November has come and gone, and both of these events were marked with a strong taste of Winter’s power. Technically, October brought the winter chill, but it was so close to the beginning of the 11th month that it seems like a technicality. The pre-Thanksgiving...
Nestled in the shadow of the Continental Divide near Tabernash, Devil’s Thumb Ranch has over 6000 acres of sweeping meadows and meandering creeks. Devil’s Thumb Ranch is an outdoor enthusiast’s paradise. Since 1938, cowboys and poets and ranchers and city folk and...
Snow Mountain Ranch sits on 5200 acres just off Hwy 40 between Tabernash and Granby. It is a year- round playground offering over 120 km of groomed trails for cross country skiing, snowshoeing, fat biking, tubing, sleigh rides, A/T skiing classes and other winter...
November has been much more reluctant to give in to Ullr as October was so long ago this fall. Nearly 3 weeks of dry and seasonally warm weather have shrunken the valley’s white winter coat and chased it back into the forest and mountains that surround the valley. The...
The annual Tommelfest and Holiday Market will be held Saturday, December 7th from 8:00am-4:00pm at Devil's Thumb Ranch. Raise your glogg (Swedish spiced wine) for the annual Viking-themed Nordic festival, Tommelfest. Kick off the ski season with free lessons, a keg...
The storms of October and a deep early chill left their indelible mark on our landscape as fall quickly morphed into winter. The snowy covering over the land has thus far resisted the attempts of the weakening November sun to erase the premature hold on most of our...
The thermometer is reading single digits at noon on a day that the calendar is still claiming its hold on October. The ground is white in all directions with a couple of new layers added over the past week. Winter has arrived early and unannounced, and has been...
Wow! What a start to the season! Several autumnal storms have lined up in relatively quick succession to drop-kick October into winter. This abrupt transition has left us with 7 inches of white, with more falling on the trail as of this writing. Relatively warm...
By now most folks living in the valley are ready to move on to the next season of activities, but with snow cover transforming to mud and muck, in order to get out for decent hiking and biking, one has to get out of town. For those rare individuals who can’t get...
Crust skiing had such great promise this year. But the temperatures have not been cooperating and the snow is just condensing. There has been crust a couple of cold mornings but not very exciting this year. When the sun comes out and the temps have not gone much...