It’s a wonder that a place like Taos Ski Valley even exists. When Ernie Blake spotted the snowy basin in 1954 from his single-engine Cessna 170 airplane, the mountain was remote, rugged and raw. A lot of it still is. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for April, 2013
We all know closing day at your favorite ski area happens not because there’s not enough snow to ski, but because there’s not enough people for the area to warrant spinning the lifts. Colorado and Utah routinely suffer ironic […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I hope everyone got their T-shirts by now. I think they came out pretty cool and hope you do too. We sold 61 and a check for $230 is on its way to the Reeves Foundation. It’s a small […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just in case: Sochi storing snow for 2014 Olympics Sochi organizers are gathering up 16 million cubic feet of snow and trying to keep it from melting away this summer as a contingency ahead of the Winter Games, which take […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
CRESTED BUTTE — Like most of the competitors at last weekend’s Subaru Freeride Series event, Conor Pelton got his start chasing gates. Pelton, who won the men’s division of the two-day extreme skiing competition, grew up in Michigan and was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…