September 2016 - Bachelor Gulch Club

History of EGE

Posted: 9/29/2016 9:57:07 AM

The predecessor of this airport was Nottingham Airport, a private dirt strip.

The date of construction of Nottingham Airport has not been determined, however, an article in the Vail Trail(courtesy of Steve Comer)reported, “The proposed use of the Nottingham air strip in Avon by Rocky Mountain Airways was stalled by the county commissioners in 1976. Members of the county airport authority were worried that allowing commercial flights over nearby schools & neighborhoods would be too noisy & possibly dangerous."

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Avon: From Lettuce Town to Resort Town

Posted: 9/20/2016 3:27:58 PM

In the 1920’s head lettuce was the crop of choice in Avon and neighboring Beaver Creek and Bachelor Gulch. Box cars stood at the Avon Depot, loaded with ice from the Minturn ice house (the ice had been cut the preceding winter at Pando up near Tennessee Pass) and readied for freshly cut lettuce heads delivered in crates by farmers and their ranch hands and wives.

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Opening of Blue Sky Basin

Posted: 9/15/2016 8:48:13 AM

OUT THERE: Vail's Blue Sky Basin - ten years later, nobody's protesting January 28, 2010

Environmentalists battled the resort in the courts for years, and when that failed, eco-terrorists in 1998 set fire to several buildings on the mountain, including Two Elk Lodge. Damage was estimated at $12 million and the Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility.

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The George Gillett Era

Posted: 9/8/2016 12:04:19 PM

George's first appraisal of the resort's recent past, however, was harsh. He noted that Vail was not making money and that it had over six years of condo inventory in Beaver Creek. Gillett also criticized the company for maintaining an entire department devoted to real estate development, when there was no demand. Employee attitudes towards the customers were cited as poor, and the people who owned many of the businesses in town viewed skiers as intruders on their peaceful lifestyle.

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History, Herstory, Our Story

A Brief Account of Vail, Beaver Creek, and Bachelor Gulch, and The Bachelor Gulch Club Histories.