Making art out of SPAM

In some parts of the world, like Hawaii, it’s a delicacy; some people consider it the opposite. SPAM was the highlight of the Durango Welcome Center’s Steampunk Snowdown event Sat...

‘It’s awfully dangerous’

Broomball is bruiser on the Chapman Hill ice

On the catwalk

Snowdown Feline Fashion Show walks for the 37th year

Children shake a Steampunk Snowdown leg

Children and parents kicked off their day at the Steampunk Snowdown Preschool Dance Party on Saturday morning at the Durango Public Library. Linda and Neil Dolder, parents of Audr...

Weather takes the air out of Snowdown’s balloons

If you can’t see, you can’t fly. From a frosted field in the Animas Valley, two hot air balloons rose from within a winter fog Saturday morning. Crowds circled the inflating gian...

Pole dancing reels in the crowds

It takes a brave soul to dance on a pole in front of hundreds of onlookers. “(My friends) made me do it,” said Bambi Jeter of Lubbock, Texas, and a senior at Texas Tech, and one ...

The ups and downs at Chapman Hill

The uninitiated might assume the skier would have the advantage. “Take a seat and watch,” veteran Chapman Challenge contestant Steve Ilg advised just before Friday night’s uphill...

Twisting the night away

People twisted their bodies into all kinds of shapes Friday night at Moe’s. After several rounds, it came down to Beth Reynolds and Madi Hogarth. In the end, Hogarth p...

Wet and wild steampunk

Did somebody say “slushdown”? Umbrellas were a popular steampunk accoutrement on one of the wettest Snowdown Fridays in recent memory. But the weather certainly didn’t...

Steam from floats, rain from sky

A little bit of snow mixed with rain, or sleet, or whatever you want to call it, didn’t stop the Snowdown Light Parade from being the big draw that it annually is on Snowdown Friday along Ma...

Steamy swimsuits heat up Rochester

With snow falling on the patio of the Rochester Hotel, The Ultra Sexy Steam Swimdown got off to a slow start. Friday’s chilly, wet weather wasn’t ideal for a swimsuit contest, bu...

Flour, marshmallows and Spam

With help from FLC, Bed Rally returns