Vail opened this morning at 9:00am to a picture-perfect-powder-day with up to 6 inches of new snow in some spots. Visit Vail.com for video, photos and web cams.
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Finally, a winter storm has hit the state albeit short-lived. Tomorrow (Thanksgiving) seems to offer only clouds and cold weather. The following new snow is being reported around the resorts in the last 24 hours. Arapahoe Basin: 3 inches Breckenridge: 6 inches Copper Mountain: 4 inches Crested Butte: 1 inch Keystone: 4 inches Loveland: 3 […]
Those hoping for powder over Thanksgiving might have a harder time than previously anticipated. A handful of Colorado mountains recently announced postponed openings due to lack of snow. Citing marginal temperatures for snow making, Steamboat Springs, Vail, and Eldora have all pushed back their season openings. Seven resorts are currently open, though most are only […]
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Ski Free at Crested Butte
Crested Butte wants you to take to their slopes for a test ride, so from Nov. 25 – Dec. 15 it’s absolutely FREE to ski or ride at Crested Butte. Seriously, FREE. Man, that’s a wonderful price. Now all you need to do is clear yourself a few days, grab some friends, and hit the […]
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Changes at resorts this season
The Colorado Springs Gazette has put together a comprehensive list of what’s new at resorts this year. Among the improvements you’ll find additional terrain parks at Breckenridge, a lunch yurt along the snowcat trail at Keystone and two old lifts replaced at Vail. Read the entire article here.
Pictures are worth 1,000 words over at SKINET, SKI magazine’s website where they listed their reader’s top 10 resorts for 2007: Deer Valley, UT Vail, CO Whistler/Blackcomb, B.C. Aspen, CO Snowmass, CO Park City, UT Breckenridge, CO Beaver Creek, CO Steamboat, CO Sun Valley, ID Let’s not act surprised, though. Sure, our slopes are some […]
Warren Miller’s latest film included shots from Aspen and Copper Mountain: Playground was shot at world-class ski locales in Sweden, Canada, Alaska, Japan and here in Colorado at Aspen and Copper Mountain. Part of it was even taken to an indoor ski area in a mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Several athletes from Colorado […]
Five of Colorado’s ski and snowboarding resorts were listed as the top destinations according to Orbitz during the ski seasons: Lake Tahoe, Calif., is the No. 1 destination among travelers booking hotel and vacation packages at Orbitz.com for travel between Nov. 20 and May 1. Mammoth Lakes, Calif., was second, followed by Park City, Utah; […]