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Thursday, April 18, 2013  The U.S. Forest Service is reviewing ski area water rights on public land.

Thursday, February 14, 2013  There was a ski helmet with sequins and a veil, plus suit jackets worn over snow vests.

Monday, December 31, 2012  The Aspen-area community is mourning the loss of a ski patroller who died

Monday, November 26, 2012  A lack of snow is forcing the Aspen Skiing Co. to limit access to Aspen Mountain during the weekdays.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 

Friday, May 27, 2011  Colorado authorities say a paraplegic skier was killed after taking a hard fall at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area.

Thursday, December 30, 2010  Maine ski area says workers were trying to make adjustments to chair lift before it failed.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010  More than a foot of snow has fallen in parts of western Colorado and a total of 8 feet could pile up by the time the storm tapers off.

Monday, December 20, 2010  Forecasters are predicting snowfall of "epic proportions" in parts of western Colorado.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010  The city-run facility was open Dec. 9 to March 14. The ski area says it had 2,096 total visits this winter. Of those, 589 came from the 21 people who bought season passes.

Monday, March 15, 2010  Heavy winds Sunday closed the mountain until about 11:45 a.m., when crews opened two lower-mountain lifts. Others opened later in the day.

Monday, February 15, 2010  Pitkin County rescue crews Monday were trying to reach the skier who was injured when he was swept into some trees. His condition was not immediately know.

Monday, February 01, 2010  A 24-year-old snowboarder has died after an accident at the Copper Mountain ski area.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010  According to The Ski Channel's new online Resort Rater, it's Aspen Mountain, but that could change as more users weigh in. The rater, at http://www.theskichannel.com/resort-rater, lists 85 criteria for ranking nearly 500 resorts and lets users check off which matter most to them. Then it subjectively ranks the results and attaches videos from thousands of hours of Ski Channel footage to back up its claims. Users also rate resorts.

Friday, December 11, 2009  Mineral County Coroner Charles Downing says another skier saw skis sticking out of the snow Wednesday and found Alex Singer buried head first in a tree well, the column of shallow snow that forms at the base of a tree. Downing ruled the cause of death as suffocation and hypothermia. Singer was in-bounds, on an ungroomed trail.