STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO (Feb. 5) - Nearly 6,000 Olympic fans were on hand in Steamboat Springs Friday evening to send off the U.S. Olympic Team from Ski Town U.S.A. Around 30 Olympians were on hand, including the entire U.S. Olympic Moguls Team, which is training in Steamboat, and the Olympic Nordic Combined Team which flew in just for the occasion from its camp in Utah.

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Howdy from Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where we are enjoying another new snow day. Today's morning held pleasant surprises for me as I wasn't expecting a whole lot up here on the mountain. As you probably know our snowfalls in recent weeks have been minor by Steamboat Standards and our rather distorted perspective on what's "good" can leave some of us a bit jaded. But even when it doesn't snow a ton, you know, the skiing and riding can still be remarkably fun. And that includes today.

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Light snow and light crowds on the mountain this morning. I'm not sure if it's the day after the Superbowl, or the day after the Winter Carnival or what the deal is, but the slopes are very quiet this morning. All the better to have some runs to myself, like the first one down Vagabond- I had room to go for the big Super G turns!

And then there was still some untracked sections of Rudi's left for my run down to Storm Peak! I ran into a friend in the lift line and i

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Ski Town U.S.A. is in an Olympic-Winter Carnival State of mind. The past two days have brought us an Olympic send off, fireworks, horses on main street and the world famous Lighted Man. Have you been to a Steamboat Winter Carnival? If not, make plans now to attend next February.

A beautiful start to a Super Bowl Sunday. The sun was in and out of the clouds as fog covered the valley below. We decided to ski heavenly Daze to Lower Valley View to take in the scenery. Heavenly Daze… Continue