Steamboat Today: Photos for August 27, 2006

Junior Natalie Nichols reaches for the save during the Sailors girls volleyball practice held during all last week to prepare them for Saturday's scrimmage in Meeker.

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Hayden Tigers Kaylee Sweetser and her teammates work on spiking during practice last week. The Tigers return four starters and have a total of nine seniors on the squad.

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Sailor running back Jay Hanley reaches for the endzone after being stopped short of the goal line during Saturday's 31-7 home opener win at Gardner Field.

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Linebacker Matthew Lettunich knocks the ball out of Kent Denver receiver Michael Morahan's hands.

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Sailors linebacker Nigel Hammond sacks Kent Denver quarterback Will Deevy for a 4-yard loss during Steamboat Springs High School's 31-13 win on Saturday.

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Brian Aragon performs a tail grab on Steamboat Lake. Wakeboarding and wake surfing have become popular summer sports in Routt County, where residents can choose between several lakes and reservoirs on which to ride.

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Jeff Aragon rides along the crest of the wake kicked up by his dad's ski boat.

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Jeff Aragon executes a flip while wakeboarding on Steamboat Lake with his dad, brother and friends on a recent August afternoon.

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Jeff Aragon poses for the camera while wake surfing at Steamboat Lake. Wake surfing, in which the rider doesn't have to hold onto a tow line, has become increasingly popular in the world of water sports.

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Kristina Allevato relaxes with her best friend, Jazz, on the deck outside her Westland Mobile Home Park home. Allevato has lived in the trailer park for 16 years. She and other Westland home owners are receiving thousands of dollars in compensation for being forced out of the neighborhood.

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Bruce Kleiman has owned his Westland Mobile Home Park trailer since 1981. He is one of approximately 100 Westland residents losing their homes to the construction of Riverwalk, a multi-use development on Yampa Street in downtown Steamboat.

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Steamboat Springs police officers Doug Scherar, clockwise from left, Garrett Wiggins, Ricky Romero and Sgt. Nick Bosick attend a swing-shift briefing last week. Public Safety Director J.D. Hays is asking the city to hire two additional patrol officers for 2007. Hays said his department hasn't increased staffing in 10 years.

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Ekaterina Bazarova plays Alice in Circus Chimera's presentation of "Alice in Wonderland."

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Fridman Torales plays the Cheshire Cat in Circus Chimera's presentation of "Alice in Wonderland."

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The three penthouses at the Highmark, currently under construction at Village Drive and Apres Ski Way, are listed by Cam Boyd at Prudential Steamboat Realty for $2.25 million to $2.35 million, or nearly $1,000 per square foot.

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The "Fifth and Yampa" building would offer a mix of residential condominiums and commercial space at a vacant lot near the entrance to Howelsen Hill in old town Steamboat Springs. The Yampa River is across the street.

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Developer Paul Franklin would like to obtain the necessary permits for "Fifth and Yampa" by this fall and begin construction as early as March 2007. This aerial view shows the site immediately to the east of the Bank of the West parking lot, close to the Fifth Street Bridge.

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The Yampa River winds its way west, passing through Milner. The river grows larger with the addition of streams, creeks and other rivers on its way to the confluence with the Green River in Utah.

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Sheep scurry up a hill to graze near the Maybell Ditch, which leads them to the Yampa River for water.

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The Yampa River meets the Green River at their confluence in Utah. After the rivers merge, the water heads downstream to feed Western desert communities.

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Sprinklers keep grounds green at the Steamboat Golf Club, where golfers with early tee times wait for the water to shut off.

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At Yamcolo Reservoir, the Yampa River gives life to plants.

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Utah rancher Scott Chew rests on a fence before herding cattle into the back of a truck. Chew and his family spent the June day preparing to move cattle to their "summer ranches" on the Yampa River in Maybell and on the Elk River in Clark. Because of the chore, Chew did not have time to fix his broken irrigation system that day, leaving his fields drying in the sun. The number of irrigated agricultural acres in Northwest Colorado has decreased in recent years, from 230,000 in 1998 to 170,000 in 2005.

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Water exits through the spillway at Bear Lake.

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A replaced headgate holds back water for irrigation use on ranches in South Routt.

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Anglers try their luck in the Yampa River just below the spillway at Stagecoach Reservoir, where fishing is good and fish are plentiful.

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GIS specialist Nicolai Bencke of the U.S. Forest Service checks the snow depth on top of Buffalo Pass on May 22. Bencke conducted studies at the weather station through the winter and spring, and he said this year's heavy snowfall had an unusually high moisture content. "That's why we are going to see a lot of water this year," he said.

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