If you
need to take a day and chill, Steamboat Springs is a wonderful place to
that. The Yampa River runs through this
town and it is very Bend-like with specialty shopping and restaurants. We had a 375-mile drive on Sunday Aug 20 to
get here and needed to relax and do some shopping and eating while here. This town is home to a lot of Olympic skiers
and snowboarders. You can see the ski
runs on Mt Werner and the other shot is of the ski jumps at Howelsen Hill that
is right in the downtown.
Established in 1915, Howelsen
Hill is the longest continuously operating ski area west of the Mississippi and has the largest and most complete natural ski jumping complex
in North America. Howelsen Hill has been the training ground for more than 88
Olympians making over 151 Winter Olympic appearances. It is Colorado’s oldest continuously operated
ski area. Steamboat Springs has
sent more skiers to international competition than any other area in North
America. I would like to ski it myself (not the jumps but Werner Mtn) if I could find a friend willing to come
with me!
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| Clark and his new hat! |
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| Clark has his own town--moving there soon! |
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| Howelson Hill Ski Jumps |
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| Werner Mountain Ski Area |
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