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How to Ski Powder — 15 Tips for Learning in 24 Hours

Tim Ferris has a post on his blog based on his experiences with the guys at PowderQuest based on his lessons and experimentations skiing powder. If you don’t know, Tim is an extreme experimenter and will tweak (his workweek and body included) until he reaches optimal conclusions. There’s some great tips here for the new […]

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Aside Travel

CDOT Courtesy Patrol begins on I-70

From the GoI-70 Blog: The Courtesy Patrol program begins on Friday, November 25. Drivers of passenger and other smaller vehicles are provided free roadside assistance for services such as flat tires, fuel or water transfer, jump starts, short-distance towing, accident scene protection and minor mechanical assistance. Three pickups and a tow truck patrol I-70 between […]

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Beaver Creek Cooper Crested Butte Purgatory at Durango Steamboat Telluride

THANKSGIVING OPENINGS: Beaver Creek, Steamboat, Cr…

THANKSGIVING OPENINGS: Beaver Creek, Steamboat, Crested Butte (Weds, 11/23), Telluride (Thurs, 11/24), Purgatory (11/25)

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iShred: the Apple-inspired iPad snowboard

This is too cool not to watch: it’s a snowboard built with an iPad in the base and a glowing logo on the bottom just like a MacBook. Special appearance by Loveland. Kudos to Every Third Thursday and hat tip to Dave Morin.

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Keystone Photography Ski Log

Keystone (2011-11-20)

It was a fun day up in Summit County. It’s early season so there’s no traffic, Dillon seems still quieter than usual and the lifties won’t let you on until 9 AM. We used our first day as a dry run to work out all the kinks: adding the ski rack on the roof, making […]

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How to connect EpicMix to your online Facebook and Twitter profiles

Another quick post over at buzz on how to connect your social media profiles like Facebook and Twitter to Vail Resorts’ EpicMix social network.

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Aspen/Snowmass Beaver Creek Buttermilk Steamboat Travel Vail

10 best ski resorts for families includes Colorado gems

Forbes has put together a great photo gallery describing some of the best resorts for families. Of course, Colorado dominates the list with five well known spots: Beaver Creek: escalators, kids teaching area, and most importantly warm cookies Crested Butte: single base area means less lost kids, reasonably priced Aspen/Snowmass: no greens but Buttermilk is […]

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Photography Vail

Sunset over Chair 26 on Vail’s “Opening Day Eve”

Found on Vail Mountain’s Facebook Wall.