You could plan your weekend around Saturday’s live broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera at Fort Lewis College, but then you’d be missing out on some of this weekend’s true best bets, which, in case you’ve been living under a rock like Patrick Star on “SpongeBob SquarePants,” is Snowdown 2019, Get Your Comic On!
Here are just a few crowd-pleasing events this weekend. For a full schedule, visit www.snowdown.org.
Waiter/Waitress Race, 2 p.m., Steamworks Brewing Co., 801 East Second Ave. (in the alley).
Bed Races, 4:30 p.m., between Seventh and Eighth streets on Main Avenue.
Light Parade, 6 p.m. (dusk), downtown, Main Avenue.
Balloon Rally & Mass Ascension, 8 a.m., U.S. Highway 550 on the north side of Hermosa Meadows Road. (Park at Animas Valley Elementary School.)
Canine Fashion Show, 1 p.m., McDonald’s parking lot, 201 West College Drive.
Outhouse Stuffing, 1 p.m. Gazpacho Restaurant, 431 East Second Ave.
Snowdown Fireworks, 6 p.m., in the skies above Durango.
Closing Party, all day, Purgatory Resort, with the announcement of next year’s Snowdown theme.
