Gone are the days of $5 lift tickets and paper trail maps. Practically everything you need to enjoy the slopes now fits on your cell phone. Whether you’re preparing to pull out your pass or track your top speed, there’s…
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ZAGREB, Croatia — Mikaela Shiffrin will have to wait at least a couple of more days to match Lindsey Vonn’s World Cup wins record. A night slalom scheduled for Zagreb, Croatia, on Thursday was canceled due to warm temperatures and…
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ZAGREB, Croatia — Mikaela Shiffrin felt “really excited” Wednesday after winning the first women’s World Cup race of 2023. And it wasn’t because she had just moved within one victory of Lindsey Vonn’s record. “I skied better than I probably…
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If you’re thinking the snow gods have been very generous to Colorado skiers and snowboarders so far this season, you’re right. Nearly every ski area in Colorado is reveling in above-average snowfall, some of them well above average. And, according…
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A man died after he was caught in an avalanche Saturday while backcountry skiing with his father near Breckenridge, according to Summit County Rescue Group. The pair were skiing in a backcountry area known as “The Numbers” on Peak 10…
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Skiers and snowboarders at Arapahoe Basin can now take refuge at il Rifugio, billed as the highest-elevation restaurant in North America, which reopened this week for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Perched at 12,456 feet, il Rifugio…
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SEMMERING, Austria (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin made ski racing history once again on Thursday night. This time, however, she wasn’t the only American skier doing so. Shiffrin led teammate Paula Moltzan for the U.S. ski team’s first 1-2 finish in…
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At the end of every year, we take a look at our pageview data to see which stories were read the most online. Each time, there are some standard favorites, along with a few surprises. It certainly didn’t shock us,…
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SEMMERING, Austria — Mikaela Shiffrin had to overcome a lot of pressure Tuesday to end her one-year drought in women’s World Cup giant slaloms. And not all the pressure on the American was coming from her rivals. Holding a big…
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It may seem incomprehensible to today’s generation of skiers and snowboarders accustomed to ski resort conglomerates. But in the boom years of skiing in the 1960s and early ’70s, Colorado produced 12 new resorts, all of them independents. They were…
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