A weekly ski trip for about 50 women from the Denver area turned into an overnight ordeal when their bus got stuck in a snowstorm behind jackknifed semi tractor-trailers on their way back from Vail.
19-year-old migrant worker, once charged in death of St. Johns County deputy, is released from custodyLocal retired Navy pilot weighs in on possible impact of US Army sergeant accused of selling military secrets to ChinaIn this photo provided by Brenda Djorup, Djorup takes a photo of herself and other women who were stranded on a Thera-ski bus on Interstate 70 in Colorado on the way back from a ski trip to Vail, Colo., Wednesday, March 13, 2024.
The women were on the final of the 10 weekly ski trips with the Thera-ski Bus, a volunteer-run women's only ski group that has been operating for about 40 years. “We helped each other,” Djorup said. “We got snow to put on the knees of the girl who was injured. We we shared what we had in our backpacks as far as food with the girl who is diabetic.”
Mary Wagner said the group channeled their frustration over a lack of information by sending emails to Gov. Jared Polis’ office and reaching out to the media to bring attention to the fact that the highway, which brings so many visitors and their dollars to ski resorts, was brought to a standstill, Wagner said.
Colorado requires that truck drivers traveling through the mountains on Interstate 70, the state’s main east-west highway, carry chains with them from September through May and be ready to put them on their tires for better traction during storms.
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