Love tour
Affairs of the Heart historical tour at the 114-year-old Brown Palace Hotel | Beginning at 1 p.m., Saturday Feb. 10, Feb. 13 and 14| For more information on the free tour, call 303-297-3111 or visit brownpalace.com
Historian Julia Kanellos knows all about romantic rendezvous and is willing to share them. Learn about hotel founder Henry C. Brown, who at 74, took a 22-year-old for this third wife. President Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower spent time at the Brown. There were also some scandalous affairs behind those venerate walls. Isabelle Sassy Springer, wife of John Springer who owned Highlands Ranch, was cavorting with her husbands business associate and another man. It all ended in gunshots in 1911.
Wild time
94th Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Winter Carnival | Wednesday-Saturday; feb. 7-11 check the schedule at sswc.org or call 970-879-0695
Ski Town USA will celebrate winter with legendary ski flying, a parade, fireworks, marching band on skis, parent-child downhills, and horse-drawn shovel and slalom races down Lincoln Avenue. Share jumps, chariot racing and a muzzle-loading biathalon with professional and amateur ski bums and bunnies at one of the Wests oldest winter carnivals.
