Steamboat
Epic! That word is spoken enthusiastically on powder days in Steamboat. My backcountry companions say it often; we can be a bit smug about our tele excursions into unofficial terrain like Way Right, Drunken Indian, Storm King and North Woods. But the truth is, Back in the Day, Loris and Buddy Werner and their friends had truly epic ski adventures. In the 1950s, they’d drive up Rabbit Ears to the top of Hogan Park Trail… before it was a marked Forest Service route. They’d put skins over their alpine skis and break trail all the way to what is now Morningside. That’s seven miles. Once there, they’d build a snow cave, light a fire and settle in for the night.
Epic! That word is spoken enthusiastically on powder days in Steamboat. My backcountry companions say it often; we can be a bit smug about our tele excursions into unofficial terrain like Way Right, Drunken Indian, Storm King and North Woods. But the truth is, Back in the Day, Loris and Buddy Werner and their friends had truly epic ski adventures. In the 1950s, they’d drive up Rabbit Ears to the top of Hogan Park Trail… before it was a marked Forest Service route. They’d put skins over their alpine skis and break trail all the way to what is now Morningside. That’s seven miles. Once there, they’d build a snow cave, light a fire and settle in for the night.
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crew decreed these bottles have a more limited appreciation – corn<br />
whiskey just smelled and tasted different to the uninitiated. colorado<br />
Gold Distillery’s colorado’s own corn Whiskey has “a light color and<br />
evaporates quickly off the palette.” Black canyon Distillery’s colorado<br />
sour Mash corn Whiskey from longmont offers up a stiff drink,<br />
preferably with coke.<br />
after dinner, Roundhouse spirits’ corretto coffee liqueur is<br />
“so light and yummy on ice. No need for cream, but it would make<br />
an awesome white Russian.” For something lighter, peach street<br />
Distillers Jack and Jenny eau-de-vie pear Brandy “smells so nice! it’s<br />
a nice sipper with your sweet dessert.” and their peach Brandy “smells<br />
like peach cobbler,” and “tasted great in a hot toddy garnished with<br />
nutmeg.”<br />
savor these spirits like fine wines. They’re worthy top-shelf<br />
purchases – beautiful and tasty bottles for under the tree this season<br />
(or special occasions like your BFF’s birthday, all year long). The tastetesting<br />
crew agreed unanimously that many of these small batch spirits<br />
will blow away the mass produced bottles you’ve long imbibed. n<br />
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