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2011 Opening Dates for Ski Resorts in Colorado

Looking for the 2012 season opening dates? As usual, here’s your round up of this seasons opening days across the state. We’re nearly through October and there are already three resorts open. Check below to find when the others will open up. Any changes (early opens! fingers crossed) will be posted here and on the […]

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SKI Magazine posts 2011-2012 resort ranking

Amongst the top resorts ranked by SKI Magazine are most of our Colorado favorites: Vail (#2), Snowmass (#4), Beaver Creek (#7), Steamboat (#8), Breckenridge (#9), Telluride (#10), Aspen (#11), Winter Park (#14), Crested Butte (#15), and Copper Mountain (#18). Photo credit: Jeff Cricco

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Colorado Ski Country 5th and 6th grade Passports

Just like Vail Resorts School of Shred, Colorado Ski Country also offers “Passports” for free and discounted skiing at member resorts for local 5th and 6th graders. Both passports offer at least three days of skiing or snowboarding at each of their 21 member resorts. For 5th graders the pass is free and for 6th […]

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Colorado's 2010/2011 ski and snowboard season officially opens

Welcome to the 2010 ski and snowboard season in Colorado! Opening just days after the first resort to open* in North America, Loveland Ski Area has claimed the “first to open” title here in Colorado: Sunday, October 24, 2010. Following a day behind is, of course, Arapahoe Basin on Monday, October 25, 2010. Loveland and […]

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2010 X Games showing at Skyline Park

Aspen has brought the X Games down from the mountain into the city this year. Visit Skyline Park at 16th and Arapahoe from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM this week to watch the X Games highlights on a huge inflated screen underneath the clocktower. From 2010 X Games Showing Have a seat and enjoy inexpensive […]

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Winter X Games 14 in Aspen

It’s going to be a busy weekend January 28 – January 31, not only with the SIA Snow Show be in Denver, but the Winter X Games will be in Aspen. Winter X Games 14 will be broadcast on ESPN and online coverage can be found on their Snowboarding blog and Freeskiing blog.

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2009/2010 Colorado resort opening days

Well, I said I wasn’t going to do it this year but I did. Frankly, I’m annoyed with 1) resort websites that don’t have their opening day listed front and center (not even CSCUSA) and 2) other websites claiming dates that are flat out incorrect. So, I have hand-verified each of the dates listed below […]

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Recession-proof pricing at Colorado resorts

The economy is in the toilet, we get it. Jobs are scarce, understood. These days we are all having to make tough decisions about where to spend our already limited discretionary dollars.

That said, Colorado has nearly a half million skiers and riders living in the state, and having world class skiing and riding in our back yards is one of the reasons many of us live here. That’s why this year, Colorado Ski Country resorts are working hard to come up with creative ways to make it easy to get some good skiing in this winter.