Few ski areas have historical past and custom like Steamboat. With its deep snow and wild west power, each weekend on the mountain means one thing new. Like this previous Monday, when Steamboat held its Bud Gentle Cowboy Downhill for the forty ninth time regardless of excessive winds and plenty of snow.
The Bud Gentle Cowboy Downhill, for many who don’t know, is a collection of races designed for the gun-slinging, horse-wrangling, ski-riding cowboys and cowgirls of this world. Like many ski races, it begins off with riders passing via a twin slalom course. Not like most ski races, it retains going after the slalom course. Opponents go over a bounce, lasso an individual, saddle a horse, after which cross the end line.
In line with the Steamboat Pilot & Immediately, winners of the slalom race included bareback rider Wyatt Denny from Nevada within the males’s division and Miss Rodeo Arizona Haley Olsen within the ladies’s. Brice Patterson of Bozeman, Montana, gained the Stampede, the place a crowd of cowboys are despatched down the path .
“You understand all people’s going wreck, or come up behind you, so that you don’t wish to be within the again or behind any person. I simply skated as quick as I might till I bought right down to the underside” – Brice Patterson
Piper Schirm, Miss Rodeo Washington, gained the most effective wreck award after simply barely failing to land the bounce. 2023 Bareback Using World Champion Keenan Hayes, of Hayden Colorado, made the journey to the competitors. Charles Sampson, a bull using world title holder from 1982, first attended the Cowboy Downhill in 1983. He was in attendance on Monday as properly.
“I had by no means been snowboarding earlier than, and all the opposite cowboys mentioned, ‘Charlie, they’ve this snowboarding occasion in Steamboat and invite the cowboys up right here yearly throughout the Denver Nationwide Inventory present. I advised them I had by no means skied earlier than, and so they mentioned, ‘It’s alright, they’ll train you the way to ski’ and evidently, I’m nonetheless making an attempt to learn to ski.” -Charles Sampson
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