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Rollins Pass at over 11,000 feet. This made winter travel to Hot Sulphur Springs hazardous and arduous in the deep snow and difficult conditions. As preparations commenced for the winter carnival, Karl Howelson and Angell Schmidt boarded a train in Denver and headed for the snowy peaks to the west. As the train stopped on the Continental Divide at Corona, Howelson and Schmidt disembarked. The two natives of Norway strapped on skis and slung rifles and thirty-five-pound backpacks with their ambitions set on Hot Sulphur Springs. Covering over forty miles in around nine hours, Howelson and Schmidt arrived in a town in a festive celebration.
Hot Sulphur Springs enthusiastically embraced all
things winter sports. Ice-skating, tobogganing, and cross-country skiing were all on tap for the Hot Sulphur Springs Winter Sports Carnival. Howelson and Schmidt added the final component to the snow fest line- up—ski jumping. The crowd watched in amazement
as Howelson and Schmidt sailed through the air and landed safely on the snow.
The brochure from the First Annual Hot Sulphur Springs Winter Sports Carnival in 1912. GCHA
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