When the state cut property taxes this year, it hit organizations doing some pretty gritty work. We head to the banks of the Snake River to meet up with a team that’s still sniffing out weeds… literally. No shade on wildlife art, but we hear from artists working to bring work to Jackson Hole that’s a little weirder. Jaelin Kauf is the region’s top hope for Olympic gold in Italy this winter. We hear from her parents as the freestyle skier waves goodbye to her home mountain, Grand Targhee. And from the StoryCorps archives, we bring you to a conversation with Irene Beardsley. She and her climbing partner became the first women to summit one of the world’s tallest mountains, Annapurna, in 1978. 

StoryCorps conversation produced by Emily Cohen. 

Music this week is from Casper the duo Pleasure People. 

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