Steamboat Pilot & Today

Taken at Howelsen Hill on July 17. Submitted by: Brandon Skaggs

Submitted by: Pete Moody

Submitted by: Barbara O'Hagan

Routt County Road 129 north just south of Clark. Submitted by: Ed Miklus

Katina Klines preschool class at Laurel Street.

Beth Olds leads the way down the Spring Creek Trail during last year’s Spring Creek Memorial run in Steamboat Springs. This year’s event returns Saturday with 9-mile and 5-kilometer races. Photo by Joel Reichenberger

Pam Rolfes

Travis and Deanna Mathey pick out a toilet Wednesday near the Milner Landfill that will be used in the Routt County Redneck Olympics on Saturday in Hayden. Photo by Scott Franz

Last month, city officials asked residents to help them decide how to spend the $650,000 to $800,000 generated each year by a 1 percent accommodations tax charged to visitors on their nightly lodging rentals. After a six-week “request for ideas” period that expired Monday, officials don’t have a shortage of suggestions.

A piece of farm equipment sits in a plowed field near the Yampa Valley Regional Airport on Wednesday afternoon waiting for repairs. The rancher was plowing the field to get it ready for next spring but needed to repair a tire before he could finish. Photo by John F. Russell

Wildfire crews battle a grass fire northwest of Hayden on Wednesday afternoon. Between 2 and 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Routt County Sheriff's Office and Routt County Emergency Manager Bob Struble were on their way to a wildfire that reportedly began during haying operations in a field on Routt County Road 78 northwest of Hayden on the way to Elkhead Reservoir. The location is near the triangle intersection with C.R. 78A. There was a report of a visible column of black smoke, and an area resident said he watched the size of the fire triple in about 10 minutes. The fire was contained at about 6 p.m. The cause has not been determined, but equipment use is suspected as the ignition source. The West Routt Fire Protection District and Bureau of Land Management also responded. Photo by John F. Russell