Affordable housing in Eagle County has been a challenge ever since the first lift opened in 1962. Back then, there the answer was a trailer park about where Potato Patch Club sits. I do recall one story about a guy in a Volkswagen van who lived in the parking lot where the village structure sits now who found his van too small and excavated a snow cave in a snow bank next to his van and expanded his living room quite handily. Rumor has it that was a bit of a tourist attraction back in the day. But just like …
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