Mar 13, 2010 — For two solid weeks, you were practically attached to your television.

You couldn’t get enough of the winter Olympics – snowboarding, speed skating, figure skating, bobsledding, luge…

And the skiing! Those athletes made it look easier than you know it is, with their jumps and mid-air twists, leaps...

Read more The Bookworm Sez...

Mar 12, 2010 — A potentially good-looking storm pattern left most Colorado resorts craving more. Another bust.

Very light totals were recorded in the last 72 hours as Copper Mountain, Winter Park and Monarch all made out with around 10 inches. Vail and Beaver Creek rang in a measly 3 inches total, and with high pressure ridging in...

Read more The Powder Predictor...

Mar 12, 2010 — GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany - Vail's Lindsey Vonn did it again. The Olympic downhill champion locked in yet another accolade this season as she clinched her third straight Audi FIS World Cup Overall title with a stunning super G victory Friday.

Vonn's title came just an hour before her U.S. Ski Team teammate Ted...

Read more U.S. Ski Team Update...

Mar 9, 2010 — It was a fairly impressive crowd gathered at the C Restaurant in Vancouver for the celebration of Lindsey Vonn’s Olympic performance. Inside Edition, NBC, the Denver Post, and of course the hip-and-internet-savvy realvail.com were there with media from around the world,...

Read more Boyd's Blog...

Mar 6, 2010 — Lindsey Vonn doesn’t even have to race to win.

Vonn Friday unofficially clinched the super combined crystal globe awarded for World Cup season discipline titles when a super-combi race in Crans Montana, Switzerland, was called off due to high winds.

Vonn had already clinched the super-G title before last...

Read more The O. Report...

Jan 28, 2010 — Buyers and sellers are always asking "How far is the market down?" and "Have we seen the bottom?" Sorry to say folks, but I have to say no. I do have specific statistics on the decline that I would like to share.

I have always used the Sunridge Phase 1 and 2 complexes to gauge the lower end of the Vail...

Read more Vail Real Estate...

Sep 21, 2009 — As the evenings cool down, and the mornings don’t quite warm up as much, we are watching Vail turn its head towards its most famous season, winter.

The slowly fading summer brings with it the excitement of gatherings such as Oktoberfest and the Gourmet Gore and natural events like the turning colors of the aspen...

Read more Vail Fashion...

Jul 25, 2009 — The monstrous climb up Mont Ventoux in Saturday’s dramatic finale didn’t have the impact on the GC that race organizers were hoping for.

Spanish climbing specialist Juan Manuel Garate won ahead of Tony Martin out of a breakaway but there wasn’t the shakeup in the overall standings as some pundits...

Read more Letters From Spain...

Jun 23, 2009 — Summer has finally arrived after a wet and cold spring, and golf courses around the Vail Valley are green and lush.

Summer golf season is pushing full steam ahead and nothing gets golfers excited like a golf club demo day. Well, golfers, you're in luck.

Sonnenalp Golf Club will be holding its annual demo days on...

Read more Fairways and Greens...

Jun 22, 2009 — The Vail Lacrosse Shootout returns for its 37th edition in 2009, running from Saturday, June 27 – Sunday, July 5. As the premiere club tournament in the United States, Vail is home to some of the very best lacrosse in the world and will play host to over 60 men's teams and 30 women's teams in what has become a...

Read more Vail Lacrosse...

May 28, 2009 — The build out of the climbing wall at the Teva Mountain Games continues. The weather has improved and crews have begun to unload the wall and construct it at Mountain Plaza, near...

Read more The Vail Valley Foundation Voice...

Mar 31, 2009 — You know it has not been a good week when the happiest moment of the work week is when you realize at 3 p.m. you never ate your Fudgsicle from lunch.

At approximately 2:59 pm MDT, Thursday, March 26, while sitting at my desk, pondering the often-asked question of myself, "Am I too old to still be sporting a belly ring?"...

Read more Ski Beaver...

Mar 26, 2009 — “He stole my balloons!”

-The Joker, after Batman steals his balloons. (Batman, 1989)

Batman, please come to Vail! We have a balloon problem. Or at least we appear to, ever since a new business in Vail recently dared fly balloons to celebrate its grand opening.

The owner, ignorant of...

Read more Heart Transplant...

Mar 18, 2009 — The J5 Finale at Powderhorn ski area in far western Colorado last weekend brought more than 130 young athletes ages 8 through 10 from all over the Rocky Mountain division together for a championship event in Giant Slalom and Slalom.

Ski and Snowboard Club Vail's J5 assistant coach Barclay Rabin commented, “The...

Read more The Ski Club...

Mar 5, 2009 — It’s still a little early to be making summer vacation plans, but with all the recent warm weather it’s hard not to look ahead a little.

Such was the case this past Monday when I had the chance to meet the brain trust behind the 2009 Teva Mountain Games during a small press event at the Spot Bouldering Gym...

Read more The Front Ranger...

Dec 24, 2008 — There are incessant innuendoes regarding man’s relationship to sheep, none of which escaped our notice on a stormy fall day in 1963, when a group of Vail’s “finest” ski patrolmen became involved in helping a band of sheep from certain death.

The sheep had been caught by a series of late fall...

Read more The Understories...

Dec 11, 2008 — Editor’s Note: Read Part I and II of this travelogue entry here.

PART III
My primary companions for the entire trek were a father and son from Perth, Australia named Ron (dad) and Matt...

Read more Mental Malaria...

Oct 16, 2008 — The seasons are changing and the snow is starting to bless us. The temperatures are falling and snowmaking is in full gear. A-Basin and Loveland have even put enough snow down to open.

I’m on the road now with this year’s Warren Miller Film, “Children of Winter” (

Read more Chris Anthony's Corner...

Sep 20, 2008 — I got to see Barack Obama in Grand Junction Monday, Sept. 15. Cudos to the organizers, while the lines were ridiculously long everything went smoothly and we all got in in time for his speech. It was exciting to watch and I was pleased to see many young people and parents with their children there. The crowd was very...

Read more Eagle County Democrats News...

Jun 24, 2008 — There is a saying that "all real estate is local.” That has never been truer than now, however, it does not mean that the Eagle County (or any other part of the country) is immune to the effects of nation-wide consumer confidence, credit markets, oil prices or foreclosures.

At first blush our market appears to be...

Read more On The Home Front...

Mar 9, 2008 — I’m not a skier, but as I read "Boyd's Blog" the other day about the avalanche deaths in East Vail, one thing really stuck out. It was Louie Boyd’s saying about how,...

Read more Vail On Ice...

Mar 8, 2008 — Ahhhhh, fresh snow. It makes a man do crazy things: ditch friends, leave his wife and kids at home, sit down at a computer and begin typing.
With many apologies to the real writers here at RealVail, this is seriously the first time I have sat down and typed anything substantial since I graduated college (CU,...

Read more Center of the Universe...

Mar 7, 2008 — It’s taken a long while (like nearly three weeks), but I finally feel ready to weigh in on the new and improved Lionshead, specifically the $250 million Arrabellagio (aka Arrabelle at Vail Square).

For the most part I feel conflicted and confused. Do I like how it looks? Not on your life (I...

Read more Jill's Thrills...