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Weather Watcher Extraordinaire; Magic Things Come in Threes; Black Cats, Brooms, and Witches' Brew
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Weather Watcher Extraordinaire
Since moving to Teton Valley in 2004, Victor resident and software engineer Chris Larson has developed a pair of website groups targeted at those venturing onto the area’s snowy slopes in winter and rivers in summer.
“TetonSnowInfo.com is one of a ‘family’ of websites,” Chris says. “They’re all targeted at the dedicated backcountry and resort user looking for detailed and relevant information about local conditions.” The other family members include snow info sites for the Wasatch Range, Summit County in Colorado, Aspen, the Tahoe region of California-Nevada, and Big Sky in Montana.
“These sites are the first of their kind for one-stop shopping for snow, avalanche, and weather information in their respective areas,” Chris says. “Their genesis stemmed from the frustration I had with the number of websites I found myself looking at every morning to try to get a realistic picture of what happened during the past twenty-four hours, and what was going to happen during the next couple of days.”
In the case of TetonSnowInfo.com, data is collected from area resorts, the Bridger-Teton National Forest Avalanche Center, the National Weather Service, and elsewhere, and then presented in easy-to-comprehend graphical form, with live links to other relevant regional websites. New for this year are at-a-glance, seven-day and twenty-four-hour snow totals for the resorts, more comprehensive snow and weather forecasts, resort and Teton Pass webcams, and RSS feeds from certain regional backcountry skiing blogs.
In the snowless seasons, Chris’s TetonRiverInfo.com website family will provide similar information aimed at boaters and fishermen.
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Magic Things Come in Threes
With a combined three months’ bed rest for the three babies due between them, Rebecca Cohen and Susan Maddrey spent hours dreaming of sewing clothes for their babies when they arrived. Three years later, with three three-year-olds running around, it has all become a handful—thus the name of their company, hand full.
hand full’s clothes, made of a blend of hemp and organic cotton, are hand-dyed with low impact dyes in a variety of rich colors inspired by all things kid, such as red wagon, pumpkin patch, and bedtime. The clothes are created with play and comfort in mind; zipper-, snap-, and button-free, they are roomy and made to grow into and out of, and then to be passed on.
“Details are the first priority at hand full,” Susan says. “With purposefully unfinished edges, triple-stitched appliqués, and whimsical hand-embroidered stars, every piece is created with precision and love.”
The designs on the clothing reflect the owners’ passions: chocolate labs, bicycles, trees, flowers … And the little stars found on all of their fleece items remind Susan and Rebecca of their friendship; of long walks together in Colorado, dreaming of what adventures would come next in their lives.
“Now that we live a thousand miles apart, the stars are a constant reminder of our partnership,” Susan says.
hand full organic children’s clothing is co-created in Victor and in Eugene, Oregon. They can be found locally at Dark Horse Books in Driggs, and online at www.handfullkids.com....(Continued)
