Author: Colorado Springs Gazette
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I-25 Toll Lane Gets Thumbs-Down at Gap Project Meeting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The 50 people at Lewis-Palmer High School on Saturday were nearly unanimous on the Interstate 25 “Gap” project: no tolls. The meeting was one of nine held by the Colorado Department of Transportation in the…
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Double-Digit Snow Totals Coming to Colorado High Country this Week
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Where to Ski This Weekend After a healthy storm rolled through Colorado Monday and Tuesday, the state is on track to see more snow falling through the end of the weekend. Snow is expected to…
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Snow to Blast Colorado Over Long Weekend
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s a good week to be a skier in Colorado. On Monday, a storm dropped 10 to 25 inches in the southern mountains, 12 inches at Steamboat and Snowmass and 2 to 6 inches elsewhere…
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Ice Diving in Stratton Reservoir
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Heavy rescue swimmers are big believers in system redundancy. It’s the main reason they utilize three independent air supply systems when they dive under the ice during training exercises. “It’s dangerous work and we want…
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Newest Colorado-Based Ski Resort Giant Announces Name
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The newest member of the mountain resort industry competing with Vail Resorts and other giants finally has a name: Alterra Mountain Company. The destination group owns 12 ski resorts – Colorado’s Steamboat and Winter Park;…
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Winter Storm Expected to Dump More than a Foot of Snow in Ski Country
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After receiving 8 inches of snow Thursday night, Wolf Creek opened 90 percent of its terrain. Snow is back in Colorado, and just in time for the start of holiday vacation. Although the highest snow…
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Thousands Sign Petition to Remove Blue Frame from Garden of the Gods
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than 18,000 people had signed an online petition by Sunday night demanding that a 12-foot high steel frame intended to promote Colorado Springs’ Olympic connections be removed from the Garden of the Gods. The…
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Garden of the Gods ‘Framed,’ and the Public is Enraged About It
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Randi Hitchcock and her husband were sitting at High Point in Garden of the Gods last week, enjoying the solitude. When she returned Thursday to find a 12-foot-tall blue frame drilled into the rock, it…
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Fatal Crash Causes Another Shut Down on I-70
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One person was killed and one injured in a semi-truck crash on Interstate 70 at the Empire exit Tuesday morning Colorado State Patrol said the crash at mile marker 232 has shut down the interstate…
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Fire Danger High on the Colorado Front Range
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After a dusting of snow overnight in parts of El Paso and Teller counties, dry and windy conditions pose serious fire risk in the area Friday, meteorologists say. The National Weather Service in Pueblo issued…