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5 Questions with Scott Baker of Icebox Knitting Mill By Pratik Joshi Icebox Knitting owner Scott Baker sets up a knitting machine on Wednesday. (Lewis Geyer Scott Baker’s background in regional and urban planning and entrepreneurship helps him quickly understand the ever-changing business landscape. Since 2006, when he became part owner of Icebox Knitting Mill, he […]

FEATURED LOCAL ART & ARTISTS Published on October 5, 2018Author steamboatsir A WHOLE NEW LANDSCAPE For local painter Lance Whitner, the idea of what constitutes a canvas has taken on new meaning. Next up: the coveted Steamboat Winter Carnival poster. When Lance Whitner got the green light to paint the side of a downtown Steamboat building, […]

Fall colors near Guanella Pass on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post) 2018 is a great year for the Aspen leaf color display. Hot days and cold night allow for an explosion of color. At 8500 feet our current daytime is 79° with nighttime lows dipping into the 40’s. Technically the “color […]

According to Arthur R. Railton, who wrote The History of Martha’s Vineyard, the history of the Grand Illumination dates back to 1868, when Erastus Carpenter, the developer responsible for the construction of Cottage City, as Oak Bluffs used to be called, asked several cottage owners to hang Asian paper lanterns from the eaves of their […]

4 Great (and Unexpected) Places to SUP Around Boulder, https://rootsrated.com/stories/places-to-sup-around-boulder Located on top of Flagstaff Mountain, Gross Reservoir is short 14 mile drive from Boulder.  The reservoir is named for Denver Water former Chief Engineer Dwight D. Gross, the reservoir was completed in 1954. It serves as a combination storage and regulating facility for water […]

As one of the world’s heaviest users of the internet, Canadians have embraced electronic commerce amid a major disruption in retail channels. Per eMarketer, as of March 2017, retail e-commerce sales totaled approximately C$1.2 billion. Retailers are investing in digital platforms to reach consumers dispersed over a vast land mass while responding to competition from […]

Trail riding is riding outdoors on trails, bridle paths, and forest roads, but not on roads regularly used by motorized traffic. A trail ride can be of any length, including a long distance multi-day trip. It originated with horse riding, and in North America, the equestrian form is usually called “trail riding,” or, less often […]

Do you pack everything including the kitchen sink to go camping or are you ready to go in 5 minutes? It’s difficult to decide whether or not you need some items especially when you still have room in the vehicle.  Seemingly camping is to escape the daily grind yet we tend to take way too […]

By Scott Baker , Owner Icebox Knitting, LLC I absolutely love the wildflowers in Colorado.  I learned at young age which ones can and cannot picked and how to arrange and tie them into a bouquet with long blades of grass. My mother holds a 3rd degree master in Ikebana and although I’ve never had […]

1 Google images To get  in the mood check out this drone video of the Erie single track area. One nice thing about living in Colorado is that we can ride our mountain bikes pretty much year round.  Although we frequently forget that as soon as the sun goes down it’s freezing cold pretty much […]