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The Road Ends Here: Winter Dew Tour Won’t Return to Copper Mountain, CO, This Season

Some of the biggest names like snowboarder Red Gerard would perform at the Winter Dew Tour. Photo Credit: Boardriding.com

Since 2008, The Winter Dew Tour has delivered one of the most highly anticipated freestyle skiing and snowboarding events. Breckenridge Ski Resort hosted the tour until 2020, when Copper Mountain Ski Resort took over the event. The Winter Dew Tour became an Olympic qualifier in 2013 for athletes competing in both skiing and snowboarding events. On September 22, Summit Daily […]
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8 Hikers Face Being Charged $25,000 Each After Hiking in Closed Area at Jasper National Park, AB

The Jasper Wildfire Complex in August. Photo Credit: Rocky Mountain Outlook

The 2024 Canadian wildfire season was one of the worst on record, torching over 13 million acres across the country. One of the most destructive fires crossed paths with the popular mountain town of Jasper, Alberta, where over 25,000 people were forced to evacuate the area. Destroying over one-third of the buildings in Jasper, the fire was not fully controlled […]
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Wildfires Threaten Several California and Nevada Ski Areas

The Bridge Fire swarms Mountain High Ski Area. Photo Credit: The Inertia

Wildfires continue to torch the west coast of the United States. Thousands of acres of forests, dozens of homes, and now a ski resort have been caught in the wake of the recent wildfires. Related: Wildfire Raging South of Reno, NV, Prompts Evacuations The Bridge Fire started Sunday, September 8, near Glendora, California. The fire has grown to nearly 52,000 acres and […]
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Long-Term Plan Revealed for New Telluride, CO, Town Gondola

The gondola moving skiers around Telluride. Photo Credit: The Denver Post

Connecting the neighboring towns of Telluride and Mountain Village in southwest Colorado is a free public gondola that shuttles roughly three million skiers, hikers, residents, and commuters each year. Originally built in 1996, the town of Mountain Village owns and operates the gondola built to improve air quality by reducing car traffic. In June 2022, the Gondola Long-Term Planning Leadership Committee, […]
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The Race is on For Wyoming to Sell Land to Grand Teton National Park Before it’s Sold to Developers

The Kelly Parcel. Photo Credit: Grand Teton National Park Foundation

The clock is ticking for the Kelly Parcel, a 640-acre plot adjacent to the Grand Teton National Park’s southern boundary. Wyoming state land commissioners are pressured to sell land, which resulted in the Kelly Parcel being put up for public auction last year. The pressure comes from a constitutional agreement that many Western states made that requires the states to raise […]
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