Vail: Vacation Home to the Perot Family, StaysSafe from Colorado Calamities

Written by Candy Ev ans on June 25 , 201 2

You are looking at the beautiful vacation homes of Ross Perot, Jr. And Sr., right next to eachother! (Ross Jr.’s is to the right of this picture, Ross Perot Sr. to the left.) They are nested rightnext to the famous ski area, located across from The Four Seasons Residence Club in beautifulVail, Colorado.

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This was my first trip to Vail, a veritable second home playground to many Texans besides thePerots. Other celebs with homes there include hair magnate Paul Mitchell and Kelsey Grammer.Vail was perfection, warm in the day, cool at night, loaded with hikers, rafters, fly fishermen,bikers, mountain bike fanatics and peaceful tourists. They are gearing up for the fourth of July,Vail’s busiest day of the year. Meanwhile, far away poor Colorado residents and second homeowners are dealing with at least eight scary forest fires that have burned thousands of acres offorest lands and that have destroyed some vacation homes, shut down tourist spots. Some majorstate highways were closed in southern Colorado over the weekend. Passengers who hiked the tallpeaks told me of seeing smoke from about a half-dozen fires across the state, some threateningplaces like Estes Park, home of the Stanley Hotel, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins and evenBoulder. And we saw the firefighters stopping in Georgetown, Colo. With the bone-dry, Texas-type weather conditions — Denver is “enjoying” 100 degree plus temps — the whole state isunder a fire ban. Some people were telling me the fires could have started because some residentsare trying to rid the state of the annoying bark beetle that is killing off the tall lodgepole pine pinetrees and markedly affecting the appearance of the usually lush, green mountainsides. The pest isthinning out the pretty pines with dying trees leaving piles of dead wood poles, the wood somesay completely useless. Others, like our fly fishing guide, told me you can use the wood forfurniture after it dries out and the beetles depart. Just don’t build houses with it! Local journaliststold me the beetle is caused by global warming, as the critters thrive and reproduce in warmerclimates. Do the beetles fuel the fires? Good question. The director of bark beetle operationsin Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest says people are alarmed by the timber loss:

“The beetles aren’t killing every tree,” Currey says, “but they are killing a majorityof mature lodgepole pine, and we’ve lost half our limber pine, too.” More than 116million acres in the North American Rocky Mountains have been affected. “Peopleare beginning to understand that this thing is too big to stop.”

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Vail was just fine, evidence of the bark beetle here as well, but Vail fortunately has a huge varietyof trees covering it’s 14,000 foot-tall peaks, including those gorgeous Aspens. And Vail isundergoing a billion dollar plus enhancement, one of the most major nip/tucks I’ve seen. Nowonder Texans and Dallasites like the Perots love to vacation here come summer or winter.

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