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New This Season Terrain Wolf Creek

Wolf Creek to replace Treasure lift with high-speed quad

Wolf Creek Ski Area is replacing the Treasure Lift with a new Doppelmayr detachable high-speed quad. The new Treasure Stoke Lift will provide visitors with an improved loading and unloading experience. As one of the main lifts leading to a variety of terrain this should be a great improvement to the ski area.

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Breckenridge Terrain

Breckenridge opens Peak 6 Trail Naming Contest

Breckenridge is looking for some good suggestions for trail names. If you enter and your trail name is picked you’ll win two tickets and an actual trail sign (with your trail’s name on it)! Enter now to help name trails on Peak 6. Contest ends September 13, 2013.

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New This Season Terrain Vail

Vail adding two new chairlifts for 2013/2014 season

Two new chairlifts are coming to Vail this coming season! Vail is continuing improvements (following the installation of the new “One” gondola last season) with two new lifts being installed this summer. The resort has begun construction of a new high-speed six-passenger chairlift to replace the four-person Mountaintop Express Lift (#4) from Mid-Vail to the […]

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Arapahoe Basin Photography Snow Summer

Arapahoe Basin readies snow guns for testing

Here’s an attractive photo of snowmaking fan guns “ready to go” and prepped for testing in the coming weeks. Arapahoe Basin’s COO, Al Wenceroth, has posted the photo to his excellent blog noting “We will fire up the system as soon as conditions are favorable usually sometime between mid-September and early October. There is is […]

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Aspen/Snowmass Events

The Meeting 9 details announced

Our pals over at Freeskier have the scoop on this season’s “The Meeting” (#9) in Aspen: In addition to being the premier snow film festival with the latest ski and snowboard releases, The Meeting serves as the foundation for a weekend of panels, speakers, networking, music, art, and fashion. In its ninth year, The Meeting […]

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Beaver Creek Celebrity Contest

Win a trip to Audi Birds of Prey from SUPERCANDY

If you’re interested in attending one of the best downhill competitions, the Audi Birds of Prey at Beaver Creek from December 5th – 8th this year, then look no further than SUPERCANDY. SNAP Infusion is the official SUPERCANDY and they’ve partnered up with the U.S. Ski Team, U.S. Snowboarding and U.S. Freeskiing. The winner of […]

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Breckenridge Food & Drink Summer

19th Annual Breckenridge Oktoberfest Stein Design

Here’s yet another beautiful design by the talented Stefan Bast. Who else is excited for Oktoberfest this year?

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Beaver Creek Food & Drink New This Season

Red Tail Camp at Beaver Creek becomes Talons, Umbrella Bar moved

Beaver Creek has built Talons to replace Red Tail Camp. At the bottom confluence of Larkspur Bowl, Grouse Mountain and Birds of Prey a new European-inspired restaurant, Talons, will replace the ever-crowded Red Tail Camp. The name Talons obviously comes from this area of Beaver Creek which is home to the birds of prey (the […]