Published on August 3, 2008
Published on August 3, 2008
Tanner Foust takes a turn at the Superspecial stage during the 2007 Rally Colorado.
Published on August 3, 2008
Colombian boxer Alexander Brand, in blue, receives a blow from United States' Shawn Estrada during their Final Americas Olympic Qualifier fight for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on April 27 in Guatemala City. Estrada trained near Hayden before he went to the Olympic trials.
Published on August 3, 2008
Shawn Scholl, of Kremmling, talks with his son, Tyler, and daughter, Tabor, after finishing the 12-mile Mount Werner Classic on Saturday at the Steamboat Ski Area.
Published on August 3, 2008
Seven-year-old Tyler Scholl, of Kremmling, passes the finish line of the 5-mile Mount Werner Classic on Saturday morning. Tyler finished the race in fourth place, with a time of 1 hour, 54 seconds.
Published on August 3, 2008
Wild Silvery Lupine flowers pop up near a pine tree on the trail to Rabbit Ears Peak. The trail is filled with great spots to snap worthy photos of wildflower meadows leading to one of the region's signature summits. In this photo, the peak draws the attention of the viewer by being framed between the wildflowers across the bottom and the green arms of the pine to one side. A high f-stop setting required a lot of light to expose the photograph correctly, but ensured both the top of the peak and the foreground flowers could be clear and distinguishable.
Published on August 3, 2008
Learning to use the different settings on your camera can help you produce a variety of photographs with vivid colors, sprawling landscapes or artistic views. The photos of Rabbit Ears Peak above illustrate the diversity that can be produced with a little know-how and the use of your surroundings to improve composition.
Published on August 3, 2008
Learning to use the different settings on your camera can help you produce a variety of photographs with vivid colors, sprawling landscapes or artistic views. The photos of Rabbit Ears Peak above illustrate the diversity that can be produced with a little know-how and the use of your surroundings to improve composition.
Published on August 3, 2008
Learning to use the different settings on your camera can help you produce a variety of photographs with vivid colors, sprawling landscapes or artistic views. The photos of Rabbit Ears Peak above illustrate the diversity that can be produced with a little know-how and the use of your surroundings to improve composition.
Published on August 3, 2008
Cars travel along Colorado Highway 131 on Saturday afternoon. An update and presentation of preliminary findings of the South Routt Transit Needs and Feasibility Study is at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at Oak Creek Town Hall.
Published on August 3, 2008
Editorial cartoon for Aug. 3, 2008.
Published on August 3, 2008
Cassie Wilhelm, 11, of Steamboat Springs, will sell her handmade jewelry Saturday at the Farmers Market on Sixth Street.
Published on August 3, 2008
This bear uses a trash bin as a source to find food.
Published on August 3, 2008
Bears, like this one who was captured and relocated last year in Glenwood Springs, look for the easiest sources of food. Bear sightings this year in Steamboat Springs are half the number they were last year, mainly because of good natural food sources in the area.
Published on August 3, 2008
Leah Rowse, 9, of Steamboat Springs, holds an owl she constructed Friday using trash found along the Yampa River. Leah was participating in the Yampatika program with seven other children ages 9 to 11.
Published on August 3, 2008
Bryn Weaver, of Steamboat Springs, and Daniel Baker, of Ocean City, N.J., are engaged to be married Sept. 20, 2008.
Published on August 3, 2008
Ted Ligety, 2006 Gold Medalist and 2008 Giant Slalom World Champion, lays siege to Stagecoach Reservoir
Published on August 3, 2008
A man waterskis on Stagecoach Reservoir on Monday morning.
Published on August 3, 2008
The Great Dark Horse is a pattern formed, not from stars, but from the absence of stars. Spot him in early August due south around 10 p.m., about midway between Jupiter and the bright star Antares.
Published on August 3, 2008
Chef David Nelson prepares watermelon wrapped in jamon serrano at The Homesteader.
Published on August 3, 2008
Watermelon wrapped in jamon serrano
Published on August 3, 2008
Chef David Nelson prepares a homemade mayonnaise.
Published on August 3, 2008
Pat Peterson, of Denver, from left, and Diane and Bob Zawislak, of Illinois, taste watermelon wrapped in jamon serrano during a cooking class at The Homesteader.
Published on August 3, 2008
Routt County resident Geoff Blakeslee picks up some beverages from Central Park Liquor for a Wednesday barbecue. The store is one of the liquor stores in Steamboat Springs that has chosen to sell liquor on Sundays.
Published on August 3, 2008
Resort Ventures West Director of Sales and Marketing Kerry Shea and Development Manager Mariana Ishida monitor progress on Trailhead Lodge on Thursday. The view is to the south, where ground has been broken on the first single-family home in The Range.
Published on August 3, 2008
Workers with Monarch Pools complete a complicated concrete pour Thursday for the grotto pools at Trailhead Lodge. Resort Ventures West is investing nearly $7 million in amenities at the new condominium hotel in Wildhorse Meadows.
Published on August 3, 2008
Workers for Custom On-Site Construction install timber beams at Trailhead Lodge on Thursday. Completion of the building in Wildhorse Meadows is a year away. The general contractor is Drahota Construction.
Published on August 3, 2008
Roy Mask, a Gunnison-based entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service, said rising temperatures could spell trouble for the Gunnison National Forest
Published on August 3, 2008
John Twitchell, a Steamboat Springs-based forester with the Colorado State Forest Service, looks at the burn piles in the Red Creek subdivision in North Routt County. Twitchell advised residents in the subdivision about how to deal with beetle infestation.
Published on August 3, 2008
Sap on a pine tree in North Routt County holds a defeated beetle.
Published on August 3, 2008
Dead pines spot the desert landscape near Kamloops, British Columbia.
Published on August 3, 2008
Dr. Dezene Huber, left, with the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, talks with a student in his lab.
Published on August 3, 2008
Dr. Dezene Huber with the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George points to the tracks the beetles leave in pine trees.
Published on August 3, 2008
Dr. Dezene Huber with the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George talks about his beetle research at his lab.
Published on August 3, 2008
A dead lodgepole remains after logging near Kamloops, British Columbia.
Published on August 3, 2008
Dead lodgepole pine spot the landscape in the high-desert city of Kamloops.
Published on August 3, 2008
Source: U.S. Forest Service
Published on August 3, 2008
Source: British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range
Published on August 3, 2008
Published on August 3, 2008
A robin sits on a dead lodgepole pine branch near Dumont Lake on Rabbit Ears Pass.
Published on August 3, 2008
Beetle-killed lodgepole have been heavily logged from areas around Kamloops, British Columbia.
Published on August 3, 2008
Jim Snetsinger, British Columbia's chief forester, says 52 percent of the province's lodgepole pines are dead.
Published on August 3, 2008
Roy Mask, a Gunnison-based entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service, said higher temperatures could spell trouble for the Gunnison National Forest, where frigid winters always have kept the mountain pine beetle in check.
Published on August 3, 2008
Twitchell holds a container with a beetle.
Published on August 3, 2008
John Twitchell, a Steamboat Springs-based forester with the Colorado State Forest Service, stands near a burn pile in the Red Creek subdivision in North Routt County.
Published on August 3, 2008
A lone beetle-killed lodgepole pine stands along Routt County Road 129 near Steamboat Lake.
Published on August 3, 2008
Beetle-killed pines - the remnants of a logging operation along the Yellowhead Highway in northern British Columbia - stand in front of the Caribou Mountains.
Published on August 3, 2008
