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2/21/2017 3:48:53 PM
A Bridge Called Bob
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2/15/2017 11:36:49 AM
Unlike their neighbors at Vail and Beaver Creek, Minturn’s oldest families settled at the confluence of Gore Creek and the Eagle River in the late 1800s. Some created homesteads and farmed the land, while others mined silver in the mountains high above town.
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2/8/2017 1:11:02 PM
by Mary Bellis
A low-temperature laboratory in Canada was studying the effects of rime icing on the intake of a jet engine in the 1940s. Lead by Dr. Ray Ringer, the researchers were spraying water into the air just before the engine intake in a wind tunnel, trying to reproduce natural conditions. They didn’t create any rime ice, but they did make snow. They had to repeatedly shut down the engine and the wind tunnel to shovel it out.
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2/1/2017 11:58:56 AM
Steve Bradley had been chairman of the National Ski Patrol, with a special interest in avalanche control. When he assumed management of the Winter Park Resort in Colorado in 1950, he joined forces with Ed Taylor to develop a method for smoothing the snow surface. Moguls were a particular problem, traditionally dealt with by teams of men armed with nothing but shovels.