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Vail featured on December cover of SKI Magazine, brought to you by the O. Report and RealVail.com
Slew of events surround early season at Vail and Beaver Creek
The Powder Predictor
Vail opening day, white Thanksgiving may be on the way
Letters From Spain
10 Ways to Save in Paris (or any other big European city)
The Bookworm Sez
Book Review: 'Michelle: A Biography'
Chris Anthony's Corner
Back to school: Pur Power fitness class revisits the lost childhood art of weird balancing
FBI offers $50,000 reward in connection with Vail arson case
The FBI and the ATF have re-ignited the hot pursuit of the people involved in the Vail arson fires, offering a $50,000 reward for information on the four remaining members of “The Family” who were involved in planning the fires which destroyed Two Elk Lodge and several chairlifts ten years ago.
Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, Josephine Sunshine Overaker, Rebecca J....
Vail opens Friday, Nov. 21, for its 46th season
Vail Mountain is scheduled to open for its 46th season on Friday, Nov. 21 at 9 a.m. The resort will offer skiing and snowboarding on the Born Free trail, accessible by the Born Free Express Lift (Chair 8) in Vail Square/Lionshead.
The Eagle Bahn Gondola will offer access to beginner terrain in the Little Eagle Lift (Chair 15) area as well as Eagle’s Nest for...
Vail Valley sales steady month-to-month but off 35 percent year-to-year
The Eagle County real estate market, while obviously significantly down from last year’s record sales volume, has been surprisingly steady month-to-month in 2008, with September’s volume of $169,448,700 the second busiest month of the year and just under the monthly average of $185 million.
Still, September was 35 percent behind the record pace established...
Intrawest layoffs will affect Copper Mountain, Winter Park, and Steamboat
The economic downturn has officially reached ski country.
Intrawest Corp., the ski-company giant based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, recently announced company-wide job cuts which will affect managers and other ski resort employees in Colorado. Intrawest operates three resorts in Colorado: Copper Mountain, Winter Park, and Steamboat.
The company released the...
The Vail Trail: saying goodbye to an integral part of the valley's journalistic history
By Robert Kelly-Goss
When I read the obituary for The Vail Trail, Vail’s once greatest newspaper, my spirit sunk low. The newspaper, the people and the community were an integral part of my life for many years.
In 1997, when I strolled into the Vail Valley after selling my community newspaper in Arkansas, I took on the role as editor of the...
Kissing your sister: Beaver Creek enjoys love-fest with Austrian resort of Lech-Zurs
LECH-ZÜRS, Austria -- The first real sign you’re not in Colorado anymore -- and there are lots of little indicators such as self-sanitizing robo-commodes, smoke-choked après bars and conveyor belt-loaded chairlifts -- is the early 14th-century “pfarrkirche,” or parish church, that extends its onion-shaped dome up into the alpine sky high above this...
Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa opens its doors in Avon, launching green hotel movement
The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa, the Vail Valley’s newest “green” resort, opened Thursday. The upscale resort in Avon with a gondola connection to Beaver Creek Mountain also offers unparalleled access to the Eagle River as well as signature Westin services and amenities.
The Westin Riverfront is on track to be the first upscale resort in Colorado...
Colorado-born Band The Fray to Debut New Album as Headliner of Vail's Snow Daze
The Fray announced today their first preview concert of their new single “You Found Me” and self-titled album to be held in Vail, Colorado on Saturday, December 13 at the Ford Park concert venue. The performance highlights Vail Snow Daze, a festival of non-stop music, on-snow events and a wide variety of après and after-dark happenings with Big Head Todd & the...
Dr. Jack Eck awarded VVF's 2008 Vail Citizen of the Year
When Jack Eck first caught a glimpse of Vail in the 1960s it was a small town hardly worth a dot on the most detailed of maps. A quick gaze from the window of a car, and he and his friends returned to Denver, where Eck was an intern.
The memory, though short, stayed with him.
When he returned years later the town had changed, and so had Eck. A tour of duty as a...
New-look Imagination Station a great child-care option for the coming ski season
The Vail Recreation District's (VRD) Imagination Station, Vail's learning and discovery center, will celebrate its annual season opening party from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 8, to showcase the changes it has made over the last year.
Located in the LionsHead parking structure above Subway, the Imagination Station offers children ages 2 through 12 a wide array of...
Park Hyatt Beaver Creek launching new 8100 Mountainside Bar and Grill
Park Hyatt Beaver Creek, at the base of Beaver Creek Mountain, will open 8100 Mountainside Bar and Grill, an innovative restaurant featuring the freshest ingredients from local and national purveyors, in time for Christmas 2008.
8100 Mountainside Bar and Grill is a restaurant concept for Park Hyatt Beaver Creek, located in the space previously occupied by Bivans and...
Seasonal recreation, culture guide to Vail, Beaver Creek
The cliché resonates because it proves so unerringly accurate season after season: "People come to Vail for the winters but stay for the summers."
Unquestionably, snow is the draw. Up to 30 feet of it settles on the slopes of Vail Mountain between October and April. And sliding on it has made Vail what it is today - an unmatched snow sports paradise - but once it all...
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