Vail gone wild

By Krista Driscoll

Long before Vail’s event calendar was colored in full by professionally organized events, it was the amateurs who had their way with planning and living out their own kind of fun, by the locals, for the locals — and anyone else who dared to join in.In the ’70s, ’80s and into the ’90s, Vail was filled with free-spirited young characters sharing a like-mindedness for skiing and keeping spirits high. It was these bohemians who organized a laundry list of unorthodox events, some which grew to national fame and others that are looked back upon as simply great gatherings of the …

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