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A week of spring-like weather teases Vail Valley’s loaded spring-skiing calendar

A week of spring-like weather teases Vail Valley’s loaded spring-skiing calendar

After two months of fairly consistent snowfall dating back to just after Thanksgiving — and now an above-average snow pack after a slow start in November — the Vail Valley…

Shiffrin picks up 50 crucial points with surprise super-G result

Shiffrin picks up 50 crucial points with surprise super-G result

Eagle-Vail’s Mikaela Shiffrin padded her overall World Cup lead with a surprise fourth-place finish in a super-G in Cortina, Italy, on Sunday, as Switzerland’s Lara Gut crashed out. The pre-race…

Vonn crashes out in Cortina downhill as Gut claims victory

Vonn crashes out in Cortina downhill as Gut claims victory

Vail’s Lindsey Vonn crashed again Saturday in the same spot where she flew off course during training on Friday, and Switzerland’s Lara Gut grabbed the win in a Word Cup…

Vail Valley racers Vonn, Shiffrin both in action in Cortina this weekend

Vail Valley racers Vonn, Shiffrin both in action in Cortina this weekend

Editor’s update: Travis Ganong of Squaw Valley, Calif., won the dark and icy Kandahar downhill in Garmisch, Germany, on Friday — a race that saw Utah’s Steve Nyman airlifted after…

Vail, Beaver Creek swimming in snow

Vail, Beaver Creek swimming in snow

The ski conditions have been incredible at Vail and Beaver Creek the last two months, with a seemingly endless series of winter storms passing through the Vail Valley and keeping…

Vail’s Lindsey Vonn completes comeback, claims downhill win in Garmisch

Vail’s Lindsey Vonn completes comeback, claims downhill win in Garmisch

It took Vail’s Lindsey Vonn just one warm-up World Cup race last weekend to round into form after nearly a year off recovering from multiple injuries. The all-time winningest female…

Three more winter storms heading into Colorado

Three more winter storms heading into Colorado

Editor’s note: The first of three storm systems hit right on schedule Thursday night, depositing four inches of new snow at Beaver Creek and three new at Vail as of…

Vonn returns to racing action, taking 13th in Austrian downhill

Vonn returns to racing action, taking 13th in Austrian downhill

Vail’s Lindsey Vonn returned to ski-racing action on Sunday in a weather-delayed downhill at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria, finishing a respectable 13th after nearly a year off the World Cup circuit battling…

Vail’s Vonn to return to World Cup action this weekend

Vail’s Vonn to return to World Cup action this weekend

Vail’s Lindsey Vonn, the greatest female ski racer of all time, will return to World Cup ski racing action this weekend in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria, the U.S. Ski Team announced on…

Shiffrin takes another slalom win, builds overall lead to more than 300 points

Shiffrin takes another slalom win, builds overall lead to more than 300 points

Eagle-Vail’s Mikaela Shiffrin claimed her personal record seventh victory of the season on Sunday, powering her way to a World Cup slalom win in Maribor, Slovenia one day after finishing…