Luxury Dude Ranch in Steamboat Springs, Colorado
I tend to come into the ranch early to catch up on my office work while it’s quiet. Most mornings, I have the place to myself. However, on snowy mornings like today, I come into a world of humming machinery and lights of the pre-dawn posse glowing in the distance. It takes a small army…
DetailsFor the past several years, I’ve been wanting to add to our spa menu, especially for the Winter guest ranch season. It was tough to find someone who lived close by who would be on call for spa services. Emmanell has been our long standing massage therapist, and she is great. Finally, I stumbled across…
DetailsI’m still getting caught up from the holidays, so I don’t yet have the photos from the big night. For your culinary reading pleasure, here is the menu Chef Matt and the crew put together for our annual Progressive Dinner on skis and sleigh. It was a cold night, but the warm stops and great…
DetailsWinter Guest Ranches- Wild Blue Yonder By Gigi Ragland | January 1, 2011 Winter Guest Ranches Escape the crowds packed into the mountain towns and ski hills at one of our select guest ranches in the Rockies. The horses may be boarded up for the season, but the snow adds a whole new dimension to…
DetailsI’m still buzzing from last week. This year was truly one of the most exciting Christmases at Vista Verde for me. It’s always great here for the holidays, but this year may go down as the best ever in my book. Why? I’ve been trying to figure out what it was that created this above…
DetailsSteamboat Is Featured In Eddie Bauer Catalog– Shannon Luthy, Colorado Editor Steamboat received plenty of ink in the “Christmas in Steamboat” edition of the Eddie Bauer catalog. Page after page featured the northern Colorado town, also known as “Ski Town U.S.A.” Olympian’s were featured on a page titled, “Steamboat’s Legendary Winter Olympians Meet Up With…
DetailsLast week Christi blogged about how job titles are kind of a funny thing around here. I laughed as I started to write this week’s post as it is so, so true. Yes, my main role at the ranch is to focus on the reservations and marketing. Yet, last week I found myself out of…
DetailsThank you to Amanda Jones for a beautifully written story! Snow, Horses and Family in Steamboat Springs, Colorado– by Amanda Jones Reporting from Steamboat Springs, Colo. — When I was a teenager, I cut out a magazine photo showing a cowgirl riding a horse through thigh-high snow. The image was so exotic and romantic that…
DetailsSeveral weeks ago, when I was in the midst of the fall mud season….the time when we change from gorgeous fall weather to spectacular winter, I got a call from some guest friends who were vacationing in Hawaii. That time of year can be gray, dreary, rainy and just plain cruddy here in Steamboat Springs…
DetailsJob descriptions at any guest ranch are a bit vague, just ask Steph Wilson, director of Marketing and Reservations with a side of wrangling, yoga, winter guiding, training, purchasing…and well the list goes on. Sallie Hallmark, Front of the House Manager and myself can add Creative Designer to our job descriptions here at Vista Verde.…
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