Ben James is, by nature, a quiet kid.
He’s similar to many teenagers in that he sometimes mumbles when he talks, fixing his eyes to the ground, and he loves video games and television, fixing his butt to the couch.
Not much lights him up like his brother, Cruz Archuleta, however, and on a cold, drizzly Tuesday afternoon in Steamboat Springs when asked to summon that brother — step-brother, actually — Ben’s eyes focused, his voice cleared and looking up through a hooded jacket, he hollered through t