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This year, our resorts are celebrating Independence Day weekend with a variety of fun activities. Make sure you check out the concerts by local artists, patriotic parades, spectacular fireworks displays, and don’t forget that this year there will be lift-served skiing for the first time in 14 years.

Steamboat Springs

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Not since 1997 has there been lift served skiing in Colorado on the 4^th of July. Summer skiing in Colorado is nothing new; it’s rare but not new. This summer, skiing has been available at Aspen and Arapahoe Basin on weekends. Aspen is now closed, however Arapahoe Basin has extended summer skiing through the July 4^th Holiday.

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Can you believe it’s summer and we’re still skiing in Colorado? It’s probably because we had so much snow in places this past winter, there is still plenty to go around. Or maybe it’s because the air here is dry and that keeps the snow around. Or maybe it’s because the resort that is open is higher in elevation where the snow is preserved longer.

Folks living up the summer season at Arapahoe Basin

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Last week, Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA) held its 48th Annual Meeting in beautiful Aspen, and to end the day acknowledged the best professionals in the ski industry at its second annual Double Diamond Awards Ceremony. CSCUSA honored snow maintenance professionals, athletes, instructors, and patrollers with this year’s awards, celebrating their leadership and hard work during the 2010-11 ski season. (continue reading…)

Note: Below is the press release concerning total skier visits issued by Colorado Ski Country USA on June 8, 2011.

COLORADO SKI COUNTRY USA SEES SKIER VISITS INCREASE IN 2010/11

Statewide Trade Association Projects Exceeding 12 Million Mark

Aspen, Colo. – June 8, 2011 – Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA) announced today at its 48^th Annual Meeting, that its 22 member resorts hosted an estimated 6.9 million skier visits during the 2010-11 ski season. This represents an increase of 2.6 percent, or approximately 179,371 skier visits, compared to last season’s final numbers. (continue reading…)

Many visitors believe that Telluride is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. The town sits in a box canyon of the San Juans and the ski resort jets up from one of the main streets like a skyscraper. The mountains in the San Juan range are younger than mountains in northern Colorado so they are sharp, jagged and dramatic. (continue reading…)

When I think of Arapahoe Basin I think of the East Wall, Palli Chair, Zuma, the Beach, and the Race to be the first resort to open in Colorado. I don’t think of lift lines, paying for parking or gourmet dining – until now. A-Basin’s Chef Rybak has done for the menu what snow making crews do for opening day.

Unlike A-Basin’s tasty terrain, before Chef Rybak came on board the food choices looked more like a bland pallet, but Chef took to the menu like Bob Ross to a blank canvas, instilling his own creativity in cuisine offerings and dining options, yet still keeping the menu in step with the rest of the resort’s affordability. (continue reading…)