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19 Nov 2008

Steamboat Springs - Home Of Champagne Powder

posted by Rex Manz on 19 November 2008

The Yampatika Utes summered in the Yampa Valley for generations.  French trappers arrived in the early 1880s.  Routt County is home to over 150 natural springs, not all hot.  Legend has it that a French trapper was reminded of a steamboat when he heard one of the area springs “chugging”.

Steamboat was first homesteaded in 1875.  [...]

18 Sep 2008

Ski Magazine 2008 Readers’ Poll

posted by Rex Manz on 18 September 2008

Nine-thousand Ski Magazine subscribers responded to the 2008 annual survey ranking ski resorts.  The following Colorado ski resorts were among the Top Ten ski resorts in Western North America:

#2 - Vail
#4 - Aspen
#5 - Snowmass
#7 - Breckenridge
#9 - Steamboat Springs

This is a great showing for our Colorado ski resorts.  Nice work!
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