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A-Basin open, launches the 2012-13 ski season

Ski season is on. Arapahoe Basin opened its slopes at 9 a.m. Wednesday morning — the first of the Colorado Ski Country USA member resorts and first in the U.S.  — to an energetic crowd of about 2,000 whooping and hollering and ready to shred. Low temperatures and cool nights allowed snow makers in the [...]

The National Ski Areas Association says a ski season that stretched into July helped U.S. resorts set a record this year for skier visits. The Lakewood, Colo.-based trade group in May estimated there were 60.1 million skier visits at U.S. resorts this season. Based on final survey results, the association says resorts finished the season [...]

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