Ask Ira Riklis about his favorite place to ski, and he’ll tell you about Vail, Colorado. He’ll tell you about how, unlike other ski resorts such as Aspen, Steamboat Springs or Breckenridge which formed around existing towns, the town of Vail sprang up around the ski resort there. And he’ll point out that as the largest single mountain ski resort in the United States Vail offers a vast amount of terrain to traverse.
“Even more important to me,” Ira Riklis might continue, “Vail is famous for the quality and extent of the grooming of the terrain. Every day there will be numerous slopes, many of them black diamond “Expert” slopes, which have been groomed overnight. This dedication to grooming is part of the “secret sauce” that has propelled Vail from a brand new mountain and village 47 years ago into one of the premier ski venues in the world.”