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Where to Go Skiing and Snowboarding in Colorado AFAR 1/21/2021
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Head to Aspen for an upscale experience.Colorado is so spoiled for ski resorts it can be hard to know where to start. The best bet is to consider what else aside from skiing and snowboarding you’re interested in, and the environment in which you want to do it. Love Victorian architecture and history? Breckenridge is your best choice. Got eager kids in tow? Keystone might be the one.
Here, we explore six of the top Colorado ski resorts, each an excellent place to ski or snowboard for different reasons. There are many more worth exploring, including smaller spots like the privately owned Wolf Creek near the New Mexico border (great for early season snow) or Arapahoe Basin, among the closest ski resorts to Denver and offering one of the longest snow seasons. Coloradoski.com, a nonprofit representing 22 resorts across the state, is a good resource for an overview, too.
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Summit County is without question a ski and snowboard destination, but your skills on the snow could translate to the ice, and trying your hand at ice skating could improve your carving out on the hill.
“The edging is similar,” said Tara Lane, a skating instructor for the town of Breckenridge. “You have your inside edge, your bottom of your blade, which is flat, and then the outside edge. Your weight transfer and the rolling edge to edge is the same, but the difference is the bottom of a skate is much skinnier, so you move from edge to edge faster. If you’re pretty proficient on skates, you will be able to understand edge transfer, weight transfer and how to turn on the mountain better than someone who doesn’t know how to skate and vice versa from skiing to skating.”
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Over $21,000 has been raised by the group over the past year
The Bag Ladies started out in 2008 when a few women began to make reusable bags out of clothes that wouldn’t sell in the Family & Intercultural Resource Center’s thrift store. When the pandemic created a massive need for cotton facial coverings, The Bag Ladies stepped up to the plate, sewing masks and giving profits and donations to the resource center. Since the group’s founding, over $200,000 have been raised. Close to 5,000 masks have been made this year.
Brianne Snow, the Family & Intercultural Resource Center’s executive director, explained that The Bag Ladies program started in 2008 when thrift store volunteer Kay Bullington noticed that a lot of clothing that couldn’t be sold ended up getting thrown away. Bullington decided to recycle these clothes by washing them and making them into bags for a suggested donation. Bullington has since moved away and the position of Lead Bag Lady
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