For years now, families have helped introduce their 5th and 6th graders to skiing and snowboarding by applying to Vail’s School of Shred program or Colorado Ski Country USA’s Passport Program. Both offer the same deal to local students: free passes and lessons for kids. Here are some more details: School of Shred offers one […]
Category: Copper Mountain
Copper Mountain is a Colorado ski resort located in Summit County, Colorado, 75 miles west of Denver in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. With 2,450 acres of ski and snowboard terrain Copper is perfect for your Colorado winter ski vacation or summer vacation getaway. Copper offers shopping, dining, convenient lodging and family activities, including snow tubing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling in the winter, and hiking, biking and rafting in the summer. Copper Mountain operates under permit from the U.S. Forest Service in the White River National Forest.
I’ve debated posting this because it seems to add insult to injury to sit here looking at bare ground and sparse snow and think “hell yeah I want to buy a season pass”! But, putting some money down now will be like a love letter to your future self. Lock in some great deals before […]
Colorado Ski Country online Hub
Check out what’s going on around the various resorts in Ski Country over at the Hub, a new site dedicated to pulling in all the blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and video content from around the state.
Here’s an easy way to save $40 on registration for what looks like one of the more entertaining ways to end the season: Copper Mountain’s CopperMan adventure race.
TransWorld SNOWboarding is giving away a week-long overnight session including lodging, meals, tickets, and coaching to a teen 13-17 who enters their contest describing how much your summer is going to suck (instead of shredding indoors at Copper). Enter the contest before April 2.
Nice! It looks like Copper Mountain’s new Union Creek High Speed Quad is open for the season (with lots of other improvements to the West Village).
I never thought about how easy or hard it may be to get to Colorado’s resorts. Having lived here my whole life I didn’t appreciate what a hassle it might be (used to be) to coordinate going from door to door. Here’s how you can get to the various Colorado ski areas and resorts: Denver […]
Copper Mountain Time Lapse
Check out this awesome time-lapse of the front face at Copper Mountain shot by Dustin Henderlong. I love watching the chairs suddenly come on and then stop at the end of the day. The work on the half-pipe is fascinating, too. [geolocation]