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Provided by Vail Ski Patrol Vail local Johnny Kuo, an experienced backcountry skier who was a regular in the East Vail Chutes, felt he was in a safe zone when he was engulfed by snow in the Feb. 4 avalanche that took his life. released Friday, on the fatal slide. Kuo, 41, was with another skier when she triggered the avalanche in an area known as Marvin’s West or Big Marvin, according to the report. The pair had entered the popular sidecountry area from Vail Mountain through a backcountry access gate around 10:15 a.m. They then hiked for about 30 minutes to an area locally known as Benchmar...

Vail Daily Photo from Vail Ski Patrol EAGLE — The Eagle County Coroner’s Office on Friday morning identified John Kuo, 41, of Vail, as the skier killed in Thursday’s avalanche in the East Vail Chutes. Kuo, who went by Johnny, was a regular among locals who frequent the popular sidecountry area that is accessible from Vail Mountain’s eastern boundary. According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center’s preliminary report, Kuo exited Vail Mountain through a backcountry access gate and was skiing in an area known as Marvin’s when the slide occurred. Companions and other riders i...

March 24 update: Eagle County has reported 44 outbreaks since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Vail Daily has reported on some of these outbreaks with individual stories, but to provide a more complete picture of Eagle County’s coronavirus trajectory, we’re collecting the full list here, with details on each outbreak. We’ll continue to update this list weekly as the state reports new active outbreaks and closes the reporting on others. To see the current status of each outbreak, visit the state’s outbreak data webpage. Just because an outbreak is listed as active on the st...

There was definitely magic in the Vail Valley this season. Some of it was spurred by Rob and Lynn Bowles, who for the past seven years or so, have made sure each Eagle County senior had a gift to open through the creation of the “Senior Christmas Wish” program. Even after Rob and Lynn moved to the Front Range two years ago, they have kept their commitment to the older adults of Eagle County. The program is a collaboration of many local churches and their thoughtful congregations to make this very big project run seamlessly. This year, due to the pandemic, the program was simplified by giv...

Dr. Jack Eck Jack Eck isn’t going anywhere, but Vail’s third full-time doctor — Tom Steinberg and Bill Holm were the first and second — is retiring from nearly 50 years of service in the community. Eck, 78, first came to Vail in 1971, fresh out of the U.S. Army, where he’d been a flight surgeon in both Vietnam and, later, in New Jersey. A small-town guy from Pennsylvania, Eck was ready for something more peaceful than the jungles of that war-torn Asian country. Thanks to some friends, he found his landing spot in Vail in 1971. He came to ski with friends in January of that year. At ...