Sven Wiik, left, practices the parallel bars with teammate Inguar Anderson prior to the 1948 Olympic Games in London.
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Todd Trapp catches his breath after finishing the Spring Creek Memorial run Saturday morning.
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Sven Wiik, on top, practices with his hometown gymnastics club prior to the 1948 Olympic Games in London.
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Beetle-killed trees spread across the landscape in Routt County. According to the U.S. Forest Service, the mountain pine beetle likely will kill the majority of Colorado's large-diameter lodgepole pine trees within the next three to five years.
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Steamboat Springs kayaker Rich Weiss is shown at the 1996 Olympic Games. Weiss finished sixth that year.
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Anne Kakela, seated to the far right, competes at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games on Lake Lanier. Kakela and her teammates finished a disappointing fourth, but she walked away from the games with treasured Olympic memories and an improved perspective on life.
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Anne Kakela, middle, placed fourth in the Olympics as a member of the U.S. Rowing Team's women's 8-person team. Kakela, who was in Steamboat last week, spent some time near the Yampa River with husband, Fred Honebein, daughter, Anja, and 3-year-old son, Beck.
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Members of the Steamboat Springs Rugby Club get physical in a Saturday match against the Glenwood Defiance Rugby Club in Glenwood Springs.
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Jessica Miller, 12, picks up a book Saturday at the Oak Creek Public Library. The summer reading program is under way in Oak Creek and Yampa.
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Mainstreet Steamboat Springs and some residents are pushing for the former Space Station gas station and Go-Fer Foods convenience store to be turned into a park.
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Pam Heinrich laughs loud and pops open her gun, ready to reload after she demolished a round of clay pigeons at Three Quarter Circles ranch, located west of Steamboat.
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Editorial cartoon for July 27, 2008.
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Maureen Hogue loads clay pigeons into a trap last weekend. She and her husband, Michael, own the Three Quarter Circles ranch's Sporting Clays range. They opened the shooting range five years ago and accept customers between May and October.
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Steamboat Springs resident Bill Yowell takes aim at a clay pigeon Sunday morning at the Three Quarter Circles Sporting Clays range west of Steamboat. The ranch features 12 shooting sites and a wide variety of shots with a range of difficulty levels.
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Pete Huber assists teaching during John Saunders' Mountain Orientation course on Southern Medicine Bow Mountain. More than 30 courses at Colorado Mountain College's Alpine Campus include an element of sustainability and "green living."
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Students in John Saunders' courses at Colorado Mountain College's Alpine Campus learn about sustainability and environmentally friendly living practices, largely through hands-on activities and outdoor excursions.
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The steamy star clouds of the Milky Way seem to be boiling right out of the teapot's spout as it tips over to pour its scalding-hot contents onto the tail of the Scorpion to the west.
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Marvin Lindsey
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Corks are on display on the ceiling at Harwigs/L'apogee.
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Mike Lang with Harwigs/L'apogee shelves wine Friday in the restaurant's wine cellar.
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The ranch also contains four miles of private trout stream. Of a total 4,300 acres, about 2,000 acres are under a conservation easement.
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The ranch also contains four miles of private trout stream. Of a total 4,300 acres, about 2,000 acres are under a conservation easement.
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The 4,300-acre Big Creek Ranch off Elk River Road includes an 11,000-square-foot lodge, a 100-year-old barn and the potential to develop many more ranch estates. Below: The ranch also contains four miles of private trout stream. Of a total 4,300 acres, about 2,000 acres are under a conservation easement.
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Steamboat Ski & Bike Kare employee Cindy Karet cleans her bike Wednesday outside of the shop.
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Ben Spiegel, owner of Spiegel & Son Painting, and his father, Delbert, have run a successful painting business since 1958. Ben is a fourth-generation painter who opened his Steamboat Springs business in 1995.
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Red Creek subdivision resident Jim Burton moved to the neighborhood in 2001, a year before the beetles started infesting the trees.
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Red Creek subdivision resident Jim Burton, right, supervises a burn with his neighbors.
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Geof Magrath, associate pro at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club, in British Columbia, Canada, looks down one of the fairways lined with dead lodgepole pines.
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The Prince George Golf and Curling Club, in British Columbia, Canada, had some infected lodgepoles removed.
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Golfers finish up their round at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club in British Columbia, Canada.
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Red Creek subdivision resident Jim Burton, middle, supervises a burn with neighbors Ron Willhide, right, and James Snody.
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Aspens are now the dominant species in areas that have been logged at the Red Creek subdivision in North Routt County.
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Lodgepole pine needles in the sun at the Lodgepole Campground in Gunnison.
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Andy Cadenhead, who works for the U.S. Forest Service, takes the bark off a dying pine tree on Rabbit Ears Pass to look for the mountain pine beetle. Cadenhead said dying trees still may look healthy, but on the outside, small flows of hardened sap are a good indication that beetles are present. Cadenhead said the tree exudes the sap in an attempt to push the beetles out - the tree's only defense against the insect.
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A beetle is ready to lay a path of destruction after being pulled from under the bark of a dying pine tree at the top of Rabbit Ears Pass. The beetles, which are much smaller than a penny, are threatening forests across the western United States and Canada.
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A mature bark beetle tunnels under the bark of a dying pine tree on Rabbit Ears Pass. The beetles bore through the bark of the trees, make a network of tunnels in the cambial layer and then lay eggs. The resulting damage causes the tree to die.
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Andy Cadenhead, of the U.S. Forest Service, says the mountain pine beetle is a normal visitor to most forests. However, he said warmer mountain temperatures and drought conditions have helped the latest infestation reach epidemic levels.
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John Norman of Prince George walks up the ninth hole fairway lined with dead pines.
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Lodgepole Campground host Steve Gilbreath gazes at the pines around the grounds.
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The Lodgepole Campground's mailbox.
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Sun shines through the pines at Lodgepole Campground in Gunnison National Forest.
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Geof Magrath, associate pro at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club in British Columbia, watches golfers through the dead lodgepole pines, which were the dominant species at the course. The club is building a new course in an area that has very little pine.
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Mountain pine beetles are reflected in the sun as they take flight from dead trees to new host trees in late June on Rabbit Ears Pass.
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Rocky Mountain Youth Corps crew members Sarah Yardley, left, and Cassie Moreschi stack logs at Seedhouse Campground in North Routt County.
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North Routt County resident Jim Burton looks at sap oozing from a pine tree in his subdivision. The tree attempts to defend itself by pushing the pine beetle out with sap.
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Andy Cadenhead, who works for the U.S. Forest Service, points to the larvae of a mountain pine beetle he found under the bark of a tree on Rabbit Ears Pass. The beetles are threatening forests across the western United States and Canada.
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Jim Burton, right, and his neighbor Ron Willhide walk along a road in their Red Creek subdivision in North Routt County. The area to the right of the road was logged to get rid of mature and infested lodgepole pine trees. The area to the left of the road has not been logged.
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A stand of beetle-killed pine trees glow in the late-afternoon sunlight in North Routt County. The mountain pine beetle has impacted more than 134,000 acres of lodgepole pine in 2007 in Routt County, an increase of nearly 55,000 acres from 2006.
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