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No new snow but looking like a nice weekend. Who i…

No new snow but looking like a nice weekend. Who is heading up this morning?

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Snow

Yesterday’s storm left a light dusting across the …

Yesterday’s storm left a light dusting across the resorts with anywhere from 1-3″ of new snow. We’ll take it! Let’s hope this keeps up…

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Breckenridge Ski Log Snow Terrain

Breckenridge (2012-01-08)

After the storm rolled through on Saturday and overnight, all the resorts around I-70 had a good 5-9 inches reported. The keyword is reported because in I had a hard time finding the 5 inches we were hoping for for at Breckenridge (and we were on Peak 10 by 9:15 PM, it didn’t all melt […]

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Keystone Ski Log Snow Terrain

Keystone (2012-01-07)

We took a bit of a break and hadn’t been up for nearly a month due to work, holidays, sickness and.. well, the fact there has been absolutely no new snow along the I-70 corridor (Vail, Beaver Creek, Summit County). We decided to make a weekend out of it and headed up to Keystone on […]

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Gear

Infographic: Buying a Winter Jacket

Infographics are all the rage these days. What better way than to inform, show interesting facts, and make some pretty graphs in the process? The folks at Credit Donkey pointed me towards their guide to buying a winter jacket and I was surprised, it’s really well done. There’s everything from windchill to how various types […]

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Events Resorts

Denver thinks about 2022 winter Olympic games

From The Denver Exploratory Committee’s release: The opportunity to pursue the Games is an endeavor worth taking very seriously,” Hickenlooper said. “We’ve asked this exploratory committee to explore all issues relevant to Denver potentially submitting a bid to the USOC. Those issues include making certain any bid would be financially sound and will help economic […]

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Travel

Speed “harmonization” to begin on I-70 this weekend

Read a bit more from the Colorado Department of Transportation on the “harmonization” that will begin on Sunday. In short: officers will pace cars from before the tunnel all the way to US 6 near Floyd Hill to help maintain consistent, safe speeds.

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Internet Technology

OpenSnow iPhone app now available

Kudos to Joel over at OpenSnow for launching an iPhone app. If you want to see photographic, on-the-slopes, evidence of new snow in Colorado, this is the place to check. Be sure to sign up for the powder alerts so you know when the inches start coming down.