Colorado’s historically dry winter wasn’t all bad. Just ask a firefighter.
The best local minds in wildland firefighting gathered today in Breckenridge for a summer fire preparedness meeting. Like Summit County’s peak snowpack and Lake Dillon’s historic thaw, this meeting came weeks earlier than usual. The National Weather Service predicts above-average temperatures and below-average precipitation, now through June, and wildfire is already on everyone’s mind. But Sam Massman, of the […]
Warmest March in Summit County history ends with dwindling I-70 traffic
The quietest weekend since late January on I-70 closed out the quietest March since the pandemic – and the hottest March of all time. Just over 113,000 vehicles traveled the Eisenhower-Johnson tunnels this weekend, March 27-29, for a loss of 17% in one week. Barely 505,000 cars traveled the mountain corridor in four weekends this month, down 4.5% from last year. The […]
Copper’s Lily Dhawornvej wins Crystal Globe, makes history for snowboard slopestyle
Back in November, before the first World Cup Big Air of the season in Steamboat, Copper snowboarder Lily Dhawornvej told Krystal 93 this season was nothing compared to her first on the U.S. Snowboard team. The 16-year-old felt calmer. More collected. More ready to face the pressure of nonstop travel, training and competition. Yesterday in Switzerland, Lily was crowned the youngest Crystal […]
No Kings rally returns to Frisco, joining potentially millions of people nationwide
A No Kings rally comes to downtown Frisco tomorrow at noon. The Frisco rally could bring several hundred people to the corner of Highway 9 and Main Street. They join potentially millions of protestors nationwide. The most recent No Kings Rally in New York City alone drew over 100,000 people this past October, according to local authorities via AM NY. Frisco has seen several […]
No Pali? No problem. The A-Basin Enduro is a snowy golf tournament this April
In a season of firsts, here is one we never saw coming. Arapahoe Basin will host its first-ever on-snow golf tournament April 8. Pali Chair is closing for the season this Sunday, March 29, meaning the 10-hour Enduro ski-a-thon is canceled. In its place is the Enduro Open golf tourney, where instead of skiing all day, 35 teams […]
Not even 2 months after Lake Dillon froze, the Ice Melt device fell through
Summit County smashed another high-temperature record today and Lake Dillon has already thawed, not even two months after it finally froze. The record-keeping weather station in Dillon hit 71 degrees Fahrenheit around 2 p.m., smashing the record of 62 degrees from 2012. This is the sixth time in seven days Summit has set a record […]
Frisco Peninsula singletrack opens 2 months early, but not for horses
The season of the heat dome continues with early ski area closures in Summit County, Steamboat and just about everywhere in the Western U.S. Record heat and spotty snow come with at least one silver lining. Open now for hiking, biking and trail running are the dirt trails at Frisco Peninsula, aka the Peninsula Recreation Area. The singletrack in Frisco is opening about […]
Here’s your first look at 40 miles of re-imagined trails in Frisco’s Backyard
The sprawling new Frisco’s Backyard project is ready to rock. Approved in recent years as the state’s most ambitious fire mitigation project, the plan, officially known as the Town of Frisco Backyard Fuels and Recreation Project, includes fire trimming on 63 “units” over 1600+ acres, plus construction on more than 30 miles of new and […]
Movies On Air: ‘Project Hail Mary’ is a bromance in the stars
“Project Hail Mary” shows nightly at The Eclipse in Breck from March 25-29. There’s a moment near the end of Ryan Gosling’s new sci-fi blockbuster, “Project Hail Mary,” that will either make you cheer or groan. It’s the moment when Rocky taps back. Rocky is an alien from Erid, a planet in a far-off solar system. Gosling’s character, Ryland Grace, calls him (it?) Rocky because he’s made of rock. You can’t blame the guy for a lack of […]
‘Booming’ fire destroys 12 vehicles at contractor camp north of Breck
A dozen vehicles were destroyed but no one was injured yesterday evening when a contractor camp caught fire north of Breckenridge. An eyewitness, John, lives at the nearby Vista Verde Apartments, where he and about 15 others watched the fire erupt, sometimes literally. “That wall of flame was so high I could see it from […]