Tag: Monarch Mountain
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Uncertain season set to begin for Colorado Front Range skiers
On Thursday, Colorado’s Front Range skiers and snowboarders looked to their first weekend on the slopes. But in what was perhaps a fitting precursor for an uncertain winter ahead, there were no guarantees at first. Epic Pass holders woke to surprise news of Keystone Resort launching its online reservation system, a day before the scheduled…
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Colorado’s top 20 ski areas for snow
The website zrankings.com is the snow source behind Forbes’ annual grading of North American resorts. Its mountain- and data-crazed team seeks to equip fellow enthusiasts with the powder knowledge they need. “To measure the seemingly immeasurable, we’ve ingested gobs of historical weather data and every last measurable detail on 220 North American resorts,” the site pledges. The…
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In year of pandemic, what to expect when planning Colorado winter fun
Anyone dreaming of Colorado snow this season unfortunately will wake to a world in which COVID-19 still exists. This is a reality of which the state tourism office is acutely aware. “While on-mountain activities tend to be naturally socially distant,” said office spokeswoman Abby Leeper Gibson, “it’s important that travelers are protected throughout their experience,…
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Colorado ski country bracing for season of uncertainty: ‘Brave new world’
Many mornings from his bed, Davey Pitcher wishes he’d rise to the end of the nightmare. “You’d rather just wake up and have this all go away,” he said. But COVID-19 does not appear to be going away here in Colorado and beyond anytime soon. And so Pitcher, owner of Wolf Creek Ski Area, is…