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Monday morning dawned with big news for both the ski world and the stock exchange: Vail Resorts, a publicly traded company, announced plans to buy Whistler Blackcomb for $1.06 billion.

The move is a sign of the times for ski resorts facing pressure to diversify in the face of climate change.

Adding another $36 per share to Vail shareholders on Wall Street

adds the largest ski area in North America to Epic Pass (Will stay on Mountain Collective Pass for 2016-2017 season).

signals change for the future at Whistler

Echo Mountain ski area filed for bankruptcy in February 2016.

Echo Mountain is the closet ski area to the Denver Metro area - you can actually see Denver from the hill. It's only 40 minutes west of Denver, CO.

A 27-year-old University of Denver alumni, Peter Burwell, is currently under contract to buy the struggling ski area for $3.8 million.

The sale will include all 226 acres of the ski area as well as all the facility's equipment such as snow cats, snowmaking equipment, and the chairlifts.

Angel Collinson was on her annual trip to Alaska in April, filming with Teton Gravity Research, when she took a fall that resulted in a torn ACL, finding herself on the couch with her leg raised under a bag of ice instead of hopping out of helicopters on massive Alaskan peaks.

"I've experienced the whirlwind of emotions that come with a big injury-the identity crisis, finding other ways to spend time besides being in the mountains, and practicing self-love, regardless of blown knees."

What is the biggest lesson that you think you've learned from being injured?

"I would say that it's really important to accept yourself for where you're at, and it's important to work hard and have discipline and goals. But really the most healing thing is a good attitude and self-love."

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