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Over the weekend, Silverthorne local and Summit High School 2020 graduate, Grace Staberg placed first and third at the International Ski Mountaineering Federation World Cup event in Andorra. In December, Staberg was named to the...

After hosting qualifying races at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area from Dec. 11-12, the U.S. Ski Mountaineering Association named 24 athletes to the 2021-22 national team that will compete across the globe this winter. Among the...

The Summit High Tigers traveled down to Evergreen on Friday afternoon, Oct. 22, to compete at the 4A Region 1 cross country meet. It is at the regional meets across the state that the top...

Ella Hagen and Dom Remeikis once again led the charge for the Summit High School cross-country team at the Rifle Invitational on Wednesday, Oct. 13. Remeikis, a junior, arrived in Rifle with some wind in...

Grace Staberg, of Silverthorne, raced to a third-place finish in the three-event triple crown at the Broken Arrow Skyrace at Squaw Valley in California this weekend. The event ran from Friday, Oct.1, through Sunday, Oct....

In July, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved the addition of Ski Mountaineering (Skimo) to the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. SGB Executive touched base with a few industry players in the category to see what it could spell for the burgeoning backcountry market, a sector already growing before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Published July 19, 2021 at 5:55 PM MDT U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Flaming Gorge Dam, on the Green River in Utah, pictured in 2013. U.S. water engineers announced this week they will be taking water from Flaming Gorge and two other Colorado River Basin reservoirs to bolster hydropower production at Lake Powells Glen Canyon Dam. Today on Colorado Edition: We hear how drought is pressuring the massive plumbing systems that divert water from the Colorado River to faraway communities. We a...

Published May 11, 2021 at 5:41 PM MDT W.G. Dayton via Flickr The view from Copper Mountain, in 2008. Today on Colorado Edition: We examine some of the reasons behind low vaccination rates among Colorado’s Hispanic and Latino populations. We’ll also hear about a new mentorship program for folks looking to stake their claim in the ever-growing marijuana industry. Plus, we get a look at the challenges and opportunities the Biden administration’s free community college proposal pres...

How a Summit County Teen Broke a North American Women’s Uphill Ski Record Grace Staberg climbed more than 56,000 vertical feet during a 24-hour period last week at Copper Mountain.Shauna Farnell •   May 4, 2021 Grace Staberg spent a good bit of time picturing how her attempt at a world record would go. The 19-year-old Silverthorne resident, who set a goal of breaking the women’s 24-hour world uphill ski record (57,980 feet, set earlier this winter by Italy’s Martina Valmassoi), plann...

Photo by Andrew Maguire / Dynafit Grace Staberg of Silverthorne skied 56,153 feet over a 24-hour period from 9 a.m. Monday through 9 a.m. Tuesday. Staberg’s accomplishment at Copper Mountain Resort earned her the North American record for most vertical feet skied by a woman in a 24-hour period. Staberg achieved the continental record in her quest to ski more than 58,000 feet, which would have eclipsed the world record of 57,890 feet set last month by Martina Valmassoi of Italy. “It was real...