Skier Injured by Avalanche Near Loveland Pass, CO, Rescued via Flight for Life Helicopter On Sunday, April 20, a skier sustained a severe ankle injury after being swept approximately 700 feet down the north face of Grizzly Peak, located near Loveland Pass in Colorado. The Summit Daily reports that theย incident occurred during a wind slab avalanche, a common type in the region, which forms when wind deposits snow onto a leeward slope, creating a […] Avalanche AvyBrains | April 22, 2025 0 Comments
Town of Vail, CO, Removes Speeds Bumps & Plans To Implement Additional Safety Measures The town of Vail, Colorado, has begun removing more than half of the recently built speed bumps in the Vail Village and Lionshead parking garages, a decision that will drastically change the infrastructure of local traffic and abort previous safety measures.ย An independent traffic engineer conducted a thorough examination, which came to the conclusion that the amount of bumps that […] Industry News Alfred Arnaud | January 4, 2024 0 Comments
National Brotherhood of Skiers 50th Anniversary in Vail, CO, Day 5: Demos, Competitions, TuTus, Bar-B-Que, and a Grand Gala . . . What Could Beat That? Day 5 of the 2023 50th anniversary Summit for the National Brotherhood of Skiers in Vail, CO, did not disappoint. Today, members from over 115 black ski clubs across the country came together for races, challenges, scavenger hunts, ski and board demos, and three unique events, which got the whole mountain celebrating โSoul on the Snow.โ From 8:30 AM – […] Industry News Haleigh Hafner | February 8, 2023 0 Comments
[FOR SALE] An Entire Historic Colorado Town Outside of Telluride for $6.6 Million Ever had the childhood fantasy of being the Mayor of your own town? Well hereโs your chance: this small town just outside Telluride, Colorado is for sale for only $6.6 Million. Colona, Colorado, is a small quaint town a mere 55 minutes outside of Telluride that was just put on the market. This quaint town backdropped by Southern Colorado’s peaks […] Aunika Skogen | March 31, 2022 0 Comments
Colorado To Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms Colorado could become the next state to decriminalize psychedelic mushroom use.ย The state would join a growing number of states beginning to decriminalize possession and use of magic mushrooms as alternative medicine. Oregon was the first state to decriminalize the use of psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, to be distributed in regulated treatment centers and legalize the possession of […] Brains Aunika Skogen | March 2, 2022 1 Comment
3 Aspen, CO Rescuers Injured Attempting to Recover Missing Man Found Dead on Capitol Peak 32-year-old Kelly McDermott from Madison, Wisconsin was last seen at the Capitol Peak parking lot at 8:00 pm on Saturday, July 31. His plan was to make an early summit of Colorado’s Capitol Peak on Sundayโbut he never returned from the attempt. His body was later spotted from a rescue helicopter on Wednesday. Mountain Rescue Aspen team members then prepared […] Climbing SnowBrains | August 7, 2021 1 Comment
Denver, CO Reports 3rd Day in a Row Over 100ยบF | New Daily Record High Temperature Set This has only happened six times since Denver began keeping weather records.ย Three days in a row this weekโall over 100ยบF. With the current heatwave impacting the western United States, Denver recorded a new daily record high temperature yesterday on June 16, 2021, of 100ยบF. The previous record was 98ยบF. Other parts of the West are seeing record high temperatures as […] Weather SnowBrains | June 18, 2021 1 Comment
Mountain Weather Update 4/14: Significant Snow for Colorado, Utah, & Wyoming Through Friday [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMkRRPTwqxs"] WeatherBrains | April 14, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments