With the sun starting to set later in the day and the weather starting to slowly warm up in the High Country, snow storms are becoming less frequent. Although the weather this week has been.
The family of Dallas LeBeau, the 21-year-old skier and Winter Park coach who died attempting to jump over U.S. Highway 40 on April 9, started a memorial fund to promote backcountry safety.
The history of Winter Park – Colorado’s longest continuously-operated ski area – is often told starting in the 1920s. That's when people are said to have “unofficially” started hitting the slopes, or .
Jonathan Babcock was skiing with his sister, Linda Babcock, at Winter Park Resort on Feb. 9 when he says a snowboarder hit him and launched him into a tree, causing him to break two ribs and receive a hairline fracture on his pelvis.