Need a break from the slopes? Check out this free museum in Vail.
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Created as the Colorado Ski Museum in 1976 and renamed after a $2.6 million modernization in 2018, it’s conveniently located in the Vail Transportation Center. Admission is free. The 10th Mountain exhibit includes winter combat gear , skis, crampons, a climbing rope and an ice ax used by 1940s ski troops, all of which are sure to stir the heart of any mountaineer. Visitors can read how 33 Camp Hale soldiers did the original “Trooper Traverse” when they skied 40 miles from Camp Hale to Aspen in a four-day journey over the Continental Divide, an epic achievement in the annals of American ski mountaineering.
The museum has a large area devoted to World Cup and Olympic ski racing that includes the crystal globe trophy Phil Mahre claimed when he won the first of his three World Cup overall titles in 1981 , along with the second of Colorado native Mikaela Shiffrin’s three overall globes. The one we see here has a big crack in it. It was already cracked when she was awarded it in 2018, so the International Ski Federation sent her another, but the cracked one lives here.
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