American skiers and snowboarders dominate Copper Mountain U.S. Grand Prix, first Olympic qualifiers this season
The first leg of the road to the PyeongChang Olympics began this week in Copper Mountain’s perfectly sculpted halfpipe.
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Brief and brutal selection process pushes U.S. freeskiers, snowboarders through four Olympic qualification contests in six weeks
The punishing path to PyeongChang will push American freeskiers and snowboarders through a carefully crafted but grueling selection Olympic process featuring four competitions in six weeks.
Skiers, snowboarders keep focus on snow despite “open question” on U.S. Olympic participation
The swirl of political theater hasn’t filtered down to the Olympic hopefuls. These are young athletes with a much different risk assessment. They aren’t necessarily fretting socio-political drama while spinning...
Snowboarder Red Gerard vying for slopestyle, big air Olympic glory
On any given winter afternoon, Red Gerard’s backyard teems with jibbing teens sliding rails, hitting jumps and ripping laps in a hand sculpted terrain park.
Aaron Blunck: “I thought maybe the Olympics had ruined what I loved about skiing”
The post-Olympic hangover from the 2014 Sochi Olympics hit Aaron Blunck hard. The Crested Butte native worked through a couple of injuries in 2015. He struggled to regain the halfpipe...
Blakeslee’s “American Wolf” navigates the political, scientific and cultural impacts of wolf restoration in the West
In the opening pages of Nate Blakelee’s captivating “American Wolf,” a hunter is trudging through snow, not far from a road, blasting on a whistle that mimics the wail of...
Emory Townsend, rural postman in Colorado’s North Fork Valley for 60 years, has died
Emory Townsend, who carried letters on the Western Slope for 60 years, died splitting wood near his home in Paonia. He was 94.
Eldora’s speedy lift and $10 million in “cabiny” improvements all part of new owner’s appeal to local skiers
Anchored by a $6 million six-pack chairlift, a revamped menu based on locally sourced food and a sweeping rebrand that returns the 55-year-old ski area to its roots as Boulder’s...
Eldora’s speedy lift and $10 million in “cabiny” improvements all part of new owner’s appeal to local skiers
Anchored by a $6 million six-pack chairlift, a revamped menu based on locally sourced food and a sweeping rebrand that returns the 55-year-old ski area to its roots as Boulder’s...
New backcountry skiing book from Colorado mountaineers offers guide to lines of all kinds
Frank and Brittany Konsella's "Backcountry Ski & Snowboard Routes: Colorado" guidebook details 102 easy to difficult routes in ranges across Colorado.