Held on February 4th, part of the American Ski Marathon Series and an American Birkebeiner qualifying race, the Alley Loop is also Crested Butte’s largest costume party and biggest Nordic event of the year! The Alley Loop’s unique course starts and finishes in the heart of downtown Crested Butte, and in between it meanders through
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On February 10–12, 2012 “Yoga Rocks the Butte” Winterfest will feature a weekend of inspiring yoga classes, live outdoor music, organic food, a yoga marketplace and more at multiple venues throughout Crested Butte and Mt. Crested Butte. This Inaugural winter event taps into the area’s health and wellness philosophy and brings in experts from around
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Come to the Estes Park Winter Festival January 14th and 15th – an event which features a Candy Land Ice Village with interactive games & sculptures, ice skating, pony rides, musical entertainment, a Ceildh (Kaylee) party with dancing and storytelling, a chili cook-off, wine and beer tasting, downtown scavenger hunt, horse and carriage rides and
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Experience the original “horsepower” beginning on Friday January 20, 2012 at the Events Center at National Western. Featuring the workhorses of yesteryear, the National Western Draft Horse Show offers the beauty, grandeur and sheer force of today’s draft horses. They pull beautiful carriages and wagons with elegance and power. If you’ve never seen the 4-Hitch
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Of the thousands of junior market animals that compete at the National Western Stock Show each year, only 90 of the very best are at the exciting Auction of Junior Livestock Champions held January 20, 2012 in the Beef Palace Auction Arena. For Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion animals, the auction is televised live
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The National Western Mule and Donkey Show runs January 20-22, 2012 along with the National Western Draft Horse Show. The show is run according to the rules of the North American Saddle Mule Association, and includes both halter and performance classes drawing more than 300 entries. The event will be held in the Event Center
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Designed to thrill even the most discriminating horse enthusiast, An Evening of Dancing Horses® is packed full of formal dressage, freestyle reining, drill elements and plenty more equestrian disciplines. Plus, it’s all choreographed to the music of the Denver Brass. The popular National Western attraction features world-class horses, equestrians and musicians. This event will be
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This horse and rider competition has been called the “wine and roses event” of the National Western. The best riders and top horses from across North America come to compete for a total purse of over $40,000. The Grand Prix (pronounced “gron-pree”) is a symphony of grace and teamwork between the horse and its rider.
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The engagement season is getting into full swing with brides and grooms looking for the ideal wedding location. Couples searching for a destination with spectacular natural beauty, unique venues and plenty of fun to entertain guests should look no further than the Gunnison-Crested Butte Valley. Join us Sunday afternoon, January 15th, for our 10th annual
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“The Outlaw Snowdown” is a three-day alternative country festival held in Pagosa Springs, Colorado over Martin Luther King Day weekend — January 13 -15, 2012. Some big names and wild music on stage at night combined with some great winter action on the slopes of Wolf Creek during the day followed by a soak in
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