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Jack Affleck photo/Special to the Daily Vail Mountain and Beaver Creek Resort will begin summer operations on June 19, Vail Resorts has announced. Vail’s summer lift service will operate daily through Sept. 6, at which time operations will switch to Friday-Sunday service, lasting through Oct. 3. Beaver Creek’s summer lift service will operate daily through Sept. 6, then Saturdays and Sundays only through Sept. 26. Beaver Creek Golf Club will open May 7 and Red Sky Golf Club is scheduled to open to members and resort guests on May 14. “Following a reduced operating footprint last summer,...

Vail Jazz Curtis Taylor performs in a previous Vail Jazz Alumni Quintet featuring Greg Ward, Adam Arruda, Raviv Markovitz, and James Francies. Jack Affleck / Vail Jazz Festival When you think of some of history’s greatest jazz trumpeters — Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis — you might wonder: Was their ascension to greatness destined to be? Would jazz sound different today if these trailblazers had never picked up a trumpet in the first place? For Vail Jazz Workshop alumnus Curtis Taylor, fate seems to have played at least a supporting role in his developmen...

Photo by Jack Affleck / Vail Resorts Summit County is without question a ski and snowboard destination, but your skills on the snow could translate to the ice, and trying your hand at ice skating could improve your carving out on the hill. “The edging is similar,” said Tara Lane, a skating instructor for the town of Breckenridge. “You have your inside edge, your bottom of your blade, which is flat, and then the outside edge. Your weight transfer and the rolling edge to edge is the same, but the difference is the bottom of a skate is much skinnier, so you move from edge to edge faster. I...

Good thing I know better. Both are at the top position in their respective industry and both claim to care about those they represent, but that is where the similarities end. One is less than a month away from ending a narcissistic reign of terror on democracy while the other is, in all likelihood, years away from ending his reign of control over stock dividends. One only cares about those who heap praise upon him while the other cares for employees, guests and stockholders (but not necessarily in that order). This is the main difference between loathing and simply being angry at a leader bec...