summer 2002
About us

Editors Note

Who hasn’t had a glorious summer or two? Maybe it was a summer spent at camp in New Hampshire, or traveling the country by train, or one spent hiking under the cerulean skies of Sun Valley. 

That the Sun Valley area is known world-wide for its winter fun and glamour is an irony not lost on the residents of the Wood River Valley. Winter is lovely here, indeed. But summer—now that’s something to brag about. 

For visitors to the area, there are few experiences in life as memorable as a Sun Valley summer, a time that blossoms with activities. 

Still, this is an unusual place not for the breadth of activities available to us, but for the value placed on them. It is a community where visitors and residents alike hold recreational, cultural and intellectual pursuits in equal regard. It is as if the community at large figured out that heart, mind and body, when in balance, make us whole. Perhaps even more than whole. 

With this issue of the Sun Valley Guide we hope to bring you not only a sense of that balance, but of the people who strike it.

— Adam Tanous, editor

Contributors

Peter Boltz is a staff writer for the Idaho Mountain Express. He would like to personally thank the Community Library’s Regional History librarian Chris Millspaugh and Melanie Dahl of the Bellevue Museum for their indispensable help in writing about the Riot of 1885.

Tina Cole is an artist and writer who came for the winters in the early 1970s and has continued to stay for the winters. She spends her summers hiking in the mountains and playing in the rivers as much as possible.

Dick Dorworth is a columnist/reporter for the Idaho Mountain Express and a free lance writer whose work has appeared in publications as diverse as Mountain Gazette, Ski, and Men’s Journal. 

Dana DuGan is a staff writer for the Idaho Mountain Express. She lives in the Wood River Valley with her expanding family, where they taste test seafood and dream of a new kitchen—talk about expansions.

Gary Hunt is the owner of Iconoclast Books in Ketchum.

Matt Leidecker has been guiding on the Middle Fork for 11 years. His photographs and writings have appeared in Travel and Leisure, Fall Line and Middlebury Magazine. He is presently working on a coffee table photography book on the Middle Fork.

Greg Moore is a reporter for the Idaho Mountain Express.

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.

Travis Purser is a staff reporter for the Idaho Mountain Express. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Home Planet News, Knocked, Pearl and Parting Gifts.

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. 

Greg Stahl doesn’t like cable television, SUVs or leafless aspen trees. He doesn’t work with ceramics. He doesn’t run marathons. He likes life.

Jody Zarkos is a sports reporter for the Idaho Mountain Express and the Sports Director for Alpine Broadcasting. She lives in Ketchum with her husband Chris and their two children.

Staff

Publisher
Pam Morris

Editor
Adam Tanous

Associate Editor
Barbara Perkins

Writers
Peter Boltz, Tina Cole, Dick Dorworth, 
Dana DuGan, Gary Hunt, Matt Leidecker,
Greg Moore, Pat Murphy, Travis Purser,
Greg Stahl, Jody Zarkos

Staff Photographers
Willy Cook, David N. Seelig

Art Directors
Tony Barriatua, Evelyn Phillips

Production Manager
Tony Barriatua

Advertising Graphics
& Website Design
Richard Trevillian 

Graphic Artists
Lisa Larroquette, 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 or email: adsales@mtexpress.com

©2002 Express Publishing, Inc.