Steamboat Pilot & Today

Longtime Routt County rancher Larry Monger cuts alfalfa near the intersection of Mount Werner and River roads Friday afternoon. Drought conditions have ranchers concerned about how to feed their herds this winter. Photo by John F. Russell

Hayden coach Shawn Baumgartner delivers a playcall to his team during a scrimmage Friday in Hayden. The Tigers are switching to 8-man football this year after declining enrollment pushed the school below the state’s 11-man classifications. Photo by Joel Reichenberger

Nate Bird and his favorite pair of spandex attack the course during a Town Challenge Mountain Bike Race Series event last summer. Photo by Joel Reichenberger

John Main plays the guitar and sings around a hunting camp campfire in October 2010. Main died Thursday in an all-terrain vehicle crash near Clark. Dave Mihaich / Courtesy

Keri Rusthoi, center, played Flora in Emerald City Opera’s 2008 production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata.” The Emerald City Opera turns 10 this summer and will offer a full stage production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” Aug. 17 and 19. Art Dana / Courtesy

Heidi Andre, 7, focuses on her subject during a drawing class at the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp on Friday afternoon. Local artists Susan Schiesser, seen in the background, and Gregory Block led the visual arts class and workshop. Photo by John F. Russell

Steamboat Springs resident Tarsha Ebbern, left, celebrates reaching the summit of Mount Shasta in California on Wednesday with, clockwise from right, Teasha Curren, Amy Legate and Linda Morton. Ebbern was chosen as one of 27 women, in addition to one man, to climb the second-highest volcano for the Climb Against the Odds, an annual mountain expedition organized by the Breast Cancer Fund. Ebbern said she raised nearly $8,000 for breast cancer prevention. Courtesy photo