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Show M Julie Hopkins REALTOR" 435.901.0616 jhopkins@pru-utah.com OUNTAIN TOWN NEWS A Roundup of News from Other Western Ski Resort Communities . crashing off the trail," explained Dean Linnell. "I think it missed me and got the back of my bike." Cougar misses biker, It was a mountain lion, also Give me a call today. but doesn't slink away called a cougar - and obviously WHISTLER, B.C. - A mounnot of the older-woman-withtain biker training for a race called Test of Metal was riding big-hair type. Linnell did what Prudential up a trail near Squamish, west all wildlife experts say people UUh Rflal EiUlo of Whistler, when he saw should do if confronted by a something %rown pounce off a cougar: he got aggressive, picking up his bike. But the cougar, mossy knoll behind him. "The next thing I know, I'm which was just several feet away, wasn't retreating far. Soon, his riding buddies had caught up with him. They started throwing rocks, almost nailing the lion in the head. The cat didnt flee. It just casually left. "The main thing is to make sure in that situation you don't run away or show the cougar your back," said Linnell. He If you've ever felt that a missing tooth or teeth told Pique Newsmagazine that he believes the cat was 8 feet stood in the way of your goals... long, from nose to tails end. In California, some mounDental Implants from $1,700 tain bikers riding at dusk or Financing options available. other low-tight situation have put eye-looking lights on the backs of their helmets to Dental implants are the treatment of choice for replacement of missing teeth, and the deceive cougars. The idea is to fastest growing medical or dental procedure today. As one of Utah's leading experts in make cougars, which rely on dental implantology and Park City's only Board Certified Oral Surgeon, Dr. Wade Peers surprise when they hunt, think places more dental implants in a typical month than most dentists do in a year. they're being watched. 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LET OUP WINDOW COVERING PROFESSIONALS SHOW YOU HOW TO PROTECT YOUR HOVE FROM THE SUM. www.parkcityblind.com lty Steamboat studies how to pair butts, bikes, & beds STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. - Bicycling seems to be on the rise, and several Colorado mountain towns are seeing a particularly big bounce in visitors this summer resulting from two big tours, the annual Ride the Rockies mass pedalthon sponsored by The Denver Post and then the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in August. In Steamboat Springs, an effort called Biketown USA Initiative has .been plotting how to make bicycling a bigger part of the summer menu. In doing so, it has looked at Whistler, which installed an innovative mountain bike park some years ago. A 2008 study found visitors at Whistler drawn by the mountain biking spend an average $133 a day. In Steamboat, a typical summer visitor spends $73 per day. Promoters of the bicycling initiative hope to improve that to $112 per day, reports Steamboa t Today. Bicycling is also in the news in Aspen. Lance Armstrong he doesn't need an introduction, does he? - was recently in Aspen, where he maintains a vacation home. So was Tyler Hamilton, Armstrongs former teammate, who recently accused Armstrong of doping. An account in The Aspen Times says they met up at a restaurant, and witnesses said they talked about five minutes. They also said that Hamilton tried to give Armstrong a hug, but Armstrong brushed him off. The FBI is said to be trying to get surveillance tape from the restaurant, although the tape wouid not have provided any conversation. ESIGN 1 1612 UfsBlvd., Kfmbal \-ncfion | 800.264.9039 435.649.9665 parkcityblind@aol.com Sold-out food festival a sign of the old times ASPEN, Colo. - While doubts remain about the strength of the recovering economy, note that the Food & Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen this summer has had to turn away significant numbers of people willing to pay top dollar to taste wines and hear from top chefs talking about their craft. Few rooms were available last weekend, reports 77ie Aspen Times. "People are in disbelief, so I hope they realize that they cant wait until the last minute next year, as this could be signaling a slow return to the old days," said Bill Tomcich, president of Stay Aspen Snowmass. It was, he said, the first time since 2008 that guests were turned away. Affordable housing prices rise even as market falls SUMMIT COUNTY, Colo. Not all home values have been shrinking like a mound of snow on a hot summer day. Deed- Circuses no worse than restricted homes appreciated kennels or horse show 2.5 percent during the reces- KETCHUM, Idaho - The big sion while single-family homes top was scheduled to arrive in declined 21.6 percent. the Ketchum-Sun Valley area This is based on data from last week, and one local resiJune 2008 through June 2010, dent contacted the Idahc reports the Summit Daily Mountain News to urge a boycott because of the abuse oi News. Of course, deed-restricted elephants and other circus anihousing never had the huge mals. gains enjoyed by free-market A representative of the cirhousing because, by definition, cus, Carson and Barnes, the deeds restrict the resale denied any abuse. "There are price. Many affordable hous- bad people out there, but it ing projects restrict apprecia- doesnt mean everyone is bad," tion to 3 to 5 percent annually. said David Rawls. In contrast, free-market housThe newspaper also talked ing prices rose anywhere from with Ted Friend, who leads an 2 percent to 35 percent annual- animal well-being program at ly since 1989, the last time Texas A&'M University. He housing prices declined in and several students traveled Summit County. with Carson and Barnes and What's going on? David four other circuses over the O'Neil, developer of two course of two years. affordable-housing complexes "There was nothing differin Summit County - the ent than what we would do Wellington Neighborhood in with horses or show dogs. Il Breckenridge, and the Peak would be illogical to condemn One Neighborhood in Frisco - circuses if you didn't also consays it's very simple. "We have demn kennels and horseback real people, buying real homes, riding with trailers," Friend with real dollars. As a result, it said. is a very stable market." And it's a much safer investment Whistler requires new than unrestricted market homes be 'solar-ready* homes, he said. WHISTLER, B.C. - Whistler and 35 other town and cities in British Columbia have agreed Baked in Telluride to require all new single-family rises from its ashes TELLURIDE, Colo. - Baked homes built within their in Telluride, like the Phoenix boundaries be "solar hot-watei of old, has arisen from its ready." ashes, opening just in time for Solar thermal eliminates the big bluegrass festival. The burning gas or electricity*to bakery, the oldest continuously produce hot water. In some operating restaurant in cases, hot water produced by Telluride, having opened in roof-top and other solar-ther1977, burned down in mal collectors is used for February,2010. The exterior of space-heating purposes. the building looks much like Pique Newsmagazine notes the old one, reports The that solar hot water collectors Teiluride Watch, although will not be required. The ample daylighting has created added installation could cost an airier ambience. $6,000 to $8,000, according to one local building contractor. Hailey weighing a ban on paper shopping bags Horse among newest J HAILEY, Idaho - Paper or fossils in ancient lake 1 plastic? If a group of students SNOWMASS. VILLAGE, from Wood River High School Colo. - Among.the thousands gets its way, the only answer in of ancient bones now recovHailey will be paper - and then ered from an ancient lake Bed at an added cost of 15 cents near Snowmass Village is that each. ••. •. of a horse. "; . The Hailey > Gity Council Of course, horses are by no had adopted a resolution dis- means rare in North America couraging use of disposable now, but this horse existed plastic bags. But the band of somewhere between 50(0.00 local students wants the city and 150,000 years ago. Later. council to take an, additional they became extinct in North America, only to be reintroduced by Spaniards in the 15th century. Last week, curators from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science reported that their excavations had reached the bottom of the peat-filled lake fl bed. The ancient lake bed was being scraped out last October - Pafn,.lq6dj teacher for use as a reservoir, to ensure sufficient water supplies for new lodging and shopping being developed at Snowmass. when a bulldozer operator noticed a bone. It turned out to be a mastadon, one of many extinct species now recovered. Others include mammoths, and Jefferson's ground sloth. A complete skull of a sloth was about the size of a grizzly bear. MEDICAL Kirk-Johnson, djief curator at the museum has called it the best high-elevation fossil site in North America, if j not the world. j ], . ; Still unclear is why so many animals congregated at the lake. Putting together good theories will occuby several dozen scientists during the next two years as theyj return^ to their labs to date 'die'bones, leaves and tree limbstfound at the site. "Ifs Easy. 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The Idaho Mountain Express notes that a new market in Ketchum does not give out plastic bags. But the largest grocery store in.Hailey, while rewarding customers who use reusable shopping bogs, opposes a ban. So do several readers of the newspaper. In the blog, one reader bemoaned the "envirosocial engineering." Another reader reported using reusable bags consistently, but does not like being told by a government that reusable bags must be used. "Am I also going to be regulated in the diapers I choose?" asked the reader. |