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Snowboarders hike to the western side of Tucker Mountain on Feb. 15 as the snow-covered, 13,205-foot Jacque Peak stands in the background. The snow gods have been good to Copper Mountain this month,
Christian Murdock, The Gazette Photo by Casey Day
Christian Murdock/The Gazette
A snowboarder captures a picture of the Mosquito and Ten Mile mountain ranges from the top of Copper Mountain’s Super Bee chair on a bluebird day at the Colorado ski resort.
Christian Murdock/The Gazette
Registration is now open for the next mental health training seminar by the Seasons Center for Behavior Health and the First United Methodist Church in Carroll.
Photo by Liz Copan / Studio Copan
Safe Slopes Colorado, a coalition with the goal of increasing safety and transparency at ski areas, recently released a report detailing the number of traumatic snowsports injuries over the course of the 2017-18 ski season. The report includes data from the Colorado Trauma Registry and was compiled by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
The report tallies 1,426 injuries that took place at Colorado ski areas and were treated at Level I-III trauma centers from Nov. 14, 2017, to April 15, 2018. A hospital’s designation equates to the level of care it can provide, with a Level I center capable of providing total care for every aspect of injury
Photo from Vail Resorts
The goal of every ski area is to get as much terrain open before the holidays that typically bring crowds of eager skiers and snowboarders to Summit County. This year there is the added incentive that more terrain means more room to spread out and, at ski areas using reservation systems, more availability. Unfortunately Mother Nature hasn’t helped out much, but snowmaking has allowed resorts to get lower mountain terrain open.
At Breckenridge Ski Resort, terrain on Peak 10 opened last weekend with the Falcon SuperChair, which means four of the resort’s five peaks have open trails, said Breckenridge spokesperson Sara Lococo. She added that mountain operations teams are prepping Peak 6 the last peak to open and Peak 8’s Imperial Express SuperChair and T-Bar with snowmaking and patrol work. Lococo reported that Breckenridge had just over 750 acres open as of Tuesday, Dec. 22.