Tag: skiing
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Loveland Ski Area tests snow guns before season starts
Loveland Ski Area is only 17 days away from firing up the snow guns and making snow for the 2022-23 ski and riding season, the resort said in a release.
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Chair 6 being installed at Loveland Ski Area
Loveland Ski Area in western Clear Creek County is nearing completion on its replacement build of the new Lift 6 chairlift.
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LIFE | Inside one of Colorado’s oldest ski shops
Bill’s Ski Rentals has been a mainstay in Leadville for the past 77 years. Paul Copper took over the shop from his father and continues to run it. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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LIFE | Echo Mountain Ski Area
Denver’s closest ski area, Echo Mountain, is breathing new life — after many starts and stops. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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LIST: Opening 2021-22 dates for Colorado ski areas
Arapahoe Basin: October Keystone: October Loveland: October Breckenridge: Nov. 12 Vail: Nov. 12 Winter Park: Nov. 17 Eldora: Nov. 19 Purgatory: Nov. 20 Steamboat: Nov. 20 Copper Mountain: Nov. 22 Beaver Creek: Nov. 24 Crested Butte: Nov. 24 Aspen Mountain: Nov. 25 Snowmass: Nov. 25 Telluride: Nov. 25 Echo Mountain: Nov. 26 Powderhorn: Nov. 26…
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Colorado ski resort adds beginner terrain
Beaver Creek Resort has broken ground on a 250-acre terrain expansion that will cater to beginner and intermediate skiers and riders at high-altitude. McCoy Park’s groomers and glades are intended to “mimic the setting of advanced trails” and grant novice guests “the chance to explore more of the mountain on terrain they are comfortable skiing,”…
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Colorado ski resort adds beginner terrain
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Beaver Creek Resort has broken ground on a 250-acre terrain expansion that will cater to beginner and intermediate skiers and riders at high-altitude. McCoy Park’s groomers and glades are intended to “mimic the setting of advanced trails” and grant novice guests “the chance to explore…
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LIFE | Local teen’s big day on ski slopes
Kayla Anderson, a junior at Pine Creek High School, recently presented to her pre-calculus class the painstaking process of netting 90,450 vertical feet in fewer than eight hours, from the time Beaver Creek Resort opened and closed. (Video provided by Kayla Anderson)
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Upgrades coming to popular Colorado ski area
With recent approval from the U.S. Forest Service, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area will replace a chairlift and add amenities to the iconic mountain in Summit County. The fixed-grip, three-person Lenawee lift will be converted into a faster detachable ferry. Accessing the upper Montezuma Bowl and East Wall, the lift is anticipated to increase uphill capacity…
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Colorado backcountry ski area settles on home for ‘foreseeable future’
As a one-of-a-kind ski area in Colorado closes on its first full season, operators continue to sound optimistic about the years ahead. Bluebird Backcountry has announced “a longer-term lease” on sloping property in the northwest part of the state, where reportedly “thousands” of skiers and riders visited this winter and spring. The grassroots team of…