http://www.steamboatspringsland.com Mike & Ronna Autrey Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Steamboat Springs — Routt County’s snowfall late Monday and early Tuesday has the Steamboat Ski Area teetering at the brink of a 400-inch season and made for record-breaking measurements. For the first time on record, the Steamboat Ski Area has seen three straight months — December, January and February — with ... http://www.steamboatspringsland.com/archives/2008/02/snow-by-the-hundreds  By Joel Berliner February 16, 2008 Washington Post STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. -- Just west of the Continental Divide, high in the Colorado Rockies, tucked away but known and acknowledged as a paragon of skiing, lies Steamboat Springs. It is a perfect retreat for the ski and travel enthusiast who yearns for an amazing ... http://www.steamboatspringsland.com/archives/2008/02/champagne-powder It is hard to imagine any time in history when such rampant pessimism about the economy has existed with so little evidence of serious trouble. True, retail sales fell 0.4% in December and fourth quarter real GDP probably grew at only 1.5% annual rate. It is also true that in the ... http://www.steamboatspringsland.com/archives/2008/01/the-economy-is-fine-really Steamboat Springs — Tim Kitching and Bruce Hill were so taken by the Cowboy Downhill last year that they went out of their way to see it again. “We’re in Breckenridge (on vacation) this year, so we hired a car and came up for the 34th Cowboy Downhill,” said Kitching, of ... http://www.steamboatspringsland.com/archives/2008/01/tabernash-bull-rider-wins-annual-cowboy-downhill Construction crews continue the work of installing the new Christie Peak Express high-speed, six-passenger chairlift at the base of the Steamboat Ski Area last week. Enlarge photo Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp./courtesy Steamboat Springs — With the start of the 2007-08 ski season 16 days away, work on the new ... http://www.steamboatspringsland.com/archives/2007/11/crews-install-midway-terminal-for-christie-peak-lift To powder partisans, these measure up to Warren Miller-like conditions. Two feet of fresh flakes have fallen overnight and the Colorado Rockies around Steamboat Springs lie blanketed under a duvet of deep, unrumpled white. A wide-tracked snowcat grinds up a hillside, stopping near the top. Ten skiers and riders pile out ... http://www.steamboatspringsland.com/archives/2007/11/snowcat-operator-makes-peaks-of-prime-powder-available STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO - The Colorado Group Realty Charitable Foundation will award a total of $11,000 in grants to nine local organizations Monday, November 5, 4:30pm at a reception at the Tread of Pioneers Museum. This is the second distribution of grants totaling $21,000 by the Charitable Foundation and is ... http://www.steamboatspringsland.com/archives/2007/11/11000-awarded-to-9-local-community-programs By Kyle Wagner Denver Post Travel Editor var requestedWidth = 0; if(requestedWidth < 200){ ... http://www.steamboatspringsland.com/archives/2007/10/boom-uncorks-steamboat-splendor  By Alexis DeLaCruz Steamboat Springs — Wednesday night’s storm could signal the beginning of a good ski season in Steamboat Springs. Joe Ramey, a National Wea­ther Service meteorologist in Grand Junction, said Thursday that another storm is expected to dump more snow on the area this weekend. And although that snow will ... http://www.steamboatspringsland.com/archives/2007/10/meteorologist-predicts-heavy-snow-in-steamboat-similar-to-2005-06 Steamboat Springs — Public construction projects at the base of Steamboat Ski Area are beginning to take their final form, relieving anxiety about what shape the ski base will be in by opening day Nov. 21. “It’s starting to look like something,” said Joe Kracum, project coordinator for the multi-year, $23 ... http://www.steamboatspringsland.com/archives/2007/10/base-area-taking-shape