Colorado Snow
New this season, in addition to its regular helicopter operations, Silverton will now offer overnight heli-touring trips for $429 per person per day. As the only Colorado resort that offers heli-skiing, Silverton is taking it to the next level with overnight trips. They include a heli drop onto a peak with a guide (within the […]
Stay tuned, we have a dozen posts showcasing #NewThisSeason improvements around the state. Here’s how to subscribe: https://cosnow.com/subscribe/
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.
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.
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 […]
Finally! 😉 The folks at Storm Mountain Publishing have put out the first issues of the season and having just looked through them, they’re wonderful. At just $9.95 per year, the subscription price alone is worth being able to touch and flip these wonderful pages of snow photography, gear, and stories. Subscribe to Freeskier Subscribe […]
Well done. After a year or ideating and brainstorming and concepts, the brightest design minds in Colorado have created a green triangle. Learn more about this stroke of genius at brandcolorado.gov. But seriously, it’s a clear and clean logo and I think it works OK. But, it’s way too generic. Rest assured, Colorado Snow will […]
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 […]