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How to get to Hakuba: Monkeying around Nagano after slow start to skiing
There’s one hard and fast rule of ski trips. Never pass on a sure thing for a maybe when it comes to snow quality and ski conditions. In planning our…
How housing, public transportation and health care are so inextricably linked
I have a long history of advocating for higher-density, in-fill, subsidized and deed-restricted workforce and middle-class housing throughout the Vail Valley, so I’m not about to rail against a dorm-style…
Frampton praises Olympic bid process, questions mountain rail concept
Ski resort real-estate developer Harry Frampton praised the process that could one day bring the Winter Olympics to Colorado — lauding the efforts of the Denver and Colorado Winter Games…
Why spend $2 billion on Olympics when Colorado roads, schools are crumbling?
Even though I’ve worked as a journalist three times at the Winter Olympics – twice for the actual organizing committee’s internal news service in Vancouver and Torino — I tend…
Winter Olympics seen as opportunity to promote Colorado’s progressive public lands, energy policies
North Korea and South Korea are holding talks about the North’s possible participation in next month’s Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and President Donald Trump — despite previous…
Snuff out Olympic torch dreams now unless Colorado gets a shiny, new Hyperloop
I hate to think of it, but some of Vail’s founders must be doing barrel rolls in their graves right now as the United States Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs…
Stowe rumors should stoke ski train expansion in Vail
For years, I’ve wondered, as Vail Resorts snapped up small ski areas near major metro areas like Chicago, Detroit and Minneapolis to bolster its Epic Pass season ski pass, why…
It requires vision to see Vail still so successful a half century from now
As I read the news Thursday of the return of the ski train between Denver and Winter Park, it got me to thinking about our parking problem here in Vail.…
Ski industry veterans say I-70 bottleneck is hurting entire state
Vail Mayor Andy Daly’s youngest son is ski patrolling in France this ski season and he and his wife went over to visit. On their way home they flew the…
Vail developer Frampton doubts Colorado’s ‘political will’ to fund I-70 rail fix
Harry Frampton, the Vail-based developer whose company revamped Denver’s iconic Union Station, is a skeptic when it comes to the concept of passenger rail connecting Colorado’s Front Range cities to…