When it comes to making it through ski season without injury, Post blogger Michael Conniff set a new record for seasonal pain.
The amazing story of Amanda Boxtel, co-founder of Challenge Aspen, continues with her latest hegira to Delhi, India, for anotherdoes of experimental embryonic stem-cell therapy. "For two-and-a-half days," she blogs, "I have caved up in Room 208’s cocoon at Nu Tech Mediworld. I am by myself and while I am alone, I embrace this space and time to enter back into the hospital’s womb. Like a caterpillar encased in its silken armor, I am protected from the chaos that bellows outside the hospital’s walls, as I gestate in my newly pregnant embryonic stem cell body. So far, I have had six stem cell injections and one intravenous shot of a gazillion stem cells."
With eleven feet (or so) of snow, the Snowbird resort in Utah is both aptly named--and not about to shut down in spring 2008.
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Well, I almost made it.
In this, my fifth winter in Aspen, and my seventh straight winter as serial skier, I thought I had made it to the finish line after one more ski season unscathed. And what a winter it has been out here in the Roaring Fork Valley: snow that knew no surcease, piles of the pillowy stuff, powder day upon powder night.
By the end of the January this one was already in the books: the epic winter of 207-2008, with more snow in Aspen than in the last twenty years, and more in Snowmass than ever before.
Continue Reading May 11th, 2008
SNOWBIRD, UTAH (Post Time News)-–With more than 11 feet of snow on the ground at mid-mountain and counting, Snowbird says it will extend its season into June here--and possibly beyond.
Continue Reading May 11th, 2008
DURANGO, COLORADO—If you are like the likes of me, you immediately gauge the desirability of the place unvisited by its proximity to the nearest ski resort.
Thus, the random trip to Utah for a Shakespeare Festival is really a reason to check out Brian’s Head, the resort so far south it’s a three-hour escape from Las Vegas. (National Forest? What National Forest?) The possibility of a job at New Mexico State becomes an Interstate journey on the map to the Angel Fire ski resort some two hours away.
When you visit an actual ski town like this one, the exercise is particularly delicious, particularly when you come upon not one ski resort but two. Durango is known for the resort formerly known as Purgatory and now as Durango Mountain Resort (or, locally, as simply DMR), but little more than an hour away, on the other side of Pagosa Springs, there sits Wolf Creek, in a part of Colorado forest that is a dead-ringer for the deciduous density of New England.
Continue Reading November 25th, 2007
KEYSTONE, COLORADO (Post Time News)--Keystone is open for business.
"Thanks to more than two feet of new snow this month and efficient mid-mountain snowmaking,"Keystone Ski Resort moved up their season opening date to 9 a.m. on November 2, 2007, making it the first Vail Resorts Mountain to open in the country.
Continue Reading November 3rd, 2007
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO (Post Time News)—Are mountain towns going down even as real estate prices go up?
The experience of two towns in Colorado—Aspen and Steamboat Springs—paint a picture of a life cycle for towns of increasing popularity that grows more vexing and expensive at every step.
Continue Reading September 30th, 2007
DENVER, COLORADO (Post Time News)-- Specialty Sports Venture (SSV) has become an even bigger player in ski rentals and retailing.
SSV, a joint-venture majority-owned by Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN), announced that it entered into an agreement to acquire 18 Breeze Ski Rental shops at locations throughout Colorado, Utah and California for $6.5 million. SSV now has 145 shops in Colorado, Utah, and California, with more growth a distinct possibility.
Continue Reading June 24th, 2007
COPPER MOUNTAIN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA) announced at the organization's 44th Annual Meeting and Forum here that its 26 member resorts hosted more than 12.56 million skier visits--and set a new skier visit record for the second consecutive year in the process.
In all, CSCUSA said Colorado accounts for 23 percent of the domestic ski business. But the trade group also reported Colorado visits increased just 30,000 skier visits over last season.
Continue Reading June 24th, 2007
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