Steamboat Pilot & Today

Kamilla Victoria, 15 months, takes advantage of Monday's mild weather to take a walk along Whistler Road with her grandma Maria Numes. Photo by John F. Russell

Steamboat Springs resident Hannah Hall takes advantage of Monday's warm weather to take a run near Whistler and Walton Creek roads in Steamboat Springs. Photo by John F. Russell

Steamboat Springs High School freshman Steven Baumgartner works on a podcast in the computer lab of the high school Monday afternoon. Technology improvements, including increased bandwidth, are among the things Routt County school districts will ask the Steamboat Springs Education Fund Board to fund for the 2012-13 school year at a Wednesday meeting. Photo by John F. Russell

Submitted by: Marti Wood

Submitted by: Marti Wood

Submitted by: Marti Wood

Freshman Colleen Garrecht-Connelly works in a computer lab at Steamboat Springs High School on Monday afternoon. While the South Routt and Hayden school districts plan to ask the Fund Board to support bandwidth improvement projects, Steamboat Superintendent Brad Meeks said his district plans to cover more of its technology costs with its own budget. Photo by John F. Russell

Can a rodent forecast the weather? If groundhogs are not common where you live, you can do what Alaska did in 2009 and declare Feb. 2 to be "Marmot Day." After all, groundhogs are marmots. This big fellow definitely saw his shadow on this sunny day in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area south of Steamboat Springs. Jimmy Westlake/Courtesy photo

Steamboat Springs High School senior Mallory Hoots is the Optimist Club of Steamboat Springs’ January Teen of the Month. Courtesy photo