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Our first look at the new Aerie Lodge at Copper Mountain, where you can warm up, eat up, and drink up mid-mountain.

Copper Mountain Resort celebrated its first day of the 2023-24 ski season on Monday, Nov. 13, with groomed runs and bluebird conditions.  With one of its central base area lifts, American Eagle, now spinning from...

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.

Photo by Curtis DeVore / Copper Mountain Resort Woodward Copper will host the fourth annual Woodward Copper WreckTangle Challenge at Copper Mountain Resort on Saturday, July 31. Participants in the challenge will bounce, swing and climb their way through the Woodward WreckTangle, an outdoor obstacle course, for the title of WreckTangle champion. Competitors will race through 10 obstacles to try to record the fastest time in their age group. Age divisions include 5-6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-17 and 18 an...

Photo by Curtis DeVore / Copper Mountain Resort When Copper Mountain Resort President and General Manager Dustin Lyman saw the level of demand for uphill and backcountry skiing last March, he knew Copper needed to add an uphill race series to the resort’s lineup. Since Lyman began leading the resort at the start of the 2018-19 winter season, the Boulder native and former National Football League player has leaned into the resort’s niche as “The Athlete’s Mountain.” Along with serving ...

Photo by Jack Affleck / Vail Resorts 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, b...

3.6K Shares Copper Mountain opened largely thanks to snowmaking on Nov. 30, but as shown here, there wasn’t much natural snow in the area. With the exception of Wolf Creek, Colorado ski areas haven’t had great snowfall so far this season. (Curtis DeVore, provided by Copper Mountain) Snow-starved Colorado has skiers and riders begging for powder. Luckily, Mother Nature answered this weekend by dumping 26 inches in the southwestern part of the state. Wolf Creek Ski Area, known for being...