Colorado forged American ski mountaineering. The state’s athletes continue to shape skimo’s global future.

In 2007, on the eve of the Heathen Challenge ski mountaineering race, it snowed a foot. The next day, 14 competitors lined up at Sunlight Mountain Resort in Glenwood Springs for the 11-mile race. When the leaders got to the top of the Heathen ski run they found the head of ski patrol there with […]