Steamboat Pilot & Today

Steamboat Springs Christian Ramirez races toward the goal during Friday night's game against Aspen at Howelsen Ice Arena. The Sailors won, 4-3. Photo by John F. Russell

Steamboat Springs forward Matt Hale battles for a loose puck during Friday night's game against Aspen at Howelsen Ice Arena. Photo by John F. Russell

Steamboat Springs snowboarder Justin Reiter, center, races Friday night in a Race to the Cup snowboard giant slalom race at Howelsen Hill in downtown Steamboat Springs. Reiter mastered the course and won the night's event, cruising through a steady snowstorm for a victory on his home hill. Hae-rim Jeong, of South Korea, won the women's race. The racing begins again Saturday with qualifying at 11 a.m. Photo by Joel Reichenberger

Dan Brabec picks up his 5-year-old daughter, Haley, from Strawberry Park Elementary School on Friday. “I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where it’s even an option for someone to do something like that. It’s really scary, to be honest,” Brabec said when asked about the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., on Friday. Photo by Matt Stensland

Margaret Whittum, center, has been honored as the 2012 Charles Evans Fellow at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, N.J. Whittum, a graduate of Steamboat Springs High School and Colorado College, is the daughter of John and Leigh Whittum, of Steamboat Springs. Courtesy photo

Steamboat's 50th Anniversary beer is an extra special bitter brewed by Anhueser-Busch. Larry Pierce/courtesy

The Golden Antler, a new drink at Steamboat Ski Area, was designed in celebration of the ski area's 50th anniversary and is available as a shot, on the rocks or as a martini. Larry Pierce/courtesy

Passengers arrive at Yampa Valley Regional Airport in Hayden on American Airlines flight 1193 from Chicago on Friday. Regular nonstop flights from Chicago and Dallas began Thursday. Photo by John F. Russell

American Airlines flight 1193 arrives at Yampa Valley Regional Airport in Hayden on Friday morning. Photo by John F. Russell

Rick Finkelstein carves down Aspen's Snowmass mountain. Paralyzed in a ski accident six years earlier, he was linking turns again on his first run. Finkelstein is featured in Steamboat filmmaker Greg Hamilton's movie "The Movement," airing Sunday on Fox Sports Net. Michael Faas/courtesy

Filming on location at the Canyons in Utah are producer and director of "The Movement" Kurt Miller, left, and writer/director Greg Hamilton, of Steamboat Springs. Gary Nate/courtesy

Steamboat Springs junior Carter Kounovsky bulls his way through the lane Friday against Rifle. The game was a defensive battle, and the Sailors came out on top, 35-33. Photo by Joel Reichenberger

Rifle's Clinton Farr is fouled by Steamboat's Mitch McCannon on Friday. Steamboat won the game, 35-33. Photo by Joel Reichenberger

Aaron Muss races Friday in the Race to the Cup event in Steamboat Springs.

Richard Evanoff races Friday in the Race to the Cup event in Steamboat Springs. Photo by Joel Reichenberger

Richard Wilkes races Friday in the Race to the Cup snowboard event in Steamboat Springs Photo by Joel Reichenberger

Richard Evanoff races Friday in the Race to the Cup event in Steamboat Springs. Photo by Joel Reichenberger

Steamboat’s Justin Reiter, right, races Friday in the Race to the Cup event in Steamboat Springs. Photo by Joel Reichenberger