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Charlie Vail

VIDEO: Who was Charlie Vail, and how’d he get a ski town named for him?

It’s hard to imagine what Colorado’s ski towns, as well as the Western Slope might look like today had Colorado’s highway engineer during the 1930s, Charlie Davis Vail, not pushed for the massive undertaking of taking the Interstate on through the mountains to the West.

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