The Outsider with Jason Blevins
Veteran reporter Jason Blevins covers the industry from the inside out, plus indulges in the fun side of being outdoors in our beautiful state.
Episodes
Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins looks at a new mental health program at Winter Park ski area to help patrollers manage the many stresses of their job, and Jason has updates on the end of the Telluride ski patroller strike.
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Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins has the latest in the ski patroller strike in Telluride that shut down the ski area and why the rest of the industry is watching closely.
Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2026/01/01/telluride-ski-patroller-strike-resort-closure/
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Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins has updates on the ski and snowboarding season, including the return of Cuchara ski hill in southern Colorado, a new feature about getting better on the snow and now free access to his Outsider newsletter starting Jan. 1.
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Can a billionaire be the model for swiftly addressing the high-country housing shortage? Today, outdoors reporter Jason Blevins discusses a new housing project in Steamboat Springs backed by a tech-focused venture capitalist.
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Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins talks about how the new book “The Way Out” by Colorado author Devon O’Neil can be a model to help advance the conversation on what we learn from mountain tragedies and dealing with the fallout and trauma.
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Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins takes us up to the hills outside of Paonia for updates on a project to turn potent methane leaking from an abandoned coal mine into less harmful carbon dioxide.
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The Thanksgiving holiday week is the unofficial start of the Colorado ski season. Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins has a preview of the new stuff this winter across the state, big Colorado events before the Olympics and his always optimistic hope for the snow to pick up.
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Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins sifts through results from the Colorado communities looking to tax tourists more and how those ballot measures fared across the state, with some surprises.
Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/11/10/tourism-taxes-election/
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Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins looks into a major land sale in southern Colorado and how concerns about the Trump administration’s plans for public lands could derail the plan.
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Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins looks into recent developments in public land access and how river users, landowners and lawmakers are reviving a contentious, decades-long debate over river access in Colorado.
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Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/17/measuring-14ers-crestone/
Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins discusses the ever-changing dynamic of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks and the push by a group of mountaineering scientists to reclassify a southern Colorado 14er.
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Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins breaks down the incredible feat just accomplished by ultra-runner Kilian Jornet, who started on Longs Peak in Colorado and went on to summit 72 14,000-foot mountains across the West in only 31 days.
Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/29/kilian-jornet-14ers
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Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/03/durango-purgatory-mountain-biking-2030/
Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins discusses the decision to bring the world mountain bike championships back to Durango for the first time in 40 years and what we can expect leading up to the 2030 races.
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Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins breaks down upcoming ballot questions asking for increased lodging taxes in some Colorado high country counties to offset the increase in services for their tourism-based communities.
Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/09/15/counties-raising-lodging-taxes/
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Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/09/12/blm-oil-and-gas-leases/
Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins looks at the tens of thousands of acres in Colorado the Trump administration is auctioning off for oil and gas drilling and why change.
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Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins delves into the recent $12 million jury award to a woman paralyzed after falling from a chairlift at Crested Butte and what it means for the ski industry and other outdoor companies that rely on liability waivers.
Learn more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/09/04/jury-verdict-against-vail-resorts/
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Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins discusses the new plans proposed to help manage the 25 million visitors to the Pikes Peak region, including the fourteener known as America’s Mountain.
Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/22/vision-plan-recreation-pikes-peak/
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Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins looks at the latest numbers of people hitting Colorado 14ers, who’s going outside around the country and what that all means for a $1 trillion outdoor industry.
Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/15/colorado-14ers-2024/
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Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins talks about the momentum building to preserve and safe public lands and the new Keep Parks Public campaign that starts this week and has a couple of stops in Colorado.
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Today, Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins gives us a rare look inside the Melanzana shop in Leadville and insight into the man behind the coveted Melly hooded fleece pullover.
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