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Colorado liftmaker Leitner-Poma entering boom as ski industry battles heat up and cities seek to innovate
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Chris Jarnot, vice president of Vail Resorts’ mountain operations, steps down after 30 years
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Record spending, flat visitation suggest Colorado’s campaign for sustainable tourism is paying off
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After dumping Epic, Arapahoe Basin finds new partner in Ikon Pass
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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
Hunger for uphill ski land has resorts, Forest Service looking at acres unused inside existing ski permits
Bluebird Backcountry, on the hunt for a home for its chairlift-free ski area, is exploring using thousands of ungroomed acres inside ski area boundaries
Bluebird Backcountry hopes to tap the uphill skiing movement for a new resort model
The backcountry resort business plan aims to “revolutionize the culture of skiing here in Colorado by giving people more options"
Heavy snow led to a top-five Colorado ski season and a whole lot of cars through the I-70 tunnels
It wasn't quite a record season in Colorado, but 2018-19 saw double-digit jumps in interstate traffic over last season
Cody Townsend is skiing North America’s 50 classic lines — and worries climate change makes some “last descents”
“Suddenly we are seeing lines disappearing. It’s changing so much faster than we thought,” big-mountain athlete Townsend says.
Guides’ familiarity with terrain, underestimating danger possibly had role in fatal Jones Pass avalanche
Hans Berg, a photographer and guide with Empire-based Powder Addiction snowcat skiing, was killed March 7 in a massive slide that broke trees “like popsicle sticks”
Aspen stakes claim as the premier human-powered playground as skiers ditch lifts and traffic to walk uphill
“Alpine skiers are getting bored," said Erik Lambert, a businessman searching for a mountain to anchor an all-uphill resort. "They are sick of crowds. They are sick of traffic. I think people are ready for a cultural shift.”
Skim or swim: Colorado ski season winds down with a splash, not a schuss
A frigid slide on skis through an icy pond -- known as pond skimming -- has marked the end to ski season across America since the 1920s
Resorts, desperate to stem crushing traffic, bet on a new ridesharing app that splits lifts to the lifts
RIDE -- shorthand for Reduce Individual Driving for the Environment -- offers simple but compelling rewards to drivers and riders who carpool
