Spring has arrived in Steamboat! While they’ve received a decent amount of snow in March, the conditions are turning rapidly. Friday probably hit close to 50 F in the afternoon. Folks down at the base were in t-shirts and tank tops and the slush was thick. Compared to the morning, the afternoon was a soft,…
Terrain Archives
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For more photos, follow coloradosnow on Instagram.
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This past weekend we, with the encouragement of some friends, decided to try out nordic skiing at the Breckenridge Nordic Center. We weren’t quite sure what we were in for but it ended up being a fun, tough, rewarding half-day of hiking-slash-skiing. We stopped into the nordic center a little before lunch and took care…
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Loveland fires up ridge-top snowcat tours →
From Bob Berwyn at Summit County Citizens Voice:
After some trial runs last year, Loveland Ski Area says it’s ready to fire up its new snowcat ridge tours for full-time operation, offering skiers and snowboarders easier access to some of the tasty terrain along the Continental Divide, topping out around 13,000 feet.
Tours will start this morning. Learn more at skiloveland.com.
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Great news from Breckenridge: all the new snow means Imperial Lift will open today!
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There are a lot of great videos being posted by the various Colorado resorts. This one from Vail (from last year) shows what it takes to get the Back Bowls open from the ski patrol perspective.
It’s not as simple as waiting for it to snow, and dropping the gates and just going and skiing and there we are…
Bonus: you’ll see a cameo from Brice around 1:02 who you can find helping at Black Mountain Ranch in the summer.
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Our first ski day of 2013 was on New Year’s Day at Beaver Creek which means we earned the “Resolved” EpicMix pin — whoop! There hadn’t been any new snow in a few days and it was a holiday weekend so most everything was skied off or still bare underneath. Most mogul runs had grass…
