Easing Lift Lines and Unveiling a Locals Gem
Vail and Beaver Creek’s handheld grocery-style scanners for lift passes are a thing of the past this season with new technology that allows radio transmitters to detect a chip in ski passes, even if they’re in a pocket or inside a jacket.
This innovation should speed things up.
Cumbersome turnstiles with scanners that penetrate jackets have been in place in Europe and some resorts in the United States for years, sometimes forcing snow riders to contort wildly in the lift line if their pass is in the wrong pocket.
Word is Vail’s system will work a little better.
VAIL UNVEILED 2009
For the first time in its eight years of inviting locals to undress for charity, the Vail Valley Charitable Fund gave photographers free rein to choose subjects for the Vail Undressed Calendar.
Photographers Rex Keep, Carl Lindbloom, Jack Affleck, Wendy Griffith, Kent Pettit, Lynsey Peterson, Billy Doran, Liz Pyke, and Cindy Petrehn and the subjects donate their time and efforts so that 100 percent of the proceeds go to those in need.
VVCF has assisted 600 Eagle County residents with overwhelming financial need due to medical crisis, dispersing over $5 million since its inception in 1996.
The 2008 event was held in October to rave reviews when photos of the 36 volunteers who took it off to create the calendar were “unvailed” at a party in Beaver Creek’s Park Hyatt.Helping neighbors while having some fun fits the organization’s motto, “It’s all about heart.” And that’s one body part no one sees.
To help, contact the VVCF at info@vvcf.org or call 970-845-6339.
