The Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club is coming back with their Annual Winter Carnival 2011 in early February. Celebrating their 98th anniversary this year, the club is gearing up with all the more fun activities, maintaining its age old heritage since 1914.
The whole purpose of this festival is to help the folks overcome their cabin sickness in winter and join the fun and interaction with the entire community through the festival.
The exciting street events and marvelous entertainment shows pull event the laziest outdoors. Events such as kids on snowboards being pulled by horses, or the Diamond Hitch parade, or ski joring, and many such fun activities, aw kids to the ground and people to the audience row to watch them in action. Lincoln Avenue and Howelsen Hill deck up in the best with lights and firecrackers in the dark.
The horse events form a special part of the festival. The volunteers work really hard on training the horses for the event. The horses are specifically shod with cleat for footing on the snow bed. They even need to be specially trained to perform with such a huge crowd and cheer voices around. The non-horse events are nonetheless interesting.
The suite of the famous lighted man show’s man weighs 70pounds, a 12-volt DC gas battery empowering it with 32 Roman candles, 12 sky rockets, and a number of flash lights studded a football helmet.
The winter carnival starts on 2nd February 2011 and will g on till 6th February 2011. The city of Steamboat Springs can not wait to deck itself up for the annual winter carnival.
History Of Steamboat Annual Winter Carnival
Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club initiated the Annual Winter Carnival in 1914 for the first time with the honest effort to relieve people of the zone from spending winters lazily under the quilt and enjoy the snow and temperature and warm themselves up. The carnival is being held on the first half of February every year.
The popular event of the Lighted Man show started in 1936 with Claudius Banks, then he was joined by his son Jon Banks and the first evening show of the concept was held in 1939.
The Winter Carnival also raises the annual fund for SSWSC where people are encouraged to buy and sport the official winter carnival button to show support to the concept and the club.
For more detailed history of the event please log into the official website of the annual winter carnival.
Activities At The Steamboat Annual Winter Carnival
Ring & Spear : The participants with skis and a spear in hands will have to five rings hanging from ropes on five stands placed on the street. The skis will be dragged by horses and the kids will have to collect the rings on the move and the winner will be with maximum number of rings in shortest time span.
Ring & Box : The participants on skis dragged by horses will have to drop rings given to them in the washtub and the winner will be to do so in the shortest time span.
Donkey Jump : The participants on skis dragged by horses will have to jump off a 2-ft rise and the winner will be the one to cover the longest distance and stand upright.
Street Slalom : The participants will have to ski a range of slalom while dragged by a horse through a queue of cones. The winner will be to finish the series in shortest time span.
Shovel Race : The participants will place themselves on a shovel or a spoon kind of thing and will be dragged by a horse ant one to complete the course line first will be the winner.
25 Yard Dog & Dad Dash : Children under 5yrs of age will be dragged on a sled by the family dog led by the parent, and the one to cross the finish line will be the winner.
Obstacle Course : The participants will race skiing through a number of obstacles and the first one to reach the end point will be the winner.
3-Legged Race : Two people form each pair of contestants and a leg of each of them will be tied to the other on ski and they will race and the pair to touch the ending point will be the winners.
For more details about the sports activities and event schedule of the annual winter carnival please log into the official website of the event.
Beat the biting cold in winters and pep yourself up with the range of exciting events and activities at the 98th Annual Winter Carnival.
Contact Details
Address: SSWSC, 845 Howelsen Hill Parkway, Colorado 80477, USA.
Phone: 970-879-0880 , (970)879-0695
Fax: (970)879-7993
Email: sswsc@sswsc.org
Website: www.sswsc.org
