Local legend Packy Walker is retiring from the Lifthouse

By Randy Wyrick

VAIL — Packy Walker … say it out loud and try not to grin. You can’t, nor should you.Packy Walker, long considered the Clown Prince of Vail, is retiring as general manager of the Lifthouse Lodge in Lionshead.He isn’t leaving town. Instead, all that retirement time will give him a chance to think up more things Packy-esque.“Given enough years to think about those things, anyone can do anything. You’re bound to stumble across something that works,” he said.When the ski season is done, so is he.Thanks for the memoriesHe went to work in the Vail hotel business in the mid-1960s, …

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