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APR 30 1976, MAY 3 1976 Snow - Painting project Melts Away Colorado Mountain College students, above' work to spray paint a picture on snow at the base of Gold Peak at Vail, Colo- Tim Upham, 20, of 521 Albion St., who headed the Saturday project until it was abandoned at 6 p.m., looks, below left, over picture of Chief Black Kettle, whose portrait the students tried to paint. Upham watches Mark Lake, with compressor, below right, as he paints. The project failed when "sun got hot and started melting the snow, and the pigments just left," Upham said. Upham, who arranged for permission from Vail Associates and U.S. Forest Service for the project, will receive credit in sociology for the project despite problems.' Upham and the group of eight friends and fellow students planned the project as a Centennial-Bicentenniaf effort. Black Kettle was chief of the Southern Cheyennes, who were slain at Sand Creek Massacre Credit: Denver Post (Denver Post via Getty Images)