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.
Too late, Dick Monfort, to put the genie back in the bottle. You can apologize and dissemble all you want, but now we know how you really feel. If fans…
July 14, 2014Read More
Following the discovery of skeletal remains last week, a Vail police detective this week said there’s only one active, adult missing-person case in the ski town of more than 5,000…
July 2, 2014Read More
Construction has been suspended at the site of Vail’s Lionshead Inn after the discovery of skeletal human remains launched a police and coroner’s office investigation on Thursday. A partial human…
June 26, 2014Read More
Vail Resorts will add yet another World Championships feather to its cap in 2019 when its Canyons Resort near Park City, Utah, hosts the skicross and snowboardcross Worlds as part…
June 9, 2014Read More
In Colorado’s high country, May showers sometimes bring deep powder. And there’s only one ski area still providing lift access to the goods: Arapahoe Basin in Summit County. The Basin…
May 9, 2014Read More
Democrat Jared Polis, who represents the Vail Valley in Congress, won’t back down on ballot initiatives that could lead to greater regulatory control over oil and gas drilling by Colorado’s…
May 5, 2014Read More
Eagle-Vail’s Mike Brown, a former U.S. Ski Team racer and highly successful coach, tops the local list of inductees to the Vail-based Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum Hall of Fame’s…
May 2, 2014Read More
Incredibly, there were actually fewer hard closures along the Interstate 70 corridor this past ski season compared to the season before, but state highway officials say the duration of those…
April 24, 2014Read More
Thirty years ago this ski season the U.S. Ski Team enjoyed its greatest Olympic success to date at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games, collecting five alpine ski-racing medals, including the…
April 22, 2014Read More
In February of 1968, when she was younger than Mikaela Shiffrin is now, Kiki Cutter became the first American ski racer to win a World Cup event. Just two years…
April 14, 2014Read More