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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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The inside of the “bat cave”<br />
Bats in the ‘Boat?<br />
ouT oF THe Box? DeFiNiTelY. artistically inclined? of<br />
course. especially when interior designer irene Nelson is involved in<br />
the creative process.<br />
The peculiar notion of building a “bat cave” has Nelson’s<br />
signature all over it.<br />
What was once an odd-shaped storage corner in the basement<br />
of verne Read’s mountain home is now a small replica of a bat cave,<br />
designed in honor of the home’s owner, a nationally known naturalist<br />
and chairman emeritus of Bat conservation international.<br />
The cave is especially beautiful in the morning light, radiating<br />
warmth from the colorado red rocks that form its walls and outline its<br />
seating area. Nelson’s friend, artist sigi Malinowski, sculpted trees at
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