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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SPINDLERUV MLYN, Czech Republic — Mikaela Shiffrin celebrated with a shoulder wiggle and a bright smile Saturday after dominating a slalom and moving within one victory of the 34-year-old World Cup record of 86 wins. The American showed no signs…
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SAN VIGILIO DI MAREBBE, Italy (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin didn’t wait long to add to her record total of World Cup wins. A day after securing record victory No. 83, Shiffrin added her 84th win on Wednesday in another giant…
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It seemed like pure Hollywood fantasy when Robert Redford’s character beat the favored Austrian to win Olympic gold in the classic Alpine skiing film “Downhill Racer,” a movie released more than half a century ago. These days, the U.S. ski…
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