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If you searched for “Trollstigen” and Vail, Colorado in the same breath, hoping to find six giant wooden trolls scattered through the forest, here’s the honest answer: that trail doesn’t exist. The real Trollstigen is a short, well-loved path in Breckenridge, not Vail, and it’s home to exactly one troll, not six. His name is…
Mama Loumari isn’t actually hidden along Breckenridge’s Sawmill Trail — she lives more than 700 miles away in Bernheim Forest, Kentucky. The troll genuinely tucked into the woods near Breckenridge is her husband in artist Thomas Dambo’s fairy tale, a fellow named Isak Heartstone. If you scouted the trailheads around town looking for “Mama Loumari”…