The days are finally warming up, and the outdoor practice fields in Carbondale have come alive with spring sports. For Roaring Fork High School, that means baseball, girls soccer, girls lacrosse, boys and girls track and field, plus a combined school boys lacrosse team hosted by Glenwood Springs High, and girls tennis and golf hosted […]
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Rams hoops teams bow out in regional round of state playoffs
A pair of young Roaring Fork High School basketball teams got a nibble of what it tastes like to play in the postseason, and the youthful squads and their coaches are already hungry for next season.Roaring Fork’s girls opened the 3A state playoffs Friday in the small northern Colorado town of Ault with a convincing […]
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Women’s Adventure Film Tour rolls into TACAW
In its second year of touring U.S. cities, the Women’s Adventure Film Tour (WAFT), with its stories highlighting remarkable women and their exhilarating adventures, will screen eight new short films on March 14 at 7:30pm at The Arts Campus At Willits (TACAW).It began years ago at an adventure film festival when Toby Ryston-Pratt was asked […]
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On to the state playoffs for Rams hoops teams after runners-up showing at Districts
A pair of thrillers in the district championship games on Saturday in Grand Junction for the Roaring Fork High School boys and girls basketball teams ended in close losses for the Rams.The Carbondale kids are headed to the 3A state playoffs nonetheless.After nearly pulling off the upset against the undefeated Grand Valley Cardinals, ultimately falling […]
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Rams impress on senior night, roll through district tourney opener
A crucial senior night win for the Roaring Fork High School boys basketball team on Friday, and an impressive showing for the girls against a top-three state-ranked team paved the way for a legitimate shot for both teams to play for a district championship this week.The Rams girls played the league champion Grand Valley Cardinals […]
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Lou Dawson: A tale in four skis — and a romance
Lou Dawson has had a storied, outdoors-oriented life; much of it adventure-filled and exciting but also with great challenges.A pioneer of ski mountaineering and alpine touring (AT) in this country, Dawson is probably best known as the first person to ski all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountains (fourteeners) — a feat for which he was […]
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Rams close out regular season with double-header Friday night
The Roaring Fork High School boys and girls basketball teams both find themselves with a chance to secure the second seed going into next week’s 3A Western Slope District Tournament, but a stout opponent looms for the regular season home finale Friday night. After three straight wins for the girls, including a 59-30 senior night […]
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Athletes shine at Special Olympics Winter Games
Athletes from the Western Slope recently showcased their talents at the annual Special Olympics Colorado’s (SOC) Western Region Winter Games, with alpine events on Feb. 10 at Sunlight Mountain Resort and Nordic events on Feb. 11 at Argonaut Farms. The games drew close to 150 athletes and 50 coaches, along with countless volunteers. Spectators took […]
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Lady Rams hoopsters moonlighting as cheer squad
A recent venture into the depths of the Roaring Fork High School (RFHS) athletic equipment room turned up a fun little surprise for Rams basketball teammates Carly Crownhart and Nikki Tardif. “We saw a sign that said ‘cheer closet’ and decided to take a look,” Crownhart said. Inside were some neatly folded cheerleading outfits, unused […]
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Lady Rams stay in hoops league hunt, boys fall off pace with two losses
The Roaring Fork High School girls basketball team has played its way into third place in the 3A Western Slope League standings with three straight wins over Cedaredge (62-45), Meeker (64-48) and Aspen (49-30), with two crucial games coming up this weekend.Meanwhile, the Rams boys suffered two losses over the weekend to Cedaredge (46-58) and […]