David Silver

Summit Lake with Sunrise Couloir looming above

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While many people put their planks or boards away come April, the core know that you can ski all over Colorado well into summer. Usually, this means hiking, but if you are lazy, and willing to get a big enough group together that two cars makes sense, then skiing Mount Evans is one of the best ways to get summer turns in.
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Candace Horgan

More powder is forecast for Loveland and Arapahoe Basin this weekend.

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For some, ski season never really seemed to take off, as the Front Range struggled with snow all year long. But the skiing is still fine, as the dedicated discovered at Loveland this past weekend, when the best powder dump of the year drew flocks. Strangely enough, as Loveland prepares to shut down for the season this weekend, it looks like more of the same, as the forecast calls for snow beginning Thursday and lasting into the weekend. That should put a great cap on the festivities.
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Photo by Eric Peterson

The last chair is coming.

​Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort just extended its season until May 2 -- the same day Loveland is slated to call it quits, this weekend's dumper notwithstanding.

It's the latest closing ever for the former resort -- located 30 miles from the Strip -- and a ho-hum one for the latter. Ski Vegas is still sporting an impressive 60-inch base -- although warm spring weather is expected to change things in a hurry.
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Courtesy: David Gidley/Loveland

​And you thought ski season was over: Loveland is reporting that the mountain picked up seven more inches overnight -- which is convenient, since it's one of the last mountains standing.

Open until May 2, Loveland is offering $30 lift tickets to pass holders from other mountains, so if you're craving more powder, you know where to go.

More photos below.

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Come up to the Corn Harvest at Loveland.

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This Saturday, Loveland will host the ninth annual Corn Harvest. The fun day of skiing, drinking, and prizes benefits the Colorado Avalance Information Center. Hawaiian shirts and leis are encouraged for the day, and if you don't have your own lei, they'll provide one. The Corn Harvest goes on whether it's snowy and slushy, velvet corn goodness, or dumping powder all day.
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Photo by Eric Peterson

​The end is nigh, but the season's not over yet -- not quite.

Ten potential hooky days and two weekends still remain at Loveland Ski Area. And if you have a pass to any other resort that already saw its lifts grind to a halt for the offseason in recent weeks, don't relegate it to the back of a dusty drawer until you give it one last use at Loveland. The resort is offering $30 full-day lift tickets to passholders to any and all resorts for the remainder of the season, $14 off the regular price.
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​Here's some inspiring news snowboarders around the world have been waiting for: Kevin Pearce officially checked out of Craig Hospital this week, four months after suffering a traumatic brain injury in the halfpipe on December 31. He'll remain in Colorado for a few weeks of outpatient treatment, but is expected to return to his home in Vermont at the end of the month.

Even more inspiring: Dr. Alan Weintraub, medical director of the brain injury program at Craig Hospital, says Pearce will ride again.

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Candace Horgan

Powder at Snowbird

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After several trips through Colorado for skiing this winter, it was time to journey out of state. Sometimes, it's all about timing. So it was Tuesday night, when I got to Snowbird the day after a foot of snow hit the mountain. Luckily, some of the terrain wasn't opened on Tuesday, so fresh tracks were available in Mineral Basin and to the skier's left of the big aerial tramway.
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Photo via America's Most Wanted www.AMW.com

2006 murder victim Ben Bradley

​On June 2, 2006 Ben Bradley set out from his home in Tabernash, CO with a rare Never Summer split snowboard, some winter gear, his thumb, and not much else, hitchhiking his way to Jackson, WY to meet friends for some late-season snowboarding.

He never made it, and his body wasn't found for another four months, when two hikers found it near the Boar's Tusk, a volcanic landmark and famed climbing spot 14 miles north of Rock Springs, WY and 179 miles south of his destination in Jackson.

The case, which had been featured on America's Most Wanted, may now have an ending: Today Wyoming's Trib.com reports that former Rock Springs resident Eric John Conn, 41, arrested last month in connection with the case, has been charged with first-degree murder, accessory to murder in the first degree and accessory after the fact.


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STOP...Hammertime! Try Again Teaser from SixEleven on Vimeo.

Colorado snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions dropped a new trailer for its forthcoming flick STOP... Hammertime! this week, and while the film itself promises hammers galore, this clip's all about the less glorious side of putting in work with a video crew. Ouch!