Not printed, so we'll post: 2.2.10 photos

For each edition of the Tribune, we sort through dozens of photos, selecting the ones that will be published in the paper. Actually, sometimes we go through thousands, just for a single edition. Over the weekend, Tribune photographer Kara Bacon snapped more than 2,000 shots at Sleeping Giant Ski Area's Rails and Bails Festival.

Often times, those dozens — or thousands, as the case may be — of photographs are stored away in our archives, some never to resurface again. Rather than let the pictures disappear in digital archives, we decided we'd share a few here on the blog.

For the Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 Tribune, here are pictures that didn't make the paper — ones that we thought are still worth taking a gander at:

Damin Hass of Worland slides off the end of a picnic table feature at Sleeping Giant's first annual Rails & Bails Festival Saturday during the open class snowboard division. Tribune photo by Kara Bacon

Cody resident Zach Christiansen skis off a rail in the Sleeping Giant terrain park. He took home first place for 13 and under skiing. Tribune photo by Kara Bacon

Much to the delight of Powell residents, Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley served drinks downtown at Table 7 over the weekend. The football player is visiting family in Powell. Tribune photo by Toby Bonner



Getting an eyeful: This beautiful bighorn sheep ewe was being prepped for travel when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department captured 12 bighorn sheep in Devil’s Canyon area of the Big Horn Mountains for transfer to the Seminoe Mountains, north of Sinclair, just last week. Tribune photos by Gib Mathers

The butt stops here: Game Warden Craig Sax was butted in the schnoz when he was attempting to load a ram in a trailer for transport to the Seminoes. No mammals whether clad in boots or hooves were seriously injured. Sax was the only casualty, suffering a bloody nose. Still, Sax was sort of the butt of his own good-natured jokes when he offered a few wisecracks to his colleagues.

This bighorn sheep ram was swinging like a pendulum and threatening to clock Bighorn Sheep Coordinator Kevin Hurley last week. Fortunately, Hurley was able to arrest the ram’s skylarking and get the young ram ready for ground transport.

A frost-laden fence was one of the many winter sights Powell residents awoke to last Thursday morning.
Tribune photo by Ilene Olson