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New Years Eve Events near Breckenridge Real Estate

Editor — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:53:01 +0000

Breckenridge – Another decade is coming to a close in the high country of Breckenridge and Summit County, Colorado. This list of events for New Years Eve in Breckenridge and Summit County is sponsored by Summit Mountain Home, where we specialize in Breckenridge Real Estate (click to search MLS for free) and Breckenridge Foreclosures. You can contact us at 970-409-9145 or click here. Check out some of our Breckenridge Real Estate listings by clicking here. Contact us for all of you Breckenridge and Summit County Real Estate needs and to find out more about activities and events here in the high country.

Well, it has been 10 years since Prince sang that we are going to party like it’s 1999. In addition, we all survived the Y2K threat of the year 2000. Below you find some of the many New Year’s Eve activities that are happening here in Breckenridge, Keystone, Frisco, Copper Mountain and the rest of Summit County.

Breckenridge – The Victorian Hamlet Destination Ski Area

* Mother Loaded Tavern will have live music, never a cover and some of Momma’s Home Cookin!

* Embers – an new restaurant in town is taking reservations and is offering a fixed price menu at $75.00 a person.

• The Fuqua Livery Stable (110 E. Washington Ave.) from 6-9 p.m. Participants will create artist trading cards using mixed media. Light refreshments are provided, and the cost is $25.

• DJ at My Thai, as DJ Joss Stone lights up the night from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. My Thai will have a champagne toast at midnight and an appetizer menu available all night. Tickets are $15, and advanced reservations are required.

• New Year’s Eve Prix Fixe Menu at Blue River Bistro, with appetizer and choice of saffron-scented seafood chowder, pan-roasted sea scallop, homemade goat cheese ravioli or vegetarian entree, all paired with wine.

• A seven-course meal featuring tender meat and seafood for $100 is offered at Spencers, followed by drinks and dancing in Base 9 from 9 p.m. to midnight. These are just two of the dinner specials in town; check Summit Daily ads throughout the week to find more.

• Copper Top Bar & Cafe, located slopeside at Beaver Run Resort and offers customers the opportunity to watch Breckenridge Firworks from the deck. The party starts at 9 p.mwith a DJ and dancing.

• The Gold Pan Restaurant and Saloon is the oldest continuously running liquor license west of the Mississippi and hosts DJ Crisp.

• Park Avenue Pub hosts DC as a DJ. Cover starts at $20 per person, so get there early before the price goes up. Cost includes favors, hats and a champagne toast at midnight.

• Jake’s Dive Bar and Liquid Lounge, also will have DJs.

• Yamn will bring their own version of Jam Band Music to the Riverwalk Center, Yamn, for three sets of an all-ages thrilling jam-rock and an electrifying light show at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 on the day of the show and are available at www.yamnit.com, Affordable Music in Dillon and Space Cowboy in Breckenridge.

• Breckenridge Ski Area comes alive with a torch light parade and fireworks. The parade is a Breckenridge tradition. Skiers and boarders proceed from the top of Peak 9, down American, to The Village at Breckenridge, starting at 6 p.m. Best views: Anywhere you can see Peak 9.

Information on Freworks. Take note that this year’s firework display takes place in a new location, between Peak 8 and 9. The new location provides a better view from town for the fireworks than previous years, and with clear skies, these fireworks can be seen from most locations in downtown Breckenridge. For more information, contact the Breckenridge Welcome Center at (970) 453-5579.

Keystone

• Snake Thursday at the Snake River Saloon. Money Shot takes the stage at 9:30 p.m., as part of the Snake River Saloon’s nine-day live band lineup. Money shot will be playing mostly 80’s retro type music.

Snake River’s party starts Saturday and Sunday with the Arnie Green Band. Then White Water Ramble fills Monday and Tuesday with dance-grass. Wednesday and Thursday, Money Shot goes into its arena rock, followed by Friday, Jan. 1 and Saturday, Jan. 2’s Hit List, which pulls out the dance rock. Arnie J. Green smooths out the nine-day lineup with his blues and rock on Sunday, Jan. 3.

• The Goat Soup and Whiskey Tavern ushers in Filthy Children Thursday, with a deep funk sound.

• Keystone Ski Resort hosts a plethora of events Thursday, including a murder mystery dinner , the funk band, Funkifikno and two sets of fireworks.

Fireworks will blaze over the skating rink at Keystone Lake at 6 p.m. for the early birds and 10:30 p.m. for the late-nighters.

Edgewater Cafe offers a family dinner buffet ($24.95 for adults, $12.95 for children 5-12). This will take place from 5:30 to 8pmThe price includes skate rentals, so you can glide on North America’s largest Zamboni-maintained rink during the ice skating party with Frosty, which goes from 5-10 p.m. If you’re looking for a smaller bite to eat, the Adventure Center will be selling hot dogs, chicken fingers, fries, popcorn, sodas, hot chocolate and spirits.

Keystone Lodge & Spa gets a taste of a murder mystery, dinner included from 8 to 10 pm.

At 9:30 p.m., Funkiphino rocks the resort, for those 21 and older, at the Adventure Center, until 1 a.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. The horn-driven band is known for getting people dancing, with its popular funk and soul songs.

The easiest place to park for the action is the Keystone Lodge lot, across Highway 6, with tunnel access to the village.

Frisco

• Harmonious Junk, featuring Damon Wood of the James Brown Band (from 1999 to 2006), brings its sounds into Johnny G’s. The band will play originals, in addition to covers by Phish, the Grateful Dead, Ween and more. Tickets are $10, and the show starts at 10 p.m.

• String Board Theory plays at Ollies Pub and Grub in Frisco at 9 p.m. The Steamboat-based band has been constantly touring all over Colorado for the past two years and a half years, attracting more and more fans with its unique, high-quality blend of super jammy, funky, reggae, psychedelic rock — with a slight electronic feel.

Dillon

The New Year’s Eve schedule for movies for Skyline Cinema in Dillon changes slightly for New Year’s Eve. There will not be normal lateshows (after 9m), as most have been canceled. The movie lineup: “Sherlock Holmes,” “It’s Complicated,” “Avatar in 3D,” “Did You Hear About the Morgans,” “Up in the Air,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks II,” “Princess and the Frog,” “Blind Side” and “Invictus.” Invictus stars Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. Up in the Air is critically acclaimed as one of the best movies of the year and stars George Clooney.

Copper Mountain

Copper rings in the new year country style with line dancing, music and fireworks. This year, the Conference Center hosts a package deal. For $50 (children 5-18, $25), you’ll get dance lessons, kids’ entertainment and a buffet. Instructors will teach Country Western dance steps from 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. (that’s a lot of two-steppin’ and Electric Sliddin’). The Kid’s Corral runs until 10 p.m. with movies, games and crafts in the Copper Conference Center’s lower level. The buffet will be out from 6:30-8 p.m., featuring signature soups and salads, entrees such as crab stuffed sole, seared stuffed chicken, vegetable en croute and prime rib. And, be sure to save some room for desserts,such as flambé peaches with short cake to assorted truffles and tartlets. Oh, and there’s kid appropriate food such as mac and cheese, chicken tenders and pizza.

Kokopelli’s deck offers exclusive viewing of fireworks at 9 p.m., or you can stand slopeside to watch the event. Reservations for the country celebration are required; call (970) 968-3027.

And be sure to not celebrate too much, because on New Years Day, there will be a 5k race at the Breckenridge Golf Course Nordic Center.

Breckenridge and other Colorado Ski Resorts turning to younger skiers and riders as Boomers near the end of their ski careers

Editor — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:40:07 +0000

Our nation’s ski population is quickly changing it’s demographics. The ski population is aging and big changes will be required within the ski industry to maintain the level of skier numbers that the industry has become accustomed to over the past two decades. This article on the changing demographics of the skier popultion has been posted by Summit Mountain Home, where we specialize in Breckenridge Real Estate (click to search MLS for free) and Breckenridge Foreclosures. You can contact us at 970-409-9145 or click here. Check out some of our Breckenridge Real Estate listings by clicking here. Contact us for all of you Breckenridge and Summit County Real Estate needs.

Our nation’s baby boomer population has long been the driving force behind the sport of skiing. This population seems to have reached their demographic peak on the slopes. And they age and hang up their skis, we find the traditionally robust skiing market of Colorado resorts searching for their own version of the little blue pill to up the virility of it’s demographic base in the industry.

According to David Belin, 40, a lifelong skier from Boulder-based RRC Associates who led the Model for Growth research project for the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA), the baby boomer will be hanging their skis up over the next 5 years. The resorts have to plan ahead for this huge loss of skier base population.

Local Colorado Ski resorts are attempting to attract a new generation of skiers and snowboarders to replace the boomers without biting the hand that has fed them for so long. Most visible are the addition of huge terrain parks and massive halfpipes designed to appeal to X Games and Dew Tour Crowds. These are the next generation. There are now more than 60 terrain parks in Colorado, an average of more than two per resort, and a dozen halfpipes. As an indication of their popularity, Echo Mountain is a 50-acre dedicated terrain park just 35 miles from Denver, which had 18,758 visitors during its first full year of operation in 2006-07 and 30,208 visitors last year.

The most recent statistics from NSAA serve to heighten the urgency of finding new snow-sport participants. According to NSAA, a third of all resort visitors last year were 45 or older, a continued expansion among that age group. During the past decade, the percentage of visitors — defined as one skier or snowboarder riding a chairlift per day — age 45 to 54 has increased from 14.0 percent to 19.9 percent, with age groupings above 54 also showing an increase. The overall industry figures, though, dropped to 57.1 million skier visits last year, down from 60.5 in 2007.

Whether the dip is a precursor to a precipitous drop led by a mass retreat of an aging demographic unwilling or unable to spend time on the mountain remains to be seen. But if not addressed, researchers say participation numbers are expected to decline drastically.

Even though there was limited early-season terrain, Keystone Resort opened its season Nov. 5 with a 25-feature park that saw skiers and riders lined up 10 deep for the opportunity to grind rails and jump tabletops. Nearby, Copper Mountain opened a day later with a comparable park highlighting the recent addition of Woodward at Copper, a slopeside action sports training facility created to teach athletes proper jib, or trick technique, before taking it to the snow. Copper’s new priority was being the first to open a halfpipe.

This is a big change from the old days, where boomers were catered to with extensive snow grooming, private lessons, luxury lodges and exclusive clubs. Such amenities remain, but the emphasis is clearly shifting toward youth-oriented offerings.

Beaver Creek which was once the exclusive lair of the upscale boomer crowd, is now turning from posh to trying to lure youth with a bigger and better terrain park.

I recall when there was a huge rift between the conservative style of the boomers and those dreaded snow boarders. The snow boarders were considered punks and it took a long time for them to gain a foothold in this industry. It grew as a sort of underground wave in the beginning until it became so huge, that the industry could no longer ignore it. Now, the industry is thankful for the new technology of snow boards and twin tip skis as the techniques and tricks they are designed for are viewed as the savior of the industry, along with the youth that come with these advancements.

One key statistic that is scaring ski industry analysts is that only about 15 percent of those who try skiing and snowboarding continue with the sports. That statistic has served as a real wake-up call that we are not doing enough as an industry to make them into lifelong participants.

An increased willingness by resorts to break from tradition could make a difference. Places such as Copper Mountain are hopeful that offering better training will encourage younger riders to stick with the sport until they’ve mastered it. “We’re trying to get people away from what we call the ‘huck and hope’ method — where they throw themselves off a jump, start spinning and hope it works out,” Woodward at Copper director Ben Brown said. “This is just the next evolution of the sport, and we want to make sure we engage the next generation for a great experience for every kid that picks up skiing and snowboarding.”

Let’s hope that the ski industry figures out what it will take to engage and retain the younger skiers and riders, as they will determine if ski areas continue to exist for generations to come.

A51 Terrain Park Opens with Simon Dumont and other pros and announces schedule of competitions near Breckenridge Real Estate

Editor — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:13:32 +0000

Summit County Local Simon Dumon

This terrain park report is been posted by Summit Mountain Home, where we specialize in Breckenridge Real Estate(click to search MLS for free) and Breckenridge Foreclosures. You can contact us at 970-409-9145 or click here. Check out some of our Breckenridge Real Estate listings by clicking here. Contact us for all of you Breckenridge and Summit County Real Estate needs.

The weather here in Breckenridge and Summit County has been cold and those cold temperatures and snowmaking have led to the early opening Tuesday of Keystone’s A51 terrain park. The park opens with the Park Lane Jump Line as well as Jib Alley. A51 will have a total of five jumps and more than 20 features. The resort will move the features from the park’s current location (near the gondola) into the permanent home for the winter season in the A51 area on Dercum Mountain.

There have been some big stars of extreme winter sports at Keystone. Keystone invited some of the biggest ski and snowboard stars to preview the park and help our park crew test and refine the jumps including: Andreas Wiig, Torstein Horgmo, Simon Dumont, TJ Schiller, Jossi Wells, Tim Russell, Andreas Hatveit, Haldor Helgason, Ryan Cruze, Chris Chance, Scott See and Joe Mango.

Every season Keystone hosts multiple events in A51, this year including the Gatorade Free Flow Tour and Volcom Peanut Butter and Rail Jam.

Here are some dates and details on those two competitions and stay tuned for more information on other competitions to come.

Gatorade Free Flow Tour is set for Jan. 23-24 and will search for the country’s best and brightest amateur snowboarders and skiers. Free Flow Tour is the “official amateur series” of the Winter Dew Tour and brings the opportunity for local talent to compete against the world’s best at Winter Dew Tour. The winner of the Free Flow Finals earns a wildcard spot to compete against the industries top professionals.

Volcom Peanut Butter and Rail Jam will be held April 10. The Peanut Butter and Rail Jam is Volcom’s free amateur snowboard contest series. The goal of the series is to give something back to young riders. Instead of having rails or features set up in a row, three rails are set up side-by-side, creating a single, large rail zone. The event is absolutely free, on a first come first serve basis, and boasts tons of free prizes and PB&J sandwiches. Also, everyone who enters walks away with a Volcom PBRJ shirt and other prizes.

Breckenridge has been making snow like crazy and the Freeway Terrain Park is open. In addition, Copper Mountain has opened it’s 22 foot superpipe.

Best Skiing Mountains in Summit County, Colorado

Editor — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:16:19 +0000

This list of the top three snowboarding mountains in Summit County, Colorado has been posted by Summit Mountain Home, where we specialize in Breckenridge Real Estate (click to search MLS for free) and Breckenridge Foreclosures. You can contact us at 970-406-1385 or click here. Check out some of our Breckenridge Real Estate listings by clicking here.

The three best snowboarding mountains as voted by the locals was as follows:

1. Breckenridge Ski Area

2. Copper Mountian

3. Arapahoe Basin

To see a complete list of the Best of Summit County Outdoors for 2009, click here.

2009 Summit County Parade of Homes showcases Real Estate in Breckenridge and surrounding area

Editor — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:54:09 +0000

Breckenridge, CO – It is that time of year again. Each year, residents and visitors in Summit County have the opportunity to get an inside look at some of the most amazing real estate in Breckenridge and Summit County. This year is the 15th annual version of the Summit County Parade of Homes and will take place on September 19 / 20 and 26 /27. A $10 admission fee allows you to tour not only the some of the most beautiful homes in Breckenridge, but 26 of the most beautiful homes in Breckenridge, Silverthorne, Keystone and Copper Mountain. The entrance fee is donated to the Summit Foundation. The tour runs from 10am to 5pm on all days and is self-guided. Builder’s and Homeowners alike display their homes in hopes of winning coveted awards for Design and Construction. Box lunches are available. To see out featured Real Estate in Breckenridge, click here.

For more information on Breckenridge and Summit County Real Estate, contact Summit Mountain Home at 970-406-1385 or (click here).

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Copper Country brings free concerts to Summit County September 4-6, 2009

Editor — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:54:33 +0000

Copper Country is coming to Copper Mountain in Summit County, Colorado on September 4-6, 2009. Information on these free concerts is brought to you by Summit Mountain Home, where we specialize in Breckenridge Real Estate (click to search MLS for free) and Breckenridge Foreclosures. You can contact us at 970-406-1385 or click here. Check out some of our Breckenridge Real Estate listings by clicking here.

The schedule for this year’s Copper Country is as follows:

Saturday September 5, 2009 Noon – 7pm

Little Feat

Buckwheat Zyeco

Shelby Lynne

Amanda Shaw

Shelby Mills

Oakhurst

Sunday, September 6, 2009 Noon – 7 pm

America

Richie Furey Band

Michael Martin Murphy

John Cowan

Bill Miller

Down the Line

copper country

Invest in Breckenridge Real Estate Now!

Editor — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:02:23 +0000

Breckenridge, Colorado – The time to invest in Breckenridge real estate is now! The planets of the investment heavens have aligned to make this the ideal time to invest in Breckenridge Real Estate. I specialize in helping investors find the ideal ski home for their family’s budget and needs. You can contact me, Brenda DePalma, at 970-406-1385 or click here. To search the Breckenridge and Summit County MLS for free, click here. Here are the reasons why I say invest now in Breckenridge and Summit County Real Estate:

1. Prices are down – The economy has slowed things slightly here in Breckenridge. Nothing like what is happening in Vail and Aspen. Vail, Aspen and Beaver Creek have seen huge price and volume drops. However, Breckenridge has been stable.

2. Skier numbers remain up – In fact, I have polled many local business owners from Main Street, Breckenridge, and this holiday season has seen record volume for them.

3. Mortgage Rates are down – making your purchase more affordable. Mortgages are at 30 year lows.

4. It is a buyer’s market – After decades of bidding wars, the buyer is now in control and the owner must be more flexible with pricing and terms. You, the investor, are now in the driver’s seat.

5. Gas Prices – Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Arapahoe Basin and Keystone are all a commuter’s dream. Those living in the Front Range, are only 60-90 minutes from the World Class ski resorts of Summit County, Colorado real estate. The fact that gas prices are down so much, makes Breckenridge and Summit County very attractive to the Front Range crowd.

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Christmas Week In Breckenridge

Editor — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:31:10 +0000

Here is a schedule of some of the Holiday Events in and around Breckenridge Real Estate this coming Christmas Week.

12/22 Theater _ It’s a Wonderful Life – Breckenridge

12/22 Santa Visits Keystone

12/23 Theater _ It’s a Wonderful Life – Breckenridge

12/24 En Fuego Fireworks – Copper

12/24 Santa Visits Keystone

12/26 Theater _ It’s a Wonderful Life – Breckenridge

12/26 Night Snowshoe Hike – Breckenridge

12/27 Theater _ It’s a Wonderful Life – Breckenridge

12/28 Theater _ It’s a Wonderful Life – Breckenridge

12/31 Firework – Breckenridge

12/31 Fireworks – Keystone

12/31 Fireworks – Copper

What better place to spend the holidays with your family than Breckenridge and Summit County. When visiting this Holiday Season, why not start to look for your very own home in Breckenridge for years of family memories. To find your dream home here in the mountains, contact Brenda DePalma at 970-406-1385 or click here.