There’s no room to widen I-70 indefinitely. At some point, the math requires more people in fewer, larger, vehicles.
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Posted inSunLit Interviews
Heather Hansman chased ski bum dream through ups and downs of “Powder Days”
Heather Hansman drew on a decade of personal experience and another winter of reporting to craft her book on the history and future of skiing.
Posted inOutdoors
America’s chairlift savant finishes 22-year quest to ride every lift in the U.S.
Peter Landsman, a lift supervisor at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, has visited, photographed and documented 2,381 chairlifts in the U.S.
Posted inNews, Outdoors
Vail Resorts offers end-of-season bonus as ski areas struggle through labor crisis
Jeremy Rubingh, a documentary filmmaker who focuses on climate and public lands issues, spent about 10 minutes on his phone after Christmas writing an angry screed against Vail Resorts and the company’s struggle to open terrain at the Stevens Pass ski area in Washington state. “When I posted it online, I thought ‘I don’t know, […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: For Colorado’s ski industry, reversing climate change is practical, not political
Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in Summit County, Colorado, supports climate change solutions in the Build Back Better Act and we are calling on Colorado’s senators and representatives to pass these measures. It’s past time to take seriously the impacts of climate change and their potential to devastate not only Colorado’s natural treasures, but the economies, […]
Posted inBusiness, COVID, News, Outdoors
Vail Resorts lost $140 million after coronavirus forced its ski areas to close. That’s actually better than expected.
Cost cutting by Vail Resorts after it closed its 34 North American ski areas on March 14 lessened the financial blow of the coronavirus. Slashing plans for capital upgrades, suspending cash dividends to shareholders, reducing salaries and furloughing hourly workers helped Vail Resorts lose only $140 million in income in the first four months of […]
Posted inNewsletters, The Outsider
Owner of Wolf Creek ski area wants to reopen this weekend. But first he has a major hoop to jump through.
Updated at April 30, 2020, at 11:28 p.m.: Gov. Jared Polis orders Colorado ski areas closed until at least May 23. Davey Pitcher wants to open Wolf Creek ski area this weekend. His limited opening plan won unanimous approval from boards of county commissioners in Archuleta, Rio Grande and Mineral counties. He got approval from […]
Posted inBusiness, COVID, News, Outdoors
The day skiing died: Inside the historic day coronavirus forced Colorado’s ski industry to shutter
On the morning of March 14, Gov. Jared Polis studied data on coronavirus infection rates in Colorado’s ski towns, which were 20 to 30 times higher than the rates on the Front Range. It was Saturday and the busiest day of the season for ski areas — the day when Colorado’s $5 billion resort industry […]
Posted inCartoons, Opinion
Drew Litton: Colorado coronavirus’ downhill run
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.