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By Steph As we gear up for our winter season to open on December 13, there is a lot of work to do.  The Lodge is getting decorated as I write this post.  The tree…

By Steph I’ve fallen off the blogging bandwagon this off-season.  It’s easy to do as it’s so quiet at the ranch and not much is happening.  Well, a lot is happening but not so much…

By Steph With only 22 days until the Steamboat Ski Resort opens for the 2014-15 season, and a fresh dusting of snow sitting on the mountains right now, it’s hard not to to finally get…

By Steph It’s off-season at Vista Verde right now.  What does that mean?  We’re not open for guests, most of the seasonal staff have headed home, either for a break before the winter season or…

By Steph Over the course of the summer, Erica (in charge of our kids program) has sent me photos from her adventures out in the mountains around Vista Verde.  Always by her side is her…

By Steph As we near the end of our season, we are all enjoying the last days of guests at the ranch.  Come October 18 things will get awfully quiet around here.  The last guests…

By Steph We are in our 5th adult-only week of the fall season.  So far, we have had some gangbuster weeks with a ton of great guests, lots of wonderful adventures, a mix bag of weather…

By Steph Something hit me the other day as I was talking to a couple guests at lunch.  They were telling me how they just love how we all seem to just be so happy.…

By Steph Vista Verde is often seen as being a “resort” as many folks can’t wrap their head around the fact that a guest ranch, or dude ranch, can be something more than what they saw…