Author: Jason Blevins
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Colorado postman’s 60-year tenure on a long, rural route filled with wonder
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SOMERSET — Emory Townsend pulls his Kia Sorento off Colorado 133 near a mailbox and fills it with letters and packages, just as he has twice a week for the last 60 years. He turns his gaze toward the Raggeds Wilderness, its serrated ridges furrowing into lush benches of aspen and spruce. It was about 25…
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Ski industry pleads for increase in foreign worker visa program amid historically low unemployment in Colorado
The ski industry is wading into a political storm with a plea for the federal government to bolster its temporary visa program for foreign workers as it contends with a worker shortage. As unemployment rates reach historic lows — especially in Colorado’s resort-centric high country — the National Ski Areas Association is imploring the secretary…
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How Idaho Springs plans to turn the Argo Mine Superfund site into a tourist attraction
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save IDAHO SPRINGS — At the end of the blasted, hard-rock tunnel is a bulkhead. Behind the wall — concrete and steel more than 3 feet thick — is almost 3 million gallons of water tainted…
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A “game changer” for cycling, Denver will add a music festival to the Colorado Classic with Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie
Colorado — and America — is a cemetery for pro-cycling races, many withering away after failed attempts at financial stability. But a group of Coloradans is attempting something never done before that may keep their race’s heart beating for decades to come: charging for entry. “Our goal is sustainability and to achieve that, we need to change…
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Expert skiers only: Arapahoe Basin expansion adds backcountry-like terrain with chutes, glades and more
ARAPAHOE BASIN — The shouts from the chairlift drift down to ski area boss Alan Henceroth. “How is it, Al?” “Are you getting it ready?” “Where’s the good snow?” Henceroth, who started as a ski patroller 29 years ago and now runs Arapahoe Basin ski area, peels the skins off his skis, transitioning from uphill…
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Snowmobiler Colten Moore suffered spinal cord injury in X Games double backflip attempt last month
Snowmobiler Colten Moore suffered a spinal cord injury attempting a double backflip at the X Games last month. The seven-time snowmobile X Games medalist from Texas was rushed to an Aspen hospital Jan. 29, after overrotating the trick, which would have been the first in X Games history. The 27-year-old then was flown to a…
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Colten Moore injured attempting double backflip at Winter X Games
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ASPEN — The elusive double backflip — the holy grail of freestyle snowmobiling — spurred carnage once again Sunday at the X Games. Snowmobiling pioneers Colten Moore and Heath Frisby were able to flip their…
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Fewer travelers came to Colorado in 2016, tourism office cites waning interest in legal weed
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save � Colorado’s workhorse “Come To Life” tourism advertising campaign lured fewer travelers in the spring and summer of 2016, but those visitors spent more. Spending among out-of-state travelers who viewed the ads increased 4 percent,…
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Snowboarder Brolin Mawejje pursuing dream to become Uganda’s first winter Olympian
BRECKENRIDGE — His dad was a warrior. His mother left when he was toddler. His home — with six siblings in an impoverished village outside Kampala, Uganda — was not loving. But early hardships honed a tenacity for Brolin Mawejje, whose snowboard is ferrying him toward a dream of becoming the first winter Olympian for…
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Mining to skiing: a Park County plan to stir economic opportunity from polluted legacy
ALMA — Joe Harrington’s strategy for cleaning up one of the heaviest polluting mines in Colorado includes tourism. The owner of nearly 3,000 acres encompassing Park County’s historic London mines is committed to cleaning up the zinc-laden water pouring from nearly 70 miles of tunnels beneath the Mosquito Range. The cost for that could reach…