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Landscape artist will paint at Vail Valley gallery

VAIL, Colorado - Landscape artist Malou Flato is painting at Walt Horton FIne Art in Beaver Creek Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. Flato is painting aspen trees on a vertical 72-inch by 60-inch canvas. \"I spend a lot of time in Montana and this is an aspen tree we have in our yard in Montana,\" she said. The gallery is located at 156 Plaza in Beaver Creek. Call 970-949-1660 ...
Echoes of bygone times on the Pigeon Roost Trail

The Pigeon Roost Trail is a 8.4 mile loop through Beaver Lake State Park in the Hobbs Conservation Area. And while it doesn't reach the spectacular that's often encountered in the Boston or St. Francois Mountains, it's a soul-satisfying walk nonetheless, balanced between a re-estalished forest with some huge pine trees and echoes of things gone by.
Vail Resorts brings back Epic Pass for 2010-11 season

Vail Resorts announced Wednesday it would bring back its popular Epic Pass for a third season in 2010-11. The pass provides buyers with unlimited, unrestricted skiing at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly and Arapahoe Basin for $599. The New \"Epic 7-Pack\" gives skiers and snowboarders seven days of unrestricted skiing and riding at any one of Vail Resorts' five mountain resorts ...
Beaver Lake Campgrounds Undergo Repairs

Many Beaver Lake campgrounds that had been swept away from two years of flooding are getting a new makeover.
Beaver Creek Township cat haven case headed to Michigan Court of Appeals

A Beaver Creek Township woman who lost the second battle in a fight to save a cat haven is appealing her case to a higher state court while still looking to resolve the legal matter.
Beating up Leatherwood Creek.

When May fades from the calendar, hiking options start to dwindle a bit. Trails get overgrown; June's heat and humidity become overbearing; snakes and poison ivy grace the land; and clouds of gnats who know not Deet rise from the febrile valley floor.
Vail JOs: Marzario slows her way to win

BEAVER CREEK - And now for the latest trend in alpine ski racing - go slowly. That was the key for Buck Hill (Burnsville, Minn.)'s Montana Marzario during Wednesday's J3 Junior Olympics girls slalom at Beaver Creek's Bear Trap. \"I was really nervous because at practice I couldn't ski this hill,\" Marzario said. \"I couldn't ski the steep part. I kept falling.\" And so, Marzario took her foot off ...
Beaver Creek meets New York

NEW YORK - It was the sort of dinner that was cooked twice: first, a flurry of exacting prep work in Beaver Creek and, later, exhibition-style cooking under the watchful eyes of arriving dinner guests in New York City. But that's part of the process when chefs are invited so far from their home kitchen to host a five-course dinner for East Coast foodies and media types. Pascal Coudouy and Reese ...
JP spearheads beaver dam removal in county

The beavers in central Lonoke County have proved that old clich/, “busy as a beaver,” has some truth to it. The beavers have built dams and blocked the drainage of a large portion of the area.
JOs: Kjos holds off Vail's Leever in slalom

BEAVER CREEK, Colorado - The slalom in a J3 Junior Olympics has a certain finality to it. For second-year J3 racers, who are generally the contenders, it's the last chance, the last JO race of their careers, and for most, the lone-remaining ticket to the Whistler (British Columbia) Cup. Zak Kjos of Apex (Minneapolis) won Wednesday's J3 JO boys slalom at Beaver Creek, earning his ticket to ...