Visitors shopped, gallery-hopped, and lunched outdoors in Vail’s car-free, Alps-inspired village on this blue-sky day. I overheard conversations in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, and Chinese.
Despite the warm spring weather at the resort’s base, nearly 100 percent of the 5,317 acres at Colorado’s largest ski resort were still snow-covered. The hot weather softened the snow into a wet slush, making my skis’ metal edges feel like knives cutting through warm butter.
