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United States Air Force Academy Aerial View (Founded Today)

The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA or Air Force), is an accredited college for the undergraduate education of officers for the United States Air Force. Its campus is located immediately north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The Academy’s stated mission is “to educate, train, and inspire men and women [...]

1Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Aspen/Snowmass Ski Resort Aerial and 3D View

Aspen/Snowmass, anywhere else this would be four separate vacations. ItΓÇÖs not just one mountain ΓÇô itΓÇÖs Snowmass, Aspen Mountain, Aspen Highlands and Buttermilk. With four choices and 5,303 acres, decide which mountain fits your passion. Snowmass, so many runs, so much variety ΓÇô cruisers, steeps, glades, off-piste, terrain parks, superpipe and the longest lift-served vertical [...]

24Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Keystone Ski Resort Aerial and 3D View

Located in the White River National Forest just an hour from Denver, Keystone is home to three magnificent mountain playgrounds—Dercum Mountain, North Peak, and The Outback.  There’s something special for every skier and rider of any level at each mountain. There are more than 3,000 vertical feet and over 3,000 acres of bowls, bumps, glades, [...]

24Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Copper Mountain Ski Resort Aerial and 3D View

Why ski Colorado? Summit County, Colorado offers the longest ski season in the Western U.S. This season, Copper is open from November 2, 2007 to April 14, 2007. And Colorado is renowned for its sunny, blue-sky days along with some of the best powder in the world. Copper is one of Summit County’s largest ski [...]

24Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Vail Ski Resort Aerial and 3D View

Vail boasts three distinct areas of the mountain, each with their own features and fortes, including three terrain parks, seven bowls and 5,289 acres of freeride terrain. At seven miles wide, finding fresh tracks is as easy as finding elbow room. In fact, on an average day, there are only two skiers per acre, and [...]

24Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Beaver Creek Ski Resort Aerial and 3D View

At the gate, you leave everyday life behind. That’s why people travel to Beaver Creek, Colorado from all over the world, and many make it a tradition. The drama of rock and sky, the sheer grandeur of this place, is one reason. That it is North America’s World Cup mountain is another. It is also [...]

24Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Steamboat Springs Ski Resort Aerial and 3D View

Seven thousand feet up in the Colorado Rockies, nestled quietly below one of the largest ski mountains in North America, sits a small ranching community that serves as a constant reminder that the Old West is alive and well. Never far from its ranching roots, Steamboat remains

24Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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In Flight – Planes Around Denver International DIA

There a re quite a few planes flying around Denver International Airport.┬á These below are just the first post using just the aerial view, there are a few more in the Bird’s Eye View, but those will come in another post later.┬á There is one in particular in this group that has a shadow, but [...]

26Oct2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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University of Colorado Buffaloes – Folsom Field Aerial and Bird’s Eye View

Folsom Field opened in 1924, and has been the home of the CU football team ever since. Through the 2007 football season, the Buffs have a home record of 286-139-14, a winning percentage of .667. Prior to the opening of Folsom Field, CU played its games at Gamble Field for two decades, where the seating [...]

8Sep2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Denver Broncos – INVESCO Field at Mile High Aerial and Bird’s Eye View

The site upon which Mile High Stadium formerly stood now features grass, trees and landscaped parking lots. The new facility, INVESCO Field at Mile High, is highlighted by an emphasis on state-of-the-art technology, while maintaining the traditional aspects of Mile High Stadium that have given the Broncos a decided home field advantage over the years.  [...]

12Aug2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Garden Of The Gods Colorado Springs Aerial And Birds Eye View

Garden of the Gods is a public park located in Colorado Springs. The outstanding geologic features of the park are the ancient sedimentary beds of red and white sandstones, conglomerates and limestone that were deposited horizontally, but have now been tilted vertically and faulted by the immense mountain building forces caused by the uplift of [...]

21May2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Colorado Rockies – Coors Field Aerial View

On Aug. 16, 1990, almost a year before baseball awarded Colorado an expansion team, voters from the six-county Denver area approved a 0.1 percent sales tax to fund a baseball-only stadium. The ballpark’s total cost was $215 million. Architects originally designed the park to seat 43,800. However, after fans set dozens of attendance records at [...]

13Apr2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Four Corners Aerial View

The Four Corners is a place where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado all come together. The Four Corners Monument was originally surveyed and established by the US Government Surveyors and Astronomers in 1868 with the survey of Colorado’s southern boundary. Surveys followed of New Mexico’s west boundary and Utah’s east boundary in 1878. The [...]

15Mar2008 | | 0 comments | Continued