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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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Skiing Into the<br />
Future<br />
The<br />
– 50 Next<br />
years<br />
By Billy Kidd<br />
From Antarctica to Iran to New Zealand, Billy Kidd has<br />
literally skied the world. Since 1970, the Olympic silver medalist<br />
and world champion racer has not only been <strong>Steamboat</strong>’s director<br />
of skiing, he has been America’s premier spokesman on behalf of<br />
his sport. With his vast experience, he is uniquely positioned to<br />
consider what the next 50 years of skiing might bring.<br />
Our sport will see many changes in the future, but the basic<br />
elements will remain the same: gravity, motion and freedom.<br />
As we approach 2062, the performance gap between genders<br />
will blur, and the gap between Olympians and Paralympians will<br />
close. Adaptive skiers hold a key to the future: they are already<br />
utilizing bionic technology. At the London Olympics, South<br />
African runner Oscar Pistorius competed against able-bodied<br />
runners and raised the bar for adaptive athletes around the world.
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