Attention skiers and riders, Crested Butte Mountain Resort (CBMR) is having a record year and extending three weeks of half price skiing and riding to everyone with a season pass or card from any resort in the country. CBMR is having the best snow year in our history. With more than 370 inches of snowfall by Mid March, CBMR is on track to top the existing record of 415 inches recorded during the 1979-1980 winter season.

CBMR is inviting all season pass holders, from any other ski area to join in the celebration of this record breaking year. All pass holders can enjoy Crested Butte’s amazing conditions for half the price during the last three weeks of the season. “We are celebrating the incredible winter we are having at Crested Butte by inviting skiers and riders from other resorts and honoring their home resort pass. We know that people love to get away and come to Crested Butte especially in the spring, and this is our invitation,” said Ken Stone, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for CBMR.

Individuals need to present a valid season pass or card to the Crested Butte lift ticket office, March 24, 2008 through closing day, April 13, 2008, to take advantage of this special offer. Discount applies to full and multi-day adult, child, young adult and senior lift tickets.

CBMR is open an extra week this season, giving you plenty of time to plan that spring getaway. During the last week of the season, April 7-13, 2008, adults can ski or ride for as low as $19.50 (plus tax) and children age seven to twelve are only $12.50. Additional discounts apply to multi-day tickets.

MT. Crested Butte, CO--One of the original buildings in the Crested Butte base area, the Gothic Building, will be deconstructed beginning this fall. Demolition teams are currently planning on mobilizing in late August with the actual deconstruction to begin in September. "As we did with the Mt. Crested Butte transportation center, we will pursue deconstruction of the Gothic to reuse and recycle many of the building's material. We want to keep as much of the Gothic building out of our local landfill as possible. This is as important to us as our purchase of wind power, and an extension of that thinking. The local community will be invited to take part in the bounty--glue lams, glass, etc." said Michael Kraatz, Vice President of Real Estate and Development. The de-construction phase should be completed by the start of the 2007-2008 Season.

"The Gothic has a storied history," said Tim Mueller, "including performances by the Allman Brothers and Roy Orbison, and, more recently, Fight Nights. But the building doesn't reflect the quality we want to bring to Mt. Crested Butte so it's time for the Gothic to go."

Currently slated to take the place of Gothic is the Cimarron building, an extension of Mountaineer Square providing luxury residences, skier services, and retail operations.

"We are currently 70% through with our sales launch and nearly $50 million of pre-sales of the new building, Cimarron," said Wayne Trudeau, director of sales for Crested Butte real estate, "and we plan on being all the way there by the end of the winter season. It's obvious Cimarron is in the best location in Mt. Crested Butte, and the residences there will also be built to a new quality standard for the valley."

Mt. Crested Butte, CO--You have always heard that nothing is "free", well, they lied. Skiing and riding is absolutely, positively, incredibly, 100 percent FREE, with no strings attached at Crested Butte Mountain Resort (CBMR) from November 25 through December 15, 2007.

CBMR will once again be giving away lift tickets for three weeks. You don't have to enter anything, buy anything, do any fancy dance steps or answer any trivia questions to be able to ski or ride Crested Butte Mountain for FREE. All you need to do is go to the ticket office during these days and one of CBMR's cheerful ticketing specialists will smile, give you a lift ticket and send you to the slopes to ski or ride for FREE. Just come on down and enjoy the great product that our mountain has to offer.

"We want guests to come 'test drive' Crested Butte," said Randy Barrett, Vice President and General Manager. "We have done so many improvements since the Mueller's took the helm; we want to show them off. Everyone will be able to see and sample Colorado's Best Corduroy - and our commitment to great early season skiing and riding, all for FREE!"

Crested Butte Mountain Resort (CBMR) successfully launched the sale of its signature property, Cimarron, in a three-day lottery-style sale. Seventy-five percent of the residences to the tune of $61.5 million sold while buyers, owners and real estate brokers watched the sale unfold in "real time" on the CBMR website. More than 300 people participated in the selection event, including The Lodge owners, people not drawn during the lottery for The Lodge, and new Cimarron reservation holders. Each client was given five minutes to decide and lock in on a unit. The "real-time" CBMR website captivated buyers, prospective buyers, real estate agents and the local community as each property sold and was removed from the list.

The units from studios to three-bedroom residences ranged in price from $389,000 to $2.6 million. The Cimarron property will be located slopeside at CBMR in the former location of the Gothic Building. This property is the signature piece of real estate at Mt. Crested Butte. According to Wayne Trudeau, CBMR real estate "guru," "properties of this caliber are few and far between. It is one of the last, truly slopeside properties available at any major ski resort. The perceived slowdown in the real estate market did not seem to affect the sale of our newest property. This is significant in terms of confidence levels and commitment to the Crested Butte area with the Muellers at the helm." These "snowfront" residences will connect the ski area and the new base village.

In addition to the upscale residences, Cimarron will house a new ticket office, rental and retail shops, a day lodge, fine dining and après ski. The project is slated to begin this spring with the deconstruction of the Gothic Building, and should be completed in early 2009.

Based on "New Urbanism," the conceptual vision of the 1,002-unit village is for it to serve as a town plaza for Mt. Crested Butte. The North Mountain Village has plans for a new town hall, post office, a gondola that accesses the base area of the existing ski area and a commercial district are in the center of the 68-acre planned village center, at the base of Snodgrass Mountain. CBMR officials have promised that of the 1,000 units in the plans, about 200 will be affordable housing. CBMR will submit the amended North Village plan to Mt. Crested Butte for review during the 2007 calendar year.