No rain in weeks? No trouble for snowmaking at A-Basin, Copper Mountain
There was the tiniest sliver of white this morning on the slopes at Arapahoe Basin and Copper Mountain. Snowmakers turned on the guns overnight when temperatures dipped below the sweet spot of 26 degrees Fahrenheit, known as the “wet bulb temperature.” There was just enough moisture in the air to make it worthwhile. A-Basin says […]
Lawsuit claims years of assault and intimidation at Breck affordable apartments
The family of a local disabled woman is suing the town of Breckenridge in a personal injury lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed Aug. 20 in Summit County court, claims the town and its affordable housing manager at Pinewood Village II failed the woman for more than three years. It comes from the woman’s father, Mike McManus. […]
Is it illegal to hunt moose within sight of Silverthorne homes?
A Wildernest local is shocked and saddened to learn a hunter likely harvested a female moose near the Salt Lick trail system. On Facebook the woman says it happened within sight of the Forest Service road there, which is easily accessed from nearby homes. Hunting at Salt Lick is unusual, but it is not illegal […]
Keystone is growing. Now it needs a new million-gallon water tank.
The fast-growing Keystone area needs more water. This means building and burying a million-gallon water tank on about two acres of public land across from Keystone Resort above the Tenderfoot housing complex. Snake River Water District and the U.S. Forest Service say this is the best place for it. “The tank would be approximately 20 […]
COO Summit: Parking, homecoming and ‘not sexy, but necessary’
You want to know when it’s going to snow? Al Henceroth at Arapahoe Basin knows. “I just got a direct newsflash from Joel Gratz at Open Snow,” HJenceroth told a packed house at the annual Ski Area COO Summit at Copper this morning. “Oct. 13, three inches new at the Basin, 21 degrees.” His counterpart […]
Summit’s own Speaker McCluskie on affordability and post office woes
State lawmakers tell Krystal 93 they are just as frustrated as you are with the U.S. Postal Service. “They are not maintaining services at the levels they should,” Speaker of the House Julie McCluskie says. “We have reached out again to Representative Neguse’s office. He has now forwarded an inquiry on to the Colorado-Wyoming district […]
Dry, dry, dry: For the first time all year local fire danger is ‘very high’
Record heat and weeks with hardly any rain has left Summit County dry as a bone. For the first time in a year, local fire managers this morning bumped fire danger to “very high.” They blame it on three factors: dry grasses, dry deadfall and a dry extended forecast. “We will be evaluating the need […]
Survivors plead with drivers in new CDOT campaign: Do not drive distracted
This past year was the deadliest in history for people walking or biking along Colorado roads. “Getting hit by a car seems about as likely as getting struck by lightning,” says Dana Walbaum, survivor of a Denver car-vs.-pedestrian incident. “We never think that something like this is going to happen as a pedestrian … but […]
Dillon overwhelmingly rejects lakeview condo project
In the town’s first vote to overturn a project already approved by council, Dillon residents rejected a lakeview condo project and attached development district from Detroit developer Jake Porritt. The project failed by a vote of 229 to 132. Roughly 35% of Dillon residents cast a vote for this mail-in election. Another question, approving changes […]
Is leaf peeping or spring break skiing busier on the I-70 mountain corridor?
Numbers are in from the final weekend of September, and it was officially the fourth-busiest weekend of the year on I-70, according to the CDOT traffic counters at the Eisenhower-Johnson tunnels. 2024 Busiest weekends on I-70 The last weekend in September is historically one of the top-5 busiest weekends on the mountain corridor. In most […]