Hugh Carey
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PHOTOS: 75 couples marry, renew vows at Loveland Ski Area this Valentine’s Day
LOVELAND SKI AREA — Seventy-five couples gathered on Valentine’s Day to marry or renew their vows in a snowy, mountaintop meadow during the annual mass wedding at Loveland Ski Area. The couples kissed, hugged and then... → Read More
Photo essay: Summit firefighters train for worst-case scenarios
Local firefighters conducted the annual on-the-ground wildfire training in the forests filled with homes along Boulder Creek near Silverthorne on June 20. Last year the training was canceled due → Read More
Custom children’s playhouses on display in Dillon to raise money for affordable housing
DILLON — Five playhouses built by local builders will be on display near Lake Dillon for children to explore from June 28 to Aug. 9. The houses are part of the Playhouse Project, a public... → Read More
Photo essay: Pig races hit the track in Frisco
Spectators filled the miniature U-shaped race track as the 4-month old piglets sprinted and jumped over hurdles, shoulder to shoulder, on Frisco’s Main Street Saturday afternoon. The All-Alaskan Racing → Read More
Photo essay: Dillon Farmers Market kicks off season
The Dillon Farmers Market kicked off the season with sunshine and warm weather on Friday along the Dillon Reservoir. Colorado-grown, farm-fresh produce and artisan goods will be available at → Read More
Photos: Frisco’s remodeled skate park
Skateboarders ride on the lunar-like concrete landscape that fills 28,000 square feet, surrounded by the natural high-alpine terrain at the Frisco Adventure Park. The new skate park design now → Read More
Photos: Five Peaks skimo race
The Five Peaks, North America’s highest ski mountaineering race, concluded Saturday in Breckenridge with nearly 10 inches of fresh snow, at least 60 mph wind gusts, and a few → Read More
Photos: Top Hogs pig show at the library
In celebration of National Library Week and Children’s Book Week, the Top Hogs, a comedy-filled trick pig show, visited the Summit County Library on Thursday in Frisco. A pair → Read More
Photos: Scenes from Araphoe Basin’s 30th Annual Enduro
For 10 hours on Wednesday, 35 teams of two took as many laps as they could on the Pallavicini Chair for the 30th Annual Enduro ski-a-thon despite howling high-alpine → Read More
Summit Daily photographer recounts a chilling and thrilling Grand Traverse ski mountaineering race
My race partner Doug Stenclik’s words of ski mountaineering wisdom became important minutes into the Grand Traverse race on Saturday through the snowy backcountry between Crested Butte and Aspen. → Read More
Photo essay: Black Thursday
First seen on the morning of March 7, a path once filled with old-growth lodgepole pine trees was cleared completely by an avalanche below Peak One in the Tenmile → Read More
Photo essay: Summit County Rescue Group car burial scenario
On Wednesday evening, 30 members of the Summit County Rescue Group rushed to search and dig out vehicles with live patients inside buried beneath 20-foot piles of snow at → Read More
Photos from a ski day with Loveland Ski Area’s Ridge Cat
Between Feb. 28 and March 14, The CAIC recorded information on 811 reported avalanches in Colorado. But that doesn’t deter skiers and snowboarders from being able to enjoy the → Read More
Summit Daily photographer describes lessons learned at Aspen Power of Four ski mountaineering race
With each ski mountaineering event I compete in, I’m reminded there are always new things to learn. The Audi Power of Four in Aspen on March 2 was no → Read More
Photos and results from the 71st annual Running of Leadville Ski Joring
Last weekend’s snow storm didn’t damper the festivities at the 71st annual Running of Leadville Ski Joring event.The annual event is one of the highlights each winter here in → Read More
Lovely weather for a sleigh ride together
Two Below Zero tour excursion guests ride on a sleigh powered by draft mule teams on the Frisco peninsula with the backdrop of the Tenmile Range without civilization in → Read More
Photos from the third annual Frisco Freeze Fat Bike Race
Dozens of people pedal across the snowy landscape on a late February Saturday afternoon with fat bikes at the Frisco Peninsula. In the third annual Frisco Freeze Fat Bike → Read More
Photos from the Pabst Pond Hockey Tournament
Despite freezing temperatures at night, the warm spirit was high as hundreds of hockey teams squared off at each other at the North Pond Park in Silverthorne on Friday. → Read More
Photos from the 49th annual Frisco Gold Rush Nordic ski race
At least 100 participants, from ages 6 to 65, took part of the 49th annual Frisco Gold Rush Nordic ski race on the Frisco Peninsula Saturday morning. From the → Read More
The top photos of 2018
From the powder days to wildfires in the playgrounds of Summit County, here are the photographer’s favorite moments captured of 2018. → Read More