Snowsports

Resort, backcountry, and nordic news, events and guides for the slopes of the Front Range including skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, cross country skiing and more.

Sustainable Shredding

Tracy RossMarch 31, 2020

Colorado’s ski and snowboard resorts are doing what they can to try to change the way they operate in the face of the global climate crisis. We don’t kno...

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Uphill Mobility

Betsy WelchMarch 25, 2020

Ski mountaineering might rank right below team handball on the list of most obscure competitive high school sports in the U.S., but a new generation of Colorado...

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Wild Rides

Chris KassarMarch 12, 2020

Take your skiing and splitboarding to the next level this spring with these Colorado big-mountain lines. When conditions consolidate in the spring, lines in th...

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Legendary Big Mountain Skier Dean Cummings Charged With Murder

Peter HaggstromMarch 11, 2020

Photo Credit: Court Leve Dean Cummings, 54, has been charged with first-degree murder, tampering of evidence and identity concealment in San Luis, New Mexico...

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Go Deeper

Peter KrayMarch 9, 2020

Illustration by KEVIN HOWDESHELL / THEBRAVEUNION.COM Get out and do these five things in March before the snow is gone. Skiing is a lifetime sport. You can ...

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The Beasts of Bamyan

Stacy BareMarch 3, 2020

Afghan backcountry skiers and snowboarders make their own equipment out of wood scraps and old truck tires—and they can crush you. Here’s how skiing has brought...

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