Fire Crews Battle Wildland Fire, Structure Fire In Crested Butte
Firefighters rushed to battle a structure fire and a wildland fire in Crested Butte on Wednesday. The Crested Butte Fire Protection District said it was a complicated scene.
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Firefighters rushed to battle a structure fire and a wildland fire in Crested Butte on Wednesday. The Crested Butte Fire Protection District said it was a complicated scene.
A marmot from Colorado was captured in Arizona, after surviving a 600-mile road trip underneath a car -- in record heat.
Some mountain communities are altering their approach to tourism to manage guest experience amid an affordable housing crisis and subsequent labor shortage.
The slide took place on the north side of Snodgrass Mountain near Crested Butte.
As ski resorts try to figure out how to operate safely during the coronavirus pandemic, by requiring facemasks, enforcing social distancing in lift lines and eliminating dine-in service, Trump's order has added another obstacle heading into the winter: hiring enough temporary workers to fill crucial jobs like operating chair lifts, serving food and cleaning hotel rooms.
This weekend usually brings the beginning of the heavy summer travel season, especially for those who love our mountain passes. Coronavirus means many of those passes will be not be open.
A letter from CEO Rob Katz to employees announced that Vail Resorts will work toward an opening in roughly a month. The hope, Katz noted in the letter, is that their resorts will be open by late June or early July.
Daniel Escalante was a former mountain guide and Crested Butte town councilman and had extensive backcountry experience.
Avalanches are just a threat in the mountains, they're also happening in the middle of Crested Butte.
Emergency officials in Crested Butte say they responded to at least two roof avalanches in the last two days.
Two Roaring Fork Valley men, Owen Green, 27, of Aspen, and Michael Goerne, 37, of Carbondale, are being remembered after they died Saturday in an avalanche near Crested Butte.
Two backcountry skiers were killed over the weekend in an avalanche in a Colorado area known as Death Pass.
Avalanche warnings are in effect, triggered in part by the early snowfall in parts of the High Country.
A Colorado State Patrol officer fatally shot someone at the scene of a one-vehicle crash in western Colorado.
Crested Butte is ramping up its snowmaking, and that's helped push its opening date up.
Vail Resorts announced on Monday that they will acquire Crested Butte and three other ski areas outside Colorado.
In January 2017 snowstorms were measured by the feet instead of inches, the town ran out of room to store all the snow, and the ski resort even shut down for several days because of too much snow!
A suspect was arrested after threatening statements were made at Gunnison High School.
It's a sign that fall is just around the corner!
A man says his car was destroyed after a bear got into it while it was parked but unlocked.
Last year in Rio, Coburn became the first American woman to medal in the steeplechase winning bronze and setting an American record finishing in 9:07:63.
In his boredom, Billy Barr found a calling. Measuring snow. Since 1974, he's taken measurements twice a day, but it wasn't just the snow depth and when it melted.
A lot of snow in winter in Crested Butte isn't really that big of a story, but the extraordinarily large amount they've gotten over the past few weeks is surely front page news.
For ski resorts in Colorado and the Sierra Nevada, it's a good problem to have: too much snow.
Crested Butte Mountain Resort has received seven-and-a-half feet of snow in the past 10 days, claiming the most snow of any ski area in Colorado so far this year.
