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So I have been searching quite a bit for local businesses contact info on Google more so than the phone book anymore. Anyway, one of the sites that I keep going back to is Hotfrog.com. Great little site if you … Continue reading →

Splendid at the Chateau Dress Attire: Casual Elegant Location: 17 Chateau Lane, Avon, CO 81620 Phone: 970.845.8808 Website: www.splendidobeavercreek.com This is the most elegant setting of a restaurant in Vail (actually, in Beaver Creek). The Views are breathtaking and the … Continue reading →

Larkspur Dress Attire: Casual Elegant Location: 458 Vail Valley Dr, Vail, CO 81657 Phone: 970.754.8050 Website: www.larkspurvail.com On the extreme eastern side of Vail Village. Very expensive, stuffy service, but really great food and excellent wine list (sometimes that even … Continue reading →

Today we’re starting a new series where Ira reviews restaurants he knows well. Most are in the Vail, Colo. region. Here’s the first: Sweet Basil Dress Attire: Casual elegant Location: 193 Gore Creek, Vail, CO 81657 Phone: 970.476.0125 Website: www.sweetbasil-vail.com … Continue reading →

While we’re pretty sure this isn’t Ira, here is a picture of an old-time rope tow used to bring skiers up a hill: For more information about some of Ira’s other interests, look at Ira Riklis articles on awareness.

There has also been interest in Ira’s love of Burt bindings, so we wanted to show a photo of them during Ira’s skiing time. For more information about some of Ira’s other interests, look at Ira Riklis articles on awareness.

A lot of respondents have asked about Ira Riklis’ AMC Pacer. While he says no actual photos exist, we have supplied this contemporary ad for the fabled vehicle:

In an earlier post, Ira Riklis mentioned Hotel Gasthof Gramshammer in Vail. Ira Riklis kindly forwarded to us a picture from his collection:

Ira Riklis continues discussing the seemingly lost art of courtesy on the ski slopes Let’s for a moment give this other skier the benefit of the doubt and suppose that he, quite mistakenly, thought that he had the right of … Continue reading →

Ira Riklis continues discussing the seemingly lost art of courtesy on the ski slopes As I’m in a short traverse within the funnel, I notice out of the corner of my eye a skier barreling at me at high speed … Continue reading →