I can't help it. The race course makes me think of the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride in Disney Land. First off, Steamboat Springs is Western themed, down to the hot air balloon with "Wild West" writen on it. True it is in the West, but it is definitely a themed resort town, like Frontierland. I tried to get Thai food last night, not to be had, plenty of steaks, however. The course is like a roller coaster laid out on the hillside winding through aspen groves and chimney rock formations jutting out of the snow. It's mostly those rocks that remind me of Thunder Mtn., red and cobbly and exagerated. Plus, there's the rodeo grounds at the start/finish like where you get on and off of the train at Thunder Mtn. So maybe I'll pretend I'm a train during the race. Except that roller coaster trains go exceedingly slowly up the hills, and that is NOT how I am going to go up them!