Wednesday, April 2, 2008

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:

  • The 28th annual Cardboard Classic begins at 10 a.m. Saturday at the base of the ski area.


  • American Relay performs in Gondola Square at 3 p.m. Saturday.


  • The Radiators perform in Gondola Square at 2 p.m. Sunday.


  • The Splashdown pond-skimming competition begins at 3 p.m. Sunday on the Lil’ Rodeo ski trail near the base of the mountain.


  • A children’s Jib Jam is at 3:15 p.m. Sunday on the Stampede trail.


  • 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.

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