All-female ski festival, complete with a naked lap, finds new home in Colorado
The coyly named Boot Tan Fest comes to Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort in March
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A female-focused ski festival that features a signature buns-out lap returns in 2024, this time to a new home resort.
Boot Tan Fest, as it’s coyly called, comes to Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort in Glenwood Springs on March 29-30 inviting women, female-identifying and nonbinary individuals to enjoy a weekend of skiing, special events and the camaraderie of a supportive community.
Jenny Verrochi started Boot Tan Fest somewhat inadvertently in 2021 after organizing a casual, ladies-only naked lap at Bluebird Backcountry near Kremmling. In 2022, it became a ticketed event welcoming 200 people for a ski day that concluded with a run in the buff. In 2023, the event grew to 450 people.
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“It is the best feeling,” Verrochi previously told The Denver Post.
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But in July, Bluebird Backcountry closed leaving the fate of the unique event in limbo. Verrochi solicited resorts from West Coast to East Coast and was pleasantly surprised by how many offered to host. She ultimately decided to keep it close to home.
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