Mountain and Tourism Reporter — The Denver Post
Jason Blevins
Reporter Jason Blevins left The Denver Post in 2018. He covered tourism, mountain business, skiing and outdoor adventure sports for both the business and sports sections.
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Pushing through pain, Olympic-qualified Silverthorne snowboarder Chris Corning keeps focus on immediate goals
In 2013, after then 13-year-old snowboarding prodigy Chris Corning won every contest he entered, a reporter asked him if he was aiming for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

As Mother Nature dawdles, ski town visitors seeking thrills beyond the slopes
While ski resorts bemoan Mother Nature’s dawdling, not all mountain businesses are dragging. Visitors still go looking for thrills when the dirt-flanked ribbon of artificial snow gets old. Think skating...

Colorado Classic reboots with a time-trial climb up the 10,662-foot Vail Pass
Colorado Classic will be back next summer and it includes a time trial from Vail up the 10,662-foot Vail Pass.

Skiing, snowboarding athletes using slope-sized air bags to hone acrobatic trickery
A few years ago, California’s slopestyle queen Jamie Anderson said there was no way she would follow the men into the inverted double backflipping trickery showcased in snowboarding’s increasingly acrobatic...

Slopestyle snowboarders Chris Corning of Silverthorne, Jamie Anderson confirm Olympic berths
The U.S. Olympic freeskiing and snowboarding slopestyle teams began to take shape under challenging light Saturday at the Dew Tour.

Free food for Colorado resort workers flows as low snow slows ski town business
Across the high country, churches and businesses are hosting weekly feeds that are drawing hundreds of employees who rely on snow for work.

Eagle snowboarder Jake Pates soars from longshot to Olympic contender with win at Dew Tour
Eagle snowboarder Jake Pates won Dew Tour halfpipe. Chloe Kim locks her spot on U.S. Olympic snowboarding team.

GOCO awards $14 million to nine communities to get kids playing outside
Great Outdoors Colorado on Friday awarded more than $14 million to nine Colorado communities as part of the Inspire Initiative,

Aspen pipe skier Alex Ferreira’s win at Dew Tour puts him one podium away from Olympics
BRECKENRIDGE -- Aspen halfpipe skier Alex Ferreira took a major step toward the PyeongChang Olympics on Friday, besting his best pals to win the Olympic qualifier at Breckenridge’s 10th Dew...

Judges weigh “overall impression” when ranking halfpipe and slopestyle skiers, snowboarders
When Shaun White landed a rare double-cork 1440 in Copper Mountain’s Grand Prix half pipe last weekend, he thought he had second place locked up. He was dismayed to see...