Christmas Traditions

Christmas is a religious holiday, a industrial holiday and a house time. It is the season when perfectly sane, or so it would seem until now, adults effort to correspond with 100 citizen they may not have heard from or seen all year. It's a time to re-connect. Ideally, we write hand written letters to contain in each card or at least a hand written note. Unfortunately many of us, myself included, write a general modernize letter and contain a copy with every card. At least a general modernize letter conveys the news of the year. The letter represents a gift of communication.

Christmas is more than gifts, it is also traditions. One of my treasured traditions in Steamboat is the torch light parade. The whole ski school educator staff, ski patrol and other privileged accomplished skiers achieve the torch light parade. We started at the top of the mountain in pitch black. Zero lights on the slopes. We each carried a torch. When you think 50 to 60 citizen with torches and sparks flying, you soon learn to wear something other than your popular ski outfit. Dream these skiers skiing down the mountain and performing discrete designs as they travel. Such a spectacular sight. We ski right down the face of the mountain from the gondola in full view of a crowd at the base of the mountain. Skiing in the dark presents a challenge, add the fact that you are retention a torch in the air and skiing in and out of formations at the same time. Such a beautiful and precision sight, from the bottom, but a bit different when you are the one on skis conducting the moves. Fortunately I have never seen whatever slip and fall. This would not be the ideal time for a domino effect.

Halo Toys

Another Steamboat tradition is the lighted man. The tradition started in the 1940s by Claudius Banks. Claudius started skiing down Howelsen Hill ski mountain with road flares strapped to his suit. The tradition started during the now-famous Steamboat Winter Carnival. His son Jon joined him in 1971 and the duo skied together until 1978. Jon has since moved away; however, he returns to Steamboat every year for Winter Carnival. It takes Jon 100 hours to rig his Nomex racing suit and another 100 hours with the pyrotechnic team to prepare for the 10 dinky run. He has rockets shooting from a halo around his head, rockets from the back of both shoulders, lights from the toe of his boots all the way up to his waist, lights exterior his ski poles and flares shooting from the top of his ski poles. The controls for all of these fireworks are placed in the handles of his ski poles. Oh, he also skis down in the dark. Talk about lighting up the holiday and carrying on a house tradition.

Family traditions form the basis of so my holidays. One of my personal favorites consisted of cookie baking. I remember endless hours in the kitchen with my mother baking. Mom's popular holiday treats were fudge, divinity and peanut brittle; however, we also baked several varieties of decorated sugar cookies and other delectable sweet treats. Mom learned to bake without recipes so she taught me art of creativity and instinct for baking. It served me so well that later in life I in effect owned, operated and did the bulk of the baking for a industrial bakery. Candy Mountain Culinary Creations busy the location at the base of the Steamboat Ski Mountain in the 1980s.

Mom also taught me to sing acappella during our baking time. Extraordinary benefits from a house holiday tradition.

I carried the cookie baking tradition send with my two sons. They pulled a chair up to the counter and "helped" by pouring in ingredients, mixing and dropping the cookies on to the cookie sheet. Not in effect obvious if their popular part was mixing, dipping a finger in to the dough, decorating or eating the warm cookies.

Whether you are celebrating Christmas in the mountains, or elsewhere, what a Extraordinary season to carry on house traditions or start new ones. Holidays are a great time to count your blessings.

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Christmas Traditions

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