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Spring Break Special: Learn to Snowboard

Spring in the Vail Valley is newly undeniable- the skies are friendly and daily temperatures crest above 32 Farenheight. Spring break must be just around the corner. With so many new riders out there, we made a little video showing you what you might expect from your first couple of days. Oh right, and its okay to laugh at us. For sure.

Thank you to Venture Sports, who totally set us up for a couple of awesome days with their amazing knowledge and friendly service, and to Bobby from Beaver Creek Ski School for teaching us everything we learned. We had a blast!

2008 Honda Sessions in Vail

The 2008 Honda Sessions were rockin!! What fun to see all these pros competing for the $90,000 in combined prize money! The way it works is that each competitor gets as many runs as they can fit in 90 minutes, each going back to back against the person before them in order. In the end, only one run counts, so one perfect run is all you need to take home $35,000 first place bucks, ultimately claimed by Andreas Wiig (check him out in our slideshow as Mr. Pom-pom helmet, slide on his bum down the rail)

Vail Mardi Gras- check ‘er out.

Shirts on, Ladies. Its 2 degrees!

Avon Transit Center Update - Ride the Gondola with us.

The Avon Transit Center is now one more step closer to being the complete transportation hub in its dreams of itself- the Gondola to Beaver Creek Landing is now fully operational, cutting the average transit time of skiers from Avon to Beaver Creek by about five minutes. The gondola also serves end-of-day or lunching skiers downloading back to Avon. Check out the ride in this slideshow:

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