NBC's Dateline will be airing a mystery that took place in the Chalk Creek Canyon some years ago. This excerpt from their website....

It was a story that seemed to tell itself: the body of a woman, found in a creek below a slippery ledge in a place where hikers have fatal accidents all too often. She was a newlywed who'd just found love again after a painful divorce. A tragic accident, her family thought -- at first. But after her funeral, suspicions emerged: Was this really an accidental fall? Or could it have been something else?

What began as an afternoon fishing trip would later become a hunt to learn the truth of what happened that day. NBC's Dennis Murphy reports on "The Mystery at Chalk Creek."

The program was aired on 8/17/09 and can be viewed online at...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32450356/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/

Some Alpiners recently attended a movie entitled "Flow", which is a documentary about the world's water supply. In this movie they show how Nestle goes into communities and buys water rights then removes millions of gallons of water for bottled water resulting in devasting damage to communities - wells go dry, sink holes develop, etc. After the presentation, there were speakers and they mentioned that Nestle's has just secured a water right in Nathrop, CO!!!

Read more here >>> http://stopnestlewaters.org/category/colorado

On the evening of Saturday July 21st following heavy rains a mudslide swept through Alpine. Starting around 7 p.m. isolated rain storms fell for about an hour. When the storms passed, the area had received several inches of rain which caused the mudslide.