Contour

	Bill Konig has lived in beer-country his entire life being a native of St. Louis. Going to Golden gave him the opportunity to take a tour of the Coors Brewery and get a first-hand look at the industry.		Laura Buch, a native of Northern California, spent six months in Paris in 2002 and fell in love with the language and culture. She hopes to one day become bilingual. Laura also enjoys writing poetry.
	Kit Fischer, a Montana based professional whitewater kayak instructor and six-year freestyle skiing competitor, has witnessed the evolution of extreme sports since their birth. A visit to Winter X Games revealed the progression of alternative sports. “In our generation of ‘all things extreme,’ these athletes serve as proof that being extreme pays,” says Fischer.		Home grown in the Colorado Rockies, Kelly Ryan has experienced the development of resort towns first hand. “When I was a girl, our nearest neighbor was over three miles away on dirt roads. Now 500 square foot homes are popping up everywhere,” she said. She has an inherent understanding of the changing times.
	Taking a break from poetry, Colorado native Courtney Allison decided to try her hand at journalism. “I ended up in a man’s basement looking at some of the most beautiful carvings I had ever seen.” Along with being a contributing writer, Courtney also acted as executive editor for Contour Magazine.		Even though Northern California native Jordan Bentley has never surfed, she enjoyed experiencing Tahiti’s surf culture. “The beaches were beautiful and the people were awesome.” Jordan has been pursuing a career as a professional photographer and dreams of becoming a photojournalist.
	“I went in search of Holy dirt and found a Holy town with a dark secret” Casey Cheney-O’Byrne traveled to Chimayo, New Mexico to investigate a church made famous for its healing dirt. Born in Hawaii, Casey spent most of her life moving back and forth to places like India and Russia, yet Chimayo proved to be one of the strangest places she has ever been.		“If I had to ski one place for the rest of my life, I’d definitely be happy with Craigieburn,” says Conor Miller. Conner spent a season skiing all over New Zealand”s club fields and says, “The beauty of the club fields is not just the skiing, but everything that surrounds it.”
	Hannah Palmer is a Vermont native. She loves skiing and cooking, and is also an avid gardener and has a green thumb. She has worked three seasons at the AMC’s huts and didn’t believe in ghosts until she worked in the Whites.		With a nickname of Shadow, Chris Thayer appears as just another rock climbing firefighter. He is constantly in search of bizarre experiences and never seems to be found anywhere he feels uncomfortable. Born in Brooklyn NY, he now lives in Vermont and prefers the woods where he can’t get lost: “I just can’t figure out the grid system.”
	From the overlooked wilds of the Connecticut suburbs, Seth Chapin came to Colorado in search of open-air enlightenment. In the heart of the San Luis Valley, Chapin unearthed two one-of-a-kind travel destinations. “The truth is out there. Alligators can thrive more than a mile above sea level. Mulder and Scully need to start investigating as to whether aliens can too.”		Hailing from San Francisco, California, Hayden Simmons found the sprawling Wal-Mart world of Colorado Springs to be quite exotic and worth seeing. Simmons learned first hand how to appreciate the urban habitat in Colorado Springs.
	“Beer on tap and girls kicking each other’s asses, is there anything better?” Troy Emerick wondered during Fight Night. This world traveler has seen bar fights in three different countries, but still gets excited. He is planning to continue his transient way of life.		As a child, staff writer Evan Huggins was a regular at the Jefferson County emergency room. Since then, his obsession with cheap travel has dropped him everywhere from dirty Greek hostels to unspoiled Costa Rican wonderlands. “I like that feeling when you could fly off the road.”
	It is rumored that to truly appreciate the therapeutic nature of hot springs one must be physically exhausted, in pain, or cold to the bones. Diana Winingder decided to test this theory for herself by hiking Mount Princeton before soaking in the local hot springs. “I achieved the Zen of hot springs being injured, cold and exhausted all at the same time,” says Winingder.		Skiing and snowmobiling in the backcountry came natural to Colorado native Adam Smith. “I’ve basically grown up on the slopes of Steamboat Springs so skiing powder is second nature.” A senior at Colorado College, Adam jumps at any opportunity to hit the slopes.
	Stephanie Cline loves to cook, but eating is just as fun. While in search of spicy dishes she laughed, she cried, she went through a lot of tissues. Stephanie is a senior Political Science major and aspiring journalist.