“Do you hear that sound?” asked my host Ray Heid, sun-crinkled and dressed in his signature cowboy hat and homemade elk hide duster, as he turned to look up at a plane flying through the brilliant blue haze above. “That’s the sound of money coming into Steamboat.”
Bobby Aldighieri remembers a time right before he went to the 1992 Olympics in France when he had to have not one, but two ACL reconstructions, back-to-back on his right knee.
An alpine skier from Steamboat Springs hasn’t been to the Olympics since Caroline Lalive in 2002. The last time a male alpine skier from Steamboat made the Olympics was Chad Fleischer in 1998.