Good, cold fun

For the first time in its five-year history, the Sundance Winter Festival was not blessed with sunshine or unusually warm temperatures on Saturday. Of course, that did little to dampen the spirits of the crowds who lined the streets determined to follow the commentators' advice to make sure they didn't go home that night hungry or sober.

The crowd may have been smaller and the temperatures low, but the atmosphere was as festive as ever as revelers came from far and near to watch the ski joring and bar stool races. The first horse and skier partnership raced down the course at 9 a.m., but th...