Homegrown rodeos make it ‘Cowboy Christmas’ in the Rocky Mountain summertime – The Washington Post

Perspective | Homegrown rodeos make it ‘Cowboy Christmas’ in the Rocky Mountain summertime

From Carbondale to Snowmass, photographer Matt McClain visited small-town rodeos in Colorado and documented a piece of the West.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/08/04/homegrown-rodeos-make-it-cowboy-christmas-in-the-rocky-mountain-summertime/

It’s the end of July in a place known as “The Ultimate Rocky Mountain Hideout,” the tiny town of Carbondale, Colo., tucked beneath the soaring mountains just north of Aspen. Winter sports and the cold snows are absent. Summer around here is considered “Cowboy Christmas,” when the landscape is dotted with homegrown rodeos that have cowboys and crowds wandering from one small town to another.