The Colorado ski town set off this monster 62 inch, 2,797 lbs mortar packed with 380 individual comet fireworks back in 2020 during their annual Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival. The master pyrotechnicians at Steamboat Fireworks were behind the explosive display and used a 26 foot steel tube buried in Emerald Mountain to launch the mortar at 300mph to an altitude of nearly 1 mile in the air before it detonated.
Steamboat Springs, Colorado, home to Steamboat Ski Resort, recently gained 104 more units of affordable housing from an unlikely source. Jason Blevins of The Colorado Sun reported on resident billionaire Mark Stevens' purchase of the Riverview Apartment Complex, and subsequent slashing of the rent prices. Though Stevens' identity was initially concealed through an LLC and his investment firm S-Cubed Capital, Blevins tracked down Stevens' involvement in the purchase.