Sometimes the best place to apres-ski is on a bus. “I love the fact that the end of a ski day, I don’t have to worry about trying to drive,” said Vici Dehaan, Boulder organizer for the Eskimo Club’s ski bus to Winter Park. “And we have food and wine that goes up and down […]
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When one of the Ski Train F40s went down, UP used its Rio Grande heritage unit to lead the train in February 2007, heading west at Rocky, Colo.
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by Steve Patterson/photos as noted
When Union Pacific was building the first Transcontinental Railroad westward from Omaha, Neb., it clipped across the northeast corner of Colorado at Julesburg, bound for its destiny at Promontory, Utah. Hardly two years old, the new city of Denver was terribly upset it wasn’t on the first railroad’s map. So the city leaders incorporated their own railroad to build from Cheyenne, Wyo., down to Denver. Banker David Moffat was selected as treasurer for Denver Pacific, the first railroad building into the state.
When Winter Park Resort opened for the season, it opened without the Eskimo Express.
The high-speed chairlift is still there, but it s been renamed: It s now the Explorer. In 2019, resort managers examined the names of trails and lifts, and determined that Eskimo was a “derogatory and offensive term that connoted barbarism and violence,” explains Jen Miller, communications manager at Winter Park. The name Explorer more accurately represents our resort, our brand, our team and our guests.”
But a name change doesn t end the discussion, as evidenced by comments on the
Man, imagine getting your panties in a twist because a ski lift got a new name. People be sensitive.