Colorado SnowI'm Rachel, a Colorado native with an abiding love for the Rocky Mountains.
Einstein said that once you stop learning, start dying. By this measure I'm alive and well, especially in regards to skiing!
There is always a new skill to master, a new challenge to face, and a new fear to conquer. Sometimes I tackle these things gracefully and often times not, but either way it's fun to document the process!
Best of luck to all the Colorado athletes competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics! Name Hometown Sport Casey Andringa Boulder Freestyle Skiing Ben Berend Steamboat Springs Nordic Combined Aaron Blunck Crested Butte Freestyle Skiing David Chodounsky Crested Butte Alpine Skiing Chris Corning Silverthorne Snowboarding Mick Dierdorff Steamboat Springs Snowboarding Alex Ferreira Aspen […]
Longtime readers may have noticed we had a shortened ski season last year and a slow start this year. We’re finally ready to share the reason: we welcomed a new little bear cub to the cosnow family this off-season!
The process of switching from snowboarding to skiing has been many seasons in the making. I was hesitant to invest in all new gear upfront and opted instead to borrow my mom’s old gear for a bit several years to make sure skiing was going to stick. The result: I LOVE skiing. I think it’s so much […]
I’m in my last semester of my MBA (hallelujah!) and my final project is about lodging options near resorts. I’m exploring market willingness to stay in micro-rooms (about 1/2 the size of a typical hotel room) or group rooms (2-4 person shared hostel accommodations) in exchange for significantly reduced prices. I’m currently collecting primary data and […]
If you want to read about how unsatisfying it is to flip your husband off in mittens when he takes you on a harder run than you wanted to do, this post about my day in ski school over at Breck is for you. If you want to read about how I learned to combat […]
For the longest time I thought you had to make the trade-off between being able to ski expert terrain or ski with crowds. Spending a day at Monarch proved this wrong. We drove from Breckenridge, past Buena Vista and Salida to arrive at Monarch in about 90 minutes. Once we arrived, around 10:00 AM, we […]
I love this article about a mom who started a clothing company after her daughter was sick of boys getting “all the cool stuff” while she was stuck with pink and purple clothes covered in flowers. There’s no pink or purple or glitter or hearts or flowers in the Girls Will Be clothing brand, and […]
I’m notoriously adverse to shopping for clothes. Most of the time a trip to the mall feels somewhat akin to pulling teeth, unless I’m shopping for outdoor winter gear. I’m pretty sure I could shop for fleeces and coats and mittens all day. One of my favorite gear advances in recent years is the double […]