The Last Stand
Photo archive for September 24, 2006
Students and faculty of The Lowell Whiteman School gather in the main building’s atrium for morning announcements and poetry reading. This year’s enrollment at the private, college preparatory school is a record 108 students.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter, a former Denver District Attorney, is all smiles at a campaign stop in Sugar City, east of Pueblo, on Labor Day weekend.
Congressman Bob Beauprez anounces his Colorado Accountability Pledge at a press conference earlier this month in Denver.
Greenridge Mountaineers Dancers square dance on 12th Street during Saturday’s second annual Downtown Hoedown.
George Trujillo, with his granddaughter, Justice Sales, 5, at the Chili Challenge on Saturday. When Sales asked if any of Trujillo’s chili was left, Trujillo replied, “it’s all gone.” Trujillo won the People’s Choice Award for his chili entry.
Ramsey Bernard returns a volley during his 6-4, 6-2 match against his Evergreen opponent.
Lizzie Stoll goes for the dig during the third match against Delta to help send the game into a fourth match. The Sailors took control after the fourth match, winning in five games, 23-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-22, 15-8.
Andrew Comrie-Picard slides around a muddy corner during a practice run for the Colorado Cog Rally Friday. Racing begins Saturday at 8 a.m.
Driver Brian Scott accelerates through a curve during a practice run for this weekend’s Colorado Cog Rally. Racing will begin Saturday at 8 a.m., and there are several prime spectator viewing areas around the town of Hayden.
Kevin Nemec of CACTOFAB starts another project inside his garge where his designs and builds rails and jumps for snowboarders, motocross riders and skateboarders.
CMC students use a rail built by Cactofab (Kevin Nemec) they installed below the campus parking lot for eager snowboarders at the beginning of the season.
Kevin "Cactus" Nemec hits a motocross ramp of his own design at a double secret North Routt location.
Cactofab tackled the project of fixing and expanding the skateboard park at Howelsen Hill in the summer 2004 The project included building a steel skeleton for the new ramps.
Birthday Club: Wyatt Enger, Age: 2, Sept. 17
Friends & Neighbors: John La, the owner of the Galaxy Restaurant and Panda Garden Restaurant in Steamboat Springs, was invited to a luncheon with President Bush at the Denver mansion of Charlie Gallagher on July 21. Bush spoke about the importance of keeping troops in Iraq and the November election.
Friends & Neighbors: The United States Bowling Congress and Colorado Bowling Association proudly recognized Wendy Hicks as an honorary member of the Colorado State USBC Bowling Association for outstanding service and dedication. The award was presented on September 16, 2006, as part of the CSBA annual Jamboree and Hall of Fame Banquet.
Kent Eriksen and his wife, Katie Lindquist-Eriksen, stand with Eriksen’s custom-made road and mountain bikes. Eriksen now has his own line of bikes with the Kent Eriksen Cycles logo on them.
An Edwards-based development team, the Atira Group, has acquired the Bear Claw III multi-family residential development site. The parcel of land is just outside the southern boundary of the Steamboat Ski Area, offering true ski-in, ski-out access.
Members of the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps and the U.S. Forest Service dig into the soil to plant seedlines in North Routt. The 2002 Hinman fires burned nearly 15,000 acres, leaving expanses of the forest in need of revegetation.
Craig Kasten employee of the Routt National Forest adds one of the 66,000 seedlings to revegetate the area in Diamond Park devastated by the Hinman fire three years ago.
Members of the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps take a mid-morning break after planting hundreds of trees early Tuesday morning. From left, Katie McGurk, Cameron Hensley, group leader Nathan Forrest, Becca Berzof, Gabe Rogers and Tina Lee talk about their summer experience building trail and planting trees.
The Rocky Mountain Youth Corps sets up camp beneath a wooden shelter at the Seedhouse Group Campground in North Routt. The group was excited about the size and amenities at the site.
Forests have the ability to bounce back from blowdowns, beetle epidemics and fire. Here, natural seedlings have popped through the soil, as the Routt National Forest seeks to rebound from an intense 2002 fire that ravaged thousands of acres.
A new seedling is ready to tackle the winter ahead. The Rocky Mountain Youth Corps and the U.S. Forest Service worked together to plant 66,000 Engelmann spruce and lodgepole pines in a part of the forest burned during the Himan fires of 2002.
An open cooler shows some of the food the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps members are eating during their two-week stint in North Routt.
U.S. Forest Service employee Steve Orange holds up a seedling. More than 65,000 seedlines are being planted this fall to help revegetate the Routt National Forest.
A natural seedling hides by a rock and a pile of now. In the background, workers plant seedlings to help revegitate the Routt National Forest. In 60 years, this area destroyed during the 1997 blowdown and the 2002 Hinman fire will look like a mature forest, officials said.
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps member Cameron Hensley of Chicago plants a seedling in an area of the Routt National Forest destroyed in the 2000 Hinman fire.
U.S. Forest Service supervisory forester Andy Cadenhead checks in with the progress being made on the revegetation of the Routt National Forest in after the 2002 Hinman fire. Cadenhead thanked the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps for its help during the past two weeks.
Fall returns to the Seedhouse are in North Routt on county road 64.
Truning aspens along a hillside gives Stagecoach area residents fall colors right out their windows.
Overlooking the Whiteman School Campus, Aspens are starting to turn and blanket the area with yellows and golds.
Aspen leaves after falling from their summer perch on a vehicle window shows a closeup of the deep yellow colors they change to during fall.
A window through turning Aspens to the south viewing Lost Ranger Peak in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness.
A window through turning Aspens to the south viewing Lost Ranger Peak in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness.
Brillant red broad leave shrubs in the area of Spring Creek against a start of a yellow and green fall change of color.
A spectacular way to view turning aspens while lying beneath and looking up in to a clear blue sky gives a whole different viewing perspective of fall.
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