Attention ladies: If you’ve ever wanted to bare your backside in the backcountry, there’s an event this month that’s specifically designed as a safe space where you can drop trow. The Boot Tan Fest on March 15 invites women, female-identifying…
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Colorado skiers and snowboarders have been reveling in powder thanks to a major storm system that benefited all regions of the high country — but nowhere more than at Purgatory in the southwest corner of the state. Purgatory received 33…
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BEIJING — Mikaela Shiffrin completed the super-G at the Beijing Olympics on Friday in a time way out of medal contention — but for the first time in three races at the 2022 Games, she made it to the finish.…
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A decade ago, there were lift-served tubing hills in Beaver Creek, Minturn and Vail. The Meadow Mountain tubing hill in Minturn was the first to go, closing following the 2012 season. The Haymaker tubing hill in Beaver Creek closed following…
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BEIJING — Two-time Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin’s first trip down the race hill at the Beijing Games lasted just five turns and mere seconds Monday, ending in a disqualification from the opening leg of the giant slalom that she…
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You see it all the time at Colorado ski areas: Skiers get off the top chair, toss their skis and boards over their shoulders and hike off into the distance, even though there are perfectly good runs right off the…
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BEAVER CREEK — Ski racers settling into the start gate for Alpine World Cup events in the Rocky Mountains in early December squinted through sunshine that carried the temperature toward 50 degrees and glanced down at a course covered with…
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Athletes compete in the 2022 Winter X Games at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado. The event takes place January 21 through Jan. 23, 2022. Read more at the Denver Post
PARK CITY, Utah — Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin leads the 17-member list for the U.S. Alpine skiing team nominated Friday for the Beijing Winter Games. There are nine first-time Olympians on the roster, which still awaits confirmation from the…
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SCHLADMING, Austria — Mikaela Shiffrin won the last women’s World Cup slalom before the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, while her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova locked up the season title in the discipline. Racing on the challenging Planai course, the American…
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