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Friday
A new fall festival, presented by the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association, starts with a parade of cruiser bikes from the base of Howelsen Hill to Little Toots Park at 5 p.m. Starting at 6 p.m., downtown restaurants including 8th Street Steak House, Harwigs/L'Apogee, Mahogany Ridge, Mazzola's, Old Town Pub, Steamboat Smokehouse, The Tap House and Riggio's offer specials on food and samples of beer.
Five dollars buys six 5-ounce beer tokens at Little Toots Park; tokens are on sale from 5 to 7 p.m. at Little Toots. Buy a stein for Saturday's beer garden at Steamboat Ski Area for $8, a reduced price, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Little Toots. Call 879-0880 or go to www.steamboatoktoberwest.com for more information. Little Toots Park is at 12th and Yampa streets.
Saturday
The festival starts with a keg-tapping ceremony: Event organizers have selected several fall-themed, Rocky Mountain-produced beers for the OktoberWest beer garden. Ten dollars buys a 15-ounce stein with one free beer; stein refills are $3, and beers without a stein are $4. Food competitions include a local lamb cook-off from 1 to 3 p.m., with a people's choice tasting at 3:30 p.m., and a chocolate-pudding pie eating competition at 3:30 p.m.
Local bluegrass band 3Wire and Americana musicians the Drew Emmitt Band play a free concert starting at 4 p.m. Listen to a track from Emmitt's most recent CD, and watch a video of him performing, at www.exploresteamboat.com. Read an interview with Emmitt on page 20 of Explore Steamboat.
Admission to all events is FREE. The Gondola will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; a Saturday Gondola ticket gets Sunday rides for free. Activities in the Coca-Cola Adventure Zone at the base of Steamboat Ski Area will be two-for-one from noon to 7 p.m.
Sunday
The festival continues with activities and discounts at the mountain. A $5 Bloody Mary bar at the Oasis sundeck at the top of the Gondola is from 10:45 a.m. to 4 p.m., and a $10 lunch buffet at the top of the Gondola is from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The Gondola will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; a Saturday Gondola ticket gets Sunday rides for free. Activities in the Coca-Cola Adventure Zone at the base of the Steamboat Ski Area will be two-for-one from noon to 7 p.m.