Amber Acker-Sanborn and her sister Maggie Acker-Buck can’t recall a time when they weren’t hanging out in their dad’s Sun Valley Animal Center. [...]

As a recent addition to the local business landscape of the Wood River Valley, Defense Technology startup Forterra breaks the mold of the typical mountain town business that the Sun Valley area has attracted for generations. [...]

In 1999, Kathleen and Brian Bean drove east of Carey to the land that would become their legacy. The Bay Area couple—Brian, a retired Marine turned investment banker, and Kathleen, a development director for The Nature Conservancy’s California operation—set out for a new start, a place to put their visions of conservation to concrete work. [...]

Beaver Creek, Camp, August Complex, Dixie, Park, Durkee—all innocuous enough sounding placenames— but words now burned into the Western lexicon. While just a handful of the thousands of wildfires that burn across the 11 Western states each year, they have come to represent wide-scale destruction and a changing world. [...]

The horse explodes into the arena at top speed, kicking up dirt as it races toward the first of three barrels placed in a triangular pattern in the center of the arena. As it blasts toward the first barrel, the rider needs to know when to slow down just enough to make a tight, hairpin circle around the barrel without knocking it down. [...]

Pat had grown up racing on the Sun Valley Ski Team, raced in Jr. and US Nationals, Nor-Ams, and a year for the University of Colorado Boulder before attending Boise State University. Following this, he began his long coaching career with SVSEF in 1983. Pat also coached the Men’s US Alpine Tech Ski Team, the Albertville Olympic Men’s Alpine team and the World Championship Men’s Alpine team. In 1993, Adele finished college, and the two got married. [...]

In 2013, she applied to patrol at Alyeska, where Mike Welch, whom she knew from Alta, was working as a patrolman and helicopter ski guide. They both went to work for Chugach Powder Guides and soon fell in love. Janet was a member of the 1944 Olympic Ski Team and was ready to race for the USA. Unfortunately, for all the athletes, the games in Cortina d’Ampezzo were canceled because of WWII. She was a true pioneer for women in winter sports. [...]

Dr. Tony Buoncristiani grew up in the Bay Area of California. His mother was and still is a nurse, and his sister also became a nurse. As a child and young adult, he was athletic, goal-oriented, competitive and driven. He attended UC Davis pre-med and medical school at USC through a Navy scholarship (HPSP, or Health Professionals Scholarship Program). He then went to Pensacola Flight Surgeon School and interned at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego. [...]

The course for the races that Sun Valley Company has been feverishly working on for over a year will be historical in nature. Baldy will provide the steepest downhill on the World Cup circuit. In all the downhill courses in the World, racecourses have flat areas to provide a ‘wax race’ dynamic. However, on Baldy there are absolutely no flat sections. As [...]

Like many early Suns alumni like Bobby Noyes, Chris Benson and Glenn Hunter, Burke has unselfishly served as a player, coach, organizer, fund-raiser and booster. He said, “We’ve had our ups and downs over 50 years. But the community embraced us from the start. The players and Suns culture kept things going.” [...]