Stream of Consciousness

by Eugene Buchanan May 3, 2010

Live in Steamboat and your life becomes attuned to the rhythms of the Yampa—floods, droughts, families, goodbyes, subcontractors and of course boating, lots of boating. THE FLOOD My Dutch oven foretells the year to come. I’d last used it to bake a pineapple upside-down cake on the San Juan River. Now, it’s mocking the Archimedes [...]

Crack Reporting

by Eugene Buchanan October 5, 2009

Last year’s revealing incident on the lift at Vail was not a one-time event Unless you lived in a snowcave or otherwise went media-free last winter, you likely saw the picture of the poor anonymous soul caught with his pants down last New Year’s Day on the Skyline Express chairlift at Vail. While the company [...]

Never Summer

by Eugene Buchanan June 3, 2009

The new Woodward at Copper Center will keep hucksters on their boards year-round. Summer might be when the columbines blossom, the snow melts and rivers roar in the Rockies, but a new indoor facility at Copper Mountain is ensuring that you don’t have to hang up your skis when the snow goes south. Opened in [...]

Free Flows the Yampa

by Eugene Buchanan April 6, 2009

An ode to the last unfettered tributary to the Colorado