Snowmass Royal Challenge is sired by the 2004 Futurity Fawn Male Color Champion Snowmass Royal Challenger one of the most impactual fawn males in both Snowmass Alpaca's and Tripping Gnome Farm's colored breeding programs. Snowmass Royal Challenge has followed in his sire’s footsteps from the beginning of his career by taking a first as a juvenile at the 2006 Futurity. At the 2007 Futurity, Snowmass Royal Challenge would take the blue in his yearling class and the 2007 Futurity Light Fawn Male Color Champion. He would finish his show career as a 2 year old with a first place at the 2008 AOBA National Show. Snowmass Royal Challenge embodies the classical Snowmass look with a full wool cap and great phenotype. His fleece is out of this world with unbelievable density, great architecture from skin to tip, and a soft fine handle. A pre-potent herdsire as he has passed these characteristics on to his offspring he has already produced multi -color champions in his daughters. Not only did he get championship genetics from his father, but his dam Snowmass Andean Sky won first place at the 2004 Futurity as a medium fawn juvenile female. Her strong color genetics from her sire Snowmass Andean Bronze and her dam 6 Peruvian Cambria has allowed Snowmass Royal Challenge to produce several brown color champions. We are truly indebted to Don and Julie Skinner for entrusting Snowmass Royal Challenge to us. It was this opportunity that has allowed our farm to consistently produce champion caliber cria.

We were thrilled when the results of the 2010 ABOA National Spin-Off were announced and Keeper was awarded first place in the whites for her age group AND earned the highest score of all 64 white huacayas entered. We purchased "Keeper's" full Accoyo dam, Choral Bells, at the Snowmass auction. She had a beautiful male cria at side at the time and had been bred back to Snowmass Quechua (now deceased), one of Snowmass's main herdsires, again. Seeing how beautiful that male cria was convinced us to purchase Choral Bells in spite of the fact that the cria she was carrying would not be full Accoyo. We were ecstatic when Keeper was born. Not only is she simply the most adorable cria born on our farm but she has some of the most exquisite fiber to go along with her perfect conformation, sturdy legs and correct bite. She has some of the tightest bundles that travel from her topknot to her tail and her spine all the way down to her belly. And, her fineness is remarkable--not hard to believe considering her mom had a 17.9 micron as a four-year-old, and the fineness of her sire.

Four time fleece champion Copperfield is a Hemiaccoyo! One of only a few east of the Mississippi! Copperfield was purchased for our breeding program. Copperfield is very conformationally correct with a compact body style. He has above average density with a beautiful high frequency crimp which has a highly sought after uniformity of micron. We are extremely pleased with his crias. Copperfield is stamping his beautiful crimp style onto all of them. He improves uniformity of micron and added brightness, density and bone to his crias. He also lets color come through with crias on the ground in light fawn, dark fawn and medium brown.