Photos for November 26, 2009

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Reader Matt Bortone got this photo of a full moon over the Zirkels in early November.

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Reader Matt Bortone captured this photo of sunset over the Zirkels the night before Thanksgiving.

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Snow dusts the Billy Kidd statue Wednesday morning at the base of Steamboat Ski Area.

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A snowboarder hits a rail Wednesday morning during Scholarship Day.

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Snow blankets the Yampa Valley on Wednesday morning during Scholarship Day.

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The first chair takes off from the Christie Peak Express lift Wednesday morning to kick off Scholarship Day, a fundraiser for the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club. Season passes will be valid starting today.

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Mazzola’s Italian Restaurant server Andreas Andersen takes drink orders from the the Bergo family, of Fort Collins, on Wednesday evening at the restaurant.

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Strawberry Park Elementary School student Kayla Haggarty runs along Butcherknife trail Tuesday during the school's first turkey trot. The students ran along a two-mile course on the final day before the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Strawberry Park Elementary School student Kyle Stauffer leads classmates Leo Loya and Andrew Petersen up a hill during the first turkey trot at the school. The students, in third- through fifth-grades, ran or walked on a trail that follows Butcherknife Creek.

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Gil Vazquez runs up a hill during the first turkey trot at Strawberry Park Elementary School. The students, in third- through fifth-grades, ran or walked on a trail that follows Butcherknife Creek.

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Ashlan Alicea, Kylie Spradlin and Zach Cooke, front to back, cheer on classmates in front of Strawberry Park Elementary School on Tuesday morning during the first turkey trot. The students, in third- through fifth-grades, ran or walked on a trail that follows Butcherknife Creek.

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A wide variety of pieces will be featured at this year’s Holiday Pottery Sale.

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Soroco coach David Bruner speaks to his team before the team's last game of the 2009 season. Despite heading in to the contest with a 7-0 record, Soroco wasn't eligible to go to the playoffs. The team will be in 2010 and 2011, however. It will most likely be slotted in the North Conference and in a division alongside area rivals North Park, West Grand and Vail Christian.

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Steamboat Springs snowboard racer Darren Ratcliffe takes an aggressive line in the qualifying round of the Race to the Cup NorAm event in January at Howelsen Hill. Ratcliffe and several other top American riders are expected to highlight an elite international field at this year’s events.

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Steamboat Springs residents Kerry Kwiatkowski, left, and Deb Bucci carve turkeys during last year’s Routt County United Way Community Thanksgiving Dinner at the Steamboat Springs Community Center.

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Servers walk past tables Wednesday evening at Mazzola’s Italian Restaurant, which will undergo renovations that include new seating areas and tables.

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The combination of cold clear nights and open water on the Yampa River has coated cottonwood trees near Rotary Park with frost.

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Hunter Brundridge, front, and CJ Repollo run up a hill during the first turkey trot at Strawberry Park Elementary School on Tuesday morning. The third- through fifth-grade students ran or walked on the trail that follows Butcherknife Creek.

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The Steamboat Clay Artisans will host the Holiday Pottery Sale Friday and Saturday.

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