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Snow helps Steamboat residents start backcountry ski season |
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Sunday, November 13, 2011 20:57 |
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Photo by Joel Reichenberger, Steamboat Pilot & Today
By JOEL REICHENBERGER, STEAMBOAT PILOT & TODAY
A weekend of snow blanketed Steamboat Springs, and on Sunday, when winter season’s first real storm finally began to let up, locals did as they always do, crawling from their warm homes, stomping through the powder and heading for the high country.
That’s why Lindsay Nixon came here, moving with her husband, Scott Nixon, from a decidedly different kind of dream home — they spent the past year living on the Dutch-French island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean Sea — to live a decidedly different kind of dream.
They came to snowboard, and encouraged by the weekend’s powder dump, they drove up to the Dry Lake parking lot and, with friend Matt Gorevan, began their season, hiking up into the Buffalo Pass backcountry.
“This is our first trip this season,” said Lindsay Nixon, an experienced boarder.
The group wasn’t alone Sunday. Pickups filled with eager skiers and snowboarders and laden down with snowmobile-toting trailers made their way up a snow-packed Routt County Road 38. They slowed to a crawl when they came to pass one another on the messy avenue that left several vehicles in the ditch, but they continued on to start the season.
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