Beneath partly cloudy skies Saturday, seven members of the American Legion Post No. 100 color guard fired off three rounds each, sending a golden retriever racing down Carbondale’s Main Street and kicking off the 112th…
The Sunlight Yeti kicks back and takes a ride up the lift for a ski run at Sunlight Mountain Resort. Chelsea Self / Post Independent
X marks the spot. Or in this case, a big dollar bill found somewhere on your cruise down the mountain.
Sunlight Mountain Resort will host Ski Spree Taste of Sunlight 2021 this weekend, a longtime promotional event that usually includes treasure hunts and a chili cook-out provided by various restaurants throughout the Roaring Fork Valley.
But the not-so-abominable Sunny Yeti this year is asking people to socially distance while participating in the Mountain Treasure Hunt and saying no to the chili cook out. Any riders lucky enough to spot an oversized dollar bill on the mountain can snag it, bring it back to the guest service office at the base lodge and exchange it for all sorts of goodies.
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They say Sunny Yeti was born somewhere near Elk Mountain, to an ancient tribe of furry creatures just like himself.
Beyond that, no one really knows where the benevolent beast of Sunlight Mountain truly comes from.
“It’s a long conversation with the yeti because he only converses in grunts and groans,” Sunlight’s marketing and sales director Troy Hawks said. “But he was watching folks from Ute (Trail) for years. We weren’t really aware of it.”
The yeti, in need of some love and affection, would eventually find the courage to come out of his shell. So, using his sasquatch feet like little sleds, he slid down the mountain, making quite the introduction on skier appreciation day in 2015.