Backcountry skiers and riders should not miss this educational avalanche awareness day at Arapahoe Basin. Participants can compete to see who can find the buried beacon the fastest. Prizes in amateur and professional divisions; visit www.a-basin.net.

February, 2009
RIVER RUN WINTER FESTIVAL
Be sure not to miss this year's winter festival in River Run Village! There will be a beautiful and educational ice-sculpting exhibition, performances from the fantastic Cosmic Fire Dancers, an extravagant fireworks display, with an evening dance party hosted by the inimitable scratch-maestro DJ Siren.

February 5, 2009
MARDI GRAS STREET PARTY AND PARADE
It's "Rock over New Orleans, Rock On Keystone" 20th as the River Run Village transforms into the French Quarter on one of the wildest nights in the world! Keep one hand free for a drink and the other ready to catch the traditional Mardi Gras beads when the Float Parade goes by! There will be dancing, music, festivities, zany costumes, good food and drinks.

For those interested in the Gumbo Competition, please contact Josh Blanchard at 970-496-4613, or write by email at josh@keystoneneighborhood.com

February 14, 2009
Bring your sweetheart and your skills and join us for a Valentines Day Rail Jam in A-51 terrain part on Saturday at 1 pm. It's a chance to showcase your skills and win prizes by slaying select signature features or just come out and watch it all go down! Anyone can participate, girls, guys, snowboarders and skiers. Top cash prizes go out to placing competitors in each category.

February 24, 2009
MARDI GRAS
The River Run Events Plaza has been converted to the Big Easy! Snatch those traditionally famous beads tossed from the wacky contestants of Keystone's Float Parade. Drinking, dancing, bead collecting and a Float Parade complete with the Keystone Zamboni fashion a day of crazy festivities. Let the jubliant sounds and sweet aromas tempt you from the heart of the action. River Run's scenic balconies are a great location to view the festival's center stage featuring live music in concert! Don your feather mask, grab a hurricane and bundle up for one of the wildest events of the winter.

MARCH

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March, 2009
SUNDOWN SHOWDOWN
Every Thursday in March there is a jam session in the A51 terrain park starting at 4:30pm. Show us your skills on your board or skis and win prizes. Anyone can participate, -- girls & guys. An awards party with music video will be held afterwards at the Green Light in River Run Village.

March 2009
RUDYARD KIPLING'S PUPPET SHOW
Watch a live performance with puppets and actors of Rudyard Kipling's Rikki Tikki Tavi produced by the Lake Dillon Theater Company at 5pm on Saturdays in Keystone Village; $5 per person.

March 6-8, 2009
WINTER CULINARY FESTIVAL
Come experience a sampling of local specialties from Keystone's award-winning restaurants including the Keystone Ranch, Ski Tip Lodge, Alpenglow Stube and more! The Outpost, located atop Keystone's North Peak will be transformed into a tasting lodge for guests to pamper their palates and delight their taste buds. In support of Keystone and Vail Resorts Appetite for Life Program, chefs will be serving sustainable and organic ingredients in several dishes. This event is also a zero-waste event where all trash will be recycled and/or composted.

March 2009
TREELINE TERRAIN PARK RAIL JAM
The Treeline Terrain Park will host a rail jam for jibbers. Prizes will be awarded to top competitors. Register by 12:30pm and competition starts at 1:00pm; registration is FREE!

March 2009
PARTY WITH PADDY CELEBRATION
Not since that incomparable hero of old Ireland, Finn MacCuaill, conked his sconce on the blarney stone of the river Boyne trying to catch the salmon of knowledge has there been such a tremendous event in our good green land of Keystone. Come and see for yourself at this year's St. Patrick's Day celebration! There will be good food, good music, good drink certainly, good enough to make not just Irish eyes smile. Bring your best pair of green pants should someone invite you to an old Irish two-step! If you have any questions, please call 970-496-4FUN.

March 28, 2009
BLUES AND BBQ
Jazz up your weekend with a spicy afternoon of authentic barbecue and silvery blues music. River Run's Blues and Barbecue Festival is loaded with spring pleasures and soul-soothing indulgences. The savory Saturday features our resort's chefs and restaurants grilling up a storm! Satisfy those "end-of-the-ski-season blues" with dynamic live music, and lip smacking brews. Don't miss this day of fun!

March, 2009
RIVER RUN BLUES & BBQ FESTIVAL
Save some room breakfast morning for an afternoon of mouth-watering BBQ and righteous blues. Everyone's going to be a little blue with the end April 11, 2009
VOLCOM PEANUT BUTTER AND RAIL JAM
The Peanut Butter and Rail Jam is Volcom's free amateur snowboard contest series. The goal of the series is to give something back to the kids. Deviating from the established way snowboard contests are run, Volcom put their heads together and came up with a fresh format. Instead of having rails or features set up in a row, three rails are dug in side-by-each to create a single, large rail zone. The event is absolutely free, on a first come first serve basis, and boasts tons of free prizes and PB&J sandwiches! Also, everyone who enters walks away with a Volcom PBRJ shirt plus other goodies.

April 11, 2009
RIVER RUN EASTER EGG HUNT - Free from 10am-2pm

April 12, 2009

KEYSTONE MOUNTAIN CLOSES for the ski season

MAY

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May, 2009
SHAKIN' AT THE BASIN FREE CONCERT SERIES -
Arapahoe Basin heats things up this May with the Shakin’ at the Basin free May Concert Series from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the base area.

May 9 – Boo Daddy – High energy rock, funk, Motown and dance

May 16 – Pride of Five – Classic rock

May 23 – Coral Creek – Bluegrass

May 24 - That Eighties Band


May, 2009
SATURDAY'S IN MAY!
FREE RAIL JAMS IN TREELINE TERRAIN PARK
Starts at 10am!



May 24, 2009
ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF BREWPUBS
Sample beer from 5 Summit County brewpubs for only $20!