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Hayden Kennedy's memory honored in public lands fund

Courtesy of www.haydenfund.org

Friends and family will remember Carbondale native Hayden Kennedy at a memorial service this weekend.

 

Kennedy was a talented professional climber and spent most of his 27 years in wild places. His family has set up a fund in his name to protect public lands. They have partnered with a national advocacy organization and Kennedy’s two sponsors, Patagonia and Black Diamond.

In early October, Kennedy and his girlfriend Inge Perkins were caught in an avalanche while skiing in the Montana backcountry. Perkins was killed in the slide; Kennedy took his own life shortly afterwards.

A private memorial service is set for this Saturday, Nov. 4 at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School.

 

Aspen native Elizabeth Stewart-Severy is excited to be making a return to both the Red Brick, where she attended kindergarten, and the field of journalism. She has spent her entire life playing in the mountains and rivers around Aspen, and is thrilled to be reporting about all things environmental in this special place. She attended the University of Colorado with a Boettcher Scholarship, and graduated as the top student from the School of Journalism in 2006. Her lifelong love of hockey lead to a stint working for the Colorado Avalanche, and she still plays in local leagues and coaches the Aspen Junior Hockey U-19 girls.