SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4 ) — On the busy city streets next to Temple Square, thousands of Utahns gathered to watch skiers and horses run skijoring courses in an inaugural event on Saturday.
To spark some Western heritage fun in the heart of Utah’s largest city, Visit Salt Lake hosted the first Salt Lake Winter Roundup to take place in downtown Salt Lake, dumping more than 500 metric tons of snow on West Temple in preparation.
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The event centered around the skijoring competition, where horses pulled skiers across the streets who collected rings as quickly as possible. The one-day festival also had food trucks, curling, bounce houses and a mechanical bull.
Kaitlin Eskelson, president of Visit Salt Lake, said festival officials pulled the event together within a month in an effort to provide a family-friendly weekend activity in downtown Salt Lake. She said skijoring felt like the best activity for the festival.