{"id":1301440,"date":"2018-12-13T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/celebrating-snow-vail-snow-days-returns-with-jam-packed-lineup-of-activities\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T05:38:00","slug":"celebrating-snow-vail-snow-days-returns-with-jam-packed-lineup-of-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/celebrating-snow-vail-snow-days-returns-with-jam-packed-lineup-of-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating snow: Vail Snow Days returns with jam-packed lineup of activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item active\" readability=\"9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SnowDays-VDN-121418-1.jpg\" class=\"fancybox photo-contain\" rel=\"group-437145\" title=\"The crowd gathers around the bonfire at the opening night of Vail Snow Days. The festivities continue with two days of free music, including Nathaniel Rateliff &amp; The Night Sweats and Shakey Graves.\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SnowDays-VDN-121418-1-325x216.jpg\"\/><\/a><span class=\"byline\">Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The crowd gathers around the bonfire at the opening night of Vail Snow Days. The festivities continue with two days of free music, including Nathaniel&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"item\" readability=\"13\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SnowDays-VDN-121418-1-1.jpg\" class=\"fancybox photo-contain\" rel=\"group-437145\" title=\"Kevin Grooman, of Avon, dressed in holiday lights, puts out his torches after the ski down on Thursday, the opening night of Snow Days, in Vail. This year\u2019s event happens over four days and includes pub crawls and more.\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SnowDays-VDN-121418-1-1-325x216.jpg\"\/><\/a><span class=\"byline\">Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Kevin Grooman, of Avon, dressed in holiday lights, puts out his torches after the ski down on Thursday, the opening night of Snow Days, in Vail. This &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"item\" readability=\"9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SnowDays-VDN-121418-1-2.jpg\" class=\"fancybox photo-contain\" rel=\"group-437145\" title=\"Leon Joseph Littlebird gives a blessing and snow dance ceremony in Vail on Thursday. So far this season, Vail Mountain has received 110 inches of snow.\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SnowDays-VDN-121418-1-2-325x216.jpg\"\/><\/a><span class=\"byline\">Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Leon Joseph Littlebird gives a blessing and snow dance ceremony in Vail on Thursday. So far this season, Vail Mountain has received 110 inches of snow&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"item\" readability=\"8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SnowDays-VDN-121418-1-3.jpg\" class=\"fancybox photo-contain\" rel=\"group-437145\" title=\"People shoot bags for a chance to win a snowboard during Snow Days festivities in Vail. Live music by the band Rewind kept people moving and warm.\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SnowDays-VDN-121418-1-3-325x216.jpg\"\/><\/a><span class=\"byline\">Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">People shoot bags for a chance to win a snowboard during Snow Days festivities in Vail. Live music by the band Rewind kept people moving and warm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"item\" readability=\"9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SnowDays-VDN-121418-1-4.jpg\" class=\"fancybox photo-contain\" rel=\"group-437145\" title=\"The Grand Traverse on the Gore Range signs in alpine glow Thursday, Dec. 13, in Vail.\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SnowDays-VDN-121418-1-4-325x216.jpg\"\/><\/a><span class=\"byline\">Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The Grand Traverse on the Gore Range signs in alpine glow Thursday, Dec. 13, in Vail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"item\" readability=\"8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SnowDays-VDN-121418-1-5.jpg\" class=\"fancybox photo-contain\" rel=\"group-437145\" title=\"Fire dancer Dani Kinard entertains the crowd gathered for Snow Days fun in Vail. Vail Snow Days continue through Sunday.\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SnowDays-VDN-121418-1-5-325x216.jpg\"\/><\/a><span class=\"byline\">Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Fire dancer Dani Kinard entertains the crowd gathered for Snow Days fun in Vail. Vail Snow Days continue through Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/celebrating-snow-vail-snow-days-returns-with-jam-packed-lineup-of-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com The crowd gathers around the bonfire at the opening night of Vail Snow Days. The festivities continue with two days of free music, including Nathaniel&#8230; Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com Kevin Grooman, of Avon, dressed in holiday lights, puts out his torches after the ski down on Thursday, the opening night of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 04:18:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}