Steamboat fun

I am writing this as I prepare to go to the oustanding Strawberry Park Hot Springs in beautiful Steamboat, Colorado. More on that later....

Yesterday, while Dave snowboarded, I watched a Steamboat tradition...the cowboy downhill. Real cowboys from all over the world decend on Steamboat Springs every year for this fun competition, in which they ski down a course dressed in full cowboy dress, complete with chaps and Stetsons. Once at the bottom of the course each cowboy or cowgirl must rope a cowgirl and saddle a horse. A few of the cowboys were embarrassingly confused as to which was which though. Some of the cowboys were impressively adept at completing the course in 30 seconds and under but many of them wound up on their Wranglers all the way down the mountain. A few even have the misfortune of traveling down the mountain switching between their Wranglers and their Stetsons, rolling down the mountain at an alarming speed.

I am so glad the cowboys came to town to entertain me on my non-ski day!