Jason Blevins

Mountain and Tourism Reporter 鈥� 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.

Cimarron Mountain Club launches new plan for wealthy skiers while preserving powder-protecting mission

November 30, 2017 at 12:17 p.m.

The Cimarron Mountain Club on the north end of the San Juan mountain range launches a new plan for a handful of wealthy skiers seeking undisturbed powder for a very...

Telluride’s formerly forbidden via ferrata route is now legal, but it doesn’t make the sheer ascent any less thrilling

November 17, 2021 at 1:21 p.m.

System of iron ladders traversing the box canyon in Telluride was built on the down low. But now it's drawing thousands of guided visitors and the Forest Service isn't sure...

Beate Hitzler and Tom Watkinson navigate ...

Telluride’s formerly forbidden via ferrata route is now legal, but it doesn’t make the sheer ascent any less thrilling

October 7, 2017 at 12:01 a.m.

System of iron ladders traversing the box canyon in Telluride was built on the down low. But now it's drawing thousands of guided visitors and the Forest Service isn't sure...

Jackson’s Honest, a Crested Butte-born chip company on a mission, gets a boost from Shark Tank investor

October 2, 2017 at 3:25 p.m.

Shark Rohan Oza wanted 20 percent of the next-gen chip company in exchange for his cash and expertise. But Scott and Megan Reamer held out of a deal that kept...

Backbone Media turns 20 in Carbondale with outdoor ethic, “place-first, money-later” approach

October 1, 2017 at 1:25 p.m.

It started with talk over beers 20 years ago. Today, the founders of Backbone Media in Carbondale employ 43 professionals as they captain an internationally renowned agency.

USOC mulling a bid for Winter Games that might include Colorado, California or Utah

September 27, 2017 at 7:51 a.m.

Less than two weeks after securing the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the U.S. Olympic Committee is scheming for a Winter Games. Will it be in Colorado?

As Trump plan threatens ski resort tourism, industry mobilizes to protect visa worker program

September 22, 2017 at 9:47 p.m.

The nation鈥檚 ski industry is mobilizing in a unified and sweeping effort to thwart potential cuts to a cultural visa program that allows young foreign students to work temporarily in...

Cielo Vista Ranch, home of fourteener Culebra Peak, now owned by heir to Texas oil fortune

September 19, 2017 at 7:53 a.m.

William Bruce Harrison, scion to one of Texas' original oil fortunes, has purchased聽the storied 83,000-acre Cielo Vista Ranch in the San Luis Valley, according to Costilla County property records. The...

Forest Service ranger Tom Malecek addresses more than 100 people who attended a Sept. 20, 2011 Forest Service tour of the area where a proposed village would be developed on Wolf Creek Pass. The publicly owned pond in the photo would be transferred to private ownership under a proposed land exchange by the village developer, Texas billionaire B.J. "Red" McCombs.

Judge deals yet another blow to Red McCombs’ plan for Village at Wolf Creek resort

September 18, 2017 at 2:32 p.m.

Texas billionaire B.J. 鈥淩ed鈥� McCombs has won few battles in his 30-year push to build as many as 1,700 homes and a resort village atop Wolf Creek Pass.

A drug rehabilitation clinic plans to open a residential treatment center at the Vail Valley's upscale Lodge & Spa at Cordillera.

Eagle County judge rejects last-stand lawsuit by Cordillera residents seeking to block drug treatment facility at former lodge

September 15, 2017 at 5:32 p.m.

An Eagle County District Judge has dismissed a last-chance lawsuit filed by residents of Vail Valley鈥檚 luxury Cordillera neighborhood opposed to plans to convert their community鈥檚 centerpiece lodge into residential...

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Cimarron Mountain Club launches new plan for wealthy skiers while preserving powder-protecting mission

Telluride’s formerly forbidden via ferrata route is now legal, but it doesn’t make the sheer ascent any less thrilling

Telluride’s formerly forbidden via ferrata route is now legal, but it doesn’t make the sheer ascent any less thrilling

Jackson’s Honest, a Crested Butte-born chip company on a mission, gets a boost from Shark Tank investor

Backbone Media turns 20 in Carbondale with outdoor ethic, “place-first, money-later” approach

USOC mulling a bid for Winter Games that might include Colorado, California or Utah

As Trump plan threatens ski resort tourism, industry mobilizes to protect visa worker program

Cielo Vista Ranch, home of fourteener Culebra Peak, now owned by heir to Texas oil fortune

Judge deals yet another blow to Red McCombs’ plan for Village at Wolf Creek resort

Eagle County judge rejects last-stand lawsuit by Cordillera residents seeking to block drug treatment facility at former lodge