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Coronavirus now linked to at least 9 deaths in Colorado
Recent tests showed a Gunnison County man in his 50s who died earlier this month also had contracted coronavirus.
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Vail Resorts decides to end ski season at Vail, Keystone, Crested Butte, Beaver Creek; Loveland, Buttermilk also shut down
By Jesse Paul Outdoors Primary category in which blog post is published
Gunnison County bans restaurants, bars from serving people 60 and older to slow coronavirus spread
By Nancy Lofholm Coronavirus Primary category in which blog post is published
Coronavirus is running so rampant in Colorado’s mountains residents, visitors should “minimize all contact with other people”
By Jesse Paul Coronavirus Primary category in which blog post is published
A Crested Butte woman came home from Hawaii with sniffles. Then she found out it was coronavirus.
By Jesse Paul Coronavirus Primary category in which blog post is published
“You would think it’s the opposite”: The average age of fatal avalanche victims is on the rise
The "terror management" theory suggests some older people take more risks as they confront mortality
This Colorado rum is a rare spirit 100% made by women — all the way down to the forklift drivers
Top-shelf Valentia, made by high-altitude Montanya Distillers near Crested Butte, is being hailed as a sign of national gender-equity progress in craft distilling
An army of teen employees is helping fight a Colorado tourist town’s worker shortage
About 75% of the freshman class is at work this summer, and still, shops and restaurants close early or open late due to affordable-housing sparked worker shortage
The fastest kids in America are running hills and chilling in creeks around Crested Butte
At 8,900 feet sits Team Prep USA’s renowned summer running camp. "If they can tolerate things other people are unwilling to tolerate, they’re going to live a beautiful life," one coach says.
In Colorado mountain towns, the U.S. Post Office no longer delivers like it used to
One town received no mail for a week; another had sales-tax rebates returned as "undeliverable." New survey reveals understaffed post offices taxed by population growth, online shopping
Snowy winter boosts Colorado ski towns to record-breaking sales tax revenues
Ski resort communities are hopeful that the big bucks spent at local businesses will translate to investments in affordable housing and a year-round recreation market
Colorado’s avalanche season claimed 8 lives. Experts say there’s much to learn from how they died.
The conditions during the historic 2018-2019 snow season left behind damage so mysterious that it's still being sorted through
Crested Butte’s Alley Loop series, Colorado’s nuttiest race on skinny skis, starts and finishes with a big “whoop”
The costumed contingent at the event included a Notorious RBG, a nod toward U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who turned down Jell-O shots in an alley: “There will be no appearance of impropriety on my part!”
Amazon deliveries — essential in Colorado mountain towns — causing package pile-ups, long lines at tiny post offices
In “end-of-the-pavement” communities like Crested Butte, the once-simple practice of picking up mail has turned into day-long waits and lost packages
