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Kids, climate and great skiing from Telluride to Vail to Park City
This past week has seen as steady onslaught of small snow events that continue to pad the snowpack at Vail and Beaver Creek as we enter the last week of…
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…
Rusutsu really is epic, both as a powder magnet and tree-skiing Mecca
Having viewed my share of Japanese ski-porn films in recent years, I had a couple of preconceived notions about skiing there. First, it’s almost impossible to get shut out on…
The bare truth in Vail: Naked skiing, ice bears getting jiggy wit it
I love nudity and skiing, although I’ve only ridden snow partially clothed a couple of times – and I’m pretty sure it was either getting dark or by accident after…
As winter returns, Vail remembers a true legend of snow sports: Jake Burton
It’s fitting that winter returned to the Vail Valley on the day news broke that snowboarding giant Jake Burton, who called Vail his home away from his primary home of…
Protect Our Winters, CampSight and late-season powder skiing at Vail
I spent a glorious morning Thursday surfing deep powder on Vail Mountain with the executive director of Protect Our Winters – a great guy I’d never met before who’s originally…
To Bozeman and back via Utah: tips on skiing, sushi, Sundance and more
Based on my Facebook feed, a lot of Vail Valley residents are done with ski season, hitting beaches around the globe during last week’s Eagle County School spring break. Not…
Unlike Ted Bundy, Zac Efron isn’t faking his knee injury sustained while skiing
There’s a weird symmetry to the fact that actor Zac Efron is now recovering from a knee injury sustained while skiing, because that was exactly the M.O. of infamous ski-town…
Holiday guests, celebs can bank on plenty of snow this season at Vail, Beaver Creek
My Christmas wishes have already been granted (see photo above) in the form of a very good early season of snowfall so far at Vail and Beaver Creek, and it…
50 years later, first U.S. men’s alpine medals still reverberate in American skiing lore
To say there was a little pressure on the American men heading into the final alpine event of the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, is to engage in a…