Holidays at Vista Verde

We would like to wish all of you a very Happy Holiday season. We had fun last week combining Christmas with Hanukkah as they fell at the same time this year. So, we bounced between lighting the Menorah and spinning the dreidel to cutting down and decorating our Christmas tree and singing carols. The guests…

A Cabin in the Woods

Yesterday we hitched up the team and slapped on the skis for a trial run through a new addition to our winter program- Lunch at the Homestead cabin. We will serve lunch out at the old Homestead cabin once a week this winter for all our guests. So the staff got to be our guinea…

Winter is Here!

I flew back in from California yesterday to find that winter had arrived while I was gone.  Most of us took some portion of last week off to enjoy time with family and friends during the one major holiday that we aren’t open.  Steve and Kelli were down in Denver and took Maddie to her…

Fall Not finished

Soon enough color will sweep the mountains of Colorado offering a painted site for fall vacationers of Colorado’s wilderness. Coming from Indiana, this seems like an early Autumn, but for the short summer’s of Colorado it is completely normal. Maybe I’m getting ahead of myself, but Before we know it the first snowflake will hit…

Living it up at the Ritz

I just pulled back in from a fun getaway at the Ritz Carlton in Bacherlor Gulch (Beaver Creek/Vail area).  I was a Ritz rookie, but had the opportunity to go stay there for a meeting of the Colorado Dude and Guest Ranch Association (www.coloradoranch.com).  We have meetings twice a year, and the fall one is…