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April 7, 2008 — Editor's Note: Navigate to the end of this story to view the Spring Back to Vail complete schedule of events
End-of-the-season parties are as much a part of spring skiing as corn snow and sunscreen. In early days, the on-mountain parties were impromptu, grassroots style, and only locals and hard-core skiers would stick around for these sunny, lazy, April days.
Things have changed. The event that started as Revolution Spring, with a $5,000 budget and a fledgling company called Red Bull, has now morphed into Spring Back to Vail - currently budgeted for $750,000 and sponsored by companies such as Pepsi, Coors Light, Burton Snowboards, Volvo and Bacardi, to name a few. Former acts brought to town include Snoop Dogg, Kid Rock, and Counting Crows.
This year features Gov’t Mule and Ben Harper, plus Kottonmouth Kings, the Pond Skimming Championship, and too many bar parties and smaller concerts to count (see schedule in break-out box).
What used to be a time to relax and let the season wind down has become a time to crank up the volume and go out with a bang.
The same is true for the beginning of the season. Vail used to open with a “ramp-up” approach, attracting more and more skiers as the calendar approached Christmas.
Now the season opens with World Cup skiing and Snow Daze, a concert and event series which brings in similar big-name acts, and has a similar operating budget.
Increased budgets indicate that Vail Resorts officials see that the program is an effective way to bring people to town. Other ski areas seem to have noticed. Breckenridge hosts the Spring Massive each year, Copper Mountain offers the Sunsation concert series, and Whistler/Blackcomb offers the TELUS World Ski and Snowboard Festival.
The event also comes hand-in-hand with a lodging deal (for more on that, click here).
See a video preview of Spring Back to Vail by clicking here.
Schedule of Events
Monday, April 7
All Day: DJ Peter Blick at Vista Bahn
3-5:00 p.m. Bacardi/Cazadores Party at Los Amigos
8-10:00 p.m. Coors Light Party The Club
9-11:00 p.m. Bacardi Party Red Lion
10-12:00am Coors Light Party Ski Bar
Wednesday, April 9
All Day: Spring Demo Days & Expo Village with DJ Weezle Golden Peak
3:00-5:00 p.m. Coors Light Party at The George
3-6:00 p.m. Bacardi Party at Red Lion
6-10:00 p.m. Bacardi Pub Crawl at Vail Village
10 p.m. Vail P.M. & Bacardi Party with Pretty Lights at Samana
Thursday, April 10
12:00-2:00 p.m. DJ on the Deck at Mid-Vail
All Day: Spring Demo Days & Expo Village with DJ Psychonaut at Golden Peak
9-3:00 p.m. Malay Day at Golden Peak
3-5:00 p.m. Bacardi/Cazadores Party at Tap Room
7-10:00 p.m. Gov't Mule Live in Concert with Little Hercules at Dobson Arena
10 p.m. Little Hercules at Samana with Bacardi
10:00 p.m. Coors Light Party at Garfinkels
Friday, April 11
12:00-2:00 p.m. DJ on the Deck at Mid-Vail
All Day: Spring Demo Days & Expo Village with DJ Psychonaut at Golden Peak
3-5:00 p.m. Bacardi/Cazadores Party at Los Amigos
7:00-10:00 p.m. Kottonmouth Kings Live in Concert at Dobson Arena
10:00 p.m. DJ's Wolf and Lamb at Samana with Bacardi
Saturday, April 12
12:00-2:00 p.m. DJ on the Deck at Mid-Vail
All Day: Spring Demo Days & Expo Village with DJ Psychonaut at Golden Peak
2:00-4:00 p.m. Bacardi World Pond Skimming Championships at Golden Peak
4:00-10:00 p.m. Warren Miller Movie Screening at Ford Park
Saturday evening: Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals Live in Concert with Bedouin Sound Clash at Ford Park
10 p.m. Official Post Party with Coors Light & Bacardi at The George
Sunday, April 13
All Day: Ski & Ride Vail Mountain for closing day!
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