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Bayhorse Bonanza
We always look back as one year ends and another begins. In today’s video we look way, way back to the late 1800s at the richest discovery of silver and lead in the Idaho Territory.
Saturday, December 28, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Challis Hot Springs Unchanged for Nearly 150 Years
The Gem State has more geothermal gems than any other state in the Lower 48. One of those is the Challis Hot Springs, where the historic home and pool with its 104-degree water are largely unchanged from when the property was homesteaded in 1880.
Sunday, December 1, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


The Ranch That Became Sun Valley
Jo Heiss’s mother Marge was in her mid-20s when she and her sister Roberta showed a dark-haired man with an Austrian accent around their ranch, pushing themselves along on long wooden skis with elk hide coverings.
Sunday, April 28, 2024 \| Read Full Story.


Romancing the Snow at Galena Lodge and on the Harriman
When Sun Valley was left high and dry during its opening in 1936, the resort took its guests to Galena to ski. At one time in the 1940s the former mining town even sported a rope tow. But the lodge and its cross-country trails were nearly lost in 1994 when the lodge was shuttered and the Forest Service threatened to tear it down.
Sunday, December 17, 2023 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley’s Cross Country Trails Set the Bar for Others
Galena Lodge opens for what is sure to be another stellar summer season on Friday, June 9. With that in mind, Eye on Sun Valley thought it would be fun to take a look at the early trails in the vicinity of the lodge. Those were the days when trails went out Milligan Creek in East Fork Canyon and Jackrabbit Johansen was cross-country skiing at age 102.
Sunday, May 28, 2023 \| Read Full Story.


Jews Make Their Mark on the Wood River Valley
Jewish people have had a big hand in shaping the Wood River Valley since the 1800s when members of the Friedman family, who donated land for Hailey’s airport, arrived and opened shops, with one even serving as Hailey’s mayor.
Sunday, April 16, 2023 \| Read Full Story.


Triumph Mine Chugged Along Until 1957
Miners began flocking out East Fork Road south of Ketchum when silver was discovered in 1883. What is commonly referred to as the Triumph Mine today proved indispensable during World War II. But it also saw tragedy in 1917 when an avalanche wiped out a two-story bunkhouse at 3:30 in the morning, killing at least 15 miners.
Sunday, August 7, 2022 \| Read Full Story.


Galena Lodge Was a ‘Peanut Stand’ Before It was a Nordic Center
Galena was a hustling, bustling camp of 700 miners during the 1880s—a time when snows were record-making and avalanches historic, according to the late Pearl Eva Barber. And Barber called the store she ran there years later—now Galena Lodge—“a peanut stand.”
Sunday, December 19, 2021 \| Read Full Story.


Sun Valley’s Fling with Ski Jumping
Neither downhill racing nor running slalom gates was the most popular winter sports In the early days of downhill skiing in America. It was ski jumping—brought to America by Norwegian immigrants.
Monday, November 23, 2020 \| Read Full Story.


Guyer Hot Springs Resort Lured Vacationers to Ketchum Before Sun Valley
Before Sun Valley Resort opened up the Warm Springs side of Bald Mountain, there was the Guyer Hot Springs Resort. Built by a Civil War captain, it attracted Americans from all over wishing to emulate the European experience at such spas as Baden Baden.
Sunday, September 27, 2020 \| Read Full Story.


Meet the Ghost of the Pioneer Saloon
It opened in 1945 as the Commercial Club and served as a gambling casino until it was closed for serving minors. Since, Ketchum’s Pioneer Saloon has been used by the American Legion, as a dry goods store, antique store and a beloved steak and prime rib place with some of the biggest spuds in Idaho.
Sunday, August 16, 2020 \| Read Full Story.


Philadelphia Smelter-Once the Pride of the Idaho Territory
There was a time when the Philadelphia Smelter dominated the mouth of Warm Springs Creek, which now serves as the entrance to Warm Springs neighborhoods and the Warm Springs side of Baldy.
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 \| Read Full Story.


Robert Strahorn-The Most Important Man You Never Heard Of
Longtime residents and visitors of Sun Valley Resort have no doubt heard of Averell Harriman, who gave Count Felix Schaffgotsch the assignment of finding a place that Union Pacific Railroad could build a resort that would entice Americans into riding Union Pacific trains.
Monday, June 24, 2019 \| Read Full Story.

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