy Chaperone.” His listening

brings the play to life onstage, and the

story is introduced and commented

on. Janet, a world-famous actress, is

about give up her career, to be married

to the oil tycoon Robert. Feldzieg, a

Broadway producer, doesn’t want to

lose Janet from his current production,

and has hired a man, Adolpho, to woo

her away from Robert. Also hoping to

keep Janet on Broadway is a gangster

who has invested in “Feldzieg’s Follies,”

and who has hired two goons to

sabotage the wedding.

Drowsy is the chaperone, in charge

of keeping Janet from seeing Robert

until the wedding. She also become

the romantic interest of Adolpho,

who mistakenly believes she is Janet.

Drowsy has to manage all this in a

constant state of inebriation, which has

become a learning tool for Ledingham.

“Graham” — Graham Northrup, the

show’s director — “told me it was all

right to act drunk, woozy,” Ledingham

said. “But he said it’s important to

enunciate every word. I had to master

the drunk walk — which you think

would be easy, but it’s hard. You can’t

actually fall over onstage; that would

be distracting. You stumble.”

In her job as choreographer,

Ledingham is learning a similar

lesson in balance. “Th e Drowsy

Chaperone” features several broad

dance numbers. Ledingham was

encouraged to feel free to be creative.

“Th e best thing about choreography

is the creative freedom,” she said. “But

with choreography, the important

thing is to make it simple enough so

people can grasp it.”

A few nights before the opening of

“Th e Drowsy Chaperone,” Ledingham

was also beginning to prepare for

the Aspen High School production

of “In the Heights,” which she was

choreographing and appearing in.

GROWING UP ONSTAGEFrom the time she was 7, and

played the narrator in “Shrek,”

Ledingham considered herself fi rmly

on the music theater track. “It opened

my eyes,” she said of her fi rst theater

experience. “It gave me a sense of

family outside my family. It made me

realize the true passion theater and

the arts can give you at a young age.”

But in Hawaii, her father, Gordon,

would also take her to see opera. It

didn’t have an immediate eff ect — “I

noticed I slept a lot,” she said — but

later on it would take hold. After

moving to Aspen — her grandmother,

Norma Dolle, is a lodge owner

here, and her uncle, actor-director

David Ledingham, and aunt, dancer-

choreographer Adrianna Th ompson,

both big infl uences, have lived here

recently — she took some voice

lessons with Nikki Boxer, a classically

trained singer. “She said, ‘You have to

keep doing this,’” Ledingham said.

“Being introduced to that at a

young age, I realized I learned a lot

from those prima donnas onstage,”

Ledingham said of her early opera

experiences. When given the

opportunity to participate in the

Music Festival’s PALS program, she

went in with an open mind. “I went,

‘Why not? After my fi rst lesson I said,

‘Wow, this is powerful stuff .’ Now I

want to become one of them now,

would love to sing like they do.”

Ledingham is thinking about

auditioning for this summer’s Th eatre

Aspen production of “Les Misèrables,”

a show she believes is grounded in

classical singing. “Classical voice is

50 times harder than musical theater,”

she said. “Because of the technique,

you have to practice, always. With

opera, these long songs, you have to

be able to breathe really well to be

loud. Th at classical background has

really helped, even in dance.”

Which doesn’t mean music theater

is necessarily easy. Th e “Oliver”

experience has stayed with her to the

point that she recalls it as fi ve minutes

of grasping for words, even though

she acknowledges it was probably

more like one minute.

“It was disorientation, nervousness,

jumbled words in my mouth, trying to

get them out,” she said. “I kept saying,

‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry,’ because that

was something like the lines I was

supposed to say. I really thank that it

happened then, and not now, or 10

years from now. Because it was still

children’s theater.”


Aspen High School senior Sophie Ledingham, pictured in rehearsal for last year’s school production of “Into the Woods”: “You can’t fl ake out in theater. Your director says you have to open up. You have to do it.”


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LIVE ENTERTAINMENTTHURSDAY, JANUARY 10Doc Eason Magician 6 p.m. - 10 p.m., The Artisan at the Stonebridge Inn, 300 Carriage Way, Snowmass Village. Featuring a four-time Academy of Magical Arts award winner, including two consecutive years as the Closeup Magician of the Year, the W.C. Fields Magic Bartender of the Year and fi nally, Lecturer of the Year. Call 970-923-7074.

“Valley’s Got Talent” Jazz Plus 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m., Basalt Regional Library Community Room. ALL THE PRETTY HORSES and GLENWOOD SPRING HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND will provide an hour of eclectic sounds to kick off the library’s 2013 season of music programs. Call (970) 927-4311.

Axis LP 3 p.m. - 6 p.m., Base Camp, Snowmass Village. Aprés ski live music. Call 719-685-4410.

Boo Coo 7 p.m. - 11 p.m., St Regis Resort, Aspen. Dynamic, eclectic music duo featuring Chris Bank and Smokin’ Joe Kelly. Call 970-927-6758.

Cash’d Out 10 p.m. - 11:55 p.m., Belly Up Aspen, 450 S. Galena St. Cash’d Out is the only tribute band endorsed by and linked

to the offi cial Johnny Cash website. Its live shows respectfully reference the late, great Man in Black’s early Columbia era and Sun Records sound, combined with the energy of the classic multi-platinum live recordings from Folsom Prison and San Quentin. Call 970-544-9800.

Damian Smith and Terry Bannon 4 p.m. - 7 p.m., The Limelight Hotel, 355 S. Monarch St., Aspen. Aprés ski live music. Call 970-925-3025.

Vid Weatherwax solo piano 3 p.m. - 6 p.m., 8K Lounge, Viceroy Snowmass. New Orleans jazz and blues. Call 970-923-8000.

The Drowsy Chaperone 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., Aspen School District Theatre. Theatre Aspen School presents the Winter Teen Conservatory production of this Tony Award-winning Broadway musical comedy. Call 970-925-9313.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11Damian Smith Trio 3 p.m. - 6 p.m., Base Camp Bar and Grill, Snowmass Village. Free live music for aprés ski. Call 970-923-6000.

Andy Hackbarth Band 8 p.m. - 10 p.m., Wheeler Opera House. Front Range singer/songwriter returns with his full band for a free show to celebrate Winterskøl in Aspen. Call 970-920-5770.


NorthYSur 4 p.m. - 7 p.m., Hotel Jerome, Aspen. Blending sounds of North and South American jazz and bossa nova. Call 970-222-7752.

Potcheen 9 p.m. - 9:05 p.m., The Black Nugget, 403 Main St., Carbondale. Celtic pirate rock. No cover charge. Call 970-618-1156.

Rose Max and Ramatis 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., JAS Cafe, downstairs at The Little Nell, Aspen. Brazilian jazz, bossa nova and samba. Second show at 9 p.m. Call 970-920-4996.

The Natural Disasters 9 p.m. - 9:05 p.m., Stubbies Sports Bar & Eatery, Basalt. Local band brings “danger rock” to Stubbies. No cover charge. Call 970-618-1156.

The Spazmatics 10 p.m. - 11:55 p.m., Belly Up Aspen, 450 S. Galena St. Dance at the Men’s Health and Women’s Health annual ‘80s Snow Jam concert featuring The Spazmatics. Free beer while supplies last. Call 970-544-9800.

Vid Weatherwax and Chris Bank 3 p.m. - 6 p.m., 8K Lounge, Viceroy Snowmass. Latin jazz and variety. Call 970-923-8000.

Wade Waters and Callie Angel 4 p.m. - 7 p.m., Sneaky’s Tavern, Snowmass Base Village. Wade and Callie perform as a country duo in the Nashville singer-songwriter style with original music and

favorite covers. Call 970-618-0374.


SATURDAY, JANUARY 12Hockey for Health 6 p.m. - 10 p.m., Aspen Ice Garden. Aspen Valley Hospital sponsors an exhibition hockey game featuring Team AVH and the Mother Puckers at 7 p.m., following a free public skate starting at 6 p.m. During intermissions, “slap shots” will feature celebrity goalies including hospital CEO Dave Ressler, Dr. Bill Rodman, Mayor Mick Ireland, and Sheriff Joe DiSalvo. It’s “a buck for a puck” to participate in the slap shots. There is no admission fee for the public skate or exhibition game, but a suggested $10 donation is good for a dinner ticket; the fare includes chili, salad, dessert and lemonade prepared by AVH’s Castle Creek Café. Call 970-544-1296.

Bella Betts Band 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Wheeler Opera House, Aspen. With the upcoming release of her fi rst album, Bella Betts on mandolin, guitar, and vocals tells her story vividly through a fun mixture of bluegrass/folk, contemporary and original music. Joining Betts for her Wheeler debut are The Little Stars, featuring Leslie Myers on bass, Greg Schochet on guitar/mandolin, and Dusty Rider on clawhammer and fi ve-string banjo. Free, before the fi reworks. Call 970-920-5770.


Concrete Vibe 9 p.m. - 9:05 p.m., The Black Nugget, 403 Main St., Carbondale. Prog/fusion/acid jazz rock from New Castle. Call 970-618-1156.

Rose Max & Ramatis 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., JAS Cafe Downstairs @ the Little Nell Brazilian Jazz, Bossa Nova & Samba Call 970-920-4996.

Rose Max & Ramatis 9 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., JAS Cafe Downstairs @ the Little Nell Brazilian Jazz, Bossa Nova & Samba. Call 970-920-4996.

Thomas Kivi 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Carbondale Beer Works, 647 Main St. Kivi brings his original Minneapolis alts-roots folk-rock songs to the Western Slope. Call 970-704-1216.

Trampled By Turtles with honeyhoney 9 p.m. - 11:55 p.m., Belly Up Aspen, 450 S. Galena St. Trampled by Turtles continue to receive praise for its latest release, “Stars and Satellites.” Since forming in Duluth, Minn. in 2003, the band always felt it was able to attain an energy on stage that can’t be found in the studio. For “Stars and Satellites,” however, members didn’t want to simply try to recreate a live show. “We wanted to make a record that breathes,” explained Dave Simonett (guitar/vocals). “Musically we wanted to step out of our comfort zone.” Call 970-544-9800.

Vid Weatherwax and Roberta Lewis 3 p.m. - 6 p.m., 8K Lounge, Viceroy Snowmass. Rhythm and blues/variety. Call 970-923-8000.


SUNDAY, JANUARY 13Open Mic Night 7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., Carbondale Beer Works, 647 Main St., Carbondale. Bring your tap shoes, penny whistle, nose fl ute, poetry or guitar. No embarrassment allowed; all comers welcome. Call 970-704-1216.

Alison May and Jackson Emmer 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., Victoria’s Espresso, 510 E. Durant Ave., Aspen. Live music from indie folk recording artist Alison May and Aspenite Jackson Emmer during brunch. Call 970-920-3001.

Mad Hatter’s Ball 7:30 p.m. - 11 p.m., Wheeler Opera House, 320 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen. Don your craziest hat/contraption for the Mad Hatter’s Ball. Reviving a beloved Aspen/Snowmass tradition, the party will feature live music by Dr. Sadistic and the Classical Cry Babies followed by local favorites Jes Grew (with Cameron Williams). An award for “Best Hat” will be chosen by the Winterskøl King and Queen; the winner receives two passes to Aspen Laff Fest. Presented by Aspen Historical Society, ACRA and Wheeler Opera House. Attend Aspen History 101 at 5:30 p.m. and get a free beer. Free admission. Call 970-925-3721.

Robert Randolph & The Family Band with The Congress 9 p.m. - 11:55 p.m., Belly Up Aspen, 450 S. Galena St. Robert Randolph and the Family Band is an American funk, blues/rock and soul band led by pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph, whom Rolling Stone included Robert on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Call 970-544-9800.

Smokin’ Joe and Zoe 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m., Victoria’s, 510 E Durant Ave., Aspen. Versatile music duo performs. Call 970-927-6758.

Vid Weatherwax solo piano 3 p.m. - 6 p.m., 8K Lounge, Viceroy Snowmass. Contemporary jazz. Call 970-923-8000.

The Drowsy Chaperone 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., Aspen School District Theatre Theatre Aspen School presents the Winter Teen Conservatory production of this Tony Award-winning Broadway musical comedy. Call 970-925-9313.

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of the Himalayas 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., ACES at Hallam Lake, 100 Puppy Smith St., Aspen. Ten years ago, Catherine Cussaguet went to Nepal to explore the beauty of the Himalayas. Although she is still drawn by the mountains, she has been connecting more and more with the people who live there. She will present images and stories from her latest journeys in Nepal, Bhutan and Dharamsala, India. Tea, donated by Two Leaves Tea Company will be offered during the lecture. Call 970-925-5756.

MONDAY, JANUARY 14Open Mic Night 9:30 p.m., The Red Onion, 420 E. Cooper Ave., Aspen. Check out what Aspen’s songwriters and musicians have to offer. Call 970-925-9955.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 15Tuesday, January 15Doc Eason Magician 6 p.m. - 10 p.m., The Artisan at the Stonebridge Inn, 300 Carriage Way, Snowmass Village. Featuring a four-time Academy of Magical Arts award winner, including two consecutive years as the Closeup Magician of the Year, the W.C. Fields Magic Bartender of the Year and fi nally, Lecturer of the Year. Call 970-923-7074.

THE ARTSTHURSDAY, JANUARY 10BLOCK, PILLAR, SLAB, BEAM 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., Aspen Art Museum, 590 N. Mill St., Aspen. BLOCK, PILLAR, SLAB, BEAM brings together four artists from across Latin America who explore the evocative potential of found objects and the basic elements of the built environment. The exhibition takes its title from a game devised by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein that examines the language of building to explore the nature of language itself. Call 970-925-8050.

Adult Beginning Ballet Class 9 a.m. - 10 a.m., Coredination, 520 South Third St., Suite 7, Carbondale Adult and teen beginning ballet class for those who wish to learn this movement art form in a relaxed and enjoyable environment. Taught by Alexandra Jerkunica, professional ballet dancer and certifi ed pilates instructor. Call 970-379-2187.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11BLOCK, PILLAR, SLAB, BEAM 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Aspen Art Museum, 590 N. Mill St. This exhibit brings together four artists from across Latin America who explore the evocative potential of found objects and the basic elements of the built environment. Call 970-925-8050.

George Stranahan: Looking Back 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Wyly Community Art Center, 99 Midland Spur, Basalt. An exhibit featuring work by George Stranahan, a lifelong photographer and inductee of Aspen Hall of Fame. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday. Free and open to the public. 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Exhibit opening. Exhibit continues through Feb. 28. Free and open to the public. Call 970-927-4123.

Signup: Collage & Mixed Media Techniques 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Wyly Community Art Center, 99 Midland Spur, Basalt. Registration in progress for workshop with Ami Maes for high schoolers and adults (all skill levels) on Saturday and Sunday, January 26-27. Tuition is $120 plus $30 studio fee; members receive 10 percent off. This course offers the opportunity to bring new meaning to your work through the use of collage and words. Call 970-927-4123.

Call to Designers, Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities, 520 S. Third St. CCAH is currently accepting designer applications for the fi fth annual Green is the New Black Fashion Extravaganza on March 8 and 9. This is a dynamic, entertaining and thought-provoking production showcasing sustainable fashion created by local and global designers. The 2013 theme: Myths and Legends. Designer applications are due Jan. 18 and can be found at CCAH or at carbondalearts.com. Call 970-963-1680.

Jill Sheeley: Special Display of Fraser the Dog Books 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Wyly Community Art Center, 99 Midland Spur, Basalt. The Wyly presents Jill Sheeley: Special Display of Fraser the Dog Books, Merchandise

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 12Artist Conversation: David Shrigley 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., Aspen Art Museum, 590 N. Mill St., Aspen. A conversation with 2012-2013 lift-ticket artist David Shrigley and museum CEO, director and chief curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson. A selection of Shrigley’s short fi lms will be screened following the conversation. Call 970-925-8050.

Call to Artists: Valley Visual Art Show, Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities, Third Street Center. CCAH is accepting applications for the 33rd Valley Visual Art Show, which takes place Jan. 31-March 11. Artists may submit two pieces that have not been displayed previously at CCAH; works may include woodworking, painting, photography and ceramics. Applications are due Jan. 18 and are available at CCAH or at carbondalearts.com. Submissions must be dropped of at CCAH’s R2 Gallery on Jan. 28 and 29. The opening reception will take place Jan. 31. Call 970-963-1680.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 13Free Family Workshop 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m., Aspen Art Museum, 590 N. Mill St., Aspen. Offered on select Sundays, Family Workshops at the Aspen Art Museum encourage children and adult teams to look, share and create together. Families with children of all ages are welcome to explore the museum’s current exhibitions and participate in hands-on art projects. Each month families explore a different

theme. Admission is free, but registration is encouraged. Call or email [email protected]. Call 970-925-8050 (ext. 24).

YOGA & EXERCISETHURSDAY, JANUARY 10Vinyasa Flow Yoga 6:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m., Coredination, 520 S. Third St., Suite 7, Carbondale. Class for all levels, taught by certifi ed instructor Anthony Jerkunica. Call 970-379-8108.

Climbing Class 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., Red Brick Recreation Center, 110 E. Hallam St., room 135, Aspen. Intermediate/advanced training class for rock climbing. Participants must have one year of climbing experience; no beginners, please. Call 970-920-5140.

Core and Climb 12 p.m. - 1 p.m., Red Brick Recreation Center, 110 E. Hallam St., room 135, Aspen. A class for all levels of experience. Learn to climb in a fun, safe environment and build strength. Call 970-920-5140.

Hatha Yoga 12 p.m. - 1 p.m., Coredination, 520 S. Third St., Carbondale. Level 1-2 class focuses on connecting fl uid movement to the mind and heart exploring what is going on in this connection. Call 970-379-8108.

Martial Arts 6 a.m. - 7:30 a.m., Yellow Brick School gym, Aspen. Adult training in hard and soft styles. First month is free; $30 thereafter. Call 970-319-8237.

Jazz Moves 6 p.m. - 7 p.m., Basalt Fitness Center, 82 Duroux Lane. Linda Loeschen, who has been teaching dance and physical fi tness in the valley since 1975, leads a dance movement class. Salsa, funk, Latin, jazz, hip-hop and more are performed in easy-to-follow routines. The class starts with a warm-up, ends with stretching and is geared for all levels. Call 970-927-3243.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11Ski History Tour: Aspen Mountain 11 a.m., Meet at ambassador hut atop mountain. Offered at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Hosted by the Aspen Historical Society, a guided tour with an emphasis on the mining era and the early days of skiing in Aspen. Call 970-925-3721.

Tantric Vinyasa 8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m., True Nature Healing Arts, Carbondale. Experience 90 minutes of vitalizing vinyasa yoga, pranayama and meditation. Call 970-618-8830.

Yoga for Lunch 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Aspen Health & Harmony, El Jebel. A fun, community fl ow class. Call 970-704-9642.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12Skijor Clinic 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Aspen Animal Shelter. Skijoring is a sport that combines nordic skiing and dog sledding. Louisa Morrissey and Seth Sachson lead an introduction to skijoring, covering basic equipment, techniques to encourage a dog to pull, and safety and responsibility on the trail. Nordic skiing experience a plus, but beginners are welcome. Call 970-927-1771.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 13Winterskøl Hike for Hope 7:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Buttermilk Mountain. A fun, family uphill event with a big prize give-away and prizes for 10 age categories. 25$ entry fee. Charity event benefi ts muscular dystrophy research. Call 970-925-6137.

MONDAY, JANUARY 14Aerial Boot Camp 6 p.m. - 7 p.m., Honey’s Pole & Aerial Fitness, Basalt. This full-body workout focuses on the strength and fl exibility needed for pole dance and aerial activities. Call 970-274-1564.

Beginning Pole Dance Workout 7 p.m. - 8 p.m., Honey’s Pole & Aerial Fitness, Basalt. Learn basic pole lifts, spins, dance, fl oor and safety. No experience necessary. Call 970-274-1564.

Slackline 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., Aspen Recreation Department, Red Brick School, 110 E. Hallam St., Aspen. Indoor slackline for all ability levels. No experience needed. Call 970-920-5140.Ski History Tour: Aspen Highlands 11 a.m., Meet at ambassador hut at Merry-Go-Round, mid-mountain at Highlands. Offered at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. A tour with an Aspen Historical Society guide, with an emphasis on Highlands’ “maverick” reputation, the ‘70s ski culture and the birth of freestyle skiing. Call 970-925-3721.

THE COMMUNITYTHURSDAY, JANUARY 10AIARE Avalanche Course-Level 2 9 a.m. - 9 a.m., Aspen Expeditions, 0115 Boomerang Road, Aspen Highlands. This four-day program provides backcountry leaders the opportunity to advance their avalanche knowledge and decision-making skills. An AIARE Level 1 course (recommended) or equivalent training/experience is required. Call 970-925-7625.

Jessica Metcalf: The Journey of Cutthroat Trout in Colorado 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m., Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, 100 Puppy Smith St. Join ACES, Wilderness Workshop and Roaring Fork Audubon Society for this installment in the free Naturalist Nights speaker series. Metcalf is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado, where she specializes in getting DNA out of dead things. She uses ancient DNA techniques to answer questions in ecology, evolution, conservation and forensics. Call 970-963-3977.

Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork Tour of the Grades 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., Waldorf School Eco Campus, 16543 Highway 82, Carbondale. Visitors welcome to observe and inquire about the school’s kindergarten, lower and middle schools. Call 970-963-1960 to RSVP. Call 970-963-1960.

Adult PC Class 5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Basalt Regional Library conference room. Call 970-927-4311.

Aspen History 101 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m., Wheeler Opera House, 320 E. Hyman Ave. Kick off the Winterskol weekend with Aspen History 101 and a Mad Hatter’s Ball. The no-credit, fun college of the Rockies, also known as the Aspen State Teachers College, hosts a crash course in local lore, featuring actors, actresses, song, dance and even Klaus Obermeyer. All attendees to AH101 will receive a student ID, good for a free Aspen Brewing Co. beer at the Mad Hatter’s Ball. Free. Call 970-925-3721.

Aspen Mobile Food Pantry 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., Health and Human Services Building, 0405 Castle Creek Road, Aspen. Food Bank of the Rockies distributes food to anyone in need. No eligibility requirements. Please bring boxes and/or bags to carry your food items. Call 970-920-5235.

Roaring Fork Watershed Collaborative Quarterly Meeting 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Calaway Room, Third Street Center, Carbondale. The agenda includes Coal Basin restoration work updates, Watershed Plan current projects, climate change impacts and a statewide update on water issues including drought and the Flaming Gorge project. The full agenda can be found at www.roaringfork.org/events. All are welcome to attend. Call 970-927-8111.

Red Hill Alternative Transportation Study Open House 4 p.m. - 7 p.m., Carbondale Town Hall, 511 Colorado Ave. Come talk about creating better hiking and biking access to the popular BLM Red Hill Recreation Area Trail System. Learn about existing conditions, potential opportunities and constraints to access the trail system. Call 970-963-1971.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11AIARE Avalanche Course-Level 1 5 p.m. - 5 p.m., Aspen Expeditions, 0115 Boomerang Road, Aspen Highlands. This three-day AIARE certifi ed course emphasizes awareness and avoidance of avalanche terrain and basic decision-making and rescue strategies. The course covers travel techniques, basic rescue procedures and information for traveling in the backcountry, with both classroom and fi eld work. Call 970-925-7625.

Powder to the People 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., GrassRoots TV, 110 E. Hallam St., Aspen. The fi rst in this winter’s series of backcountry awareness programs from Powder to the People features an update on area avalanche conditions and a presentation on public access to Richmond Ridge. Free and open to the public. Call 970-ERA-2SKI.

Culinary Tour of Aspen 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., Meet at the Aspen Emporium and Flying Circus on Main Street. Gourmet Girl on the Go offers Friday lunchtime tours, with tastings and behind-the-scenes access to chefs and artisans. Tours are $75 to $85 per person, inclusive. Reservations are required; tours require a minimum of two guests. Call 970-205-9328.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 13Country Western Dancing 10 p.m. - 11:55 p.m., The Red Onion, 420 E. Cooper Ave., Aspen. Come learn country western dancing. Call 970-925-9955.

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by ANNIE DAWID of HIGH COUNTRY NEWSWORDPLAY INTELLIGENT EXERCISE

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surprise19 Megan of “Will &

Grace”21 High22 Sign-off for

Spanish spies?24 Wee25 Suffi x with human26 Peyton Manning’s

former teammates27 Chuck of NBC

News28 Grub around29 Zero-calorie

cooler31 Parched32 Scale33 Hosen material34 Two bottled liquids

kept in a cabinet?37 Language

that is mostly monosyllabic

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maker at the county fair?

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chemically55 Early seventh-

century year56 Singer Falana and

others57 Ellipsoidal59 Handel’s “___ e

Leandro”60 At full speed62 Blather

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there!”76 Sweet-talked,

maybe77 Have one’s cake

and eat ___79 Hoppy pub quaff80 Covering81 Forbes competitor82 Green room

breakfast item?86 Onetime high

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thunderbolt89 Expert fi nish?90 From ___ Z91 Tiny chastisement93 Musical

composition about a lumberjack’s seat?

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publisher since 1941

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fame110 Stunner111 Its employees

might have jumper cables: Abbr.

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applause-o-meter119 Brontë heroine120 Sonny121 El ___122 Analyzes, in a way

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wielders3 Like stocks4 Modern

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author7 Mendeleev who

created the periodic table

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protection11 Went smoothly12 Go laboriously13 The “S” of OS:

Abbr.14 Eponymous Italian

city15 Like Ben-Hur and

company when not racing?

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successor23 Whizzed

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chips, say38 One out?42 Poor43 One having a little

lamb44 Over45 Figaro in “The

Barber of Seville,” e.g.

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sandwich go-with76 “Don’t Nobody

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penthouse suite, say

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workers

IN THE PRESIDENTIAL election, the Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-day Saints emerged from

the shadows with the fi rst Mormon

candidate for the nation’s highest

offi ce. Colorado writer Sandra Dallas’

11th novel examines the history of

a religion not widely understood

outside its Utah base, where 62

percent of residents identify as

Mormon. “True Sisters” illuminates

the disastrous 1856 Martin Handcart

Company journey from Iowa City

to Salt Lake, introducing us to a

fascinating group of mostly Scottish

emigrants.

Th e pioneers have to make their

way fi rst across the ocean, then

over the prairies and mountains,

starting dangerously late in summer.

We already know how perilous the

journey will be, the insanity of the

leadership’s decision to send 625

people out on foot in August, pushing

poorly constructed handcarts across

dirt, sand, mud and snow, with the

hope of arriving in the Great Salt Lake

before winter. Ill-prepared, underfed

and poorly supplied, one in four will

die before they reach the so-called

New Zion.

Dallas homes in on a handful

of women, some pregnant and

accompanied by husbands, others by

brothers and parents, who begin the

trek determined to create their lives

anew. Recent converts, they’re eager

to fl ee the stultifying Christianity of

their native Great Britain for a new

faith in a new land — a 19th-century

version of the Pilgrims’ voyage to

New England. Th e charismatic Th ales

Tanner, Louisa’s new husband, a

missionary who knew Joseph Smith

and can personally testify to the

wonders of Zion, inspires many to

make the arduous journey. Th ey

include several members of Louisa’s

family, not all of whom survive.

Dallas avoids political

pronouncements about the LDS

church. Instead, she reopens an

often-overlooked chapter of westward

expansion and helps us see it through

the eyes of those who lived it: “Jessie

joyed to see the vast land, so wide and

open, so diff erent from the landscape

of the farm, with its copses and

hedgerows. ‘I never saw a country I

liked better in my life. Th e earth is as

young as a baby, while at home it was

as aged as an old man.’ ”

‘TRUE SISTERS’

PLUS TENby STEVE SAVOY | edited by WILL SHORTZ

BOOK REVIEW

‘True Sisters’Sandra Dallas341 pages, hardcover: $24.99St. Martin’s Press, 2012

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