{"id":2452579,"date":"2019-12-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=318252"},"modified":"2019-12-25T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T12:00:00","slug":"snowmass-history-snow-polo-off-of-brush-creek-road-circa-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/snowmass-history-snow-polo-off-of-brush-creek-road-circa-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowmass History: Snow Polo off of Brush Creek Road circa 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-122519-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-122519-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-122519-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-122519-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-122519-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-122519-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/history-svs-122519.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"><figcaption><strong>One color photograph of a snow polo player at the World Snow Polo Championship, December 1999. The matches were held at Cozy Point Ranch at the bottom of Brush Creek Road. Snowmass Ski Area is visible in the background. Photo taken by Mary Eshbaugh Hayes.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy photo\/The Aspen Histori<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">Snow Polo is a modified version of polo played in the snow and was first introduced in St. Moritz in 1985. Comprised of three players on each team, the horses are shod with special cleated shoes to provide traction in the slippery arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The only U.S. competition is held in the Roaring Fork Valley, and the World Snow Polo Championship event was held at the Cozy Point Ranch at the intersection of Highway 82 and Brush Creek in December of 1999.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/snowmass\/snow-polo-off-of-brush-creek-road-circa-1999\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One color photograph of a snow polo player at the World Snow Polo Championship, December 1999. The matches were held at Cozy Point Ranch at the bottom of Brush Creek Road. Snowmass Ski Area is visible in the background. Photo taken by Mary Eshbaugh Hayes.Courtesy photo\/The Aspen Histori Snow Polo is a modified version of [&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":["post-2452579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 00:33:23","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\/2452579","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=2452579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}