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Welcome to Carbondale, Colorado! The picturesque town of Carbondale is located 170 miles west of Denver, 12 miles from Glenwood Springs, and 30 miles from Aspen in the heart of Colorado's central Rocky Mountains. At an altitude of 6,181 feet, and resting in the magnificent shadow of 12,953-foot Mount Sopris, the Carbondale area is characterized by an average of 295 days of sunshine, low humidity, cold but mild winters and comfortable summers.

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Carbondale Area NewsFriday March 12, 2010

FORT COLLINS, Colorado - Last week's upset win over Eaton had Coal Ridge girls basketball coach Rick Schmitz dreaming about a potential trip to Fort Collins.
This likely was not what he envisioned.
While Schmitz's 27th-seeded Titans - the lone double-digit seed in the girls' field at the 3A Great Eight at Colorado State University - were mere minutes from prolonging their improbable run through the bracket, they could not overcome their shooting woes in Thursday's state quarterfinals against Olathe.
Coal Ridge missed 44 of 54 shot attempts and hit just one field goal during the fourth quarter. The third-seeded Pirates closed with a flurry, outscoring the Titans 17-5 in the final eight minutes en route to a 40-25 victory.
Olathe (25-0), which picked up its fourth win over Coal Ridge this season, will play the winner of Thursday night's quarterfinal game between No. 2 Holy Family and No. 7 Brush in today's state semifinals. The T

Aspen takes down Manitou Springs:

FORT COLLINS, Colorado - Aspen head coach Steve Ketchum thinks Fort Collins is starting to feel like home.
The No. 2 Skiers, who are making their third consecutive trip to the 3A Great Eight, sure did not look comfortable Thursday at Moby Arena. While its 1-3-1 trapping defense gave No. 10 Manitou Springs fits all afternoon, Aspen struggled on offense and from the foul line - where it missed 16 of 25 attempts.
Senior Andrew Papenfus bailed out his teammates, though, erupting for 23 points to propel the Skiers to a 50-44 victory and a berth in today's state semifinals at 5:30 p.m.
Aspen (25-0) will take on No. 6 Buena Vista (21-5), which dispatched No. 14 Peak to Peak in earlier action Thursday.
"It was not our best effort, and we got a little lucky," Ketchum conceded. "Our usual balance disappeared, and that's why we struggled. ... It's a good thing Andrew came to play."
The guard, who starred in district and sub-region pla

Vail employees dig through storm drain, find guest's wedding ring:

VAIL, Colorado - If you watch your wedding ring fall through the cracks of a muddy storm drain, you'd probably assume it's gone forever.
Bryan Jones wasn't so quick to assume, though, when his friend Chris Cook, of Portland, Ore., lost his ring in Vail last weekend. The guys were in Vail for Jones' bachelor party, and Cook was shaking his hands because of the cold weather when he watched his ring slide off his finger into the Vail Village storm drain.
Cook, Jones and several of their friends took the storm drain cover off and tried to fish the ring out, but the sediment and mud built up at the bottom left them hopeless.
Maybe it was the guilt that Jones felt for stealing Cook away from his wife for the weekend - the second bachelor party trip Cook would attend in just two weeks - but he was motivated to at least try to get the ring back.
"If you could have seen this well, there was so much mud in there," Jones said. "It w

Snowboarder dies in avalanche near Loveland Pass:

SUMMIT COUNTY, Colorado - A snowboarder died Wednesday afternoon in a backcountry avalanche, west of Arapahoe Basin on the south side of Highway 6.
20-year-old Daniel Michelotti was riding with two other male snowboarders in the Steep Gullies area, a popular backcountry spot outside the A-Basin ski boundary.
The three snowboarders triggered the avalanche at about 2:50 p.m. The slide carried Michelotti an estimated 1,000 feet, almost completely burying his body. It took the two friends 20-25 minutes to reach the victim and make a 911 call. Michelotti worked for Breckenridge Ski Resort.
All three men were from Spring Grove, Ill., and two of them, including Michelotti, have lived in the Summit County area since November. The third had arrived for a visit two days before the incident. No one in the party was carrying avalanche rescue gear (a beacon, avalanche probe and shovel).
According to Summit County Coroner Joanne Richardson, suffocation was the cause of death.
About 37 r

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