The company’s five resorts here are seeing mellow traffic despite well-above-average snowpacks
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Nicolais: Mikaela Shiffrin breaks records — and barriers for women in sport
Mikaela Shiffrin’s pursuit of history highlights the growing importance of women’s sport. It’s a trend that is long overdue.
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Drew Litton: Mikaela Shiffrin keeps bringing the heat with unflappable cool
Drew Litton celebrates the amazing run of U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin as she continues on her record-setting World Cup victory surge.
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Colorado’s Mikaela Shiffrin wins 83rd World Cup race, beats Lindsey Vonn’s record
Shiffrin now needs only three more wins to match Ingemar Stenmark’s overall record — between men and women — of 86 victories
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Colorado ski areas open day cares to attract high country workers in child care desert
Steamboat Resort and Breckenridge Resort opened child care centers for the kids of their employees this season. In Aspen, the resort is helping pay for new child care center slots in the community.
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Colorado ski town emergency dispatch centers fielding dozens of automated 911 calls from skier iPhones
911 calls are never ignored, but sorting out which alerts from Apple iPhone 14s and watches are real is “a tremendous drain” on resort town resources.
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Colorado’s White River is the country’s busiest national forest, with a $1.6B impact. But can it keep it up?
“The answer here is not another lane on 70,” forest chief Scott Fitzwilliams says as he plans robust community discussions on the future of White River
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Supply chain issues prevent yet another thing from spinning: new Colorado chairlifts
Supply issues for chairlift manufacturers, including Grand-Junction-based Poma, have stalled openings for new lifts across Colorado, North America
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6AM, Saturday, on I-70: Five modest proposals for how to speed Colorado ski traffic this season
Coloradans have to wait until 2027 for Floyd Hill to be fixed. Here are some more immediate suggestions.
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ESPN sells X Games to MSP Sports Capital, which calls Aspen “a really important cornerstone” of the franchise
Aspen Skiing Co. has hosted the Winter X Games since 2002 and has a contract to host the games through 2024.