Nov 21, 2008
Written By: Devin Reams
From the Copper Wire: "Copper wants to say thanks to guests carpooling with four or more people. Carpoolers will be rewarded on five carpool celebration days this season, starting November 29, with preferred parking in the Alpine Lot, a $4 burger special, cool bumper stickers and a chance to win four 09/10 season passes." Click here for information on carpooling to Copper this season.
Jan 15, 2008
Written By: Devin Reams
If you missed it last weekend: "Colorado powder hounds will get access to a new lift-served playground this week, as Arapahoe Basin announced the opening of Montezuma Bowl for Friday, Jan. 11. The 400-acre terrain expansion boosts the size of A-Basin by about 80 percent, a significant addition by any measure, especially for a small mountain that already skis big." Will the new lift-served land overfill the already too-crowded parking lots? Will back-country skiers head somewhere else to play? Time will tell.Read more at New West Snow Blog.
Dec 26, 2007
Written By: Devin Reams
From James: "MakeSnowNotWar.com has great organic clothing and its all 20% off right now. Just type in 'myspace20' as the promo code." The shirts are pretty simple and look great plus they're 100% organic--check 'em out and visit their MySpace page.
Dec 4, 2007
Written By: Devin Reams
This season Alpinist Magazine is hosting a film festival in Wyoming (which is a short-enough drive from Colorado, right?):
The 2008 Alpinist Film Festival will take place January 17-20, 2008, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. In addition to the Snow, Surf and Stone nights, which showcase, respectively, the world's best skiing, surfing and climbing films, a new People's Choice Ceremony will screen the People's Choice award winners from the preceding evenings, allowing the audience to choose the 2008 Grand Prize award winner.
This year's beer sponsor is none other than Fort Collins' New Belgium. Certainly reason enough to go, right?
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Nov 8, 2007
Written By: Devin Reams
Recent predictions from the Wester Water Assessment (WWA) say that we might get higher temperatures and lower snowfalls this season:
Expected La Niña impacts during October-December 2007 season are above average precipitation in the Pacific Northwest (including western Wyoming) and below average precipitation in the Southwest, including parts of Colorado. There is an increased chance of above average temperatures over all of the Intermountain West (Intermountain West Climate Summary).
Not cool... literally.
