Vail Resorts
Coronavirus-wary Colorado skiers are willing to sit out this season, poll shows
A Magellan Strategies survey of Colorado skiers reveals apprehension over pandemic protocols, reservations and visitors. “I can go a year without skiing downhill,” one woman said.
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As pandemic hammers its finances, Vail pulls out of state cloud seeding program
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Masks up! Colorado ski resorts are moving ahead as state, counties and businesses restrict access
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Black Lives Matter protests in Gunnison County showed people of color they have more allies than they realized
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Colorado is trying to figure out what to do when ski country visitors catch coronavirus
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How Colorado’s independent Wolf Creek ski area plans to navigate a coronavirus reopening
Unlike Vail Resorts, which last week announced a reservation system that requires pass holders to book high-season ski days well in advance, Wolf Creek is adjusting its pricing
Want to ski at a Vail Resorts mountain during coronavirus? You’ll need a reservation.
Forget the dreamy scene where you wake to a foot of fresh and race to the ski area
Trump’s ban on visa workers breathes new life into college-age ski bumming in Colorado’s resort towns
Ski area operators are reporting a surge in applications from college students and locals as hiring strategies, operational plans shift in the pandemic.
Proposal to shrink Holy Cross Wilderness, increase water storage draws hundreds of comments
Environmentalists are lining up against the plan to benefit Aurora, Colorado Springs and some Western Slope interests. The fight, they say, “will be as big as the Two Forks fight was.”
Vail Resorts lost $140 million after coronavirus forced its ski areas to close. That’s actually better than expected.
North America’s largest resort operator reported earnings on Thursday showing a smaller-than-projected loss after slashing budgets and spending in April.
When skiing stopped, so did pooping. Wastewater workers in Aspen and Vail faced a pile of problems.
The science of keeping the flora in a sewage treatment system balanced was knocked out of kilter when coronavirus shut skiing down and water use dropped 50% in two of Colorado’s most popular ski communities.
Vail Resorts will credit up to 80% of unused Epic passes value to 2020-21 pass
Under pressure from skiers who bought expensive passes intending to use them in the spring, Vail also rolled out new pass insurance that covers calamities, including coronavirus-related shutdowns.
The day skiing died: Inside the historic day coronavirus forced Colorado’s ski industry to shutter
Resorts wanted one more day to close since the shutdown happened as visitors from all over the country were flocking to Colorado for spring break. Gov. Polis said waiting would have led to more infections.
Hundreds of international workers at Colorado ski resorts are in limbo as countries close borders, airlines cancel flights
“It’s not that we want to stay. We just can’t leave,” says a ski instructor from Argentina who is among hundreds of J-1 and H-2B visa workers trapped in resort towns unable to get home.
