Recent snow storms brought more than a foot of snow to Vail last week, which meant that opening day on Friday, November 20, was a powder day. Nice way to start the season. Vail kicked things off with 1,150 acres of open terrain, and celebrated the new six-passenger Avanti Express…
Purgatory opens Saturday, November 21, for its fiftieth anniversary season, and the ski area is planning to have a party. There will be lawn games on the beach, plus drink specials and a DJ on the Purgy’s patio. There will also be giveaways and prizes. First chair is at 9 a.m.;…
You can read about every Colorado ski resort in the Edge, our winter sports guide, as we roll it out online. Each description lays out what’s new, what the signature experience is, what to splurge on, how to go cheap and, of course, what to drink. Now, head for the…
Steamboat Ski Resort plans to open a few days early, on Saturday, November 21, thanks to healthy dose of new snow from recent storms. The resort will stay open on Sunday, November 22, as well before closing for a few days and reopening on Wednesday, November 25. This is the…
Opening November 18 WINTER PARK RESORT winterparkresort.com 970-726-1564 What’s new: Winter Park Resort is introducing radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, “which allows guests hands-free access to all base-area chairlifts” says Winter Park spokesman Steve Hurlbert. “Instead of having to produce a ticket or pass to be scanned, visitors simply place their…
Breckenridge, which just got a nice snow dump this week, will open for its 53rd season today at 8 a.m. — a day that the resort compares to Christmas. DJ DC will kick things off with music and announcements, followed by free cinnamon buns at the Peak 8 base area from…
Copper Mountain opens today, with skiing and riding on Rhapsody and Main Vein, “thanks to the hard work of Copper’s snowmaking team over the last week and fourteen-plus inches of natural snow,” the resort says. The American Eagle chairlift will crank up beginning at 9 a.m. The first 400 guests in…
Wolf Creek Ski Area got nineteen inches of snow last week, creating a base of 28 inches. All told, it has snowed 44 inches at Wolf Creek so far this year, which is nothing new for this Mecca for powder hounds. Some areas of the mountain have already been open…
It’s here. The winter snow sports season has arrived, and although the resorts are just beginning to open, you will want to be prepared once they do. Read about every one of them in the Edge, our winter sports guide. Find the Edge in print this week inside of Westword…
Keystone Resort opens today when the first chair heads up the mountain at 9 a.m. While waiting for that first chair, Keystone will be handing out warm donut holes from resort pastry chef Ned Archibald, as well as hot chocolate and coffee at the base of the River Run Gondola. There…
As usual, A-Bay was one of the first two ski resorts to open this year, tying Loveland in the race to crank up the chairlifts on October 29. Only a few runs are open at the moment, but that will change soon as the snow falls and snowmaking begins. You…
Colorado ski areas got pounded with as much as twenty inches of early-season snow in late October, just as we were going to press with the Edge, our annual guide to Colorado’s ski resorts — and Loveland was the first to announce an opening date — October 29. You can find…
Any time of the year is great time to visit one of Colorado’s many mountain hot springs destinations, but with fall right around the corner, a dip in a warmer pool is definitely on our minds. There are many different kinds of springs, from full-size, human-made pools warmed by earthy…
Colorado has every amenity an outdoor enthusiast could ever desire — except a beach. But there are still plenty of water attractions across the state. From Broomfield to Glenwood Springs, you can get in the swim at everything from natural hot springs and cool reservoirs to acres of man-made rivers,…
In 1998 Growing Gardens built its first community garden with the goal of making nutritious, organic food accessible to local families. Since then, the organization has grown to include twelve gardens in Boulder, Longmont and Louisville — thanks, in part, to the success of its yearly fundraiser, which also happens…
Despite the snow-chasing warm weather, Left Hand Brewing’s Hops & Handrails combined a slushy display of snowboarding derring-do with a good old-fashioned beer festival in Longmont over the weekend. Photographer Brandon Marshall brought back these images from the party. Now see the full Hops & Handrails slide show…
Jeff Popp and Casey Lorenzen founded their backpack brand Mile High Mountaineering — now known simply as MHM — in 2009, and have since grown it into a full line of innovative and award-winning backcountry packs for hiking, backpacking, skiing and snowboarding. Last year they launched a successful Kickstarter campaign…
Everyone who’s anyone in the American ski industry converged on the Colorado Convention Center over the weekend for a first look at all the latest gear at the 2015 SIA Snow Show. Photographer Danielle Lirette was there to capture a sneak peek for the rest of us; keep reading for…
If you missed Roll’s Ugly Sweater Mixer Friday night at the Exdo Event Center, you likely missed some of the ugliest Christmas sweaters in town, which glowed in all their resplendent awfulness under colored lights as they zipped around the rink. Luckily, our photographer Scott Lentz was there to record…
“We couldn’t believe how much emphasis there was on ski jumping from the beginning: It was really the extreme sport of its day,” says historian Caryn Boddie. She and her husband, Peter Boddie, wrote the book Lost Ski Areas of Colorado’s Front Range and Northern Mountains, and they’ll be sharing…
Ski Cooper near Leadville, and Sunlight Mountain Resort, near Glenwood Springs are both opening today. Ski Cooper got so much snow recently, in fact, that it is opening two weeks early. They join many other Colorado mountains that have already opened for the season. We profiled them all in The…
The weather has been good for skiers and snowboarders so far this season, and that means more openings. Steamboat and Crested Butte plan to open for the season today, while Monarch, Snowmass and Telluride will open tomorrow, on Thanksgiving. We profiled all of Colorado’s ski-country destinations in The Edge, our…
