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The new high-speed, four-passenger Sun Up Express Lift, also known as Chair 9, is the ninth chair replacement at Vail in the last decade, and should be a popular change.

If you’re feeling a little stuffed after Thanksgiving and in need of some fresh air, we have good news: After having pushed back opening days due to a lack of snow, many of the state’s best ski resorts are finally open.

Depending on how you look at things, we either got a lovely extended fall or were robbed of primo skiing due to unseasonably warm weather. If your thinking falls into the latter camp, you’ll be glad to know that resorts are finally opening – and offering more than ever this…

This year, Aspen Skiing Company dropped $9 million into infrastructure and capital projects to make it even better.

Start your day at the new Coal Breaker Coffee shop, inside the Treasury Center hub at the base area.

November 23 is opening day at Steamboat, and by longstanding tradition, it’s also Scholarship Day with discounted lift tickets benefiting the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Scholarship Fund.

Winter Park’s “Seven Territories” started opening on November 23, including Winter Park and its Terrain Park system and famed race and mogul courses. Mary Jane, Vasquez Ridge, Eagle Wind, Parsenn Bowl and, in the resort’s farthest reaches, the double-black-diamond zone known as the Cirque — accessible to hikers and served by a snowcat shuttle service — will all open as conditions allow.

In this year’s edition of Edge, our snow-activities guide to resorts in Colorado, we’ve told you about what’s new at every major ski area in the state, must-do experiences and insider tips.

Good news for Broncos fans: Denver didn’t lose yesterday. Bad news for Broncos fans: Denver didn’t win yesterday. Worse news for Broncos fans: Denver didn’t play yesterday, because the team had a bye week. Trevor Siemian and company won’t hit the gridiron again until Sunday night, November 27, versus the…

Copper Mountain’s season kicked off on November 18.

Longtime regulars will notice improvements all over the mountain.

After pushing its opening day back a week, Keystone Resort is opening to the public today. Continue reading for what’s new at the resort this year, insider info, how and where to splurge and some ski-bum tips.

In 2012, the Denver Broncos signed Peyton Manning, a brilliant quarterback who essentially abandoned by his old squad, the Indianapolis Colts, after he underwent neck surgery. The result was an outstanding record of success, two Super Bowl appearances and one championship. Is history about to repeat itself? Dallas Cowboys quarterback…

There have been plenty of times this season when unexpected Broncos wins left fans of the opposing team shocked and angry, as the Twitter eruptions after Denver victories over the Carolina Panthers and the Cincinnati Bengals earlier this season demonstrate. But if anything, the responses by lovers of the New Orleans…

Loveland opens today. We’ve gathered insider and ski bum tips and info on where to splurge (and drink) and what’s new.

The Broncos’ 30-20 loss to the Oakland Raiders on Sunday Night Football wasn’t nearly as close as the score indicates. The Raiders dominated the contest from start to finish, and Denver’s shortcomings were evident in all phases of the game. Quarterback Trevor Siemian started slowly and proved singularly unable to inspire…

While some trappings of early ski season are already upon us – Arapahoe Basin has been open since October 21, several Colorado ski areas saw a few inches of natural snow this week and the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Expo opens on Friday at the Colorado Convention Center – you…

Two weeks ago, your Denver Broncos turned in a so pathetic a performance against the San Diego Chargers that fans on Twitter were ready to throw young quarterback Trevor Siemian under the nearest road grader. But it was a different story after yesterday’s 27-19 Denver win — a revenge game…

After the Broncos schooled former Denver quarterback Brock Osweiler by way of a 27-9 beatdown of his new team, the Houston Texans, on the October 24 edition of Monday Night Football, Twitter exploded with derision over the signal-caller’s flamboyant mediocrity, epitomized by what may be the first perfect-spiral fumble in NFL history…

I’m not proud of it, but I have to admit: I’ve never wished more professional ill on a football player than I do on Brock Osweiler. Although Osweiler was erratic during his fill-in stints under center in Denver last year, the supposed heir apparent as Broncos quarterback did well enough to…

When you think of Denver’s most nationally competitive sports team, the Super Bowl-winning Broncos probably come to mind (or perhaps not during these last couple of weeks). But in any case, you’d be wrong. That distinction belongs to the Denver Lady Bulldogs. Since 2010, the Lady Bulldogs have won six…

What a difference five days make. On Sunday, following the Broncos’ lackluster loss to the Atlanta Falcons, Denver fans took to Twitter to declare that rookie quarterback Paxton Lynch sucked. Now, plenty of those same Broncos loyalists are looking at Lynch more positively — but only because Trevor Siemian, who…