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October 22, 2007 — Baseball coverage has never been better for skiing.
Here in Boston all the news all day has been about the Boston Red Sox's victory last night in the ALCS, which puts them in the World Series against the Rockeis. And whenever the Rockies are mentioned, Colorado's recent snowstorm has been mentioned.
From the Boston Herald to the local Fox Affiliate, and even on to ESPN and Fox Sports, image after image of a snow-covered Coors Field has been proliferated around Bean Town today.
So what does that mean?
It's only a prediction, but I'm betting that quite a few New Englanders will be heading out to Colorado this winter rather than up to Vermont or New Hampshire. And once they've skied our fluffy powder, they'll never want to go back.
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ROCKS VS SOCKS!
ROCKS VS SOCKS!
October 22, 2007 — BOSTON - My live coverage from Boston continues with mayhem in the streets as a massive miasma of Nation fans spills out onto the streets outside of Fenway Park, where the Rockies will strut onto the national stage Wednesday night to face the Sox in the World Series.
All my photos are blurry and dark but for the shot of the Sox shirt you see at right, but let these words paint the picture for you: After winning the American League and advancing to the World Series, Boston is in absolute hysterics. Cops in riot gear are everywhere outside Fenway, but no bad news yet from the midst of the chaos.
Make no mistake, this is a Vail website with Vail roots, and outdoor non-ball sports are usually our game. But when Rockies fever hits, it hits hard and it has swept us up faster than the Rox swept away the Diamondbacks and Phillies. RealVail is happy to report from Boston tonight (Sunday, Oct. 21) that our city is continuing to get high praise from Sox fans, Sox players, and the national media (which long ignored us, to its detriment.) Boston is now bracing for major disruptions, and its strategy to repel a dangerous riot akin to the one that met the 2004 ALCS victory is to pepper the streets with cops in helmets and bullet-proof vests, showing more force than (we hope) would ever be necessary in peaceful D-town.
And don’t forget the Broncos – Jason Elam hit his third game-winning field goal of the year to help the Donks recover from a humiliating loss to San Diego at home two weeks ago. Rockies magic is everywhere – here, there, and certainly at Mile High, where the Rockies played their first-ever game in 1993.
Local Boston newscasters have referred several times to the “Red Hot Rockies,” and to the fact that we took 2 of 3 games from them in Fenway during the regular season. Snow seems to be their main concern, as Boston fans are getting a heavy, heavy dose of what our weather conditions are like – my prediction: more than a few Sox fans will decide to book their winter vacation in Vail this year after seeing shots of our recent snowfall on TV.
I’m hoping for a Rockies W.S. victory in Game 5 – that way the Rockies can beat the Sox just as the Broncos beat Green Bay on Monday Night Football. It’s time the nation knows just how good we are out in the Rocky Mountain West, not just in Denver, but in Vail, Aspen, Summit County, and all over the Rockies from Montana down to New Mexico, from Utah to Kansas, we may not have a 100-year-old tradition, but we’re building one and it feels fantastic! Go Broncs! Go Rocks!
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ROCKS VS SOCKS!"
By Tom Boyd
Representing the Rockies
October 20, 2007 — Live from Boston, I’m here tonight near Fenway (not IN Fenway, unfortunately), making sure Bean Towners know that not only are the Rockies for real, but so are their fans.
I’ve already talked to many people who have been to Vail and are, we hope, planning to visit us again this winter.
I have to say that, having been here a few times this year, and having talked it up with all kinds of different fans here, that the Boston crowd is very cool about the Rockies, very supportive, not dismissive at all about our novel nature, and most are fired up about baseball finding a new, loyal home in the mountains.
I'm pulling for a Sox win in Game 7 because I've met good people here, and because I think a Rockies v Sox series is far more intriguing than a Rockies v Inidans series.
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By Tom Boyd
Snow update
October 18, 2007 — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – yet it’s only October here in Vail.
Overnight snow left us with the first real blanket of the white stuff this season, and more is on the way. WeatherReports.com is predicting more snow through today (Thursday), and a second, larger storm to leave snow Saturday night and Sunday. For a look at the 5-day forecast, click on the icon underneath the snow report on the left of this page.
The realvail snow report won’t deliver snow information for the respective ski resorts until after each resort has opened, but I can report that Vail got the best of the storm which, as I write, is still making its way through the Valley. Summit county was relatively clear Wednesday evening, Copper Mountain was getting the edge of the storm, and Vail was (and is) getting a full delivery of big fluffy flakes – not the wet, cakey stuff we’ve seen previously this season.
The higher elevations are getting even more snow, as heavy, consistent snow has been falling there since yesterday afternoon. We haven’t seen the peaks for quite a while now, but when we do they will come away frosty white.
The WeatherReports.com forecast calls for partly cloudy weather to prevail Friday, but the weekend ought to bring more precipitation in all its many forms. All this spells good news for Vail and Beaver Creek’s snowmaking crews, who can use low temperatures and a little help from Mother Nature to create a great base for opening day.
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