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The best mountain jobs

Riding the chairlift sitting next to a brother and sister from Georgia, I was thinking, “How lucky am I, right now?” Today was my last day working as a ski instructor for the ski season at nearby Winter Park Ski Resort.  Though I’ve taught nordic skiing before, my experience was…

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The Empire Light Strikes Back

It’s 6 a.m. on a cold and blustery Sunday morning in late January.  By all rights, anyone in a sane frame of mind would be snug in their bed, sleeping deeply, covers pulled tightly up to their noses.  But not in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado…. One look from high…

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Surprise snow storm

You know it’s bad, when the snowplow that is expected to keep our local roads cleared of snow ends up upside down in Boulder Creek.  That’s what happened this morning around Nederland and Boulder, when a surprise snowstorm dumped almost a foot of snow in the area.  Boulder Canyon shut…

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