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The Tread of Pioneers Museum and the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club will host an evening with renowned historian Duane Vandenbusche, who will present “The History of Skiing in Colorado” at Olympian Hall at 5:30 p.m. March 11..
“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.”
It was more than 60 years ago, but legendary ski racer Billy Kidd still recalls a conversation he had with a ski school director in the Austrian village of St. Anton weeks before the 1964 Winter Olympic Games.