2 Leadville teens charged with attempted murder for off-campus shooting
A teenager was shot and two were arrested for attempted murder in Leadville this Monday, sending the local high school into lockdown. In a statement from Monday, Aug. 11, Lake County School District reports two returning students confronted a new student on campus. All three were suspended and sent home for the day “per the […]
Put your vision on screen at the First Friday Film Fest, win $300
The First Friday Film Fest is back for a second season and Silverthorne wants to see what you’ve got. The town is now accepting submissions from local filmmakers for the October festival. It doesn’t matter if you are an industry pro or simply shooting on a GoPro, the film fest is a local’s-only showcase for […]
Is Summit County still in a housing crisis?
It has been almost three years since Summit County officials declared a local housing crisis. In 2022, home prices were soaring from the pandemic real estate boom. Rentals were disappearing with short-term rental managers gobbling up condos and apartments. Locals with full-time jobs were living in camper vans through the dead of winter. Some still […]
Colorado’s 2 busiest 14ers saw more hikers last year than 29 others
The tallest peak in Summit County is again one of the most popular Colorado 14ers – those peaks of at least 14,000 feet. Quandary Peak, located about 10 minutes south of Breckenridge, welcomed an estimated 26,500 hikers last year, according to the latest report by Colorado Fourteeners Initiative. That makes Quandary the second-busiest 14er in […]
Pickup towing lumber crashes, bursts into flames on I-70
A heavy-duty pickup towing a load of lumber crashed and caught fire this morning on westbound I-70, sending one man to the hospital and closing the interstate for nearly four-and-a-half hours. Summit Fire and EMS confirms a one-ton dually pickup with a gooseneck trailer was leaving the Eisenhower-Johnson Tunnels around 6:50 a.m. when it smashed […]
Breck might experiment with ‘alternating traffic’ on Aspen Alley this fall
There is more to Aspen Alley than gold leaves and fast dirt. This popular trail off Boreas Pass sees a ton of love from hikers and bikers. But according to AllTrails traffic spikes by nearly 500% in the fall, when leaf peepers on foot say they are running into trouble with downhill mountain bikers – […]
2 major road closures are cinching Summit County traffic this week
Summer ain’t over. And neither is road work season. Starting today a pair of popular local roads are closed to traffic, impacting thousands of travelers daily. Swan Mountain First up is Swan Mountain Road, where the road is closed completely between Prospector Campground and Sapphire Point until the afternoon of Friday, Aug. 15. There is […]
Wildfire haze chokes out half-marathon at Frisco’s Run the Rockies
For the first time in history, a wildfire burning nearly 150 miles away canceled a trail race in Frisco. Run the Rockies half-marathon on Aug. 9 was shortened to 10 kilometers when race directors awoke to thick, soupy haze. Summit County smelled like a campfire. Runners could hardly see Buffalo Mountain from the Frisco Peninsula, […]
Meet Lee Lucas, the Warren Miller of classic Breckenridge ski films
Longtime Breckenridge local Lee Lucas is the Warren Miller of Colorado ski films. He’s a surfer at heart who learned to ski, and then he learned to ski with a camera. “It was just a bunch of people skiing and having fun,” the Texas native says of his formative years in Breck. But Lucas wasn’t […]
Another head-on collision near Kremmling kills 1, sends 3 to the hospital
One person was killed and three more airlifted with injuries yesterday evening in a head-on collision near Kremmling, the second fatal wreck in that area this week. The photo of the crash is courtesy of Robert Martin. Colorado State Patrol tells Sky-Hi News a Subaru slammed into a Kia on U.S. Highway 40 just west of […]