This is just a quick update summary for ya on December 16th………..Vail’s ski lifts will open at 8:30am starting this Saturday, scratch that, (it is BEAVER CREEK that is opening at 8:30am per the Vail Daily newspaper)….giving you a head start for you “early bird” types. Vail and Beaver Creek received around 6 inches or so the last couple of dates and more terrain has opened. At Vail they opened Chairs 10 and 14. That is the Highline Express lift and the Sourdough Lift over on the east end of Vail mountain. We still need a bit more before we can open Vail’s Back Bowls, so keep your fingers crossed. Vail is open with 21 of 31 lifts and 1400 acres.
Beaver Creek is now open with 24 of 25 lifts and 88 trails and 1058 acres, so they are doing pretty good too!
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More Vail ski lifts open
Friday, December 16th, 2011Vail mountain opens Chair 11 December 3rd
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011Vail mountain opened Chair 11 Northwoods today with First Step, South Rim, Northstar, Northwoods, and a few other trail names we can’t remember. Here is a quick pic of us ready to go into First Step. Light snow, maybe 1 inch with snow showers throughout the day. Everyone is curious if Chairs 14 (Sourdough) and Chairs 7 (Gamecreek) are next for opening.
Vail ski report and the Fleetwind ski club
Saturday, November 26th, 2011Just a quick Vail ski report for you….. November 26th and they opened Chairs 3 and 4 up out of Mid-Vail this Thanksgiving weekend in Vail. It is the early ski season so we are thankful for the snow we have. None the less, quite a few ski runs are open with Chairs 8, 2, 3, 4 the Vista Bahn, Gondola and some beginner chairs. The Fleetwind Ski club from Chicago is in Vail at the moment and it is always a good time to do a few ski runs with them. They had their blackberry brandy containers with the drinking schedule spelled out on the bottles. Check it out…..
Jim, Robby and Scott from the Fleetwind Ski Club
Blackberry Sport drink, drinking schedule
That looks like the end
Chris Ratzlaff at the top of Hunk Dory, Chair 4 is open in the distance
Early Ski season skiers in Vail at the top of Eagle’s nest with the Gore Range in the background
Our Backyard
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011A few photos taken just a couple of hours ago of Lionshead, Chair 8, the Vail Gondola and Garfs Deck. More terrain at Vail mountain opens tomorrow. I love how colorfull this sport can be.
Gobble, Gobble, Gobble and Happy Thanksgiving!
Deer on Vail’s web-cam
Thursday, October 27th, 2011With all the recent snow we were checking out the Vail webcam on the Antlers at Vail web-site and caught a glimpse of this deer up in Vail’s Back Bowls. It looks like it is Colorado deer migration season already!
Guess What We Woke Up To
Thursday, October 27th, 2011We were walking around in the courtyard in short sleeve shirts on Tuesday and put on a few extra layers on Wednesday with the recent Vail snow.
Wax those skiis and boards. Find that parka and wool socks. Make that reservation.
It has begun.
Courtyard Scare Crow wasn't ready for this
No matter what the weather, these guys never get along
Vail’s Chair 4 jump
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011Powder day before the end of the ski season and people were lined under Chair 4 Mountain Top Express to go off the big jump. Not the best of pictures (snowing a bit), but you can see quite a few people checking it out and getting ready to go off the cliff up on top and then off the jump.
Groomers below on April 23rd, record snow with 524 inches of snow for the ski season including 12 inches on the last day of the ski season.
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Another 3-4 inches of new snow April 14th Vail
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Vail ski mountain and the Antlers at Vail hotel are not done for the ski season just yet. We have over a another week to go and there isn’t a brown spot on the mountain. Even before the 3-4 inches of snow today, the base on the top of Vail mountain was 77 inches. Sort of sad we’ll be closing in Vail on April 24th. We could probably go until May 24th this year! Rest of this week, stay 3 nights at regular price and get the 4th, 5th and 6th nights free. Rates from $160 per night for a full Vail condo on the river.
Backcountry Vail skiing, Vail snow
Saturday, April 9th, 2011Even though it is April here in Colorado (isn’t it April everywhere?), we still have lots of snow in the high country. The base up on Vail mountain near Mid-Vail is over 80 inches and more snow is expected this Sunday April 10th. Here are a couple of photos and a video from a recent back country hut trip to the Peter Estin hut near Vail Colorado that Chris Ratzlaff (Antlers at Vail Director of All things Big and Small) and Tom Schlader (Antlers Director of Preservation) did this past week.
Powder skiing near Vail, Colorado April 5th
Peter Estin hut about an hour drive (and then a 5 hour hike) from Vail
Video of us measuring the snow outside the Peter Estin Hut, we figured it was around 95-120 inches depending on where you measured
Group of Vail Backcountry skiers, the snow looks good.
Vail Challenge trees
Thursday, March 24th, 2011Amy Scherm (Antlers Front Desk fame) is so cool! Here is a GoPro Headcam video of her doing Challenge trees on her way to Mid-Vail. Count how many turns she does.
The Antlers is excited to host an important event on May 23rd entitled Community Conversations. There have been three instances of similar community conversations over the past year.
The first was at the Elevate Conference last September, when 
The Antlers at Vail is proud to welcome the Outside Adventure Film School back to the Antlers for the 5th year in a row. The Adventure Film School, sponsored by Outside Magazine and presented by Serac Adventure Films, is an intensive one-week program
Here's another of those little epiphany moments that make you look back and say, "Wow, where does the time go?"
Carl Barela sent us this picture of his son Stephen pitching for the Eagle Valley Devils recently against the Moffat County Bulldogs.
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