editor's note
There is a moment, early in childhood, when we first sense that time has no place in our lives. The sun-washed days open up and freedom courses through us. It is at that instant that the spirit of summer first inhabits us.
To feel awash in summer is to experience life in full bloom. It is to feel reconnected to the outdoors—whether it be skating, hiking, biking, swimming, fishing, kayaking or just fluttering around at the edge of a lake. Once again we are a part of the big, glorious world. In summer we run like children do, not because we are in a hurry, but for the sheer joy of it, to feel the rush of air against our skin.
The cliché about the Wood River Valley is that it’s filled with people who refuse to grow up, a Never Land of sorts. Perhaps, more accurately, this valley attracts people who have grown up and, smack in the middle of their adult lives, have rediscovered the bright days of youth. It is a perspective any 3-year-old will share with you: In the long days and warm, sweet air of summer just about anything is possible.
We hope this edition of the Sun Valley Guide gives you ideas, inspires you, takes you along paths you didn’t know were there. Think of it as a map leading you to the high rim of a canyon where the view opens up and possibilities unfold before you. Once at the rim’s edge, you’re on your own.
Adam
Tanous, editor
contributors
Marilyn Bauer is the features editor for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, Calif., and frequent freelance contributor to numerous magazines and newspapers. Even though she now lives on the coast, her heart remains in the Wood River Valley.
Peter Boltz is a staff writer for the Idaho Mountain Express.
Daniella Chace is a nutrition consultant, an instructor at The Cottonwood Cooking School in Ketchum
and is the author of numerous health books, cookbooks and medical nutrition therapy texts.
Tina Cole is a freelance artist and writer who lives in the Wood River Valley. She has a penchant for travel to exotic places and likes to spend her summers taking river trips and hiking anywhere and everywhere possible with her husband and son.
Dana DuGan is the mother of two girls, a sometime actress and a staff writer for the Idaho Mountain Express. She worked in film and theater production in New York City before moving to the Wood River Valley eight years ago.
Greg Moore is a reporter and editor for the Idaho Mountain Express and an amateur woodworker. He is amazed by people who can build nice furniture fast enough to make any money at it.
Pat Murphy is former publisher of The Arizona Republic and The Phoenix Gazette and now is a freelance writer living in Ketchum.
Ken Retallic is the editor of the Idaho Mountain Express, a former writer and editor for the Post Register in Idaho Falls and Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota,
and an author of three books on fly fishing and one on gamebird hunting.
David N. Seelig is both a freelance photographer and a staff photographer for the Idaho Mountain Express. He lives in Hailey.
Greg Stahl, an East Coast native, is a staff writer
for the Idaho Mountain Express. His mastery of the English language, according to notes kept by his mother, began with words like “beeper,” meaning diaper; “za-zes,” meaning eye glasses; and “Gee,” representing his own name.
staff
Publisher
Pam Morris
Editor
Adam Tanous
Associate Editor
Barbara Perkins
Writers
Marilyn Bauer, Peter Boltz,
Daniella Chace, Tina Cole,
Dana DuGan, Greg Moore,
Pat Murphy, Ken Retallic,
Greg Stahl, Adam Tanous
Staff Photographer
David N. Seelig
Art Director
Evelyn Phillips
Production Manager
Tony Barriatua
Advertising Production
Richard Trevillian
Graphic Artists
Leanne Klaver, Gavin McNeil,
Gary Rasmussen, Richard Trevillian
Business Manager
Connie Johnson
Marketing/Sales Director
James Mitchell
Advertising Executives
Jenny Hannah, Gayle Kerr,
Brad Nottingham, Jerry Seiffert
Website
Design
Richard Trevillian