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The O. Zone: Ending another great ski season with kindness over collisions
KKW carves the slush on an empty Bear Tree run at Vail recently (DOW photo). The final week of the inbounds, lift-served ski season in the Eagle River Valley will…
The O. Zone: Seeking skiing independence, freedom from Epic crowds in Utah
Nick and Rennick Williams hike up Mt. Baldy at Powder Mountain on Feb. 28, 2024 (David O. Williams photo). If you want to see — or, more precisely, ski –…
Beaver Creek’s new COO Murphy rose through ranks, bringing invaluable perspective
Bobby Murphy has seen the ski industry from virtually every perspective. As a 10-year-old kid growing up playing hockey in Evanston, Ill., right outside of Chicago, but skiing weekends at Wilmot…
‘Write it when I’m gone’: Sorry, Rod, the Slifer book couldn’t wait for you to be done skiing
Rod Slifer, 88, ripping down Lost Boy in Vail’s Game Creek Bowl with Mount of the Holy Cross on the horizon on March 19, 2023 (David O. Williams photo). Some…
Backcountry skiing: Learning from tragedy by being prepared, getting more training
On Tuesday, Dec. 27, my wife and I and two of our three sons took an all-day avy prep course with Apex Mountain School in EagleVail. It was a morning of…
Aspen Skiing’s Schendler calls for corporate ‘courage, big balls’ in combating climate change
Auden Schendler speaks well and writes well and has never been shy about expressing his opinions, at least as regards the imperative of responding to the threat of climate change.…
Warren Miller film SKI BUM explores family, fatherhood, loss and skiing away from pain
I sometimes feel like the Forrest Gump of the ski world, and it started with meeting legendary ski filmmaker Warren Miller when I first moved to Vail in the early…
Winding down one of the strangest ski seasons ever in Vail, eyeing other forms of outdoor recreation
This would have been, should have been, closing weekend of a fairly decent 2019-20 ski season at Vail. Unfortunately, lift-served skiing has been done for more than a month since…
Warm storms aren’t great for sustaining skiing, snowpack or cloud seeding
March used to be a heart-of-winter kind of a month in Colorado’s high country, with colder temperatures and tons of fluffy, highly skiable snow throughout the month. Sure, the sun…
Japan ski travel a distant memory as Hokkaido declares state of emergency
Is it ironic or just fortuitous that the same week I wrote a ski-travel story for the Vail Daily featuring my December trip to Rusutsu on the northern island of…