Steamboat Springs: The land of 100 Olympians
With four athletes with Steamboat ties making their Olympic debut at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, history was made.
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With four athletes with Steamboat ties making their Olympic debut at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, history was made.
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Dave Gorsuch embodied the mountain life It was a gorgeous winter evening as a young boy joined his father on the T-bar at Chalk Mountain outside Climax, Colo. When they reached the top at around 12,000 feet, a full moon was creeping up over the ridgeline. They looked back down at the majestic floodlit slope. After a moment, dad skied over to the lift shack and flipped a switch, turning off the lights and flipping on the moonlight for a father-son cruise down the backside of the mountain to their home. Such was life for young David Gorsuch. His father, Jack, was one of those ski area pioneers ...
Ash Kempton's house has been filling up with bags full of toys, books and gloves as part of the Routt County Reindeer toy drive she created to support students at the Boys & Girls Club and the Steamboat Springs Early Childhood Center. (Ash Kempton/Courtesy) STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — It truly is the season of giving in Routt County. Not only did Yampa Valley Gives Day bring in record donations, but people across the area are finding ways to support those in need during the holidays. Already, the holidays bring out the best in people looking for ways to help, but with the knowledge that the pandemi...
Courtesy Aspen Historical Society “Rip’s Run dedicated on Aspen Mt.,” announced the Aspen Times on December 8, 1983. “Rip’s Run on Aspen Mountain was formally dedicated Saturday in the memory of ski racer Rip McManus, a member of the 1964 US Olympic Team. McManus, a familiar Aspen figure who spent much of his time here ever since he spent a winter living and training in Aspen as a member of the US Ski Team, died a year ago in a car accident on the East Coast. Saturday’s ceremony marked the renaming of Midnight Cutoff (which runs from the bottom of Dipsy Doodle) in McManus’ memor...