Warren Miller shares memories of Vail
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- Created on Saturday, 07 May 2011 14:26
- Written by Dena Rosenberry
Pioneering ski filmmaker Warren Miller lived in the Vail Valley for many years and writes for the Vail Daily News.
Here's a snippet from his latest column for the newspaper:
... The classic case of dirt on a ski run was at Vail in the first few years. At the bottom of the mountain there is a run now called Pepi's Face (used to be called the Slide for Life!).
Back in those early days when Vail did not even have a parking lot, the snow would quickly get skied off of the face. People would pull off of I-70 and that run seemed to indicate that the skiing was not very good or the dirt would not be showing up like that.
The carloads of people who would have bought $4 a day lift tickets pulled back onto the highway and continued on to Aspen without ever seeing or skiing the Back Bowls. They missed so much.
Read more about Warren Miller's days of skiing and filming at Vail and other mountains.
Photo courtesy of iskinc.com
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