Comments on: Three Weeks in Southern Utah: Post 1: Boulder to Zion National Park http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2009/11/07/three-weeks-in-southern-utah-post-1-boulder-to-zion-national-park/ An Economist's Travelogue Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:40:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Europe http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2009/11/07/three-weeks-in-southern-utah-post-1-boulder-to-zion-national-park/comment-page-1/#comment-263 Europe Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:48:29 +0000 http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/?p=238#comment-263 Nice story. Paragliding am interested in a long time, it is regrettable that the author only touched on them. But after reading the story I want to have the same drive on a pretty route. Nice story. Paragliding am interested in a long time, it is regrettable that the author only touched on them. But after reading the story I want to have the same drive on a pretty route.

]]> By: mike http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2009/11/07/three-weeks-in-southern-utah-post-1-boulder-to-zion-national-park/comment-page-1/#comment-248 mike Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:41:56 +0000 http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/?p=238#comment-248 Jon, Thanks for the note. We met a ski paratrooper one day in Estes Park, a really old fellow from New York who was hiking at over 8,000 feet with a pack on! The man who helped found Vail was injured in the war and was told he should become a professional skier after he recovered. Which he did, and at one point he was recognized as the best skier in the world. Well, at least your dad didn't contribute to all the ski sprawl out west. Jon, Thanks for the note. We met a ski paratrooper one day in Estes Park, a really old fellow from New York who was hiking at over 8,000 feet with a pack on! The man who helped found Vail was injured in the war and was told he should become a professional skier after he recovered. Which he did, and at one point he was recognized as the best skier in the world.

Well, at least your dad didn’t contribute to all the ski sprawl out west.

]]> By: Jon Flandes http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2009/11/07/three-weeks-in-southern-utah-post-1-boulder-to-zion-national-park/comment-page-1/#comment-247 Jon Flandes Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:53:56 +0000 http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/?p=238#comment-247 "Towns like Vail were developed in part by well-connected ski paratroopers from the Second World War. I wish these expert skiers had stayed back East and left the mountains alone." My father was one of those paratroopers. I believe that he knew some of the developers but played no part in it himself. He was notoriously unbusinesslike. He went back East and stayed there after the war. “Towns like Vail were developed in part by well-connected ski paratroopers from the Second World War. I wish these expert skiers had stayed back East and left the mountains alone.”

My father was one of those paratroopers. I believe that he knew some of the developers but played no part in it himself. He was notoriously unbusinesslike.
He went back East and stayed there after the war.

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