Mountain and Tourism Reporter ā 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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Q&A with U.S. Forest Service chief Tony Tooke, who sees collaboration as key to improving public lands
Tony Tooke, chief of the U.S. Forest Service since last fall, visited the Outdoor Retailer Snow Show to meet broaden the coalition of people working to improve and recreation on...

Michael Bennet, Jared Polis put forth bill to bolster protection for more than 98,000 acres of federal land in Colorado
As the outdoor recreation world rallied in Denver, two of Coloradoās leaders in Washington offered a plan to bolster protection for more than 98,000 acres of federal land in Eagle...

First-ever rally of state recreation chiefs at convention in Denver propels ideas into political movement
A first-ever rally of directors of newly formed state outdoor recreation offices at the Outdoor Retailer Snow Show last week hopes to champion recreation as the next economic engine for...

New ski pass aims to rival the Epic Pass with access to 23 resorts
With a flashing billboard and ice sculpture, the newest Goliath in the ski resort industry on Thursday unveiled a new ski pass that could rival Vail Resortsā wildly popular Epic...

Ski industry mourns the passing of legendary ski filmmaker Warren Miller at age 93
Warren Miller, the catalyst of countless movie-house belly laughs, died Wednesday night at his Orcas Island, Wash., home at age 93, leaving a legacy that includes more than 58 feature...

Coloradans love their public lands, poll says, but some think national monuments harm the local economy
Support for public lands -- and protecting those places -- is up, so much so, that across eight Western states brimming with public land, three-quarters of those polled this year...

Coloradans love their public lands, poll says, but some think national monuments harm the local economy
Support for public lands -- and protecting those places -- is up, so much so, that across eight Western states brimming with public land, three-quarters of those polled this year...

As Vail’s Rob Katz heralds the innovation of Epic Pass, a new competitor drops name of rival Ikon Pass
Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz kicks off the Outdoor Retailer Snow Show in Denver with frank talk about the company's strategy, and some advice to competitors.

Colorado fields eight of 26 snowboarders representing U.S. Snowboarding in PyeongChang Olympics
Coloradoans make up half of the men's snowboard cross team, with Steamboat Springsā Mick Dierdorf and Tellurideās Hagan Kearney heading to their first-ever Olympics. Meaghan Tierney, of Edwards, made the...

New Montbello Open Space Park gets climbing wall from The North Face
A million-dollar climbing wall coming to a new park in Denverās Montbello neighborhood is the first in The North Face's "Walls Are Meant For Climbing" campaign, the first of at...