Google reviews Summit: Ski areas are ‘beautiful,’ ‘friendly’ and ‘the coldest I’ve ever been’
The Google hive-mind agrees – Summit County skiing and riding is at least 4.5 stars. We dug through years of reviews on Google to find the lovers and haters at Breckenridge, Keystone, Arapahoe Basin and Copper Mountain, plus Loveland Ski Area, which straddles the border between Clear Creek and Summit. Lovers can’t get enough of […]
40+ pounds of meth found during traffic stop
A stop for speeding on Wednesday led to the discovery of 43 pounds of meth hidden in a white pickup truck. It happened on I-70 on the western edge of Eagle County when a uniformed deputy with the Gore Range Narcotic Interdiction Team Task Force spotted the truck going onto the rumble strip at 82 […]
Here’s what Summit is saying about today’s massive education rally in Denver
It was more of a party than a protest today at the state capitol in Denver, where thousands of teachers, staff, students and supporters rallied to protect public school funding. Leaders with the state teachers’ union, Colorado Education Association, led chants over loudspeakers while a marching band played along. They waved signs reading “No more […]
Lawsuit blames ‘negligent’ Breck lifties for deadly chairlift fall in 2023
The family of a man who died in a chairlift fall at Breckenridge in 2023 is suing the mountain and parent company Vail Resorts, claiming negligence. Denver Post reports on the lawsuit, filed by two Colorado law firms on behalf of the man’s family in Illinois. 60-year-old John Perucco fell from Zendo Chair, en route […]
Flight For Life is going pink with a controversial rebrand. But not if 4,000+ people can stop it.
Coming soon to the skies – pink Flight for Life helicopters. Flight for Life owner, CommonSpirit Health, wants to rebrand the iconic orange choppers to match the hospital’s pink-purple logo. CommonSpirit recently broke the news on Facebook and commenters are bashing the rebrand, calling it horrible, disrespectful and potentially unsafe. A pink-purple color scheme will […]
Pickup truck careens 400 feet off I-70
A pickup truck slid off I-70 in a snowstorm Tuesday evening and barreled an estimated 400 feet down a steep embankment, barely missing large trees and boulders. Summit Fire and EMS confirms a witness reported the incident around 5 p.m. on March 18. When firefighters arrived all three passengers were walking and talking with minor […]
Former Summit High teacher coming out of retirement to join Denver education rally
Word is spreading fast about a rally at the state capitol on March 20, when potentially thousands of educators are gathering to protect public school funding. At least one former Summit High School teacher is coming out of retirement to take a stand. “I have to do something,” the former teacher, Len, tells Krystal 93. […]
Humanity’s future is funny, bizarre and painfully bleak in cloning fable ‘Mickey 17’
“Mickey 17” is showing at the Eclipse Theater in Breckenridge “Mickey 17,” the latest mind-trip from South Korean director Bong Joon Ho, raises the messy questions sci-fi films have been asking since Kubrick sent hairless apes into space: Who are we? Where do we come from? Are we doomed to take life too seriously? Joon […]
Lowest rate yet of chain-less truckers in third week of I-70 chain checks
Another week, another round of scheduled chain checks on the I-70 mountain corridor shows most truckers are traveling with the chains they need for snowy roads. On March 11, Colorado State Patrol partnered with seven agencies from Lakewood to Silt. They stopped 225 commercial motor vehicles and wrote just six tickets for violating the chain […]
230+ Summit County teachers pledge to join education rally in Denver
Hundreds of Sumit County teachers and potentially thousands more from every corner of the state are marching on the Colorado Capitol next Thursday to protest a pending cut of $150 million to state education funding. More than 230 local teachers are joining the march, saying in a statement, “This is not a day off. This is a day […]