The Summit High School mountain bike team is having a banner year. After attaining its first Division 1 win in team history on Aug. 24, 2025, Summit has continued to go on a tear, securing top-10 finishes and being crowned team champions. Coming off its third-straight team win at the Cloud City Challenge in Leadville on Sept. 21, Summit traveled to Buena Vista for its final regular season race, the Chalk Creek Stampede, on Oct. 4. The team won the race, due in no small part to the efforts of the team’s freshmen. The team was also awarded the Division 1 Piedra Region overall trophy. The Tigers were slated to have 27 athletes compete at the Colorado High School Cycling League’s state competition starting on Oct. 18.
— From the Oct. 8, 2025, edition of Summit Daily News
Public Health Director Amy Wineland reported Summit County was experiencing a downward trend in COVID-19 cases during a joint Board of Health and Summit Board of County Commissioners meeting on Oct. 5, 2021. Though the community’s incidence rate continued to hover between 100 and 200 cases per 100,000 people, the community’s confirmed and probable cases were both decreasing along with the percent positivity rate. Wineland pointed out that while people should be optimistic about where the community’s numbers are heading, there could still be setbacks on the horizon as the cold weather brings people back indoors. She encouraged people to continue to mask up and stay home when sick.
— From the Oct. 7, 2021, edition of Summit Daily News
The opening of the Flight For Life Mahany Heroes Park in Frisco on Oct. 8, 2016, was the first time Patrick Mahany’s family got to see a plaque honoring the man who died July 3, 2015, when his Flight For Life helicopter crashed in the parking lot of the Summit Medical Center. Julie Kelble, the chair of the park committee, spoke and explained the many pieces of symbolism throughout the park. She read the names of the 15 people who were working on the day of the crash to get pilot Patrick Mahany and crew members Matt Bowe and Dave Repsher away from the resulting fire. In the park there are 15 aspen trees planted in their honor.
— From the Oct. 9, 2016, edition of Summit Daily News
15 years ago: Police look for leads after solar panels stolen from hut at Boreas Pass
The Summit County Sheriff’s office is looking for leads after a $3,500 four-panel solar array was taken from the Section House hut on Boreas Pass. Representatives from the Summit Huts Association, the nonprofit that owns the building and arrays, told authorities they hadn’t checked on the building for several weeks when they arrived Oct. 1, 2011 to find the array was missing. The array was located behind the buildings, and well out of sight from the road, and there was no sign of damage to the 8-foot pole it was mounted on.
— From the Oct. 5, 2011, edition of Summit Daily News
30 years ago: CDOT study recommends passenger rail service across Colorado
A passenger rail project covering 642 miles of track in Colorado may become a reality within three to five years, according to a Colorado Department of Transportation proposal. Still, officials say residents shouldn’t don’t look for a link between Denver International Airport and Vail along Interstate 70 anytime soon. A comprehensive nine-month study evaluated the feasibility of passenger rail service in 18 corridors around the state and narrowed the group down to the highest performers. A steering committee recommended the following corridors be included in the core system:. Fort Collins to Denver, Colorado Springs to Denver, Steamboat Springs to Vail to Aspen, Grand Junction to Glenwood Springs, Vail to Leadville, and Denver to Winter Park to Steamboat Springs. Designers opted against a Vail-to-Denver corridor along l-70 because of the price tag — $ 1.2 billion.
— From the Oct. 7, 1996, edition of Summit Daily News
125 years ago: Notable journalist and mining correspondent visits Breckenridge
Thomas Tonge, the versatile correspondent of New York and London journals who specializes in mining, manufacturing and scenic write-ups, arrived in Breckenridge from Denver on Oct. 5, 1901. Tonge stays until Oct. 7 as he worked on a descriptive article about the placer mining properties in the area. He was reportedly well please with the present and prospective conditions of the territory, and his articles will likely be read with eager interest by all citizens and well-wishers of Breckenridge.
— From the Oct. 12, 1901, edition of Summit County Journal