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Warren Miller: Stuck on the lift

A strange thing happened on the chairlift at the Yellowstone Club this afternoon. It stopped for an hour while my wife and I were about 43 feet above 9 feet of snow. Usually when a lift stops, you are stuck in a wind-blown part of the hill. In our ...

From WARREN MILLER VAIL, CO, COLORADO, Vail Daily,  22 Nov 2009

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Vail Valley: Winning with attitude, aptitude, servitude, and gratitude

Check out this quote by author and speaker Krish Dhanam: “Plan with attitude, prepare with aptitude, participate with servitude, receive with gratitude, and that should be enough to separate you from the multitudes.” I recently participated in an ...

From MICHAEL NORTON VAIL, CO, COLORADO, Vail Daily,  22 Nov 2009

Richard Carnes: Vail Valley lost innocence awhile ago

What kind of spin can we possibly put on a gun-toting, repeat offending, raging maniac that opens fire in a bar in an idyllic ski resort mountain community? Considering a man lost his life, I don't think we should even try. My wife and I spent a ...

From RICHARD CARNES VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  10 Nov 2009

Vail Valley Voices, Linda Stamper Boyne: Searching for The One

I recently found myself in a strange new position. Through a series of circumstances, I ended up in the situation to be interviewing and hiring someone. This was a first for me. I'd never been on the flip side of a job interview. I had this image of ...

From LINDA STAMPER BOYNE VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  8 Nov 2009

Vail Valley: You're only the underdog if you think you are

Football season is a perfect time to talk about underdogs and upsets. Every week in the NFL and college football, there are several games that some call “upsets.” Statistically speaking, I can buy in to the whole underdog and upset concept, but in ...

From MICHAEL NORTON VAIL, CO, COLORADO, Vail Daily,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: NFL,  Denver Broncos,  Dallas Cowboys,  New England Patriots,  San Diego Chargers

Richard Carnes: Sure ain't last year's elections

Wow, an entire a year since the last election. You remember, of course, way back when we elected the basketball-playing black guy to live in the White House so he could try to fix the world , and then got ourselves a brand new county commissioner so ...

From RICHARD CARNES VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Buddy Lazier,  Kevin Foley

Vail Valley: Thanks to Zig Ziglar for changing so many lives

People in the Vail Valley and elsewhere ask me all the time what it was like to work with Zig Ziglar. They want to know if he is always so motivated and upbeat, and if he inspires his own team the way he gets others so fired up. I was just with him ...

From MICHAEL NORTON VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  11 Oct 2009

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Warren Miller: Time to get in skiing shape

This is the time of year when any health club worth its mortgage is advertising “Tune up your body for the ski season, enroll now!” Most people who already belong to a health club are in such good shape that they don't need that extra tuning up, just ...

From WARREN MILLER VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  3 Oct 2009

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Warren Miller: How I picked resorts for ski films

I was recently asked, “During the 50-some years that you produced ski movie, how did you choose the resorts and the skiers for your many movies?” It was very easy in the first 30 years. The ski school director was usually the best skier on the hill, ...

From WARREN MILLER VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  3 Oct 2009

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Linda Stamper Boyne: The hardest job on the planet

There is no harder job on earth than that of being a parent. Yes, there are challenging jobs, occupations that require years of school and training, work that takes skill, precision, expertise or perhaps sheer strength and physical endurance. But ...

From LINDA STAMPER BOYNE VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  21 Sep 2009

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