Features Writer (Sun Valley Guide magazine)
I wrote for Sun Valley Guide magazine as a staff writer and a freelancer and accumulated dozens of glossy magazine clips over the course of 20-odd years, including a handful of award-winning features. Notable stories included the ever-polarizing Northern Rockies wolf reintroduction, the pre-2008 resort-town real estate boom, central Idaho geology and the two articles below: an award-winning piece about the Sawtooth National Recreation Area’s formation and a somewhat etherial conversation about snow.
Sun Valley Guide has been defunct for a few years now, but writing for the publication was a great opportunity to dig a little deeper on certain topics and end up with gorgeous glossy clips.
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
The Sawtooth National Recreation Area turned 40 in 2012, and I joined forces with U.S. Forest Service Ranger and photographer Ed Cannady to retell the story of how Idaho’s most prized landscape was preserved.
The resulting story was recognized that year as Idaho’s best magazine feature.
Snow Sense: the past, present and future of Sun Valley’s Snow
The cycle of the seasons dictates life in the West’s mountain towns, and no single season is as synonymous with a ski town as winter.
Plentiful snow equals good skiing and snowboarding, but it also means improved spring runoff, and healthy forests in the summer. And each falling snowflake translates directly into improved financial vitality for a ski town’s communities.