CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Sofia Goggia solidified her status as the favorite for another downhill gold by winning Saturday for the fourth time on the course for next year’s Milan-Cortina Olympics. Lindsey Vonn, meanwhile, still has some work to do…
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Each month in Colorado, and every season, offers a chance to experience something that is definitively of this place. Sometimes this means a local festival or annual event, but often it’s just planning to take advantage of the season and…
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Richard Weber III proudly comes from a long line of Western Slope ranchers, and on a recent bluebird day with subfreezing temperatures, he looked the part. Standing amidst a crowd at the Ouray County Fairgrounds, Weber wore a red button-down…
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If you can pull yourself away from skiing or snowboarding, consider taking a few hours to visit a museum on your next ski adventure to restore your body and fuel your mind. Colorado is home to 28 ski areas and…
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Organizers campaigning to unionize ski patrollers are touting their momentum following the settlement of a strike at Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort and a vote last week in favor of forming a union at Arapahoe Basin. A-Basin patrollers voted to…
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Despite evacuations of a gondola at Winter Park and a lift at Telluride last month, along with several recent incidents of people falling from chairlifts, accidents related to mechanical failures are exceedingly rare, according to the state agency that regulates…
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With Colorado ski areas shifting into summer operations, resorts are opening trails to mountain biking — or will do so any day. Many utilize their chairlifts for “bike hauls,” requiring the purchase of trail passes for access. Copper Mountain allows…
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Colorado resorts racked up a record 14.8 million skier visits this past season, a million more than the previous record set last year, according to Colorado Ski Country USA. That represents approximately 23% of U.S. skier visits, according to a…
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Bill Goldstein was terrified the day he took his first lesson in adaptive skiing at Eldora Mountain Resort. He had moved from New York City to Colorado for skiing, only to lose his left leg soon after the move due…
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A solo skier was killed in an avalanche near Breckenridge Saturday, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. A 31-year-old man was caught, buried and killed in a “small but long-running” avalanche Saturday on Bald Mountain near Breckenridge, according to…
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