Tag: Steamboat
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3 ski resorts open for the season with 4 to follow this week
Hit the slopes this coming week across Colorado! Three resorts, Purgatory, Aspen and Snowmass, opened Saturday and four more, Crested Butte, Steamboat, Beaver Creek and Telluride, are all opening this week. Purgatory Resort, in the San Juan Mountains, opened Saturday at 9 a.m. The resort’s new season comes with improvements to snowmaking, operations and infrastructure,…
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Breckenridge opening ski season early; other opening dates ahead
Breckenridge Resort has announced an early launch to the 2022-23 ski season. Opening day is set for Wednesday, two days ahead of schedule. Skiers and riders will have 54 acres to roam on Peak 8, according to a news release. Starting at 8:30 a.m., festivities will include a DJ and waffles, ahead of a Friday…
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Closing dates for Colorado’s ski areas: End of the season draws near
Spring giveth — some of skiers’ most treasured powder — and spring taketh. Closing dates are ahead for Colorado’s slopes. April 3: Aspen Buttermilk, Crested Butte, Sunlight Mountain, Powderhorn, Telluride April 10: Granby Ranch, Steamboat April 17: Aspen Snowmass, Beaver Creek, Ski Cooper, Echo Mountain, Eldora Mountain, Keystone, Monarch Mountain, Purgatory, Wolf Creek April 24:…
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Steamboat officials rescue injured skier in 9-hour overnight mission
Various teams rescued a skier overnight Saturday who was injured and lost in the Steamboat Ski Resort, Routt County Search and Rescue said Monday. The rescue began at 6:15 p.m. when RCSAR was notified that a male skier in his 50s had gotten separated from his partners after skiing the third pitch, officials said. Volunteers…
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Dining gondolas, bumper cars, Pizza Ranger: What’s new to Colorado ski resorts
Many of the multimillion-dollar capital projects common to the ski industry’s offseason came to a screeching halt this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Vail Resorts, for one, announced deferring all chairlift builds, terrain expansions and base area upgrades as a way to cushion the economic blow of the virus, which in March forced a…
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Colorado ski resort to use converted gondolas, yurts for safe dining bubbles
While restaurants this pandemic season brace to control crowding among cold patrons, Telluride Resort’s gateway hub of Mountain Village is unveiling a new, aesthetic solution. Up to 20 converted gondola cabins will serve as dining bubbles, according to a village press release. The heated and lighted cabins will accommodate up to eight people of the…