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The Muellers Have Big Plans for Crested Butte
ByEileen Ogintz February 29, 2008July 14, 2021

The first phase is the new Lodge at Mountaineer Square and the Mountaineer Conference Center where we’re staying, just steps from the lifts.
The lodge and conference center wrap around a cozy courtyard, in which guests can find visitor services, dining and shopping. Here the Crested Butte Adventure Center serves as the “resort concierge,” a one-stop shopping venue.

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Organized Chaos — Getting the Kids (and Grownups) Ready to Ski
ByEileen Ogintz February 28, 2008July 14, 2021

Organized chaos. Three adults, four college kids, two teens, and a five year-old and three year-old getting ready for a ski day. I‘ve got a sinus infection so I opt not to ski today. I take 13-year-old Eva to the “teen” class. Ellen Osterling, who oversees the kids’ programs, says the ski school tries to offer teen classes every day — even if they have to send out a teen with his own instructor.

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Back to Crested Butte — where there’s plenty of snow
ByEileen Ogintz February 27, 2008October 4, 2023

We’re heading to Crested Butte Mountain Resort in Colorado to meet up with an assortment of family, all staying at a condo in the spanking new Lodge at Mountaineer Square, which is part of the hundreds of millions of dollars of improvements here.

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TO PARK CITY UTAH FOR SOME FUN IN THE SNOW
ByEileen Ogintz February 24, 2008July 6, 2021

Even better, no more soggy hotdogs or lukewarm mac and cheese for lunch and no more putting kids on the chairlift with strangers: the entire class can ride up with their instructor on a six-passenger chairlift and eat together on the mountain. The teens and tweens, of course, will love the parks and pipes and the night skiing this resort is famous for.

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Park City in the Summer and Winter
ByEileen Ogintz February 12, 2008July 6, 2021

The Utah Olympic Park was the venue for Nordic jumping, bobsled, luge and skeleton events during the 2002 Winter Olympics here. Today, world class athletes train here — you may see them if you visit Tuesday through Saturday. They train in summer as well as winter. Today the Park also continues to serve as a year-round competition site.

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TO BARCELONA
ByEileen Ogintz February 10, 2008July 14, 2021

Welcome to Antonin Gaudi’s unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia, www.sagradafamilia.org , Barcelona’s most famous site and Spain’s most visited. More than 40 years after the eccentric and revered architect’s death – he was struck by a tram – work still continues on the huge church first begun in 1882. Some 2.5 million people visited last year.

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A Visit to Park City, Utah
ByEileen Ogintz February 5, 2008July 14, 2021

When families told Park City Mountain Resort they didn’t like such big ski school classes for their kids, the resort did something about it — besides suggesting parents pay mega pucks for private lessons.

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TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK IN WINTER
ByEileen Ogintz February 3, 2008July 14, 2021

By Eileen OgintzTribune Media Services Old Faithful spews thousands of gallons of steaming water right on schedule, but Miguel isn’t the least bit interested. He…

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SNARING A WINTER DEAL
ByEileen Ogintz January 27, 2008July 14, 2021

You gotta hate that guy. The guy sitting next to you on the plane, at the pool or the chairlift who can’t stop bragging about the fantastic vacation deal he snared that saved his family big bucks.

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TO MONTANA FOR SOME FUN IN THE SNOW
ByEileen Ogintz January 20, 2008July 14, 2021

Mary Blilie had been at Big Sky Resort in Montana for just one day but had already snapped more photos of her kids than she had in a long time. That’s because when Blilie, now a Minneapolis engineer, was a kid her family skied here every winter and now, after a 17-year hiatus, she was determined to create some of those same happy memories for her own two children

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