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- Andre Roch
- André Roch [Geneva 1906–Geneva, 19 November 2002], former director of the Swiss Avalanche Research Institute in Davos, laid out the first ski trail on Aspen Mountain, encouraged the formation of the Aspen Ski Club, envisioned a grand ski area on Mount Hayden and helped establish the American Avalanche Research Center. Roch was also a mountain guide who made first ascents in the Mount Blanc Massif and an expert on avalanches and snow safety. He also authored over a dozen books on mountaineering. In 1936 Roch was hired by the Aspen area to survey the slopes of Mount Hayden for ski trails plans that were interrupted by the 2nd World War. In 1949 Roch returned to Aspen to help set-up the American Avalanche Research Facilities. At the time, Roch was director of the Snow and Avalanche Research Institute in Davos, Switzerland. He continued to hold various roles at Davos for a further 30 years.--Aspen Hall of Fame bio
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- Andrea "Andy" Jehn Kennedy
- Andy moved to Steamboat in 1998 and help co-found The Local, predecessor to the Valley Voice. For the next 10 years Andy contributed to both newspapers, as well as co-authoring two guidebooks on traveling with a disability with her husband Craig. They put down deep roots in Steamboat, and Andy was also a board member and staff of the Yampa Valley Sustainability Council, most proudly helping to form the Zero Waste program and Green Garden Tours. Andy also has a deep love of plants, growing her own food and medicine, as well as foraging for both. As of 2022, they've embarked on a lifelong mission of establishing a high vibration community with a deep focus on sustainability, food sovereignty, natural and off-grid values. After nearly 25 years in Colorado building the many skills needed for this adventure, they decided the time is now for change. Biography provided by Andrea "Andy" Jehn Kennedy
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- Andrew E. Riddle
- A Colorado rancher and sheepherder who was in the Colorado National Guard in the Fall of 1913 during a miner’s strike. His grandparents were pioneers who came to Colorado by wagon train, and his mother’s family were French Canadians. They were early settlers in Larimer County, Colorado, arriving in the 1860’s. In fact, his aunt was the first white child born in Larimer County. Growing up, Riddle worked for his father’s ranching operation in Colorado and Wyoming cattle country. He graduated from high school in Fort Collins. He signed up for the National Guard, and was called into face miners who were striking over working conditions in Southeastern Colorado. His unit was stationed near Walsenburg in 1913, protecting 800 scabs who had come into work in place of the striking miners. His unit was then called to Ludlow directly after the Ludlow Massacre in 1914, where they aided the National Guard unit that had been stationed there. Riddle sympathized with the striking miners and the horrible working conditions that they faced, and said that he felt ashamed of being involved in the Ludlow Massacre, however tangentially. During the Great Depression, Riddle and his family had to sell off their cattle. He moved to Paradox Valley, Colorado in 1923, following his father (who had moved there in 1920 to escape the blizzards in Northeastern Colorado). He began going to the Navajo Nation to purchase lambs, then herding the flocks through eastern Utah and into Western Colorado. Also, he and his brother owned the Yellow Bird Mine, which is a uranium mine on La Sal Creek. Along with the Roger Mine on Rock Creek, it was one of the earliest uranium mines in the Western Colorado area.