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The year of its death was 2009, March specifically. At 69 years old, it was good run. And that was that, the end of the era. Long live the Ski Train! Except it wasn’t the end. The people of Winter Park, Denver, and the state of Colorado wouldn’t let the…
Continue readingTractor-trailers jack-knifed into a ditch. Small sedans sliding backwards down the hill. It’s like navigating a slalom course of cars stuck hither and yon all over the roadway. What started out as the routine commute to get home had turned into an endurance contest of navigating cars spinning out of…
Continue readingFYI, I’ve been on a trip to the west coast, so haven’t blogged in a few days, sorry to any of my loyal readers. Working at Winter Park Ski Resort this past winter, I walked by the Moffatt Tunnel pretty much each day I worked. Most of us employees parked…
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It’s 6 a.m. on a cold and blustery Sunday morning in late January. By all rights, anyone in a sane frame of mind would be snug in their bed, sleeping deeply, covers pulled tightly up to their noses. But not in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado…. One look from high…
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