Steamboat Pilot & Today

Monday's sunset. Submitted by: Karen Lewer

The Steamboat Springs City Council on Tuesday night voted to offer Interim City Manager Deb Hinsvark, left, a new contract that will make her the city's permanent manager. Photo by Scott Franz

Meteorologists in Colorado are branching out on their own with online services designed so that no one has to miss a powder day. Photo by John F. Russell

Meteorologists in Colorado are branching out on their own with online services designed so that no one has to miss a powder day. Photo by John F. Russell

Steamboat Springs-based meteorologist Mike Weissbluth checks out weather models at his home in Steamboat Springs. Weissbluth runs the website www.snowalarm.com, which provides snow report alerts for those who sign up. Photo by John F. Russell

Chevy, a detection dog, gets to play with a tennis ball as a reward after finding mountain lion scat during a presentation by his owner, Greg Davidson, for the advanced-placement environmental science class at The Lowell Whiteman School on Tuesday morning in Steamboat Springs. Davidson's business, Find It Detection Dogs, uses dogs to help track animal populations, including mountain lions. Photo by John F. Russell

Chevy, a detection dog, gets to play with a tennis ball as a reward after finding mountain lion scat during a presentation by his owner, Greg Davidson, for the advanced-placement environmental science class at The Lowell Whiteman School on Tuesday morning in Steamboat Springs. Davidson's business, Find It Detection Dogs, uses dogs to help track animal populations, including mountain lions. Photo by John F. Russell

Chevy, a detection dog, is reflected in owner Greg Davidson's glasses during a demonstration for the advanced-placement environmental science class at The Lowell Whiteman School on Tuesday morning in Steamboat Springs. Photo by John F. Russell

Greg Davidson talks to students in the advanced-placement environmental science class at The Lowell Whiteman School on Tuesday morning. Davidson’s business, Find It Detection Dogs, uses dogs to help track animal populations, including mountain lions. Photo by John F. Russell

Greg Davidson works with Chevy while talking to students in the advanced-placement environmental science class at The Lowell Whiteman School on Tuesday morning. Davidson's business, Find It Detection Dogs, uses dogs to help track animal populations, including mountain lions. He has incorporated detection dogs for finding prey remains at mountain lion kill sites and helped determine prey selection and predation rates in the area. Davidson also designed a study using detection dogs for finding mountain lion scat and used this information to estimate densities of mountain lions in northeast Oregon. Photo by John F. Russell

Greg Davidson talks to students in the advanced-placement environmental science class at The Lowell Whiteman School on Tuesday morning. Davidson's business, Find It Detection Dogs, uses dogs to help track animal populations, including mountain lions. He has incorporated detection dogs for finding prey remains at mountain lion kill sites and helped determine prey selection and predation rates in the area. Davidson also designed a study using detection dogs for finding mountain lion scat and used this information to estimate densities of mountain lions in northeast Oregon. Photo by John F. Russell

Steamboat Springs skier Avery Harrington competes in Durango during the weekend. Harrington won both of her events and was named the Rocky Mountain Nordic Seasonal Award winner for the girls J4 division. Courtesy photo

Steamboat swimmers, from left in green shirts, Samantha Terranova, Madison Ruppel and Taylor Kortas pose with Olympic gold medalist Missy Franklin at Silver States at Denver University this past weekend. Jodi Terranova/courtesy