Sunday set: Winter, from the vault

The colder the better! A quick flashback set featuring winter scenes from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. It’s not always that easy to get motivated for a photo session when it’s below freezing outside, but it’s always worth it when you do, because, well, there are some things that you can only see in winter

Morning photo: Winter highlights

Best of 2015 Recapping some of our favorite winter scenes from the Colorado high country in this end of the year set …

Morning photo: Step outside …

Don’t fear the winter FRISCO —After about five months of snow and cold, it’s understandable that some people might want to just curl up beneath a thick blanket for a few weeks to wait for spring. But if you do, you might miss scenes like this: Exquisite morning sunshine filtering through tall pines, the tangerine-colored

Morning photo: Snow dancing

Powder love! FRISCO — All the world’s eyes focusing on the current round of climate talks in Lima, Peru, made me realize once again how much is at stake for those of us who love winter and snow. Of course, global warming isn’t going to wipe out all the snow at once, but that’s one

Morning photo: Calendar-worthy?

January 2014 FRISCO — Tis the season … Even though it’s not Halloween yet, it is time to start thinking about putting together the annual Summit Voice calendar, which you can always custom order at our Redbubble gallery. Like every year, we’re asking for a little reader feedback to help choose each month’s image. And,

Near-record snowpack in parts of Colorado River Basin

Colorado’s north-central mountains favored by this winter’s storm track By Bob Berwyn FRISCO — Summit County remained a target for above average precipitation in February, with both official weather stations reporting surplus snowfall for the month. The Upper Blue in particular benefited from the storm track, with the snowpack now approaching record levels. To date,

Dartmouth study suggests clearcutting and ‘snow farming’ as global warming mitigation

Higher albedo of snow-covered ground a factor in climate mitigation calculations By Bob Berwyn FRISCO — Snow farming is nothing new for ski area operators, who have long been cultivating the white stuff to help keep their slopes covered. Now, a recent study by researchers at Darthmouth College suggests that snow farming could also make

Avalanches kill two in Colorado

High slide danger persists across the mountains By Bob Berwyn FRISCO — Colorado’s exceptionally deep snowpack turned deadly this week, as a backcountry traveler near Kebler Pass was killed in a large avalanche. Search and rescue crews also found  another victim in the backcountry between Keystone and Breckenridge after a two-day search. According to the

Morning photo: Sunday set

Winter wonderland FRISCO —It certainly feels like the heart of winter right now in Summit County, as well it should. Mid-January is the time for snow and ice, and this year Mother Nature has delivered on time. Today’s Sunday set is a little photographic homage to the white stuff, an important part of life in

Environment: ‘Extreme’ dust-on-snow events can speed runoff in Colorado River Basin by six weeks

2013 brought record levels of dust to Colorado’s mountains By Bob Berwyn FRISCO — Dust storms that darken the Rocky Mountain snowpack and speed snowmelt are becoming more extreme, according to new research. Particularly heavy dust-on-snow events can speed the melt-out of the snowpack by a full six weeks, all other factors being equal, said