November 2008 Order copies of this issue! Just $3.50 each! Hey! This Issue Needs a Sponsor! Learn how Your Business can Sponsor Online Issues November 2008 Volume 8 Number 2 FEATURES The Perfect Day: How to Ski Heaven, by Julie Weston As a youngster she was a ski racer. The memories  are strong and the sport remains central to her idea of a perfect day, although at age sixty-two, that inner gladiator is occasionally hard to find. Fairfield—Spotlight City, by Karen Bossick Set in a five thousand foot-high prairie whose nutritious camas lilies have been harvested by Native Americans for twelve thousand years, Fairfield is a remote but lovely taskmaster. It takes determination to live here. Ten Shots, Clean Ride: Cowboy Mounted Shooting, by Tom Davenport The whole family dons Old West garb, packs shooting irons, saddles up, and competes in the country’s fastest-growing equestrian sport, cowboy mounted shooting. Check out the spectacle. DEPARTMENTS Editor's Note: Dear Readers, by Kitty Fleischman This Hunting Life: Thrill of the Chase; Idaho's Super Hunt Combo Winner Stalks Four Big Game Species, by Jim Banholzer Who We Are: House of Stone; The Water Never Came, But the Memories Remain, by Dean Worbois Around the Bend: An Elk Too Far; This Deep In, Backpacking the Meat Out Can Raise Life-and-Death Thoughts, by Nathaniel Hoffman Down on the Farm: Until the Wheels Fall Off; The Farm May Have Cranky Tractors and Bad Bulls, But Standing in the Field, You Really Can Hear the Corn Grow, by Lynn Mickelsen Retrospective: Farewell, Chaplain Soldier; Idaho Air National Guard Chaplain Art Moore Heeded the Call for God and Country, by Linda Funaiole Recipe Contest: Potted Idaho Elk Stew, by Donna Noel; Velma's Apple-Raisin Cobbler, by Velma Morrison; White Chili, by Barb Crowell November Contributors IN THIS ISSUE! Arco, Athol, Blackfoot, Boise, Coeur d'Alene, Fairfield, Hailey, Island Park, King Hill, Kuna, Lost River Range, Mountain Home, Nampa, Rupert