More than 2 vehicles crash daily on I-70 in the mountains
An average of 2.5 cars every day are getting into accidents on the I-70 mountain corridor. In just under seven months this year, Colorado State Patrol confirms 537 accidents between the Eisenhower-Johnson Tunnels and Glenwood Springs. Most are small fender benders with no major impacts. But CSP is concerned enough to send more troopers to […]
In The Classroom: Meet the ‘-ology’ professor at CMC Breck
Today we are IN THE CLASSROOM with Doctor Justin Pollack at Colorado Mountain College. He’s a naturopathic doctor and the self-described “-ology” guy – as in biology and physiology – but he wasn’t always the -ology guy. He was almost a river rat. “I was trying to decide between natural medicine and being an outdoor […]
Is summer on I-70 busier than ever?
You can depend on a few things every year here in Summit: sunny days on the shores of Lake Dillon, cool nights under the stars at a campfire, and bumper-to-bumper weekends on I-70. July is historically the busiest for I-70 traffic. Winter might feel crazier because of snow and spinoffs, but mid-summer weekends bring more […]
Summit Sheriff mourns loss of 3-year-old K9, Babe
Summit County Sheriff’s Office is mourning the death of a K9 dog, Babe. Babe, full name Baby “Babe” Blue, died July 22, 2024, due to a medical emergency involving a colonic torsion. The German short-haired pointer was 3 years old. Babe’s career with the sheriff’s office was brief but busy. In just two years she […]
Morning power outage knocks out Silverthorne Rec, 2600+ homes
More than 2,600 buildings in northern Summit County are without power this morning, including the Silverthorne Recreation Center. Xcel Energy confirms power went out just after 6 a.m. Cause is unknown. Crews have been in the field for more than three hours trying to pinpoint the source. Xcel’s power outage map estimated power return by […]
Serious accidents & wildfires: I-70 & US 285 updates
Hundreds of vehicles headed to Denver from the mountains were stuck in traffic for nearly 4 hours after two vehicles crashed in the eastbound lanes just on the east side of the Eisenhower Tunnel. Eyewitnesses tell us that both cars went through the guardrail and over the edge, landing on their rooftops. The first call […]
‘Twisters’ is a meet-cute disaster movie
Most disaster movies are not actually about disasters. The good ones anyway. They are more about the people caught up in the thick of a disaster, and what happens when they crash into each other as everything around them is crashing down. “Twisters,” the quasi-sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, mostly understands this. At its heart […]
Trail of the Week: Keystone Green Line
Your perfect introduction to Keystone’s bike park is the full top-to-bottom green route, which includes the trails Girl Scouts, Suz’s Cruise, Let It Ride, Celtic Way, Bluegrass, Sleepy Hollow and Easy Street. This route is a combination of freeride and technical green terrain that boasts beautiful views of Lake Dillon and allows beginners an opportunity […]
The truth beneath Summit County’s ‘volcano’
Is Buffalo Mountain a dormant volcano? Take it from geologist Garry Zabel, professor emeritus at Colorado Mountain College: no, that big, rounded, pockmarked peak never blew its top. And you’ve just got to look at the rock to know. “It’s composed out of granite, which is an igneous intrusive rock, meaning that magma was intruded […]
Mid-summer heat is baking the globe. But not Summit County.
A sweltering heat wave is roasting most of the continental U.S. and the world. This past Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth – until Monday, when the record was beat: an average of 62.87 degrees Fahrenheit, beating the previous record from summer 2016. The European climate change agency, Copernicus, confirmed the high […]