If a bill introduced in Congress this month is adopted, national forests in Colorado would get to keep millions of dollars in fees that ski areas pay annually for permits to operate on public lands. “Every year we send a…
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Wolf Creek is getting clobbered again with fresh snow, but the southern Colorado ski area known for historically prodigious snowfall was unable to open Wednesday because of high winds and low visibility. The area reported 10 inches of new snow…
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This winter’s trend of exceptional snowfall accumulations at Colorado resorts will remain in effect this week with snowfall likely every day through Friday across the state. And another storm is due on Sunday. By the end of the week, locations…
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Thanks to exceptional snowfall the past two months, the ski season at Steamboat has been extended for an additional week. Many destination ski resorts are reluctant to extend their spring seasons, even when snow cover on their slopes is substantial,…
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By ANDREW DAMPF and ERIC WILLEMSEN MERIBEL, France (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin covered her mouth with her fluorescent orange mittens and then collapsed to the snow, still breathing heavily as her entire body pulsated from the exertion of her gold…
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Steamboat Mountain Resort couldn’t open for skiing and riding Wednesday because of adverse weather conditions. A resort official blamed the closure on high winds and extreme wind chill. At mid-afternoon the temperature at mid-mountain was 9 degrees with winds from…
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With so few hours of daylight, winter ski vacations often feel like a race against time. How can you pack in as much skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, hot tubbing and ice skating as possible before the sun goes down? The…
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An official of Outside Inc., the Boulder-based company which owns Warren Miller films, has refuted reports speculating the brand will no longer feature fresh content shot in exotic locales and that it plans to rely instead on archival footage. “What…
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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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