If you’re a skier or snowboarder, you might want to ask for some time off next week if you have some vacation days to burn. A series of spring storms will bring remarkable amounts of snow to most Colorado ski…
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Arapahoe Basin Ski Area will limit the number of lift tickets sold each day and cap its number of season passes next winter to 10% fewer than were sold for the 2020-21 season. A-Basin Chief Operating Officer Al Henceroth made the…
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It’s not often that a ski area has to cope with ramifications of too much snow, but that was precisely the predicament Sunday at Echo Mountain, a modest operation with one chair lift located four miles south of Idaho Springs.…
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The memory of a rescue mission a decade ago still haunts Charles Pitman. Recalling the image of a father and uncle praying on a mountainside for a boy of 10 or 11 while rescuers performed CPR on him, Pitman paused…
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Now that the massive upslope storm system that has been stalking Colorado this week is only a few hours away, OpenSnow meteorologist Joel Gratz has fine-tuned his predictions for which mountains will get the most snow — and how much…
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With spring break crowds set to descend on Colorado, ski resort communities are urging visitors to wear masks and follow other pandemic guidelines in hopes of preventing an uptick in COVID-19 cases. And they’re not waiting for those tourists to…
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Aspen Skiing Co. has decided to keep a good thing going longer in Snowmass this season. Skico announced it will extend the ski season one week to April 25 at Snowmass only. Aspen Mountain will close as scheduled on April…
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Thanks to good snowfall since the end of January, Vail Resorts announced today that it is adding another week to the ski seasons at Vail, Keystone and Beaver Creek. Beaver Creek and Keystone are now projected to close on April…
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Alterra Mountain Co. has released pricing for the 2021-22 Ikon Pass, which goes on sale Thursday, March 11. Among pass products that increased in price, most saw around a 4% jump, while passes for children ages 4 and younger saw…
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Snowmass Village police charged a 25-year-old Denver man with violation of the Colorado Skier Safety Act after he collided Saturday with another skier, an 11-year-old girl, on Fanny Hill at Snowmass. The girl was traversing Fanny Hill around 2:30 p.m.…
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