It can be easy to plan a long-distance family vacation to a destination like Vail or Beaver Creek without all the right advice and information, especially for first time ski parents. It makes going to Florida – with its short sleeves, sandals, mickey hats, and sunscreen, look like a breeze. Taking the same vacation to a ski destination in Colorado can be comparatively called the gale-force wind. Its cold, its elevated, its strenuous, and we try to isolate the kids in ski school (“but mom! this is is supposed to be VACATION!!”) Inexperienced adults can generally make it on their own, picking up an extra pair of glove liners, socks, or Hot Chillys to stay comfortable and make the bathroom break a little less arduous. Kids don’t have that flexibility- even the flexibility to stop and use it while in ski camp. This makes it even more important to cover all your kids’ bases even over your own before they set foot on the snow. Even better, save a few bucks by gathering the gear and the plans before you get in the car or on the plane. (more…)

With this many wines, its no wonder that Avon Liquors always gets it right! There are all varietals, countries, and price ranges, and as I learned candidly from one particular customer, some rare finds.
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Up here in Vail we are currently experiencing snow, snow snow!!! It has been snowing since yesterday, and the snow coming down right now is thick and fast, in clumps- some as big as quarters! We anticipate snow for the next two days as well and possibly longer. Its already so thick and heavy that its falling off the trees and creating drifts as deep as several feet. Aside from the low visibility, these are the best conditions that the season has seen yet, and they’re only improving by the minute. We’ll be enjoying this snow for the rest of the season as a good solid base for all surrounding ski resorts.

Vail could not have chosen a more appropriate weekend for its Snow Daze celebration, which kicked off last night with Ziggy Marley. Tonight’s show at the Dobson Arena is Social Distortion, and tomorrow the Roots and Ludacris will headline at the Ford Ampitheatre for an outdoor performance (brr!) Snow daze is taking place on the snowiest days yet!

Be sure to check our calendar for other fun things to do in Vail and the rest of the Valley and surrounding areas.

To commemorate this the Vail Valley Blog has created a Weather Page to keep you informed on the most up-to-date weather scenarios of the Vail valley. Be sure to check out our Snow Conditions page too!

Its reasons like last night’s Cracker concert that make me glad to live in the vicinity of such a worldly resort as Beaver Creek. Locals like me wouldn’t normally venture up to Beaver Creek, except maybe to show off to relatives and friends who have come to visit. For the most part, all but the slopes of Beaver Creek is out of reach, except on nights like that of the 2013 bid party, when the resort opens up to vacationers there to check out the World Cup Birds of Prey races and also locals like myself. (more…)