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Featured Festival Rio Frio Ice Fest & the Rio Frio on Ice 5K. HeidiTown.com
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Where can you watch a fire and ice bonfire, run a 5K on a frozen river, celebrate a 167-year-old mountain expedition, take a polar plunge and so much more? At the Rio Frio Ice Fest in Alamosa, Colorado in the beautiful San Luis Valley. A lot of HeidiTown stories came from our 2016 trip to Rio Frio Ice Fest, and I guarantee if you attend, you’ll have more than a

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While I’ve been a very competent walker since I was 2 years old, running isn’t really my thing. However, when Jeff Owsley, founder of the Rio Frio on Ice 5K asked me to come to Alamosa, Colorado to run his new 5K on the frozen Rio Grande River, I decided to do it. After all, I thought, it would make a good story. It did more than make a good