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Jan 16, 2025 | 
uncovercolorado.com | Matt Thomas
Ouray, Colorado – Tragedy struck the backcountry skiing community when Donald Moden Jr., a 57-year-old veteran skier, was found buried under an avalanche near Red Mountain Pass, a remote area in the Colorado Rockies. The incident occurred on January 7, 2025, while Moden and his wife were navigating the isolated terrain near the popular mountain town of Ouray.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
uncovercolorado.com | Matt Thomas
The Colorado Western Slope boasts a gorgeous winter wonderland filled with challenging and exciting activities for the avid sports enthusiast. Make Grand Junction your base and ski, skate, sled, and swim all season long in Western Colorado. Once you’re up and over the Continental Divide on its western side you’re officially on Colorado’s Western Slope. Although vast in size it contains the minority of the state’s population. This creates gems that are mostly away from the crowds.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
uncovercolorado.com | Matt Thomas
Colorado Springs’ bustling tech scene is growing and ranked among the best in the country. Like other town techs, it’s home to several top coworking spaces, aimed at helping the location flexible remote workers. While The Springs might not have the same reputation for technology as its Front Range neighbors to the north, Boulder, and Denver, it has been growing year-over-year in its tech industry.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
uncovercolorado.com | Matt Thomas
Walsh, Colorado is a small town of just over 500 residents, hidden away on the southeastern plains, east of Trinidad and Springfield on Highway 160. One of the favorite places to eat and shop in this quaint location is the Walsh Community Grocery Store. Back in 2006 the town lost its grocery store. With bad storms at the end of 2006 and early 2007, the locals realized they needed a grocery store in Walsh!“Pulling together we all win.”Community members got together and got to work.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
medium.com | Matt Thomas
Matt Thomas·FollowPublished inPipelines Unblocked·4 min read·--So, What’s the Deal with Data Engineering? 🤔Imagine you’re running a lemonade stand. You need lemons (data), sugar (tools), and water (infrastructure) to make lemonade (insights). But here’s the catch: the lemons are scattered across 15 farms, the sugar is mislabeled, and the water is stuck in a clogged pipeline.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
uncovercolorado.com | Matt Thomas
Colorado conjures up images of sky-high mountains and wide-open ski slopes. Sometimes though you see resorts that are packed to the gills with people and lift lines that stretch back up the hill. If you’re looking for amazing skiing and snowboarding without the crowds of the Front Range resorts, consider these ski resorts in Southern Colorado. Most reside within the towering San Juan Mountains, which are some of the steepest in the state.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
uncovercolorado.com | Matt Thomas
Colorado is a big state land-wise, covering an estimated 104,185 square miles, the 8th largest in the US. Although population-wise wise around 5 million of the estimated 5.8 million all live along the same front range region. There are 5 local area codes you might come across while perusing phone numbers in Colorado. Two of these are for the Denver Metro, which is adding a third, so Colorado’s fifth, in 2022. 303The 303 is a number synonymous with Denver and Colorado.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
uncovercolorado.com | Matt Thomas
After a long, rewarding hot springs soak, the last thing you want to do is drive somewhere. Why not be only steps from your bed? These Colorado hot springs resorts all offer overnight lodging, with options varying from cabins and yurts, hotel rooms, campsites, and even a train caboose. While some of them do restrict public access at times, they all provide day visitors access during at least some portion of the year. And if you prefer privacy, check out these private overnight hot springs instead.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
uncovercolorado.com | Matt Thomas
Whether you’re shredding the local ski slopes, hiking the region’s highest peaks, or even just strolling the town’s historic district, sometimes recreation is best paired with a soak in thermal hot springs. The Rocky Mountains are blessed with many of them, and some Colorado towns are luckier than others. A lot of tourists and locals alike would love to include a hot springs visit in their Colorado vacation.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
uncovercolorado.com | Matt Thomas
Camp thirty minutes north of South Fork on the Silver Thread Byway in the interesting town of Creede, Colorado. It was one of the true Wild West towns in its heyday, surrounded by cool campgrounds in the San Juan Mountains. There are mining relics visible in the hillsides above town, and you can camp near some of them. You’ll reach Creede in about 4.5 hours from Denver heading first toward the San Luis Valley, then northwest at South Fork onboard the Silver Thread Scenic Byway.
