You've connected to a specialized site based in the Vail Valley.  If you're headed up here snow sliding this season, start with our Vail Mountain Insider page. 

There's extensive ski area information in the winter months including a daily snow report , slope grooming, "What's Open Today",  equipment suggestions, some ski tips, a skier's exercise program, and how to obtain private lesson ski instruction in Vail for either advanced or lower level skiers. 

You can select from a compilation of skiing videos of friends and ski clients. 

Check out the update on changes to the mountain for the 2007/09 ski seasons and find detailed restaurant reviews. 

Of general interest is our Best of Vail ranking of restaurants, mountain dining, night life, ski shops, and favorite ski runs.  For summer activities preview some trail hikes.

Read about Vail Lifetime Ski Passes that were made available to founding members of the Vail Mountain Club.

Considering a trip to a different ski area?

Here's a review of a 2001 trip to our sister city of St. Moritz.

In 2002 we visited Whistler.  That was followed by a 2003 vacation to Taos.

Europe and Grindelwald, Switzerland was the ticket for 2004 repeated in 2007 by a return to Europe and to Lech, Austria.

We stayed in the states in 2005 doing the "Colorado  5 in 5", and then traveled to Montana and Wyoming in 2008

In January, 2009, we were off to Snowbird, Solitude, and Deer Valley in Utah.

Want a change of pace - and climate?  Take a look at this Arizona townhome.

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Many details related to our favorite activity of fly fishing are available including a daily log that's updated twelve months a year.

We hope you'll respect the mountain environment, and please practice catch and release on these streams - particularly since many trout populations are in decline because of whirling disease.

A rating of local outfitters is also available.

Planning on fishing the Eagle River? View our newly created Google map guide or the original access page and hatch chart for this popular local stream. 

A weekly statewide fishing report is provided during the summer months, and you can get an up to the minute forecast of weather conditions.  

Traveling through the area you might enjoy trying some of these personal favorite and mildly offbeat dining spots.  Check flow rates on all Colorado streams on a real time basis. 

Visit a page of successful local fly patterns, and if you need a simple streamcraft reminder on how to approach local Colorado waters, do a quick review of the Ten Commandments+.