Tag: Wolf Creek Ski Area
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Ski season arrives in Colorado: Wolf Creek Ski Area celebrates opening day
WOLF CREEK • The start of Colorado’s unusual ski season was unusually quiet. Davey Pitcher and his wife, Rosanne, carefully talked earlier this week about opening their family-run Wolf Creek Ski Area after 24 inches of snow fell on the mountain near Pagosa Springs. The snow, Pitcher says, “was just what the doctor ordered.” But…
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Colorado ski season set to kick off Wednesday
Colorado’s unprecedented ski season is set to kick off in an unlikely place. Wolf Creek plans to run lifts starting at 9 a.m. Wednesday, said Davey Pitcher of the family-owned ski area on the pass above Pagosa Springs. On Monday evening as snow continued to fall, he said 22 inches had piled up at mid-mountain,…
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Colorado’s uncertain ski season could have an unusually late start
In what promises to be a most unusual ski season in Colorado due to COVID-19, it might also be an unusually late kickoff. In a call Thursday, representatives at Arapahoe Basin and Loveland — the two ski areas historically vying for opening day bragging rights — expressed cautious optimism in running lifts by the end…
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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…