By Randy Wyrick This weekend you can be among the most athletic zombies and survivors in the world — in this world and the next. The Zombie Apocalypse Run is Saturday in Eagle-Vail, and the Minturn Monster Dash is Sunday. Zombie Apocalypse Run, Eagle-Vail The Zombie Apocalypse Run works like this. Survivors run a two-mile […]
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By Edward Stoner You know the saying, “One step up and two steps back” right? And sometimes it may even be, “One step up and three or four steps back.” Many of us have endeavored to improve our life in some capacity, you too may have experienced this forward then backward type of result. People […]
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By caramie schnell Sometimes being a super-fashionista surrounded by Rocky Mountains and the occasional ZZ Top-esque posse stocking up on hunting gear can put a damper on your fall retail therapy strategy. But, it’s not hard to uncover the shopping tricks-of-the-trades and hidden gems available here in the Vail Valley. To really succeed as a
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By Chris Freud So if we’ve got this straight, Eagle Valley football beat Delta, 19-7, on Friday, and its ranking in the wild-card points didn’t move? The Devils were 11th overall going into last week’s game and are 11th after beating a team that went to the state semifinals last year. That makes sense. Discovery […]
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By Chris Freud EDWARDS — Never has a Battle Mountain boys soccer team been so happy to receive a No. 20 seed in the playoffs. As it turned out, Seeding Sunday wasn’t a suspenseful matter. The Huskies were in easily. “Pleasant surprise,” said Huskies coach David Cope, whose team has had its share of misfortune […]
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By Chris Freud EAST VAIL — Vail Mountain School soccer will take the field on Friday for a first-round state playoff game against Vanguard Charter and will not be wearing orange. Since the last time VMS soccer hosted a playoff game — boys or girls — CHSAA has instituted a new rule — the home […]
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By Melanie Wong It’s the curse of alpine addicts the world over: New gear is expensive — ridiculously expensive. And that’s not just colloquial wisdom. Let the numbers do the talking: During the 2013-14 season, the trade group Snowsports Industries America reported skiers and boarders spent roughly $2.8 billion on hard and soft goods.
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By Randy Wyrick EAGLE — This is about a bag full of blunders. About 2:20 p.m., last Tuesday, a Bonfire Brewery employee we’ll call Bonfire Boy left the Bonfire Brewery warehouse on Chambers Avenue in Eagle and headed toward the bank, which works out well because he was hauling a bank bag. That bank bag […]
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By Edward Stoner VAIL — The Vail Golf Club will close Sunday for the season to allow golf maintenance crews to prepare the course for winter and ready the greens, fairways and tee boxes for next season. The Vail Coal Bucket Classic will return in November, weather permitting. Once the Vail Golf Club closes the […]
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By caramie schnell Hard cider— the drink of choice when our forefathers were facing off with the Brits — is experiencing a rise in popularity in today’s market and, unlike powdered wigs, it’s a welcome return. Hard cider is rapidly gaining popularity in the United States, though other countries including France and Spain have been [
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