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A call for stories of Vail's ghosts and haunted houses
Jun 9, 2009 —
A new housing project in West Vail has raised old rumors about a haunted house which used to sit at 2657 Arosa Drive. The old A-frame home was creaky, drafty, and emanated gloom from its eye-like windows.
The Town of Vail bought the property in 1995 for employee housing, but had trouble renting the place – partly because of the condition of the house...
Was it an alien ship, a UFO, or God who evaporated Air France flight 447?
Jun 1, 2009 —
Nothing gets the imagination pumping quite like the instant disappearance of a 188-foot, 8-inch-long aircraft over the ocean in the middle of the night. Our blood rushes empathetically as we imagine what it was like for the 228 people aboard Air France flight 447, who streaked above the ocean on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when, without warning, around...
Part II: Large Hadron Collider will likely spell end to String Theory
Part I: Don't expect CERN's Large Hadron Collider to reveal new dimensions of space and time
May 1, 2009 —
Editor’s note: This story was originally posted in September 2008, but after seeing The Daily Show With Jon Stewart on April 29, 2009, and John Oliver's fantastic report on the issue, we couldn't help but re-post.
Today was perhaps the most exciting day in a more than a decade for scientists and science lovers around the world. Not since the...
Vail Mountaineer vs. Vail Daily Starbucks-gate: no wonder newspapers are dying
Apr 22, 2009 —
OK, I’ve been purposefully withholding comment because the whole episode is so damned amusing, but I finally have to weigh in on the Vail Daily vs. Vail Mountaineer Starbucks-gate scenario.
The details don’t really matter, but here’s a quick encapsulation because the Luddite Mountaineer, Vail’s nearly one-year-old addition to the local...
Report: Hasan's moderate views catch conservative confab off-guard in D.C.
Mar 5, 2009 —
No shoes were thrown, but Ali Hasan did put his foot in his mouth last week at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., baffling the arch-conservative crowd with some decidedly moderate views.
“The problem with Republicans and the conservative movement right now,” he said, according to Sarah Posner in the American...
The presidential politics of skiing: Did snow sports get the right guy?
Jan 25, 2009 —
I’ve been accused over the course of my career of letting skiing creep into everything I write. The politics of skiing. The business of skiing. The crime and punishment of skiing. Even, occasionally, the skiing of skiing.
Our old joke at the local paper was that no matter who we interviewed the last two questions were always, “What do you think of...
Happy New Year … but wait a second: scientists turn back time in 2008
Dec 9, 2008 —
It’s been a long year – but it’s about to get longer.
The economy isn’t the only thing slowing down; it seems the earth itself is screeching to a halt (albeit very, very, very slowly) and therefore the world’s timekeepers must artificially tack one second onto the end of the year to keep their atomic clocks accurate, according...
Happy trails to the valley's greatest weekly paper: The Vail Trail
Nov 30, 2008 —
So the e-mails have been pouring into RealVail.com (actually only two or three, and those were from past employees), wondering where my sense of outrage is over the shuttering of the venerable Vail Trail weekly newspaper by Colorado Mountain News Media.
As a former editor of both the Trail and its short-lived daily incarnation, the Daily Trail, I’m...
The Vail Trail: saying goodbye to an integral part of the valley's journalistic history
Nov 15, 2008 —
By Robert Kelly-Goss
When I read the obituary for The Vail Trail, Vail’s once greatest newspaper, my spirit sunk low. The newspaper, the people and the community were an integral part of my life for many years.
In 1997, when I strolled into the Vail Valley after selling my community newspaper in Arkansas, I took on the role as...
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