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CHAMPAGNE POWDER^TM SNOW ALERT!
Mother Nature tallied her own election night results Tuesday & Wednesday nights blanketing the Yampa Valley with 10 inches of snow at mid-mountain from our first storm of the season–and it’s still snowing! Cold temperatures and low humidity in the air created the perfect recipe for Steamboat’s snowmaking crews to fire up the guns and begin laying the foundation for this season’s base.

Last season was one for the record books with more than 40 feet of Champagne Powder^TM snow. With airfares dropping as fast as temperatures, don’t miss out on what is shaping up to be a fantastic season by taking advantage of the great values and special deals at Steamboat-Ski Town, U.S.A.^®

In less than 17 days, Steamboat is scheduled to open Wednesday, November 26th with its traditional opening day benefit, Scholarship Day.

Ski valets by the slopes
St. Cloud introduces luxury brand with private club in Torian Plum Plaza

Skiers who can manage the $40,000 membership fee will enjoy an unprecedented level of service at the base of Steamboat Ski Area this winter, when the private St. Cloud Mountain Club opens.
In addition to valet parking and ski service, members will be served breakfast, lunch, cocktails and après ski meals.
Developer Jamie Temple said the concept is modeled after successful ski base clubs in other resorts, some of them with heftier membership fees.
“It’s not inexpensive, and it’s not for everyone,” Temple said.
The business plan is intended to deliver many of the luxuries of ski-in/ski-out living to people whose luxury digs in Steamboat don’t happen to be slopeside.
The St. Cloud Mountain Club is under remodeling in an existing building in Torian Plum Plaza. The location, previously occupied by Home on the Range, is immediately behind the sales center for One Steamboat Place and across the plaza from Café Diva and Terry Sports.
Temple is a principal in Momentum Steamboat, LLC. He and partner Colgate Holmes have entered the city planning process with a proposal for a large luxury condominium project nearby — St. Cloud Resort and Spa.
Despite the similar names and shared ownership and management, the club and the future resort are separate projects, Temple said. Someday, he added, St. Cloud Resort and Spa will need a similar club of its own in order to command slopeside prices on condominium sales.
The St. Cloud Resort and Spa will not begin the lengthy process of petitioning the city for a development permit until the economy recovers from the current crisis.
“That could be 10 months or a year away,” Temple said. “We’ll let the capital markets and the local real estate market get healthy again.”
In the meantime, the St. Cloud Mountain Club will represent the first introduction of the brand in Steamboat.
All the amenities
The club is designed to welcome no more than 230 families into membership, and only the first 25 founding members will join for $40,000. Those who come after will pay $45,000.
What else will they get for their money?
When members wind down their skiing day, attendants will meet them at the edge of the snow and take their equipment to storage. Boots will be dried overnight on individual boot driers.
When they walk by the indoor/outdoor fireplace and enter the doors of the club, members will be confronted by the plush-but-modern aesthetic of designers from Hirsch, Bedner and Associates, the same firm that won awards this year from “Travel and Leisure” for its work on the Ritz Carlton in Beijing.
There will be a full bar, including espresso, flat-screen televisions and comfortable furniture, as well as a separate children’s area.
The concierge staff will arrange for the purchase of lift tickets, ski lessons and alternative outings.
Temple said he studied similar clubs in Aspen, Vail, Telluride and Park City, Utah, and concluded that Steamboat was being underserved in that area. A similar membership in Vail is priced at $250,000, he added.
He said he recently previewed St. Cloud Mountain Club to 50 interested people during a launch party at bistro c.v. and judged the response as enthusiastic.
“At lot of people will really appreciate this service,” Temple said. “It’s ideal for homeowners at Storm Mountain Ranch, for example.”
The resort
St. Cloud Resort and Spa entered the city’s pre-application process in March. The tentative plan for the building would include 780,000 square feet and 201 residences in multiple buildings.
The development would be built on the site of the existing Clocktower Building and the parking garage at the entrance to Ski Time Square, which is owned by Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp.
The Steamboat Ski Area sent a letter of permission giving the developers the ability to enter the city planning process. However, a sale of the parking structure has not consummated.
“We’re aware that they have contemplated that parking structure in the pre-application and have acknowledged that we have no objection,” Ski Corp. Vice President of Development Doug Beall told the Steamboat Pilot and Today at the time.
The general contractor for the St. Cloud Mountain Club remodel is GE Johnson, the same firm building Edgemont.
Temple was the developer of Storm Mountain Ranch in Steamboat with his brother Jeff, as well as Water Dance in Frisco and Uptown Broadway in Boulder.
Holmes is a founding partner and former president of the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company. His background includes operation and development of resorts and hotels in locations including southern California and Phoenix.

Construction workers for GE Johnson are remodeling the future St. Cloud Mountain Club in Torian Plum Plaza. Its members will receive parking and ski valet service at both ends of a day on the slopes.
Story Courtesy of The Steamboat Pilot and Today. By: Tom Ross

Yampa Valley Medical Center has confirmed tenative plans to for a new development located at the City’s southern edge.
The Bridges of Steamboat would included the relocation of the Doak Walker Care Center from it’s current location to this new experiential residential neighborhood. The neighborhood will be desinged around two themes: trout fishing and enthusiasm for the natural environment.
Currently plans include independant and assisted living units as well as The Doak. Additionally a cluster of small luxury homes would be build nearby in an area called The Yampa Club.

The seventh annual Bust of Steamboat fundraiser takes place Friday, October 24th from 5 to 8 pm at Three Peaks Grill. The fundraiser benefits the Yampa Valley Breat Cancer Awareness Project. Funds raised is past years have paid mammogram and ultrasound diagnostic tests for women unable to pay. Additionally, the project donated $15,000
to the Yampa Valley Healthcare Foundation to be applied to the purchase of a digital imaging mammography machine. Call 970-846-4554 to purchase tickets.

It’s a beautiful post card perfect morning in Steamboat. I awoke to a thin layer of snow on the branches of the pines and the few golden Aspen leaves that cling to the branches. Mount Werner remains shrouded in clouds. Can’t wait to see how much at the top.

The lodge is surrounded by eight modernized rustic, but comfortable, log cabins. All are complete with furnished kitchens, bathrooms with showers and free standing fireplaces. Propane is used for lighting, cooking and heating. We have a large generator for occasional early and late use and other necessities. We serve great meals at the lodge but it’s your choice to eat with us or do your own cooking.

Well, this is where it all happens! With mountains rising above 12,000’, covered with evergreens, aspen and lush open parks, the White River Area is considered as the most beautiful as well as the best of all hunting. We have twice as many elk as any other area in Colorado, and Colorado has more elk than any other state or country in the world.

The White River National Forest is one of the largest national forests in America with hundreds of miles of trails for horseback riding, hiking, fishing and hunting. We truly have it all.

Several years ago I bought Ripple Creek. It is deep in the heart of the White River National Forest of Northwest Colorado, adjacent to the famous Flat Tops Wilderness. It is 40 miles east of Meeker and 200 miles west of Denver. For hunters, it is in Area 24.

All cabins, large or small, rent at the same price. It is $70. for the first person and $10. for each additional person, per night. Four cabins have one bedroom with a double bed and a set of bunk beds, one cabin, the “honeymoom suite” is two story with a queen sized bed upstairs and a full balcony, the other three cabins have two bedrooms, one with a double bed and the other with two sets of bunkbeds. Reservations are made firm with cash, Visa, MasterCard or guaranteed check for the first nights lodging. Cancellations are honored 15 days or more in advance of reservations.

Meals are $7. for breakfast, $7. for lunch and $20. for dinner. This is family-style meals, eat as much as you please and it is good food. It includes coffee, tea, milk, lemonade and dessert.

Recreation includes horseback riding, hiking, photography, nature study, fishing and hunting. Wild flowers blanket the mountain sides and early risers will have the opportunity to see deer and elk along with many species of birds and smaller animals. In all ways, this forest is beautiful, bountiful and productive.

You can do as much or as little as you please in an unregimented form of vacation. It’s here for you and I hope you will join us.

Yours for a great outdoors experience.

For Sale Asking Price $1,100,000.00

Spectacular location in the White River National Forest. Several improvements include lodge, 8 cabins, cold storage, laundry house, tool house, corrals,generator house, tack/feed shed. Great opportunity to build on a well established hunting/fishing business or a personal retreat for the outdoors man lookingfor solitude. Ripple Creek runs directly in front of the Lodge. There is no real estate for sale. The sale is business and improvements only. Buyer must apply for a special use permit with the White River National Forest Service.

Steamboat celebrates fall with a beer tasting featuring the best breweries in Colorado. Join us from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 20, 2008 for the 2nd Annual Steamboat Brewers’ Festival. The festival takes place on the mountain at Torian Plum Plaza, right in front of the Slopeside Bar & Grill. This event […]

Standing on the championship-distance tee box of Number Four at Haymaker Golf Course, the hole is a distant 457 yards away. If you’re a golfer of my caliber, though, your ball takes a longer and more circuitous route to the green. Slice your shot off the tee and you’re headed toward a wetland between the […]

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — As projects in Colorado’s high country and major metropolitan areas are being cancelled due to lack of sales, there is one shining star in the mix from Steamboat Springs: Edgemont. The area’s  newest slopeside community sold $45 million in one day last week with an average sales price of more than $2 […]

A sampling of green building, sustainable and conservation practices employed at Marabou includes:
- Preservation of a sharptail grouse lek
- Community buildings sided with wood recycled from miles of aging snow fences in Wyoming
- Grazing cattle kept away from the river corridor to allow the recruitment of young cottonwood trees
- Use of solar panels and wind […]