Day 2 in Steamboat
Kacie was shooting at 8am today at the ridiculous house at the base of Steamboat mountain. They have a ton of photos to do and got a lot done on this first day. I went to get some breakfast at place called “Freshies” here in Steamboat Springs. It was good, but 2 eggs, sausage, hash-browns and toast ran me about 18 bucks. While Kacie took her photos I got one of our boxes that we sent out. In the box was some of her photo gear, so after opening it up I headed back over to the house to drop some gear off and get the tour. It is an amazing place, Kacie might have a few shots to show you later, but she can’t put them up here yet. Once my tour was over and we hung about a bit there, I headed up north to Clark. First, once you get out of Steamboat there is nothing but high dollar homes dotting the county-side. After you get a little further out, it’s nothing but ranches… wide open spaces in between mountains. Clark was about 20 miles north of Steamboat and was pretty much ranches and one country store with a deli. It was a nice little store, nice people, and considering how far out they are, they had everything a Turkey Hill would have back home. Here’s a typical landscape of Clark, from the parking lot.
Kacie and her boss, Aaron, were shooting for about 6 and a half hours until the camera ran out of battery so I went back over to pick her up. Then we went back to the UPS store to get our other 2 boxes. Everything arrived safe, so we now have all of our stuff that was sent out here. Plenty of outdoor gear for our travels. Once we changed and got everything into our room, we decided to head up to see a local sightseeing spot, Fish Creek Falls. It’s a 280 foot waterfall about 15 minutes north of Steamboat Springs. It’s a tourist trap so it’s an easy hike to the lookout.
After that we drove around downtown Steamboat Springs to check out the little shops and restaurants. We also checked out a little park that is on the Yampa River, which runs the whole way through town. Then we needed to get back to change since we had 6:30 reservations at Rex’s, the restaurant attached to our hotel. It was a nice place, but we still got giant burgers and drinks. The fries were good too.
That was pretty much our first full day in Steamboat. Kacie has many more photos to do on Thursday. They are doing some night shots as well so they will start later and we can get some breakfast and wonder around town. But we’ll tell you about that later.
