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Skiers howling for Wolf Creek
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WOLF CREEK SKI AREA - “It’s all powder!Come on!” Karla Yahn, atop the Knife Ridge on a sheer chute lined with jagged rocks, hesitated, while below, Ian Melcker urged her on. Her... Full story

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OUT THERE: Vail's Blue Sky Basin - ten years later, nobody's protesting
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BLUE SKY BASIN • It takes four lift rides... Full story
Utilities proposal would allow public access to the peak's south slope
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Colorado Springs Utilities has proposed to allow... Full story
SNOW-CIAL MEDIA: Cell phones and web change way we view the slopes
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Jon Brelig has been at a ski resort... Full story

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Bill Ruskin walks with his dog, Kepler, on the Mount Herman Trail. He volunteers each year to maintain trails in the Rocky Mountains. Increasingly, forest and parks officials rely on volunteers to maintain trails and camp sites.
Volunteers needed to tend trails, campsites
Budget cuts underscore need for public's help
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Still need to make a New Year’s resolution? Or need a replacement for one that didn’t last two weeks? Consider giving something back to the great outdoors that gives so much to you. Cash-strapped cities and parks are leaning more... Full story
Rock climbers of all levels enjoyed an evening at the recently opened City Rock indoor climbing gym at 21 N. Nevada Ave. in downtown Colorado Springs.
Indoor climbing gym opens downtown
Routes will challenge all skills levels
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Being suspended by rope 43 feet in the air will test your faith in knots. For this reporter, whose knowledge of technical climbing stemmed mainly from the Sylvester Stallone flick “Cliffhanger,” the wall seemed much higher on a recent... Full story
Snow to herald new year; conditions deteriorating in mountains
Treacherous driving expected for mountains
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Colorado Springs will likely say farewell to 2009 with a final shot of snow that could leave an inch on roads and lawns by Thursday morning, the National Weather Service predicts. And the New Year will be a happy one for skiers, with nearly a... Full story
OUT THERE: Who says Colorado camping is just for summer?
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There are days in Eric Hunter’s camping season when the wind chill hits minus 40 degrees and sideways snow reduces visibility to zero. Outside the cocoon of warmth of his mountaineering tent, hypothermia can strike in minutes.... Full story
Beetles that battle tamarisk may be victims themselves
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The Colorado Department of Agriculture this summer released 320,000 Chinese beetles into the Arkansas River Basin, an effort to control the invasive, water-guzzling tree tamarisk. On the Western Slope, the beetles, which come from the same central... Full story
Charles Elliott, 96, skis the blue run Charisma off the Bonanza Chair at Wolf Creek ski area Dec. 15. It was his first day of skiing since his hip surgery in June so Elliott said he was taking it easy.
Colorado skier, 96, still hitting the slopes
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Wolf Creek Pass • Charles Elliott’s doctor never called back to give him permission, but with a forecast of sunny skies and 5 feet of fresh snow, the 96-year-old went skiing anyway last week — on his new hip joint. Elliott, a... Full story
Winter Park tow
Stimulus plan, circa 1930s: the Colorado ski industry
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Monarch, Winter Park and Wolf Creek ski areas all celebrate 70 years of skiing this winter and they all owe their start, in part, to an unexpected benefactor: government stimulus. It came in the form of the New Deal. In 1939 — the year all... Full story
Local knowledge: Coping with the holiday ski crush
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Christmas is a time for giving. At Colorado ski resorts, it is a time when locals typically give the slopes to thousands and thousands of out-of-state revelers who take over for about two weeks before disappearing again until Spring Break. For... Full story
Entrance to Cheyenne Mountain State Park
Cheyenne Mountain State Park: undiscovered no more
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Twice as many visitors, compared to last year. That is the sign that Cheyenne Mountain State Park is at long last a success, said Dean Winstanley, director of Colorado State Parks. The number of people visiting the park jumped from 66,700 in 2008... Full story
Opening the Manitou Incline takes a $95,500 step forward
Grant and donation will fund planning for the popular but illicit trail
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Hiking the Manitou Incline, an old railroad line that rises 2,000 feet up a steep hillside above Manitou Springs, can be a lumbering slog that tests one’s endurance. So is the effort to get it officially opened to the public. But there was... Full story
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