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Stories written by davidoDavid O. Williams is the editor and co-founder of RealVail.com and has had his awarding-winning work (see About Us) published in more than 75 newspapers and magazines around the world, including 5280 Magazine, American Way Magazine (American Airlines), the Anchorage Daily News (Alaska), the Anchorage Daily Press (Alaska), Aspen Daily News, Aspen Journalism, the Aspen Times, Beaver Creek Magazine, the Boulder Daily Camera, the Casper Star Tribune (Wyoming), the Chicago Tribune, Colorado Central Magazine, the Colorado Independent (formerly Colorado Confidential), Colorado Newsline, Colorado Politics (formerly the Colorado Statesman), Colorado Public News, the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Colorado Springs Independent, the Colorado Statesman (now Colorado Politics), the Colorado Times Recorder, the Cortez Journal, the Craig Daily Press, the Curry Coastal Pilot (Oregon), the Daily Trail (Vail), the Del Norte Triplicate (California), the Denver Daily News, the Denver Gazette, the Denver Post, the Durango Herald, the Eagle Valley Enterprise, the Eastside Journal (Bellevue, Washington), ESPN.com, Explore Big Sky (Mont.), the Fort Morgan Times (Colorado), the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, the Greeley Tribune, the Huffington Post, the King County Journal (Seattle, Washington), the Kingman Daily Miner (Arizona), KUNC.org (northern Colorado), LA Weekly, the Las Vegas Sun, the Leadville Herald-Democrat, the London Daily Mirror, the Moab Times Independent (Utah), the Montgomery Journal (Maryland), the Montrose Daily Press, The New York Times, the Parent’s Handbook, Peaks Magazine (now Epic Life), People Magazine, Powder Magazine, the Pueblo Chieftain, PT Magazine, the Rio Blanco Herald Times (Colorado), Rocky Mountain Golf Magazine, the Rocky Mountain News, RouteFifty.com (formerly Government Executive State and Local), the Salt Lake Tribune, SKI Magazine, Ski Area Management, SKIING Magazine, the Sky-Hi News, the Steamboat Pilot & Today, the Sterling Journal Advocate (Colorado), the Summit Daily News, United Hemispheres (United Airlines), Vail/Beaver Creek Magazine, Vail en Español, Vail Health Magazine, Vail Valley Magazine, the Vail Daily, the Vail Trail, Westword (Denver), Writers on the Range and the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Williams is also the founder, publisher and editor of RealVail.com and RockyMountainPost.com.
O. Zone freshies on Meadow Mountain on Saturday (KKW photo). It was a much-needed snowy weekend in the Eagle River Valley, inspiring me to some more quick hits on a…
February 10, 2025Read More
When Breckenridge Ski Patroller Ryan Dineen first moved to the most popular ski town in Colorado in 2007, he paid $400 a month for a room in a house and…
February 7, 2025Read More
A massive Chair 5 lift line on a powder day at Vail in 2020 (Reddit photo). Sadly, Mary Bono will always be synonymous with the dangers of skiing. Her globally…
February 6, 2025Read More
You remember the ads from the 80s, right? “This is your brain [man holds up an egg]. This is ozone [he points to a hot skillet, cracks the egg into it,…
February 5, 2025Read More
Time for another O. Zone quick-hits column on a variety of topics I’d love to see more coverage of if any media outlets out there have the resources or the…
February 4, 2025Read More
Fairness and basic human decency – two characteristics one likes to see in people from all walks of life — but especially in a small-town judge. And of the many…
February 2, 2025Read More
Passengers or petroleum products? That’s one of the key questions being bandied about in a renewed effort to revive part of the long-dormant Tennessee Pass rail line linking southern Colorado…
January 14, 2025Read More
O. in the zone on Seldom at Vail on Saturday (KKW iPhone pic). Once in a while I do a bullet points O. Zone to highlight a bunch of things…
January 13, 2025Read More
Holy Cross Energy CEO Bryan Hannegan, left, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, center, and Vail Mayor Travis Coggin at a geothermal event in Vail last summer (David O. Williams photo). Editor’s…
January 8, 2025Read More
The state of Colorado on Monday announced a new 25-year lease deal with Union Pacific Railroad for the state-owned Moffat Tunnel connecting the state’s Front Range with the Western Slope.…
December 24, 2024Read More