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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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It’s official: Denver lands 5-year deal to host Outdoor Retailer trade shows starting in 2018
The trio of shows will draw upwards of 85,000 people a year.

It’s official: massive Outdoor Retailer trade shows coming to Denver starting in 2018
Denver will host the prestigious Outdoor Retailer gatherings for the next five years, with a trio of shows drawing upwards of 85,000 people a year, delivering the city a $110...

Denver has landed the coveted Outdoor Retailer summer and winter trade shows, sources confirm
After nearly 18 months of intensive and harried negotiations, Visit Denver has booked the twice-a-year Outdoor Retailer trade show in the city’s Colorado Convention Center and National Western Complex for...

Possibility of Colorado native Rick Cables becoming Forest Service chief excites state’s recreation, public lands advocates
Colorado native Rick Cables, who has worked for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the Forest Service and Vail Resorts, named as possible Forest Service chief.

From a roadside hay trailer to 56 stores, Moe’s Original Bar B Que is an Eagle Valley success story
Eagle Valley's Moe's Original Bar B Que franchise started by three Alabama college pals in a hay trailer in 2002, grows to 56 stores in 15 years.

Forest Service puts brakes on Conundrum Hot Springs summer free-for-all with permits, required reservations
After a decade of talking about how to ease the impact of humans on Conundrum Hot Springs, the Forest Service next summer will start requiring reservations for camping and charging...

Colorado postman’s 60-year tenure on a long, rural route filled with wonder
Emory Townsend, 93, signed up to deliver mail to make a little grocery money back in 1957. 60 years later, he's still on the job and boy have things changed.

Will the next generation of public lands advocates be reached via zip line? Retiring forest service boss Jim Bedwell thinks so
Jim Bedwell saw himself as following trail broken Arthur Carhart, the Forest Service's first landscape architect who birthed the Wilderness Act after a visit to Trappers Lake.

Parenting tips from a couple that took a dozen kids on a five-year RV roadtrip
Susie and Dan Kellogg and their brood of 12 have logged nearly 100,000 miles in their 36-foot 1999 Georgie Boy Cruisemaster. Along the way, they've also cultivated three world-class kayakers...

Mini drive-in delivers your favorite nostalgic movies in the mountains
We're talking "Princess Bride" and "The Goonies" in the mountains of Minturn.