Skijoring in Leadville

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A cowboy, a horse and a ski bum walk into a saloon.
No punch line: the group is in Leadville’s 145 year-old Silver Dollar Saloon, and these three are preparing to compete in the town’s 76th annual Ski Joring competition.
One of the longest continuous skijoring competitions in the world and the self-proclaimed “Grandaddy of ‘em All,” Leadville’s skijoring not only brings crowds to main street, but it helps preserve the town’s history as well.
“It’s an absolute adrenaline rush,” said Tony Fox, a retired skijoring competitor who volunteers for the event every year.
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[@TheWhatTheGeorge]

This is an awesome video and such a fun event. What is not being shared is that it is a HUGE event for the area. Everywhere within an hour is a small town, and during that time of year everything is just beginning to thaw from a long snowy winter. Locals are itching for some energy filled activities to stretch out into the wilderness for the season. This makes for some high energy competition at high elevation (11,000ft). As someone who lived out there for years, it is neat to see people travel in from the "big city" and even further to our remote, beautiful, area to share whats new in the world outside of the mountains and experience some of our old traditions.

[@ruger8412]

Proud attendee of many winter carnivals when I lived in Steamboat springs. Steamboat still does it right down Lincoln Avenue aka hwy 40 aka main street but it started much earlier than Leadville Steamboats started in 1915 during its 2nd winter carnival.

[@karlweber9158]

"promo sm"