#pitkin county

[whitepolaris]

Pretty.

#article #news article #news #link #Woody Creek #Roaring Fork Valley #Pitkin County

[atlasmagazine]

Loft-Style - Contemporary Bedroom Bedroom - mid-sized contemporary loft-style dark wood floor and brown floor bedroom idea with gray walls

#master bedroom #bright colors #pitkin county #eagle county #interior designer #kasia karska

[mrkng]

Denver 3/4 Bath Bathroom An illustration of a mid-sized, trendy alcove shower design with blue walls, a built-in sink, flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, terrazzo countertops, a hinged shower door, and multicolored countertops.

#rainfall showerhead #dual showerheads #loft design #master bathroom #pitkin county

[deerynoise]

Home Bar Denver mid-sized modern u-shaped wet bar remodel inspiration with flat-panel cabinets, onyx countertops, multicolored backsplash, and red cabinets

#pitkin county general contractor #house #chris dolan general contractor #eagle county general contractor #modern #open spaces

[mickjnapier]

Home Bar in Denver mid-sized modern u-shaped wet bar remodel inspiration with flat-panel cabinets, onyx countertops, multicolored backsplash, and red cabinets

#modern #house #home bar #eagle county general contractor #pitkin county general contractor

[heavenlybackside]

Independence Ghost Town 👻🏚✨️

Independence Pass

Pitkin County

[iamprchung]

Dancing in the Moonlight (1/?)

Comp Mints: The In-betweens

Note: this was meant to be a one-shot and it grew and grew and... it's now a multi-part epic. Sigh. But as usual, loving writing it! Oh, and if you're wondering where Skinner is... he'll be along shortly.

Teaser: In classic X-Files fashion, Mulder presents Scully with a puzzling case: a series of brutal animal attacks in the luxurious resort town of Aspen.  The local authorities blame mountain lions, but the details don't fit.  Mulder suspects something more... supernatural.  Scully, ever the skeptic, remains unconvinced, even as Mulder pulls out historical accounts of werewolves and mythical beasts.  With a free trip to a luxurious spa on the line (courtesy of Mulder's questionable expense tactics), Scully reluctantly agrees to accompany him.  Will they uncover a real werewolf lurking among the rich and famous, or is there another explanation for the Aspen attacks?

Dancing in the Moonlight (1/?) By PR Chung

The report. The Deaths.

It was the usual passionate Mulder build up, replete with a projected slide show.

“These come to from the Pitkin County Colorado’s Sheriff's Department,” Mulder explained as he showed the first slide in his presentation for Scully. “Aspen to be exact. The rocky top playground of the rich and famous.”

The image of a young man appeared on the screen, his throat torn open from ear to ear, blood pooled around his neck and head on the ground were his body lay. He was naked from the waist up, superficial scratches on his chest and face.

“Shannon Mitchell,” Mulder continued, “the first of three victims, all exhibiting the same attack marks.”

“Attacks?” Scully questioned.

Mulder nodded. “Ruled as mountain lion attacks by the Sheriff’s department, based on the medical examiner’s reports.” He handed her the report folder to review and clicked for the next slide that showed a woman, her throat torn out. “Alice Steinman.” And then the next slide, another young man. “And the most recent, Jeffrey Raven.”

“Three deaths in the past six weeks, all attributed to a mountain lion. Game wardens tracked and killed two lions in the area, both times pronouncing that they had killed the killer cat. That was until Jeffrey Raven turned up dead in the woods two days ago, a victim of another attack.”

“The first two reports state the cause of death as accidental animal attack, but don’t specify an animal.” Scully noted, sounding confused. “Where are the DNA results?”

“Local law enforcement didn’t request DNA because this was a cut and dry mountain lion attack, and the ME dropped the mention of a mountain lion when game wardens and a tracker— an internationally renowned tracker, who is one of the only people to inspect a documented mountain lion attack— both refuting that these deaths are the result of a mountain lion attack.”

Scully stood and stepped closer. “These could be dog attacks.”

“Yes, but Mitchel and Raven were both between five-foot nine and six-feet tall. Alice Steinman was five-nine. All attacked while standing.” Mulder clicked to images of the victims’ extremities. “None of them exhibit what is known as ‘take down’ marks on their arms or legs.”

He looked at her. “The game warden, Edward Kessler, who contacted me about this states that these attacks were either by an incredibly large dog.”

“Wait,” Scully said, the realization of where he was going dawning on her. “You’re not suggesting—

No. I’m not going on a werewolf hunt.”

“Lycanthrope hunt.” He corrected her, flipping on the lights as he went to the desk. There he picked up a trifold flyer unfolded in his hands, ready to cajole her. “Look at this place,” he declared holding up the brochure in Scully face. “This place is a rustic haven for the rich and famous— we’d be rubbing elbows with the Gates, Warren Buffet, Brittany Spears—”

She scoffed. “What, you’re suggesting that there’s a— a werewolf luxuriating among the rich and famous in Aspen?”

“No,” he replied, “I’m saying that a werewolf is one of the rich and famous in Aspen.”

“There are no such things as werewolves, Mulder.” He opened his mouth to speak, and she interrupted, “or Skinwalkers for that matter. We’ve been through this before.”

“Even the local native population, the Utes, they trace their origin to a god who is half man, half wolf.”

“Not to be disparaging, but that’s legend.”

“There’s numerous recounting, historically documented incidents throughout the world,” Mulder continued as he went across the room and began rifling through a stack of papers and books. “Going back as far as the Greeks and the Sumerians, stories of curses turning men into shape-shifting evil creatures.”

“Those are myths, Mulder.” Scully countered, tossing the travel brochure onto the desk. “These stories, these legends are born from the misunderstanding of illnesses in humans, be it hypertrichosis causing excessive hair growth, or clinical lycanthropy— zoanthropy, the delusion of turning into an animal, all symptoms of other psychological disorders.”

“Myths, legends, stories,” Mulder repeated, “but inspired by something.”

“Yes, the human imagination.”

“Paleolithic cave painting found in France,” he declared, coming back the desk with ancient looking tome of a book. He put it down on the desk with a thud; the heavy book bound in leather, its pages yellowed and frayed. “Le Bête, the Beast of Gevaudan. P’an Hu, the man-dog that married a Chinese Emperor’s daughter…”

“Man-dog?” Scully repeated, watching him page through the book, stopping to point at drawing after drawing of the creatures.

He flipped back a few pages, stopping and pointing at the drawing of a creature. “For three years, between 1764 and 1767, an unidentified man-eating beast terrorized the southern countryside of France.”

“All right, but how does this relate to Aspen,” Scully picked up the report again, “none of these deaths correspond to a full moon.”

“The effects of the full moon are a fictional popularization of 1940 horror movies.”

She looked at him, stunned. “But all of the rest of this,” she waved her hand over the book, “is not fictional interpretation?”

He tilted his head, a thin grin on his lips as he held the brochure up into view.

Scully snapped the brochure from his hand and held it up to inspect. Slowly, her skeptical perspective dissolved to intrigued approval. “A fifteen-thousand square-foot spa?”

“Two stories,” he promoted.

She nodded thoughtfully. “And private deck patios…”

“That overlook a forest primeval—”

“With a hot tub?”

“You’re getting it.”

“We can’t expense this—”

“When was that ever a problem?”

-------------------------------xXx-----------------------------------

Continued in part 2 (and Skinner will be in this... I promise)

#Dancing in the Moonlight #complimentary mints #walter skinner #the x files #the xfiles #xfiles #skinner #scully #skinner scully fanfic #xfiles fanfic #mulder #Comp Mints: The In-betweens #dana scully #fan fiction

[kemetic-dreams]

Clara Brown (c. 1800 –October, 1885) was a kind-hearted, generous woman whose determination led her on a life-long quest to be reunited with her daughter. Born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia in 1803, her earliest memory was of being sold on the auction block. She grew up in Logan County, Kentucky, married at age 18, and had four children. At age 36 her master, Ambrose Smith, d.ied and her family was sold off to settle his estate. Despite her continued enslavement, Clara Brown vowed to search for her ten-year-old daughter, Eliza Jane. For twenty years Clara worked for George Brown raising her new master’s children instead of her own.

In 1856 she was freed upon Master Brown’s d.eath allowing her, at age 53, to set out to find her daughter. Three years of searching in Kentucky, Missouri, and Kansas proved fruitless. Clara thought that perhaps Eliza Jane had joined the multitude of people that had gone to Pikes Peak hoping to find gold. Thus Clara’s search took her 700 miles west to the Colorado Territory gold fields. She had secured a job as a cook on a wagon train in exchange for the free transportation of her laundry pots. Her wagon train arrived in Cherry Creek, which was comprised of the rival twin cities of Denver and Auraria. There she set up a laundry business to serve the miners. After six months Clara left Denver and set up business in Mountain City (later Central City). Brown invested her earnings in real estate and acquired a small fortune. She became known in the community as “Aunt Clara” as she provided food, shelter, and nursing care to the townspeople.

When the Civil http://W.ar ended in 1865 Clara Brown returned east, first to Logan County, Kentucky and then, Sumner County, Tennessee in search of her daughter Eliza Jane. Brown offered her $10,000 in savings and earnings as a reward for news of her daughter. When her search proved unsuccessful Brown returned to Gilpin County, Colorado, bringing with her impoverished freed people she had befriended. In 1879, at the age of 76, Brown traveled to Kansas as an official representative of Colorado’s Governor Frederick Walker Pitkin who had offered to assist thousands of destitute “Exodusters” to relocate in Colorado. Clara Brown’s continual search for her daughter, her support for local churches and charities, and her financial assistance to young women who were educated at Oberlin College in Ohio eliminated most of her wealth.

In February 1882, however, when Brown was almost 80 years old, she received news that her daughter, Eliza Jane had been located in Iowa. In 1884 79-year-old Brown traveled to Iowa to reunite with her 56-year-old daughter. The same year Brown became the first woman member of the Colorado Pioneer Association which also provided a stipend for her lifetime of good works. Clara Brown died in Denver, Colorado in 1885. Slightly over a century later Brown was inducted into the Colorado Woman’s Hall of Fame in 1989.

#clara brown #african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #brownskin #africans #afrakans #brown skin #african culture #denver

[noir-poetography]

Castle Creek, Pitkin County.

© 2024, James Blatter

#nature photography #colorado #nature pics #winter landscape #landscape photography #colorado rockies

[notoriouskillers]

Ted Bundy

This week's blog is on the subject of Ted Bundy. He is a pretty well known American serial killer. Ted Bundy was an active killer in the locations of Washington, Oregon, Utah and Florida in the years of 1974 to 1978. He was born November 24 1946, in Burlington, Vermont. And he died on the 24th of January 1989, in the Florida state prison by electric chair. Bundy is believed to have killed at least 30 women (mostly young women) but the number is not really exact and it could be way higher. It is believed that his first victim was Lynda Ann Healy after she had mysteriously vanished in 1974. Hers and many other remains were found in 1975 on Taylor mountain. Now how did Bundy get his victims? Well as a ‘’good looking guy’’ (for the 70s at least) he was able to lure them alone near his car. He would put a sling on his arm and ask them for help to put something in his car. What the victims didn't know was that the door on the other side was locked from the inside and the only way out was going through Bundy. Bundy would then attack and sexually assault them before killing them. He would usually take their body’s and hide them in the woods and then later perform sexual acts on them. Now yes, Ted Bundy killed many people and he was a bad man, but what was really interesting about him, was that he was really smart and he used it to his advantage. In the Pitkin County Courthouse, situated in Aspen, Colorado, Ted had elected to represent himself on the 7th of June 1977. That meant that during the court he did not need to wear shackles or handcuffs. During one of the recesses, he asked if he could be allowed to visit the library to research for his defense. Yes they let one of the most dangerous men at the time go alone to the library. That is when behind a bookcase he opens a window and jumps out. And with a sprained ankle he ran. He ran for 6 days, breaking into homes to steal food and clothes. He was apprehended on June 13, 1977, after his fatigue got the best of him and his veering car got the attention of a patroller. The second time Bundy escaped was in jail on December 30, 1977. He had somehow managed to get his hands on a floor plan and a hacksaw blade. (It is still unknown how he acquired those things.) With the hacksaw he slowly chipped away at the ceiling until he could fit through the space above. While most of the staff was on holiday break, he took that opportunity to create a makeshift body with books and files to put under the sheets. He then crawled through the hole he made and broke through the floor above which led to the chief jailor's apartment. By the time the guards realized he was gone, Bundy was hopping on a plane to chicago. He was apprehended in February of 1978, this time for good. That is all about Ted Bundy that I have. Hope you all enjoyed this blog. 

[enny43]

Let's talk about Colorado's 3rd congressional district.

Lauren Boebert and Adam Frisch are locked in a ridiculously close election in a race a lot of people are watching very closely. Seeing Boebert unseated would be a huge win and may turn out to be crucially important in a midterm the Dems (shockingly) still have a chance to take the House in. It has been razer thin for several days, and over a long lapse in reporting, Fisch lead by less than 70 votes with ~90% of the vote in.

As of right now, Boebert holds a lead of 1,136 votes with about 98% of the votes counted. It might take until next Thursday for the remaining votes to be counted and a winner declared, as there are an estimated 5,898 votes still to be counted. This does not include overseas and military votes or ballots that need to be cured, but we'll get to that.

First lets address a question many people have:

Why is this taking so long?

The short answer is, it's not. The main reason it seems to be taking longer than most races is directly related to how close the race actually is. See when news media "call" races, they are actually just projecting the winner based on the possibilities in remaining math. If it becomes reasonably impossible for a certain candidate to win, they call the race. The projected loser may even concede at this time. But that is not an official result, nor does the counting stop at that point. Just like in CO-3, counting continues following the guidelines set by the state to tabulate an official result. This race only hasn't been called yet because with the remaining votes, either candidate can still win. Colorado also has a gold-standard level election system.. so we can expect counting to take a little longer due to such a high percentage of ballots there being mail-in (Colorado sends ballots to all voters by default)

As far as the timeline goes, this is not abnormal.

So what are Adam Frisch's odds of winning and how can we calculate them? This is a more complicated answer, but I'll do my best to keep it simple.

As I said, there are an estimated 5,898 votes remaining to be counted. The bulk of them (2,365) come from Pueblo County which favors Frisch by 3.3%, and another large share (700 votes) comes from Pitkin County which favors Frisch by 29.2%

If all math followed those numbers, this would be a pickup of 565 votes for Adam Frisch. Boebert also has an advantage in Mesa County of 7.8% where there are 726 estimated votes remaining. This would give her a pickup of ~112 votes. In the remaining counties where there are less than 300 votes remaining to be counted, we can estimate that the votes would mostly cancel out, with a slight edge for Frisch.

All the math with these smaller counties included points to Frisch coming up short by about 770 votes (this would still fall in the range of an automatic recount).. but this does not account for all the outstanding ballots.

There are still an indeterminate number of absentee ballots from overseas and military votes to count, in addition to provisional ballots that may have been cast on Election Day (Colorado has same-day voter registration, so these are uncommon).. and there is also a curing period for ballots that may have had a mistake and need to be verified (such as someone forgetting to sign the envelope when mailing their ballot in)

We can expect the military and overseas ballots to favor Frisch. Not only does the military slightly lean Dem as it is, Southern Colorado is home to a lot of active duty Air Force which has an even more liberal tilt than the military broadly. As for the cured ballots, it's hard to say.. but my intuition tells me Democratic voters would be more energized and likely to fix their ballots by the deadline (there's also a lot of outreach being done to help people through this process, something I imagine the Boebert camp will be less capable of doing)

Are there any guarantees the remaining votes will follow the trend exactly? Of course not. They may favor one candidate or the other to a greater degree than the averages represent. Without knowing how many outstanding ballots there are from the military, overseas, and cured counts.. it is fundamentally impossible to know how this race will turn out. What I can say is not to expect many updates between now and next week. This one is going to come down to the wire, and whatever candidate ends up winning will do so by a very tight margin. No matter the result, I expect a recount will be triggered leading us to even more waiting to find out the official results.

My suggestion to everyone is to be patient and let this process play out. I have no reason to be worried about the results of this race, which is already much closer than anyone expected it would be going into Election Day. After all, CO-3 is an R+6 district. The race being this close is something no one expected.

Here's a chart with all of the data I discussed:

#politics #democracy #lauren boebert #adam frisch #colorado #congressional elections #2022 midterms #house of representatives #election #vote #counting

[simmonsized]

I had no idea Steve Martin played banjo that rocks so hard

Yes!!!! He is a super accomplished banjo player, it is wild to me, since I grew up watching him as a comedian and such.

My favorite song is Pitkin County Turnaround but I am also incredibly fond of Canadian Girl, which he plays with the Steep Canyon Rangers!

#they also did an npr tiny concert together if u are curious #i was tickled pink when i learned he played banjo #and it is impressive and cool to me :)

[victims-of]

Hunter Thompson, 52, who originated slash-and-burn “gonzo journalism,” was free on $2,000 bail after he was booked on Monday on two misdemeanor assault charges.

Gail Palmer-Slater, 35, a self-employed writer from Port Huron, Mich., told District Attorney Milton Blakey that Thompson grabbed her left breast and punched her when she refused to get into a hot tub with him during an interview at his home on Feb. 21. She also told authorities that she is a former X-rated film producer, the Aspen paper said.

In an affidavit filed in Pitkin County District Court, Palmer-Slater said Thompson implied that he wanted her to join him in his hot tub. When she declined, she said, Thompson flew into a rage, threw a cocktail at her, grabbed her breast, punched her and pushed her away, shouting, “Get out of here or I’ll blow your head off.”

[source]

#hunter thompson #hunter s thompson #writers #gail palmer #gail palmer-slater #metoo

[cityofdreamsrp]

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US IN ASPEN FOR OUR WINTER TRIP!

As voted on by you, the members, City of Dreams will be heading to none other than… Aspen, Colorado!

Aspen is a place where every day holds an opportunity for greatness. It is a collection of remarkable moments that can’t be duplicated. It is an opportunity to break free from the “norm” and find inspiration in nature or around the corner. You can find this and more in this welcoming mountain town whose culture fuels the soul. Aspen’s enriching experiences will remind you just how great life is -- and can be!

Guests will be staying at the Viceroy Snowmass Luxury Resort, one of the most luxurious resorts in Snowmass Village and is filled with top-notch amenities. Upon landing in the Apsen/Pitkin County Airport, guests will be transported with complimentary ground transfers to the resort. Once you arrive at the resort, you will be immediately checked into your rooms and your fun on the slopes can begin! 

The City of Dreams winter trip is a MANDATORY event for all celebrities taking place from February 18th to February 25th. If your muse has children, they are more than welcome to bring them along or leave them back home with a babysitter! Daycare services will be provided throughout the entire week if needed. There will be more information to come, including the roommate list and detailed posts about the events taking place during the trip, so please keep a look out for all of that!

We can’t wait for everyone to join us and embark on a week full of relaxation and adventure! Please be sure to tag all event related posts with: #CODGOESTOASPEN

OFFICIAL ITINERARY:

2/18 - Guests Arrive / Snow Bar Welcome Party

2/19 - Free Day

2/20 - Skiing Day

2/21 - Free Day

2/22 - Snowman Contest

2/23 - Free Day

2/24 - Ice Palace Ball

2/25 - Free Day/Departure of Guests

#codgoestoaspen #cityofdreamsevent

[natures-moments]

Capitol Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit in the Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.

It is the 52nd highest mountain in North America. The 4,309 m fourteener is located in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness of White River National Forest, 14.0 km east by south of the community of Redstone in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.

[popculturelib]

Haunted States of America: New York

Haunted Northern New York (2002) by Cheri Revai

While New York City has its fair share of ghost stories, our collection of NY hauntings is mostly represented by elsewhere in the state. Revai's book focuses on ghost stories in the state's four northernmost counties. Here's a helpful map Revai made of the locations she writes about:

For other books about ghosts in New York, take a look at:

Traveler's Tales: Rumors and Legends of the Albany-Saratoga Region (1982) by Mark Steese and Sam McPheeters

New York City Ghost Stories (1996) by Charles J. Adams III

Saratoga County Ghosts (1998) by David J. Pitkin

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

#bgsu #libraries on tumblr #haunted states of america #books #ghosts #new york #new york state