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Steamboat Living: Lights, Go-Pros, action

More night skiing, other improvements on tap

Eugene Buchanan
Night riders: Steamboat Ski Area now offers night skiing Thursday through Monday every week.
John F. Russell

Didn’t make it up night skiing last year? You’ll have even more opportunity to do so this time around.

Building upon last winter’s resort improvements — including the new 13,000-square-foot Four Points Lodge and night skiing debut — Steamboat Ski Area continues the momentum, with upgrades to Thunderhead Lodge, snowmaking, grooming and night skiing operations.

For the quad-resting crowd, Thunderhead Lodge has a new color scheme and exterior, as well as new carpeting, wood accents and a redesign of Red’s Bar. In Gondola Square, Bear River Terrace adds a new, permanent barbecue facility, with the Umbrella Bar unveiling a new heating system to accommodate night-skiing guests. Diners now also can use OpenTable — a real-time, online reservation service — for all of its restaurants. Look for a larger Steamboat Ski & Sport Sheraton, which expanded to 6,300 square feet, and don’t go to the old office for your ticket (it’s now a lounge for private lesson guests); all ticket services now are housed in One Steamboat Place.



In grooming and snowmaking, the resort adds a new Bison Sherpa winch, the first of its kind in Colorado, augmenting the Beast to groom some of Steamboat’s steepest terrain. The 21-machine fleet now corduroys more than 600 acres nightly. Snowmaking is upgraded with 2 miles of additional pipe, bringing its total to 18 miles.

And last but not least comes good news for the owl-skiing crowd. The resort has increased its night operations to Thursday through Monday evenings.




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