Events

The Annual Potluck is held on Wednesday prior to the hunt at the Palmer Lake Town Hall. Volunteers bring a dish to share and then the souvenir lapel pins ae made for the hunters. The small willow branches are notched, the year stamped on the bottom, and pine branches are tied on with red ribbon.

With red and green capes flying, hundreds of children and adults dash into the snowy woods near Palmer Lake, Colo. scrambling up and down slippery slopes and laughing as they search beneath evergreen boughs and bushes for the town's hidden Yule log. Within 15 minutes, whoops and shouts of "over here" rise from a ravine […]