Tag: lifestyle
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Flying W Ranch: A western tradition triumphs over tragedy in Colorado Springs
The crowd has moved through the line, filling trays with chicken, brisket, potatoes, beans, biscuits and applesauce made just the way an adoring mother made it more than 70 years ago. Now the people are back at their seats, back at the picnic tables lining this dining hall at a historic ranch in Colorado Springs,…
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How Vail became the biggest name in skiing
Before the sun rose over Colorado’s Gore Range on March 19, 1957, two men in an Army surplus Jeep pulled off a logging road “and prepared to climb a mountain that had no name.” Pete Seibert went on to write about he and Earl Eaton breaking trail through deep snow and dense woods and over…
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Vegetable Justice: A tradition like no other at Colorado Renaissance Festival
LARKSPUR — Beside a giant rocking horse and maze, and not far from the jousting arena and unicorn, a crowd gathers to see a man take tomatoes to the face. At least this is the goal for participants of Vegetable Justice: to hurl tomatoes at the face poking through the hole in the wall. This…
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‘Granddaddy of Colorado Rodeos’ honors deep tradition in the west
Photos from 100 years ago show cowboys on horseback lining Gunnison’s main street, which was dirt in those days. Tyler Hansen likes to look at these photos, to see his western Colorado hometown how it used to be. “It was just an Old West town,” he said. For a week every July, Gunnison resembles that…
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Fall drives, hikes and more: 6 base camps for colors in Colorado
Fall is all too fleeting in Colorado. It’s only for a brief time that our dearest aspens shine before shedding their leaves. And so we should cherish the time. We should stick around scenic towns at elevations where the trees thrive, putting on their best shows. Consider these base camps for the season, along with…
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‘Just a way of life:’ Growing and loving Colorado’s famed produce
A “million-dollar breeze” is said to drift through DeBeque Canyon, blessing the peach trees of Palisade. For the special fruit, western Colorado farmers have cited other factors: warm days and cool nights that are said to similarly bless other parts of the state where famed produce grows. To be a Coloradan is to be an…
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New trail up Colorado 14er the culmination of yearslong, ‘incredibly complex’ effort
A nonprofit stewarding Colorado’s biggest mountains recently marked its “largest and most expensive” project ever complete. That’s how Colorado Fourteeners Initiative referred to the job that is wrapping up a fifth summer on Mount Shavano. After about $2 million, 2 ½ miles of new trail and another 2 miles closed for restoration, CFI recently hosted…
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Pikes Pick: Cerberus Brewing celebrating 10 years in Colorado Springs
It seems like yesterday Cerberus Brewing Co. opened to greatly raise the craft beer and food scene in Colorado Springs. Believe it or not, that was 10 years ago. Ten years deserves a party ー “an all-day, all-out, one-for-the-books kind of party,” as Cerberus is marking Saturday. Stop by or stick around for the anniversary…
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The sonic, transcendent power of The Tank in western Colorado
RANGELY — Gazing at the 65-foot cylinder of rusted steel atop a remote, sandy hill in western Colorado, it was impossible to have any expectations of what we would experience inside. Suddenly, we escaped the desert heat of Rangely for a dark space cut by streamers of Technicolor light and filled with sound that is…
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Ski Passport, Gems Pass aim to get families on Colorado slopes at lower prices
Deadlines have passed for the lowest prices on Epic and Ikon products — those season tickets to Colorado’s biggest ski resorts. As for access to some of the smaller but equally beloved destinations, a family-friendly option just recently went up for sale. Trade association Colorado Ski Country USA is returning its Gems passes, so named…