Ski Travel

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Vail: The Best Made Simple

Vail's excellent Ski School is world class - but so is every other aspect of the resort. Courtesy of: Jack Affleck/Vail Resorts

Because I write about travel – especially ski travel – for a living, people constantly ask me for vacation advice…. Read more »

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America’s Own Mt. Olympus

No, it is not rush hour in Steamboat, but rather the town's funky Winter Carnival parade, where locals will make floats - or in this case stagecoaches - out of almost anything, including an old ski resort gondola.

Are Olympians born or made? In Steamboat Springs, Colorado, the answer is both. The world’s attention may be riveted on… Read more »

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Steep, Deep and Cheap

The main high-speed chair at Crested Butte serves everything from groomed blue cruisers to the menacing double-black chutes off the right of the mountain peak.

I experience the closest thing to heli-skiing I have ever seen within a ski resort – over 2000 vertical feet of deep unbroken powder