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Vail pushes back closing day until Sunday, April 17

Vail pushes back closing day until Sunday, April 17

Vail Resorts on Tuesday announced it will extend closing day at Vail Mountain until Sunday, April 17. With fresh snow falling hard on Tuesday evening and plenty of new snow…

Shiffrin again crushes competition in World Cup finals slalom

Shiffrin again crushes competition in World Cup finals slalom

Eagle-Vail’s Mikaela Shiffrin, who turned 21 on Sunday, has not lost a slalom race on the World Cup circuit in more than a year, claiming her fifth consecutive slalom on…

Vail Resorts sees big jump in skier days compared to last season

Vail Resorts sees big jump in skier days compared to last season

Vail Resorts saw a year-over-year 12.5-percent jump in skier days for the quarter ending Jan. 31, according to a recent earnings release by the company that owns and operates Vail,…

Spring skiing at Vail, Beaver Creek looking great as weather pattern shifts

Spring skiing at Vail, Beaver Creek looking great as weather pattern shifts

If you’re like me — a total and complete “powder snob” — you haven’t been alpine skiing much since the first week of February, a month that broke the global…

Vail Valley basks in new snow, Shaun White title, return of Mikaela Shiffrin

Vail Valley basks in new snow, Shaun White title, return of Mikaela Shiffrin

All is right in the Vail Valley on Monday morning, March 7. It’s finally snowing again after the powder gods took a month off and gave way to the gods…

DockDogs and Rocky Dog trail run create canine character at GoPro Mountain Games

DockDogs and Rocky Dog trail run create canine character at GoPro Mountain Games

Does your dog have the right stuff? What about you? Let’s be honest, is your dog a better athlete than you? Probably. But the real question is, can you at…

Shiffrin dominates in Slovakia, winning World Cup by more than two seconds

Shiffrin dominates in Slovakia, winning World Cup by more than two seconds

Eagle-Vail’s Mikaela Shiffrin absolutely crushed the competition Sunday in Jasna, Slovakia, winning her 18th career World Cup slalom and the 19th race of her career. Shiffrin’s winning time was 2.36…

Injured Vonn calls it quits despite leading overall World Cup chase

Injured Vonn calls it quits despite leading overall World Cup chase

Vail’s Lindsey Vonn announced on Instagram Wednesday that she is done ski racing for the season, calling it quits after a knee injury last weekend that had fans of her…

Vonn shakes off knee injury to take 13th in combined as Shiffrin winds up 8th

Vonn shakes off knee injury to take 13th in combined as Shiffrin winds up 8th

Vail’s Lindsey Vonn rebounded from a hairline fracture in her left knee that she sustained in a crash Saturday to finish 13th in a combined event on Sunday in Soldeu-El…

Vonn injured in Andora super-G as Shiffrin picks up rare speed-event points

Vonn injured in Andora super-G as Shiffrin picks up rare speed-event points

Vail’s Lindsey Vonn crashed near the bottom of a World Cup super-G course in Soldeu-El Tarter, Andora on Saturday, leaving the mountain on a sled for further medical evaluation. Tough,…