Given my two previous posts, I should clarify something: the point of heli-skiing isn’t the heli, it’s the skiing.

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Words and Pics by David Gonzales

For 2 weeks I’ve been glomming onto the Valdez Heli Ski Guides, trading bumps for jpegs and gradually learning the ins and outs of heli guiding and heli mooching. A few rules:

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Click here for Swift’s photo essay on the bold musical.

WARNING: The depiction of the human body in these images may upset certain individuals due to a total lack of nudity.

By David J Swift

Hair is about hippies and hippies are about love and I came away from Friday night’s opening of Hair madly in love with Jackson Hole. So what if we’re running out of oil? Jackson Hole is its own energy source.

Our valley’s hardman/hardwoman tradition is prominent in world-class peak-bagging and fearless gravity-control sports. Now we tackle stagecraft with similar abandon, possibilities having expanded a hundredfold in the Center for the Arts’ marvelous new theater.

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By David Gonzales

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This video comes from gnarwire.com, which looks like a blog/video/gear selling site based, at least partially, in the Hole.

In one of her recent dispatches from the Vill, Brigid Mander decries the inclusion of Gaper Fool’s Day in the official JHMR calendar. “The day seems to lose a little something,” she writes.

Or maybe not. There were lots of gapers on the slopes that day, and a good time was had by all. Moreover, it should only add to the fun that the resort, perhaps unwittingly, sanctions an event based on the ridicule of their customers. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

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It was a year ago today that Doug Coombs died in La Grave, France.

There’s a new video on the Doug Coombs Memorial Fund website — a compilation of last summer’s memorial at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

Great words from Dear Leader.

Thus inspired we gird our loins for the utterly mean, pointless and time-wasting silliness that is April Fools Day.

I mean, do you think life is just fun and games?

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