Word: vaile
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...June 30, Bryant left L.A. for a tendinitis operation that was to be performed the next day at the Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Vail, the town of plutocrat-posh ski-resort fame. Bryant and his entourage checked in to the Lodge and Spa. Around 11 that night, his accuser, a concierge and receptionist at the hotel, went off duty. According to the Los Angeles Times, Bryant called his wife from his hotel room at 11:13. Some time later, perhaps around 11:30, the young woman visited Bryant's room. Why she went there, and what happened next...
...According to the Aspen Times, he has made more than 40 solo winter climbs of Colorado's Fourteeners (peaks taller than 14,000 ft.), bringing just water, candy bars and an ice ax--no cell phone, no GPS, not so much as a rope. In February, while skiing near Vail, Colo., Ralston was buried to his neck in an avalanche; a friend was completely submerged for 10 minutes. When an Aspen Times reporter came calling in March for a story on Ralston's climbing feats, the outdoorsman told the paper the ski trip...
...live up to her sisters’ legacies. “Going to boarding school made me very independent,” she explains. Simmons also took a year off in between high school and college, during which she worked for a Manhattan advertising agency, taught skiing at a Vail resort, and then spent three months backpacking through Europe. “Being on my own and supporting myself gave me the perspective of being an independent individual,” she says. “Sure, my sisters went here, but I am own person...
...open secret at Enron that the company was all but a "house of cards that will fall," as a Texas energy executive attending an industry conference in Vail, Colo., a year ago groused to a senior Enron v.p. His dinner companion's startling reply: "You're more right than you know." Even people who believe that Lay was not involved in the dubious dealings of Skilling, Fastow and chief accounting officer Richard Causey concede that Lay had laid the foundation by encouraging Enron's ruthless, winner-take-all culture. A band of cocky, inexperienced young M.B.A.s was left alone...
Along with hundreds of other White River trails, Red Creek is endangered--or close to being saved, depending on how you look at it. The 2.3 million-acre White River National Forest is Colorado's biggest playground, encompassing everything from the popular resorts of Vail and Aspen to alpine meadows populated only by elk. This year 31 million people are expected to visit, up 10% from just four years ago, fed by Colorado's booming popularity. Every 15 years the U.S. Forest Service must create a new land-use plan for the region, and the draft released...