The Fire that Saved Sun Valley

By Vince Shuley
A Whistler backcountry skier tours the scorched earth of Central Idaho

I shuffle forward in the skin track, pulling my neck-warmer up over my nose, the radiating sun my only reprieve against the bitter Idaho cold. Black husks of burned trees rise like porcupine quills out of the landscape, their shadows an endless series of light-and-dark stripes stretching over the glittering snow.…

Source:: The Fire that Saved Sun Valley

• Whistler News

April 3, 2020

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