PHOTOS: 2020 Whitefish Winter Carnival Grand Parade
Matt Baldwin Daily Inter Lake | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 5 years, 1 month AGO
The annual Whitefish Winter Carnival Grand Parade took place Saturday, Feb. 8, in downtown Whitefish. The theme for the 2020 Carnival was “Roaring 20s.” Thousands of spectators lined Central Avenue to watch the parade of colorful floats and Carnival characters.
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3 decades of surfing Big Mountain
Stumptown Snowboards owner Joe Tabor proudly displays his first snowboard on the back wall of the store in downtown Whitefish. He handcrafted the solid-wood, arrowhead-shaped behemoth as a young boy in a school shop class in 1982. Stickers are plastered on the nose of the board where a rope is attached for steering — no bindings or boots required.
Ski program introduces kids to the slopes
The 3 degree temperature matched the age of the eager skiers who gathered at Whitefish Mountain Resort on Wednesday morning for their weekly lesson with the Ski and Ride School’s Buckaroos program. The frigid weather wasn’t of much concern for the little ones. Plenty of hot laps and high fives — and maybe even a hot cocoa — were on tap for the day to keep them warm.
Another arctic punch on the way
As the saying goes, March will roar in like a lion as another arctic front bears down on the region, this time bringing the coldest temperatures of the season.