Helping you enjoy the outdoors responsibly Returning VVMTA staff, Emily Carney and Melanie Morone, have been working for the last month to help support enforcement of seasonal trail closures at trailheads. They’ve been working throughout our county to help educate users, manage our game cameras, and play a critical role in promoting the safety, enjoyment,
June is here and the wildlife are on the move from lower elevations to the melting out upper elevations of our valley. They are following the snow line as it gives way to food they can consume to gain back their strength after a long winter. When you think about it, they are not too
Visiting the Vail Valley for the first time is a special experience. As visitors crest the top of Vail Pass, they are greeted with a stunning vista of multiple mountain ranges and spiked peaks. It can be intimidating to look upon these mountains and it can bring forth a mix of questions: How difficult is
Imagine: It’s a Saturday morning in Vail and you’ve rallied your friends for an EPIC few days of backpacking. The coffee is kicking in, the birds are chirping, and you feel more prepared to spend two nights under the stars than you did for the SAT your senior year of high school. When you get
Why does a trail advocacy group work so hard to protect seasonal wildlife closures? When we proposed to build the Everkrisp trail in 2017, we learned why seasonal wildlife closures exist and that our community was not informed or educated on their importance nor where and when they exist. Most people in our community thought
