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It's all about balance

If you want to get in shape to make it down the mountain, take a tip from an expert: Stand on one foot.
Toast winter with festivals

What would winter in Colorado be without some silly and worthy festivals?
Curl up with a good book

Looking for a read to get you in a winter mood? Need a book to pack when you head off to that condo in the high country? Here are a few titles picked by Rocky books editor Patti Thorn that will give you chills.
I tried, but I can't warm up to your passion for snow

By the time you read this, there will likely be snow on the ground. And I will have gone into emotional hibernation.
Whet your apres-ski appetite with tastes of top-tier towns

Nearly 7,000 SKI Magazine subscribers can't be wrong.
Taking the fast lane to wide-open spaces

There's scenery, and then there's scenery viewed from a snowmobile. The former offers views of snow-capped peaks and azure sky. The latter? The same, only blurrier and with a wind chill.
Get steezy

You would think that living so near the mountains and skiing every winter, I would have a fabulous ski wardrobe.
Ice lures anglers to the dance

It starts sometime in December, this polishing of the ballroom floors. New ice - sleek and green - forms on lakes and reservoirs. The ice-fishing dance begins at higher elevations.
Slopeside steals and red-hot deals

Gear, clothing, lodging, food, travel, lift tickets . . . Yikes! Winter sports can be an expensive hobby.
In buying kids' gear, you get what you pay for

Paul Treacy, owner of the children's specialty store Kidsport in Vail Village for the past 30 years, has seen a certain scenario countless times.
SOS for core values

Snowboarding can transform a timid, undisciplined child into a young adult willing to take on any challenge. And if you don't believe it, listen to 17-year-old Taylor Hanson, of Edwards, an avid member of Vail's Snowboard Outreach Society since she was 11.
Ch-ch-changes

If there's anything that defines this year's Colorado ski season, it's the exceptional number of changes and improvements that occurred during the off-season.
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Mega makeover

Call it the year of the ski area makeover.
Get going with our winter guide

It was a genuine Colorado moment. In the midst of our huge pre-holiday blizzard last December, we saw a guy in shorts happily pedaling his mountain bike through the drifting snow in downtown Denver.
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