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Loveland Ski Area Snow Video

First snow of the 2012 season at Loveland

Check it out: it’s already dumping up in the mountains. Loveland has posted a video from around the mountain that’ll get anyone excited for the upcoming season…

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Loveland celebrates 75th anniversary with limited edition Icelantic skis

This year is Loveland Ski Area’s 75 anniversary and Icelantic Skis has designed a special limited edition ski to celebrate: AS you can see, there are two styles. Both the Nomad RKR and Oracle cost $799. These sure do look awesome… Learn more and buy your pair today at skiloveland.com.

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Echo Mountain

Echo Mountain bought, passes refunded: will re-open as a private ski training facility

The closest ski mountain to Denver is no more: Echo Mountain was bought at auction and will be re-opening in November 2012 as a kids-focused ski training facility called the Front Range Ski Club. The new Club will become a membership-based facility with focus on after-school programs for young alpine racers looking for world-class training. […]

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5th and 6th Graders: check out the School of Shred and Passport programs

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 […]

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Colorado Ski Country USA Gems cards on sale for 2012/2013 season

The Gems cards are back and on sale now. Colorado Ski Country USA sells the cards which offer a unique deal at a handful of their 20 member resorts. This is like the ‘Entertainment Coupon Book’ of Colorado “gem” skiing. Here are a few of the offers: Arapahoe Basin: $10 off adult full day tickets […]

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Vail Resorts to add downhill racing to EpicMix

Vail Resorts has announced the addition of downhill racing to it’s on-mountain EpicMix offering. The pattern is clear: last season EpicMix added photos to the product to allow visitors to take a photo and have it associated with their EpicMix account. This allowed the company to sell the photos to visitors where traditional photographers weren’t […]

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Loveland Ski Area Snow

Loveland begins 2012 snowmaking in a month

From the Loveland Ski Area Facebook page Today the Loveland Snowmaking Crew started getting the snow guns ready for the upcoming 2012-2013 season. They were busy today doing maintenance and running water through the hoses and guns. Get more updates at http://www.skiloveland.com/snowmaking/.

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Breckenridge Terrain

Breckenridge expands: approval for Peak 6 adds 543 acres

Big news out of Vail Resorts today as Peak 6 will be added to Breckenridge: Peak 6 will include 400 acres of lift-served terrain and 143 acres of hike-to terrain, expanding the resort’s skiable acres by 23 percent. Breck expects to open the new terrain for the 2013-2014 ski season by adding a new high-speed, […]