{"id":2445482,"date":"2019-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=308138"},"modified":"2019-06-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:00:00","slug":"the-real-summer-show-in-snowmass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/the-real-summer-show-in-snowmass\/","title":{"rendered":"The real summer show in Snowmass"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"422\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/history-svs-061919.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/history-svs-061919.jpg 422w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/history-svs-061919-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\"><figcaption><strong>One color slide of a bronco rider at the Snowmass Rodeo, June 1998.<\/strong><br \/><em>Russell; John<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">Going back to the early days of the Snowmass Rodeo, the 1976 summer edition of the Aspen Magazine interviewed Doug McLain, founder of the Rodeo, in the article Rodeo: True Western Grit. \u201cAt Snowmass Stables the traditional skills of the West are enthusiastically preserved in such rugged events as calf roping and bare back riding. \u2018It kind of bugs me,\u2019 says Doug McLain, owner of the Snowmass Stables. \u2018Everyone is always writing about the Music Festival, and the rodeo doesn\u2019t get any coverage. But really, it\u2019s the biggest weekly event going on here in the summer.\u2019\u201d The Snowmass Rodeo started as a \u201cpractice rodeo\u201d for many folks, according to McLain, with \u201cbetween 100 and 120 contestants each week. Most of them are from Colorado, with a heavy representation from the Roaring Fork Valley. \u2026 \u2018Lots of our contestants are professionals who compete here for practice,\u2019 McLain says. Others are newcomers, trying to break into a tough sport. And of course some contestants enter for the sheer fun of it.\u201d With over 45 years now of weekly events, the \u201cfun\u201d is still being had.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/snowmass\/the-real-summer-show-in-snowmass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One color slide of a bronco rider at the Snowmass Rodeo, June 1998.Russell; John Going back to the early days of the Snowmass Rodeo, the 1976 summer edition of the Aspen Magazine interviewed Doug McLain, founder of the Rodeo, in the article Rodeo: True Western Grit. \u201cAt Snowmass Stables the traditional skills of the West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 22:37:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}