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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…
Stunning new venue Chasing Rabbits looks to fill entertainment void in Vail
Touring Vail’s newest entertainment venue Chasing Rabbits at Solaris Vail last week, I think I was doing exactly what the name of the place wants you to do: I was…
Please don’t donate to RealVail.com, but do give, if you can, to these other worthy websites, journalists
This is the rare entreaty from a journalist this time of year not asking for financial contributions to continue my reporting. Instead, I’m asking loyal RealVail.com readers to give to other media…
World Cup weirdness is a way of life this time of year on Beaver Creek’s famed Birds of Prey course
Apparently there’s a World Cup going on somewhere else on the planet the first week of December, which is weird because the vast majority of Earth’s now more than 8…
As Ogden pulls plug on endorsements in our local papers, RealVail.com fills the Nov. 8 voting void
I don’t remember when the Vail Daily first started endorsing political candidates. I know they weren’t doing it when I started there as sports editor in June of 1991. In…
Ogden steps in it again with political search disparity on Colorado ski-town newspaper websites
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with a comment from Vail Daily Publisher Mark Wurzer, who says the problem with the search function has been fixed as of 4:40…
Shame on Senate GOP for blocking CORE Act, forcing Biden’s Camp Hale designation
Mainstream media reporting on Wednesday’s announcement by President Joe Biden of a new Camp Hale National Monument have portrayed it as an election gift to Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet,…
Camp Hale’s darker side worth preserving, daylighting in national monument debate
The U.S. military and intelligence services have accomplished some truly momentous … and truly messed-up … things throughout our nation’s 246-year history. Take, for example, Camp Hale, at 9,200 feet…
Seeking sensible advice on how to respectfully, sustainably climb Colorado’s 14ers
When I first moved to Colorado as a teenager and started climbing 14ers in the early 80s, the population was 2.8 million. There were far fewer people on those summits…
Where has all the snow gone? Hopefully, Vail’s third La Nina in a row will deliver the goods
With only a couple of months until the 2022-23 ski season kicks off (and far less time until the snow guns crank up), it’s time to start thinking about the…