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Aspen Journalism, Vail Daily team up to keep spotlight on water at Eagle River Village
I want to express my sincere thanks to the nonprofit Aspen Journalism and the for-profit Vail Daily for collaborating and funding my ongoing reporting on water-quality issues at the Eagle…
Ski with love this snowy season in Vail, and be careful clearing snow, driving and going O.B.
What an incredible snow event this weekend in the Vail Valley. Three feet have fallen since last Monday at Beaver Creek, and Vail has seen nearly 4 feet (44 inches…
Painful memories of Kobe Bryant linger in Vail Valley
Kobe Bryant, who died way too soon Sunday with his daughter Gianna and seven others in a horrific helicopter crash in Los Angeles, will be remembered very differently in the…
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…
Tokyo for the holidays: An exercise in stamina, sushi and mental acuity
Forget taking Prevagen or doing Lumosity or any of those other brain-enhancing gimmicks. If you want to stay nimble in your thought processes late into life, here’s my formula: Grab…
After huge snow cycle, dry conditions until Christmas in Vail Valley
Well that was fun. Vail and Beaver Creek got hammered with more than 2 feet of snow Friday through Sunday, and I got out all three days. Vail was the…
Olympics, World Cup races in China could lead to NBA-style blowup over Hong Kong, Xinjiang
A recent headline on an Associated Press story previewing the World Cup season that kicked off in Austria last month and continues in Finland on Saturday told us “[Mikaela] Shiffrin…
Impossible to avoid impeachment debate on Veterans Day
This Veterans Day it’s hard for me to separate the politics from the policy of war during the ongoing House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s withholding of military aid…