Editor’s Note: Each Thursday throughout the winter, the Summit Daily News will provide a terrain update that will inform skiers and riders on what trails are open at what mountains before they head out to.
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With Colorado ski areas shifting into summer operations, resorts are opening trails to mountain biking or will do so any day. Many utilize their chairlifts for "bike hauls," requiring the purchase of trail passes for access. Copper Mountain allows free mountain biking but charges for bike hauls. Trail access is free at Arapahoe Basin, where there is no lift-assisted biking. Most of the resorts with mountain biking operations also offer rentals, lessons and clinics.
If you’re new or mostly new to Colorado’s big, iconic ski resorts, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. It’s easy to feel like an outsider in a sea of vacationing outsiders.