“High Speed, Horse-Powered Chaos”: Inside Colorado’s Annual Skijoring Event

“High Speed, Horse-Powered Chaos”: Inside Colorado’s Annual Skijoring Event

Jason Decker wrecked the other day. It wasn’t a big deal, he says, as he’s been doing this for forty years. His prescription for being attached to a horse and flung to the ground is ibuprofen and rest, by the way. You never know when the fever might get a hold of you and you find yourself in Leadville, Colorado, during one of their biggest days of the year. It’s called skijoring, and it’s nothing new. For centuries, the Sami people of Norway, Sw…