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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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Courtesy Tread of Pioneers Museum<br />
Skeeter Werner<br />
It was a thrill to be able to represent our<br />
hometown, and later our country, at events all<br />
over the world. Buddy, especially, left his mark. He<br />
was the first American skier to be considered a<br />
serious threat to Austrian dominance of the sport.<br />
Probably the greatest moment in my own<br />
ski career was winning the North American<br />
championship in 1955, the year before the<br />
Olympics in 1956. That was a wonderful<br />
experience, too, but I can still see where I made<br />
my one mistake. It was in the downhill, and I<br />
touched the edge of one ski just a little too hard.<br />
In the flick of a second, I went from first to 10th<br />
— that’s ski racing!<br />
Hazie was always putting up visiting ski<br />
racers. Sometimes we had virtually the whole U.S.<br />
Team here: Bob Beattie, Hank Kashiwa, Moose<br />
Barrows, Bill Marolt and Billy Kidd. The only rule<br />
was you couldn’t wax your skis in the kitchen.<br />
I remember the time President Gerald Ford<br />
came over to <strong>Steamboat</strong> from Vail to golf, but it<br />
was raining so hard he could only play nine holes.<br />
So he came here instead, and the property was<br />
surrounded by Secret Service agents. When our<br />
neighbor stopped by to see what the commotion<br />
was, he was questioned and turned away.<br />
Only one thing ever really made Hazie angry.<br />
That was when newcomers would suggest that<br />
we ought to dissuade more people from moving<br />
here. She would always say, “We made room for<br />
you, didn’t we?”<br />
Excerpted from “<strong>Steamboat</strong> Springs<br />
Legends” by Deborah Olsen.<br />
Families are an integral part of the <strong>Steamboat</strong><br />
Ski Area. The Heids, Crawfords, Withers, Elliotts,<br />
Romicks, Smalleys, Bowes, Schnackenbergs,<br />
Barrows, Perrys, Delli Quadris, Wrens, Elkins—<br />
for that matter, the Howelsens, both father and<br />
son — the story of <strong>Steamboat</strong> can be found in the<br />
family trees of its founders.<br />
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