Photography by Rebecca Stumpf | Published in the Midwinter/Spring 2017 issue of Vail-Beaver Creek Magazine For native New Yorkers, few delicacies evoke more passion—and devotion—than an authentic, hot-out-of-the-brown-bag morning bagel. Adversely, the horror aroused in this same demographic by circular bread posing as a bagel is a familiar disappointment. Especially when said demographic vacations in a world-savvy ski town […]
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Photography by Ryan Dearth | Published in the Midwinter/Spring 2017 issue of Vail-Beaver Creek Magazine “Timing in my life was really fortunate; I was the first to run a women’s ski camp, I was the first to be in big ski movies with Greg Stump, I was one of the only girls who went to the World Extreme Ski Championships in […]
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Photography by Ryan Dearth | Published in the Midwinter/Spring 2017 issue of Vail-Beaver Creek Magazine The sun hasn’t yet risen when Josiah Middaugh slips into the steaming outdoor saline pool for his early morning training session at the Westin in Beaver Creek. Despite the hour, and the single-digit temperatures, more than a dozen athletes from the valley’s triathlon community have come to […]
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Published in Backpacker Magazine‘s October 2016 Issue. The walk through pine forests and stands of gold aspen was peaceful. We gained just a thousand feet of elevation over 5 miles alongside the charged San Juan River, where we parted swaths of skunk cabbage and ferns beneath the pink dome of 13,168-foot Sheep Mountain. It’s dark […]
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Published in 5280 SEPTEMBER 2016 In the past, the few but fervent (some might say cultish) fans of Weston Snowboards had to travel to tiny Minturn—population: 1,027—to buy one of the company’s beloved boards in person. Not anymore. This month, Weston begins selling the line at a new showroom in Denver’s Battery 621 building, and in […]
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Photography by Ric Stovall | Published in the Midwinter/Spring 2017 issue of Vail-Beaver Creek Magazine In doing without, in the mid-19th century, Henry David Thoreau erected a 10-by-15-foot cabin on the banks of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Of his solitary time in the New England wilderness, Thoreau mused, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front […]
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