Double "O" Good is proud to announce the purchase of Snowmass Matrix for $675,000 from Julie & Don Skinner. SNOWMASS MATRIX IS THE FINEST FLEECED; HIGHEST CURVATURE QUECHUA SON STANDING IN THE WORLD. Snowmass Matrix is truly one in a million. The fact is this stud has the Premier genetics for high curvature and ultimate fineness. He is a compact robust and well proportioned stud, perfect overall score in frame, bite, body, and reproductive anatomy. He has a fleece that extends its superior qualities over his entire frame. WITH ONLY 11 ENTRIES HE TOOK RESERVE HERDSIRE OF THE YEAR IN US FUTURITY 2008 IN BOTH LIGHT AND COLOR. THE CONSISTENCY OF EXCELLENCE IN HIS PROGENY IS BEYOND REFUTE. Matrix has what we call a Merino x Vicuna style of crimp. He has a bit more organization in the expression of crimp than a true vicuna but a very high frequency of crimp indicative in the vicuna qualities. Most importantly this stud exhibits an extreme fineness, brightness, and consistency of fineness which is seen in the extension into extremities(hip, belly, shoulder neck and head). He has held these qualities as he has aged which is exactly what we are looking and breeding for. Histograms Shearing# Date AFD SD CV %>30 CURV SPIN Fineness 1 14.4 2.5 17.4 0.3 66.0 14.0 2 15.6 3.2 20.5 0.4 59.4 15.1 3 14.6 3.1 21.2 0.3 66.8 14.2 4 16.7 3.8 22.9 0.6 50.9 16.5 5 16.6 3.5 21.0 0.4 56.6 16.2 Matrix is a restricted herdsire and not part of our current Herdsire Hall of Fame. Outside breedings are limited to 10 in 2010.

Moon Kissed, MK is a large framed, big boned female, with a fine, uniform fleece. She has nice density and very good brightness. She grows a long staple, with a medium amplitude, medium frequency crimp style. Her primaries are very similar in size to her secondary fibers, resulting in a very soft hand. Farm visitors often point her out as their favorite. MK is a banner winner herself and has produced 2 offspring, who are both banner winners.

This is 14x CHAMPION and 3x JUDGE’S CHOICE WINNER-ESTATES PASSIONATE FEVER! SOPRIS Alpaca Farm purchased 1/3 interest in him at The Futurity Sale in 2022. We proudly co-own him with Crescent Moon Ranch and Red Granite Ranch. The following was gleaned from Fever's page published by Alpaca Country Estates. Fever is the son of Snowmass Pure Passion, an outstanding champion producing stud with 5 GET-OF-SIRE Blue Ribbons, . Snowmass Alpacas said, “Snowmass Pure Passion is the most magnificent Light Fawn Matrix son Snowmass Alpacas has ever produced.” That's a strong statement! Passionate Fever was a formidable opponent in the show ring. As a juvenile, he won Light Male Color Champion & the Judge's Choice award at the 2019 California Classic. Jude Anderson awarded Fever the Color Championship at the 2019 CABA Classic (out of 17). In 2019, Passionate Fever was evaluated as an A+ by senior AOA Judge Amanda VandenBosch. "He has excellent substance of bone, balance to frame, fiber coverage, good organization within staple, maintains consistency across fleece, moves to the extremities to neck, good density relative to fineness." Jill Marcellus said, "He’s a very refined looking male, He’s moderately sized, right in the middle there, & that can be very useful in a breeding program. He’s got good balance & proportion, excellent substance of bone, a very typey male with a good strong phenotype. I really like his head style as well. His fleece is very fine & exceptionally uniform in all the fleece traits. I pulled samples from all over the place on him & really there is virtually no difference from mid-side to right into the front shoulder area to over to the hip. That also carried through with the staple type and also the expression of character through the fleece. It’s very uniform right across his body and underneath his belly." SOPRIS Alpaca Farm was shopping for an impact male, capable of throwing color. Passionate Fever was ultimately our selection. We bred him to a hand full of females in the short time we had him in Western Colorado, and have 6 confirmed pregnancies for 2023.