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The transition means several ski lifts, trails and resort restaurants shuttering for the season. But other recreation opportunities are not far off. Listen to our "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Steamboat Pilot reporter Tom Skulski and then read the Steamboat Pilot and Today story at the link below.

Russ Scholl's "periodic table of snow" contains more than 100 different slang names for snow.

If you want to hitch a ride to the top of the ski mountain in a trailer pulled by a snowcat... there’s a place where you can do that. Cuchara Mountain Ski Park in Southern Colorado is a nonprofit resort that has no operational ski lift, but still manages to pull skiers up the mountain on weekends. Today on In The NoCo, hear why the mountain’s managers are feeling good about its future.

Vail Resorts, which endured an unprecedented wave of bad PR, says the contract that ended a 12-day patroller strike is consistent with pay for all patrollers. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with The Colorado Sun reporter David Krause and then read The Colorado Sun story at the link below.

Ski patrollers at the biggest U.S. ski resort have reached a deal to end a strike that put a wrench in operations during the busy holiday season. A joint statement released from the ski patrollers' union and Utah's Park City Mountain Resort said a vote was scheduled Wednesday on an agreement "that addresses both parties' interests and will end the current strike."

Unions at three Colorado mountains penned a letter to Vail Resorts CEO Kristen Lynch, objecting to the company using their colleagues to backfill striking workers in Utah.

The Catch Up is a weekly look at everything that made headlines on KUNC's newscasts. This week we're looking at December 23 through 27.

Each week KUNC collects and curates some of the more important stories of the week that have aired on our daily newscast. We know how busy life can be, and that it's not always possible to get your news on our airwaves (or from streaming us right here on our website). Fill in the gaps and catch up right here. No one enjoys the feeling of missing out!

A Colorado mountain town is considering whether to allow certain types of companies to vote in local elections. On In The NoCo, we unpack the debate and how it reflects the tension between resort town residents and the tourism business that drives much of the local economy.

KUNC's commentator Peter Moore gets a little verklempt as he notes the end of ski season and the implications of global warming.