Eldora and Echo Mountain are rejoicing in another upslope spring storm system, while the big resorts farther west mostly received much less. Eldora, which reported 11 inches Wednesday morning, has received more than 8 feet of snow since snowstorm trends…
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GENEVA — Women were the top three prize money earners on Alpine skiing’s World Cup circuit this season, the International Ski Federation said Monday. Lara Gut-Behrami was the highest prize earner with a total of 485,000 Swiss francs ($523,000) before…
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Three days after Vail Resorts chief executive Rob Katz announced in a letter to pass holders that there are no plans to require reservations for skiing and snowboarding next season, Winter Park did it one better. Reservations will no longer…
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Vail Resorts has big news to share when the company’s 2021-22 season passes go on sale Tuesday. The company’s announcement that it would be making this announcement dropped two weeks ago, a vague statement saying “this changes everything.” Some suspected…
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Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s new series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we will offer our opinions on the best that Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. (We’ll also let you in…
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If you’re a skier or snowboarder, you might want to ask for some time off next week if you have some vacation days to burn. A series of spring storms will bring remarkable amounts of snow to most Colorado ski…
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Arapahoe Basin Ski Area will limit the number of lift tickets sold each day and cap its number of season passes next winter to 10% fewer than were sold for the 2020-21 season. A-Basin Chief Operating Officer Al Henceroth made the…
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It’s not often that a ski area has to cope with ramifications of too much snow, but that was precisely the predicament Sunday at Echo Mountain, a modest operation with one chair lift located four miles south of Idaho Springs.…
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The memory of a rescue mission a decade ago still haunts Charles Pitman. Recalling the image of a father and uncle praying on a mountainside for a boy of 10 or 11 while rescuers performed CPR on him, Pitman paused…
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Now that the massive upslope storm system that has been stalking Colorado this week is only a few hours away, OpenSnow meteorologist Joel Gratz has fine-tuned his predictions for which mountains will get the most snow — and how much…
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