Winter Scene

Boulder’s wealth of excellent hiking trails are not to be missed once winter arrives. Most trails in town are reached by very accessible trailheads,...

  Colorado’s Liberty Skis started, literally, with the roll of the dice. While the metaphor is useful for many a startup, few can claim that the seed funding came from a craps table in Vegas. The story goes like this: Liberty Skis’ founders Jim Satloff and Dan ...

There was a time, about a year ago, when Frozen Dead Guy Days was on life support. Even though Bredo Morstoel, Nederland’s most famous resident, was...

Colorado´s ski industry is the leader in North America for good reason. Visitation to local favorite Vail exceeds 1.5 million skier days each year. That number, 1,750,000 skier days (one skier, skiing one day) last year alone at Vail, means that the ski area has the ...

After last year’s lackluster snowfall truncated the number of available ski days, it would be nice if Mother Nature gave a little foresight into what Colorado resorts may be in for in 2012-13. Without a time machine to take a peek at January’s snowpack, snow ...

Even for an expert, making the right decision can be tough. After three weeks camped on the Carroll Glacier in Alaska, waiting to ski a certain line after it went into the shade, longtime backcountry skier and guide Donny Roth finally set out for the summit. It was ...

Though winter has settled in the Rocky Mountains, that doesn’t mean you have to settle for being cold all the time. Natural hot springs dot the...

While some consider summer to be the prime time for soaking in Colorado’s hot springs, it’s really a year-round activity...

  It´s cold. It’s windy. Your hands are frozen. You’ve been snowshoeing for hours. Now the moment comes: the light on the Gore Range is perfect, with the snow reflecting the alpenglow that brushes the peaks. You pull out your camera. It’s going to be the perfect ...

COLORADO SPRINGS LODGING Great Wolf Lodge9494 Federal Drive For any driver making their way into Colorado Springs, the Great Wolf Lodge is impossible to miss. Situated...

Anyone who has called in “sick” on a morning that fresh snow has fallen will relate to the opening sequence of Warren John Morrison skis Antarctica in Warren Miller’s Wintervention. In Miller´s Wintervention. the opening scene of this year’s installation of the 60-...