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Cimarron Mountain Club launches new plan for wealthy skiers while preserving powder-protecting mission
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
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...
Telluride’s formerly forbidden via ferrata route is now legal, but it doesn’t make the sheer ascent any less thrilling
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Judge deals yet another blow to Red McCombs’ plan for Village at Wolf Creek resort
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.
Eagle County judge rejects last-stand lawsuit by Cordillera residents seeking to block drug treatment facility at former lodge
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...