Publishers:

Tim Carter - Publisher, Photographer & Advertising Sales • Tim, as one of the publishers, strives to increase consciousness about green building through interesting presentations. Being a contractor and working in the building industry as a salesman, he has great insight into reaching this goal. Tim has been a photographer for 26 years, and specializes now in architectural and product images. As Carter Photographics, he shoots stock photography of quality images that make up Grand County, and has a large format printer which can produce quality archival giclée prints. Tim maintains a healthy, active lifestyle by bicycling, hiking, kayaking, and alpine, cross country & backcountry skiing.

Tina Wilson - Publisher, Managing Editor, & Designer • Tina brings a variety of experience to the magazine, including Graphic Design, Marketing and Advertising, acquired from different jobs in the field over the past 30 years. Along with Tim Carter, they started the magazine six years ago. She has been involved with raising public awareness about recycling, building green, and healthy lifestyles. The owner of FIrebird DesignWorks in Granby, she combines her skills offering marketing, advertising, print and web design for clients. Tina leads a healthy, active lifestyle by bicycling, hiking, kayaking, and alpine, cross country & backcountry skiing.

Designers:

Lisa Bornfriend - Designer & Webmaster • After falling in love with the area visiting friends, Lisa moved to Grand County from Tennessee in 2007. With a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art in Graphic Design, she currently works for Firebird DesignWorks in Granby designing and maintaining websites, along with print marketing. Lisa enjoys her free time in the backcountry by hiking, mountain biking, rafting, fly fishing, playing disc golf, cross country skiing, and snowboarding.

Silke Reuthlinger - Art Director & Designer • Silke Reuthlinger grew up in Germany, and came to the U.S. in 1988 for an adventure in a foreign country, which still continues on, 22 years later. She went to the Art Institute in Colorado and graduated in 1997 with an Associates Degree in Visual Communications. She has worked with two national magazines and now, self-employed as a Graphic Designer, designs magazines and marketing materials for businesses. In her spare time she enjoys Colorado's playground by hiking, biking, skiing, boarding and trying new things.

Writers:

Shelly Billiet • A successful realtor in the Minneapolis area, Shelly is a former resident of Grand County. She returns often to recharge and pursue one of her favorite pastimes, writing. Shelly has written several articles relevant to the real estate industry. When visiting Grand County, Shelly also enjoys looking for a future second home, skiing, and hiking her many favorite trails.

Joan Christensen • Joan Christensen has been a resident of Grand County for more than 20 years. She was the Communications Director for Winter Park Resort for 16 years and currently operates JC Communications, a local public relations company specializing in ski industry and travel PR. She has been an associate member of the Society of American Travel Writers since 1996 & belongs to the North American Snowsports Journalists Association who bestowed her with the Bob Gillen Memorial Award for Excellence in Media Relations in 2005. She is an avid skier, snowboarder, sailor, and hiker.

Janet Day • Janet has more than 25 years of journalism coverage of all varieties. She was a news reporter in Tennessee and Colorado before becoming an editor at the Denver Post, where she was a member of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the Columbine High School shootings. The next year, she moved from Denver to Manhattan to join Bloomberg News Service where she managed much of their coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attack. In 2003, decidedly done with disasters, Janet returned to Colorado to set up a writing, editing and marketing consulting business, Day Dream Communications. She can be found snowboarding at Winter Park Resort, hiking the Rockies with her dogs or pursuing her strong passion for textile arts.

Cindy Harder • Cindy Harder has lived in Grand County for 20 years and enjoys horseback riding, hiking and snowboarding. She likes to travel, and her lifelong dream is to retire with a living-quarters horse trailer and ride through the national parks on horseback. Cindy is a freelance writer in Grand County and the Marketing Director at Beaver Village Condominiums in Winter Park.

Cindy Kleh • Cindy has lived in the Colorado Rocky Mountains for the past 25 years, doing freelance photography, writing and editing for magazines and books. She stays active biking and hiking, but her winters are devoted to competitive snowboarding. For the past three years, she has won the USASA Overall Snowboarding Title and is currently the Boardercross, GS and Slalom National Champion for women 50-59.

Cyndi McCoy • Freelancer McCoy covers everything “from fun to food.” With a decade with the Sky-Hi News behind her (penning the historical column Turn Back the Pages, and putting together the A&E section), she strives to provide spunky insight to Grand County history and the local art scene. When not writing to support the causes of friends, she works on several other literary and visual art works.

Cara McDonald • Freelance writer and editor Cara McDonald has found inspiration in bulletin board postings, craigslist ads, and the quiet, ordinary, and often overlooked tales of everyday life. A regional magazine veteran, she recently led the editorial department of Denver’s 5280 magazine, but the love of a mountain man brought her to the Fraser Valley. McDonald lives in Winter Park with her husband, Igor, and son, Alek.


Cyril Vidergar • Cyril Vidergar is a lawyer and freelance homebrewer/journalist who writes about travel, food, regional culture, and legal theory. A regular contributor to GCL, his work has also appeared with the Colorado and American Bar Associations. If you care to chat him up, just look for the gold Colnago bicycle chugging through Rocky Mountain National Park on the weekends.