Come Play Like an Olympic Athlete in Steamboat, CO

The 2010 Winter Olympics are only 30 days away and it is rather humbling to realize that our town of Steamboat Springs, CO has produced more Olympic athletes than any other town in the USA! Steamboat is the Mecca of Olympic worthy training grounds and we hosted the U.S. Olympic Trails back in December.

While we watch in great awe of the incredible athletes that set the bar for Olympic performances, it always inspires us small time athletes to get out a try a few moves!

So ResortQuest is offering an incredible lodging package in the spirit of the Olympics! We want you to get to Steamboat during the 2010 Olympics to experience the training grounds first hand. Play like an Olympian during the day and cheer on your favorite athletes by night while getting 30% of your 5+ night stay, and a $200 gift certificate towards your Steamboat Olympic Activity of choice.

Take your vacation to new levels and luge, jump, spin, skate, ski, snowboard, and check your way to playing in Steamboat like the Olympic athletes do. So with the start of the Winter Olympic Games fast approaching get ready for the always exciting and uniting Olympics!

Check out the official Olympic website and play the Vancouver 2010 Official Minigame.

We want your ski vacation to be the best with the ResortQuest vacation specials, luxurious lodging, and amenities and services.

Still Snowing in Steamboat....Get 50% off last minute lodging!

It's not to late to get some Steamboat champagne powder as an added holiday gift. ResortQuest Steamboat has 50% off lodging for the rest of the year.

Go USA! Go Steamboat! Congratulations to Johnny Spillane, Hannah Kearney, Patrick Deneen, Lacy Schnoor, and Jeret Peterson on securing your spots to the 2010 olympic games.

8 inches in a few hours! This is why we live in Steamboat Springs!

SNOW: 0" (24 hrs); 8"(48 hrs); Base: 46"; Total: 150"
CONDITIONS: Packed Powder
LIFTS: 16/18
TRAILS: 165/165
TEMP: 22/10

With so much going on in Steamboat Springs over the past few weeks, I just have not had time to post to our Steamboat Ski Bums blog. That doesn't mean I have forgotten about it! All day Saturday I rehearsed the poetic words that might capture the amazing skiing at the Steamboat Ski Resort. Those words have escaped me now, but let me re-cap.

On Friday evening my husband and I went to see Marley and Me at Wildhorse Stadium Cinemas. We got home late - there was no sign of a winter storm. We went to bed even later - and still no sign of snow.

Like every morning, when our dog woke us up before daylight, we called the ski report. Just 3 inches - well that was a surprise we weren't expecting, but nothing to get too excited about. By 9am, however the ski report reported 11 inches! Yee haw! Now this is why we live in Steamboat.

There were very few people on the resort and each run we hit had little or no tracks. Twister-'cane-'bow (Twister/Hurricane/Rainbow) trees were unbelievable delicious! Not only was it untracked, i couldn't see ANYONE elses tracks. Powder flowed up over my knees as I floated effortlessly through the perfectly spaced trees... One run after another of grins ear-to-ear.

Days like Saturday January 3, 2009 are the reason why we live in Steamboat Springs!

The month ahead is jam-packed with events: The Steamboat Family Snow Festival January 16-18, and just a few days later on January 20 is the hilarious Cowboy Downhill. Check-out the photos! Don't forget about the Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival, the oldest winter carnival west of the Mississippi.

ResortQuest Steamboat Vacation Rentals is having a Super 'Value Season' Sale. Save 30% off 3-4 nights, and 40% off 5+ nights from now until 2/12/2009. If you can't make it by Feb 12, save 30% off 5+ nights 2/13-2/28/2009. Learn more about our Steamboat Springs lodging deals.

The Steamboat Ski Season is Officially Over...

This Steamboat Ski Bums blog entry is a little belated because I had slipped out of town to Vail, Colorado, for a week. I left Steamboat at lunchtime on closing day, sadly missing the new Pond Skimming Event. I left in the midst of a snowstorm which did not stop until this past Saturday.

Regretfully, The Steamboat Ski Resort does not record snowfall after the ski area closes. We ended this epic season with a record breaking 40 feets of snow, 489 inches, but that does not count the several feet that fell after the last chair came to a halt on Sunday April 6th. Jon Wade alluded to the possibility of over 550 inches total snow this season (Steamboat-Spring.blogspot), "A friend told me that as of this morning there is 4 ft of fresh light stuff on top. So much so that the snowmobiles can't get close without a cut from the snow cats."

Whatever the total, as the Steamboat Ski Resort posted in it's final news alert: "This is one for the record books; a season that will no doubt live on in our memories through stories told year after year. It’s the story of the ultimate four-wire winter where over 500 inches of the light fluff fell at the summit and over 40 feet cascaded down at mid-mountain"

Diehard skiers and riders are still seeking those fresh track up on Buffalo Pass, located north of Steamboat up Routt County Road 36, then a few miles east on C.R. 38. It’s about as well kept a secret as the location of Old Town Pub & Restaurant. Neither appears on Google Maps, but everyone in town knows how to get there.

"The pass, the jumping off point for some of the best backcountry skiing in Northern Colorado, is a secret, at least according to its biggest fans."

Today, the sun is blazing over Steamboat Springs, helping speed up the spring meltdown, making way for wildflowers, luminous Aspen Groves and an abundance of summer activities and events. Record snowfall certainly makes way for epic wrafting, kaying and even tubing this summer. More events April - July, 2008

Stay tuned for more Summer in Steamboat information...

Last days to ski the Daze

SNOW: 2" (24 hrs); 4"(48 hrs); Base: 82"; Total: 82"
CONDITIONS: Powder/Packed Powder!
LIFTS: 16/18
TRAILS: 165/165
TEMP: 41/28

This morning I stepped outside in my little spring flats and had to turn around and pull on the winter boots again. A dusting of snow covered Steamboat Springs last night. Winter is certainly making a slow exit from Steamboat!

This weekend is closing weekend at the ski area. The Springalicious festival is Saturday and Sunday and includes a pond-skimming competition, the annual Cardboard Classic and live concerts by American Relay, The Radiators and Susan Tedeschi. Steamboat Ski Resort officials plan to hold the event annually.

The Cardboard Classic is especially near and dear to the ResortQuest Steamboat staff. Our very own maintenance employees, Jim and Carl, have been holed up in a the Timberline Lodge at Trappeur's Crossing Resort parking garage with a 10-foot ceiling almost every night for a couple of weeks now, preparing Steamboat Springs best ever Cardboard Classic craft!

For his sixth year participating in Steamboat’s most bizarre rite of spring, Fletcher is trying to include as many moving parts as possible in a craft that has been preceded by a “Talladega Nights” racecar, a Hummer, a gondola car and a tank.

...to read more about Fletcher's amazing talents for cardboard craft construction, check-out the Steamboat Pilot Article, Cardboard King Under Construction. Or better yet, check-out the Steamboat Cardboard Classic video:

Steamboat Cardboard Classic Preparation, Video by Steamboat Pilot

SPRINGALICIOUS FESTIVAL EVENT SCHEDULE:

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  The 28th annual Cardboard Classic begins at 10 a.m. Saturday at the base of the ski area.
  
  
  
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  American Relay performs in Gondola Square at 3 p.m. Saturday.
  
  
  
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  The Radiators perform in Gondola Square at 2 p.m. Sunday.
  
  
  
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  The Splashdown pond-skimming competition begins at 3 p.m. Sunday on the Lil’ Rodeo ski trail near the base of the mountain.
  
  
  
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  A children’s Jib Jam is at 3:15 p.m. Sunday on the Stampede trail.
  
  
  
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  Susan Tedeschi performs at 4 p.m. Sunday in Gondola Square.
  
  
  

Saturday and Sunday are expected to be sunny, with high temperatures in the low to mid-50s, according to the National Weather Service.