Chad Otterstrom of Breckenridge reflects on freestyle snowboarding this spring, summer in Colorado’s high alpine (podcast)
Many young boys read the classic fantasy “Lord of the Rings” novels and dream of going on their own adventure within such an enchanting and intimidating landscape. Chad Otterstrom doesn’t need to dream. With his...
Dozens gather in remembrance of fallen Flight For Life pilot Patrick Mahany on anniversary of helicopter crash
FRISCO — “Patrick is gone but will never be forgotten,” Rev. Tema Nnamezie said while addressing a crowd of dozens at Mahany Heroes Park on Wednesday morning. That was the pervasive sentiment traveling through the...
Custom children’s playhouses on display in Dillon to raise money for affordable housing
DILLON — Five playhouses built by local builders will be on display near Lake Dillon for children to explore from June 28 to Aug. 9. The houses are part of the Playhouse Project, a public...
Pastime podcast: Ahead of vintage baseball game in Frisco, a glimpse into the sport’s history in Summit County
FRISCO — To preview this coming weekend’s first Summit Historical Society vintage baseball game, I knew there was one Summit local I had to go to. Luckily, each day she sits about five yards away...
Podcast: Breckenridge Golf Club’s Erroll Miller reflects on Father’s Day weekend at the Pebble Beach U.S. Open
Late this winter, Sean Miller, son of Breckenridge Golf Club PGA pro Erroll Miller, asked his dad if he’d like to take a family trip to Pebble Beach Golf Course on California’s coast to watch...
Photo essay: Pig races hit the track in Frisco
Spectators filled the miniature U-shaped race track as the 4-month old piglets sprinted and jumped over hurdles, shoulder to shoulder, on Frisco’s Main Street Saturday afternoon. The All-Alaskan Racing Pigs, from Fairbanks, visited the 26th...
Photo essay: Dillon Farmers Market kicks off season
The Dillon Farmers Market kicked off the season with sunshine and warm weather on Friday along the Dillon Reservoir. Colorado-grown, farm-fresh produce and artisan goods will be available at the market every Friday from 9...
Photo essay: WAVE festival lights up Breckenrirdge
On Friday night, tourists and residents alike flocked to the Blue River Plaza and the Breckenridge Creative Arts District, interacting with lighted art installations as part of the WAVE: LIght + Water + Sound festival....
Photo essay: ‘Mayuary’ continues with a foot of snow in Summit over the past week
Another May with winter-like conditions of powder ski days is in the books, going by the local-term “Mayuary,” for short. Over a foot of snow fell this week, extending the season to June 16 for...
Photos: Frisco’s remodeled skate park
Skateboarders ride on the lunar-like concrete landscape that fills 28,000 square feet, surrounded by the natural high-alpine terrain at the Frisco Adventure Park. The new skate park design now features jumps, bumps, bowl pockets and...
Podcast: Summit Daily sports editor previews Nuggets-Blazers Game 7 with Summit County fan Daniel Beitscher
It was the day Mount Mutombo met the Tenmile Range. Way back in the early ’90s, when Summit County local Daniel Beitscher was still a kid, NBA star Dikembe Mutombo made the trek from 5,280...
Five Peaks ski-mo event takes racers to almost every summit at Breckenridge Ski Resort (with podcast)
To top out at the true summits of all five of Breckenridge Ski Resort’s peaks during a ski mountaineering race — it’s a brazen concept that Summit County local Pete Swenson cooked up nine years...
Photos: Top Hogs pig show at the library
In celebration of National Library Week and Children’s Book Week, the Top Hogs, a comedy-filled trick pig show, visited the Summit County Library on Thursday in Frisco. A pair of pigs, a dog and a...
Breckenridge Vipers hockey team heads to Las Vegas for Mountain West Hockey League Cup finals
What happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas. But the Breckenridge Vipers semi-professional hockey team will be hitting Sin City this year for spring break and they are hoping to have some hardware in...
Let’s roll: Pair of Summit County jiujitsu athletes podium at Pan-American Championships in California
If you ask Asti Alexandria what she remembers from a Brazilian jiujitsu grappling match, unfortunately for you, it’s not much. “I blackout during most of my matches,” she said. What her memory pulls up from...
Podcast: U.S. ski mountaineering coach Joe Howdyshell talks lessons learned from World Championships
For U.S. Ski Mountaineering Association head coach Joe Howdyshell, this month’s International Ski Mountaineering Federation World Championships in Switzerland proved to be an opportunity for his youth and senior athletes to see in person what...
Photos: Seeing Frisco’s new avalanche chute from a backcountry skier’s eye-view
First seen on the morning of March 7, a path once filled with old-growth lodgepole pine trees was cleared completely by an avalanche below Peak One in the Tenmile Range. The path of destruction displayed...
A historical timeline of the Colorado Department of Transportation’s avalanche mitigation
The avalanche mitigation and snow removal equipment that the Colorado Department of Transportation utilizes has come a long way over the past hundred-plus years. From early 20th century plow experimentation to the latest remote-controlled technology,...
‘Never say never’: Longtime CDOT avalanche expert puts this month’s slides into historical context (podcast)
It was a relic of grainy Disney Studios footage from 1957 that elicited the loudest gasps from the audience at Wednesday’s Colorado Department of Transportation avalanche lecture at the Frisco Historic Park & Museum. In...
