VAIL — Maynard Welch didn’t know much about skiing when he was stationed at Fort Carson, near Colorado Springs, in the 1960s. Segregated Louisiana, where he was born in 1935, was a world away from the snowy peaks of the…
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MERIBEL, France — Amid a whirlwind 48 hours high in the French Alps, Mikaela Shiffrin woke up to the news that LeBron James had broken the NBA scoring record and the American skier immediately drew comparisons to her own record-breaking…
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If you’re like a lot of Front Range residents, you’ve taken the highway exits for Breckenridge, Keystone and Vail, some of the state’s biggest ski resorts. But you might not know much about Leadville, a mountain town with a rich…
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Jill Davis has been a skier since she was a child. She and her fiancé have skied on Epic and Ikon passes in recent years, but they’ve just about had it with increasingly crowded slopes and Interstate 70 traffic jams.…
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The historic Estes Park Aerial Tramway, designed by pioneering Colorado ski lift designer Robert Heron, may fall silent forever unless a buyer is found to take it over this year. Heron owned the tramway, which has been hauling tourists 1,100…
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Perspective. The big picture. Dealing with both success and failure. Mikaela Shiffrin did a lot of soul searching after she didn’t win a medal and didn’t finish three of her five individual races at last year’s Beijing Olympics after entering…
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Chad Fleischer has lived in Colorado ski towns all his life. The former U.S. Ski Team downhill racer and two-time Olympian grew up in Vail and has spent the past two decades in Steamboat Springs. When he says he’s never…
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Winter lodgings in Colorado come at just about every price point and design style, so why not make a hotel with history part of your winter skiing or sledding or soaking experience? No matter where you travel this winter, there’s…
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Nadia Guerriero first demonstrated an aptitude for making shrewd business decisions when she was 22 years old, fresh out of the University of Colorado and working for a Boulder sports agency that represented Olympic athletes. She was the fourth person…
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Colorado is no stranger to luxury ski resorts, so when it comes to splurging for a winter weekend, Beaver Creek — which not long ago held the tagline “not exactly roughing it” and is entered via security gates that are…
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