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Walter “Buz” Koelbel first began skiing with his family at Ski Idlewild near Winter Park.Now the Denver developer is buying the defunct ski area and surrounding land and adding it to his sprawling resort community development. Koelbel and Co. already owns the 450-acre Rendezvous resort community between Winter Park and Fraser. The new purchase will add 688 acres.J. Scott Bradley, who assembled the property during the past 25 years, will remain a minority owner, with Koelbel and Co. acting as the master developer. Experts estimate that if the parcels were developed to their full 2,200 units, the completed value in today’s dollars would easily top $1.2 billion. For the rest of the article from the Rocky Mountain News, click here…

The Fat Tire Classic, held by the American Red cross for the last 16 years was cancelled this year. The explanation for the cancellation was that there was a decline in participation and revenues for the event, making it a poor investment.

For more information on this topic check out Sky-Hi News, the article was featured on Thursday, April 19

Winter Park is the host of Burton’s annual team photo shoot, creating things like a 22-foot pipe and a huge step-up jump for the teams use over the next two weeks, where they will be filmed and photographed. Many riders will be there and their pictures will appear in the fall and winter snowboard publications and well as several movies that will be released.

For more information click here.

The resort has announced dates for the 2007 Winter Park Mountain Bike Series.

June 9- Hill Climb Kickoff,  June 16- Mountain Circuit One,  July 7- Cross Country Super Loop, July 21- Valley Point To Point, August 4- Mountain Circuit Two, August 25- King of the Rockies Tipperary Creek Point to Point Grand Finale.   For more information, contact the  Winter Park Competition Center at (970) 726-1590.

Closing weekend at Winter Park Resort! Hope you got many turns in!!

Spring Splash is this weekend- here’s a link for a quick list of events scheduled for this weekend.

Enjoy the last weekend of skiing & snowboarding for the 2006-2007 season.

The Winter Park/Fraser Valley Chamber of Commerce has announced its lineup for the upcoming summer concert series in downtown Winter Park.

June 30-July 1: Blues from the Top (www.grandcountyblues.org)

June 30: Run for Independence (5 mile run/walk on the Fraser River Trail)

July 7-8: Mountain Bike Capital USA Weekend

July 14-15: Winter Park Folk Festival

July 21-22: Winter Park Downtown Jazz Festival

July 28-29: Fraser River Days featuring Scheers Lumberjack Show and Flyfishing with Ike Festival

July 30-August 5: Winter Park Arts Week & Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters National Show

August 5-6 & August 11-12: Grand County Parade of Homes

August 18-19: Salute to American Veterans Motorcycle Rally

Thursday nights mid-July to mid-August: Bluegrass concerts in Hideaway Park 6-8pm

Tuesdays in July: Picnic in the Park Concerts in Fraser 5-7pm

For more information, click here for the Winter Park/Fraser Valley Chamber’s event calendar. 

There has been a lot of local chatter about the pass price increase. Click here for a link to the Winter Park Manifest, more information on Intrawest’s price release.

We’ve had some new snow! As of April 5th 3.5 inches have fallen in Winter Park

For more information of the weather conditions at the Resort click here.

Introducing your ticket to three phenomenal Colorado mountains. Pick up the Rocky Mountain Super Pass Plus for only $479 and you’ll get a season pass to Copper Mountain and Winter Park/Mary Jane plus six unrestricted days at Steamboat. In addition, we’ll even give you free skiing on Fridays after 12pm at Steamboat.

Now’s the time to jump in for the 2007/08 season. You’ll get the lowest rate guaranteed, two $35 lift ticket coupons for friends and family, as well as a subscription to Ski, Skiing, or Transworld magazine - all for only $49 down with the rest paid in August.

For more information, click here.