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15 Apr 2009

Vail Valley Foundation

posted by Rex Manz on 15 April 2009

The Vail Valley Foundation was created in 1981 for the purpose of benefiting the community through the organization of cultural, artistic, educational, historic and athletic performances, events and attractions.  The VVF is a non-profit which raises and distributes funds for these charitable purposes.
VVF’s annual signature events include the AEI World Forum, the Vail International Dance Festival, the [...]

17 Jan 2009

Vail Going Green

posted by Rex Manz on 17 January 2009

A community-wide process named Vail 20/20 identified the environment as among the citizens’ top priorities.  The Town of Vail has begun to respond in designing a program to reduce solid waste by 20% in 10-years and create a green building code in the spirit of the national Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.
Vail [...]

05 Nov 2008

Vail - King Of The Hill

posted by Rex Manz on 05 November 2008

Unlike many of Colorado’s ski towns, Vail did not begin as an 1880’s brawling mining town.  Charlie Vail, a Colorado state highway engineer, oversaw the construction of Hwy 6 over the Continental Divide in 1940.  The highway was named Vail Pass in his honor. When World War ll ski paratrooper Pete Seibert and local rancher [...]

28 Oct 2008

So Many Colorado Ski Resorts So Little Time

posted by Rex Manz on 28 October 2008

If you are visiting this blog, chances are that you have visited at least one of the eleven major Colorado ski resorts.  Very few people get around to visit all of them.  I have as part of my business.  Not only have I visited them all in the winter, but in the summer and fall as [...]

26 Sep 2008

Eagle County Regional Airport

posted by Rex Manz on 26 September 2008

The Eagle County Regional Airport, serving the Vail and Beaver Creek ski resorts, began a project to lengthen its sole-runway by 1,000 feet in 2006.  It was scheduled for completion this summer, but high fuel and concrete costs have delayed the project until probably next summer.  The project was undertaken to allow fully-loaded commercial aircraft [...]

18 Sep 2008

Ski Magazine 2008 Readers’ Poll

posted by Rex Manz on 18 September 2008

Nine-thousand Ski Magazine subscribers responded to the 2008 annual survey ranking ski resorts.  The following Colorado ski resorts were among the Top Ten ski resorts in Western North America:

#2 - Vail
#4 - Aspen
#5 - Snowmass
#7 - Breckenridge
#9 - Steamboat Springs

This is a great showing for our Colorado ski resorts.  Nice work!
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