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Coronavirus has cost Vail Resorts more than $200 million. So far.
North America’s largest resort operator posted a rare year-end loss, dragged down by early resort closures and a pandemic-slowed summer. But Epic Pass sales are pacing ahead of last year.
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Retailers are seeing spike in backcountry gear sales. That has avalanche educators, search teams worried.
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Bluebird Backcountry is expanding just as uphill skiing is expected to explode during coronavirus
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How Colorado’s independent Wolf Creek ski area plans to navigate a coronavirus reopening
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Mayhem continues at Granby Ranch as new owner takes over Grand County ski and golf community
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He wasn’t the best skier, but he was Colorado’s preeminent ski bum. Farewell, Charlie Toups.
“Everyone seemed to know him. … He lived life in such a unique way,” a friend recalls of Charlie Toups, a quintessential Colorado ski bum who spent decades living in cars in ski area parking lots.
Ski resorts push lift-ticket seller Liftopia toward bankruptcy, revealing deep impacts of coronavirus closures
Aspen Skiing Co., Alterra Mountain Co., Arapahoe Basin and others say they’re owed more than $2 million after the coronavirus ended the season early
Smaller ski areas retain their workers with help of federal coronavirus stimulus money
Granby Ranch, Hesperus, Loveland, Monarch, Powderhorn, Purgatory, Ski Echo, Ski Sunlight, Silverton Mountain and Wolf Creek qualified for a cumulative $5 million to $13 million in PPP loans, enabling them to keep employees paid during the pandemic
After 12-day reopening, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area to close on Sunday due to lack of snow
A-Basin Chief Operating Officer Alan Henceroth said the mountain will close Sunday less than two weeks after reopening May 27
Safety and stoke: A-Basin’s coronavirus reopening provides glimpse of what next ski season may look like
The snow was soft, the sun was shining and the lift lines were short. Besides mask-wearing and social distancing, it felt like a normal day of late spring skiing.
Arapahoe Basin will reopen Wednesday for skiing and snowboarding
The Summit County resort says skiing and snowboarding will look very different. For instance, reservations will be required for those planning on visiting A-Basin and only 600 people will be granted access each day.
Owner of Wolf Creek ski area wants to reopen this weekend. But first he has a major hoop to jump through.
Davey Pitcher’s plan to open won approval from local officials, but he needs a variance to Gov. Jared Polis’ rule limiting travel for recreation to 10 miles.
Skier killed in avalanche near Crested Butte
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center says the skier was among four people who were skiing Tuesday on Mount Emmons
