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Loveland Ski Area west of Denver lived up to its name once again on Valentine’s Day as it hosted its 34th annual Mountaintop Matrimony on the gentle slope of a snowy beginner’s run just shy of 12,000 feet above sea level. More than 100 couples got married or renewed their vows near the Continental Divide. (AP Video by Thomas Peipert)

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Dozens of couples get hitched at snowy Colorado ski resort on Valentine's Day
By THOMAS PEIPERT - Associated Press
Fri,02/14/25-4:42PM , 100 Reads
LOVELAND SKI AREA, Colo. (AP) — There is nothing like dozens of couples saying “I do” simultaneously to warm the crisp, frigid air that grips the Colorado Rockies in the heart of winter.
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Simon Rubick, who sought help from PAWsitive Recovery while he was recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, holds his rescue dog Tonks in Aurora, Colo., on Monday, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

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Giving up pets to seek rehab can worsen trauma. A Colorado group intends to end that
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Sat,08/31/24-11:05PM , 172 Reads
DENVER (AP) — Simon Rubick had lost almost everything to decades of alcoholism and drug addiction.
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A skijoring team competes in Leadville, Colo., on Saturday, March 2, 2024. Skijoring draws its name from the Norwegian word skikjoring, meaning "ski driving." It started as a practical mode of transportation in Scandinavia and became popular in the Alps around 1900. Today's sport features horses at full gallop towing skiers by rope over jumps and around obstacles as they try to lance suspended hoops with a baton, typically a ski pole that's cut in half. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

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What do you get when you cross rodeo with skiing? The wild and wacky skijoring
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Thu,03/07/24-11:14PM , 57 Reads
LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Nick Burri clicks into his ski bindings, squats to stretch his knees and scans the snowy race course. Moments later, he's zipping past a series of gates at high speed and hurtling off jumps. But it's not gravity pulling him toward the finish line: It's the brute force of a quarter horse named Sirius.
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Kevin Erickson's electrified 1972 Plymouth Satellite is seen at his Commerce City, Colo., home on Sept. 20, 2022. Erickson is part of a small but expanding group of tinkerers, racers, engineers, and entrepreneurs across the country converting vintage cars and trucks into greener, often much faster, electric vehicles. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

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Racers, mechanics, tinkerers converting classic cars to EVs
By THOMAS PEIPERT - Associated Press
Tue,12/20/22-12:30AM , 166 Reads
DENVER (AP) — When Kevin Erickson fires up his 1972 Plymouth Satellite, a faint hum replaces what is normally the sound of pistons pumping, gas coursing through the carburetor and the low thrum of the exhaust.

Even though it's nearly silent, the classic American muscle car isn’t broken. It’s electric.
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