winter 2003
About us

Editors Note

Winter fun starts early in our lives. It is a simple beginning: perhaps little more than making snow angels and throwing snowballs. And whether we’re 4 or 40, we never really outgrow that joy, because there is something inherently playful about snow. And as most people who live in the Wood River Valley know, the possibilities for fun in the snow only expand from those simple beginnings. Skiing, snowboarding, figure skating, ice hockey, ski joring, snowshoeing, sledding, snowmobiling—name it and it’s yours for the doing.

The Wood River Valley is an unusual place in that almost everyone here makes an effort to integrate fun—winter or summer—into his or her workaday life. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Nonetheless, there is a value placed on that fun that is hard to quantify. 

In this issue of the Sun Valley Guide, we meet people who seek out that value and bring it to others. These are people like Marc Mast who brings skiing joy to people with disabilities, or die hard ski bums cum business men like Bobbie Burns, Mike Brunetto and Ed Scott. We delve into the art of encaustic painting and the glass art of Jacques Bordeleau. We look back at an Idaho pioneer, filmmaker Nell Shipman, and explore elegant ideas for small spaces in the home. In the end, we top it off with a look at organic beef and the roaring return of the martini. After all, this is supposed to be fun, isn’t it?

— Adam Tanous, editor

Contributors

Daniella Chace is a local nutritionist and the author of numerous health books, including “What to Eat if You Have Cancer” and “Smoothies for Life.” Her most recent publication is “The RV Cookbook,” co-authored with Amy Boyer.

Willy Cook is a staff photographer for the Idaho Mountain Express. His passions are hunting, playing hockey and following the Red Sox in their never-ending quest for a pennant.

Dick Dorworth is a reporter/columnist for the Idaho Mountain Express and a frequent contributor to the Sun Valley Guide. He lives in Ketchum because it has the best skiing and the most interesting people in the world.

Dana DuGan is a staff writer for the Idaho Mountain Express. She lives in the Wood River Valley with her family, and has a martini tattoo. With a twist.

Tony Evans lives and writes in the Sun Valley area. He can be contacted at twoskies@hotmail.com.

Gregory Foley is a staff writer for the Idaho Mountain Express. He has earned awards for his writing from the California Newspaper Publishers Association and the National Newspaper Association. His first novel, “The Clarity of Light,” will be published this winter.

Gary Hunt is the owner of Iconoclast Books in Ketchum.

Greg Moore is a reporter for the Idaho Mountain Express and has worked as a Sun Valley ski instructor.

Pat Murphy is a former Florida and Arizona newspaperman, who was publisher of the morning and evening newspapers in Phoenix before moving to Idaho, where he now is a freelance writer.

Evelyn Phillips is a freelance graphic artist living in Hailey. She is one of the founders of the Idaho Mountain Express and wrote for the newspaper in its early years.

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 previously enjoyed a freelance career in New York City where he shot rock ’n’ roll and sports photography. His work of Bruce Springsteen will soon be in the rock ’n’ roll Hall of Fame. 

Matt Smylie is a former copy editor for the Idaho Mountain Express.

Greg Stahl moved to the Rocky Mountains in 1991 for the sole purpose of skiing slopes with vertical drops greater than 1,000 vertical feet. He prefers crud to corduroy and tries to ski everywhere man-made snow is not.

Staff

Publisher
Pam Morris

Editor
Adam Tanous

Associate Editor
Barbara Perkins

Writers
Daniella Chace, Dick Dorworth, Dana DuGan, Tony Evans, Gregory Foley, Gary Hunt, Greg Moore, Pat Murphy, Evelyn Phillips, Ken Retallic, Matt Smylie, Greg Stahl

Staff Photographers
Willy Cook, David N. Seelig

Art Director
Evelyn Phillips

Production Manager
Tony Barriatua

Ad Production &
Website Designer
Richard Trevillian 

Graphic Artists
Lisa Larroquette, Gavin McNeil,
Richard Trevillian

Business Manager
Connie Johnson

Marketing/Sales Director
James Mitchell

Advertising Executives
Janice Hicks, Gayle Kerr,
Brad Nottingham, Jerry Seiffert

The Sun Valley Guide, winner of seven awards in the 2001 Idaho Press Club competition, is published summer and winter by Express Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 1013, Ketchum, ID 83340. For advertising and content information, call (208) 726-8060. Find us on the Internet at www.svguide.com.

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