April 1, 2008: Being Hunted by Beaver

[Coign]

Originally Posted by Cicero

Don't feel sorry....There's plenty of room up there for those little creatures to live....That little guy happens to be a jerk. I think he looks smug. Because he knows how much forest he has, but wants to come down to the tiny city and chew up a parking lot. (they usually try to stay away from people)

The article also quotes a larger population figure so you are assuming it's a larger place than it is..but year-round population is only about 1500 or some nonsense like that (the last I heard). Off season everyone leaves.

Reminds me of beaver creek's liquor store though...heh.
"Beaver liquors"..tehehee. Sorry, I am so mature...

I got the population number from the city of Avon's website because I have heard varying amounts of population. According to Avon's website we have 8,500 year round citizens and 2,500 seasonal people.

In addition to that I have heard that anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 people commute in to work here and I know for a fact that Vail Mountain will regularly get about 20,000 visitors a day (on the weekend) and Beaver Creek about 10,000 visitors a day.

So yeah, we may not have a lot of houses but in the end there are more like 20,000 to 40,000 people between Avon and Vail which are only 2 miles apart so it is tough to tell where one starts and the other begins.

And yes we have a liquor store named Beaver Liquors, but I enjoy our dive shop called Beaver Divers better. (Not much "diving" going on here but they do great business in kayaks and wet suits for white water trips.)

And for my last counter point to the Soooo many pictures comment. I do agree with you to a point. First off I deleted at least half of them before posting them and second, yeah it is a digital camera with a 2 gig card. It is like unlimited ammo cheat for cameras and I find you get the best pictures if you just keep snapping as fast as you can and then sort the wheat from chafe later.

[Coign]

Originally Posted by Coign

And for my last counter point to the Soooo many pictures comment. I do agree with you to a point. First off I deleted at least half of them before posting them and second, yeah it is a digital camera with a 2 gig card. It is like unlimited ammo cheat for cameras and I find you get the best pictures if you just keep snapping as fast as you can and then sort the wheat from chafe later.

I aplogize to anyone with low bandwidth. I actually visited my own page again. The edit I made after posting EVERY picture was not saved. NOW there are only about 1/2 of the pictures that I took on that link.

Sorry about that, there were a lot of repeat pictures and a couple where my captioning did not match up.

Although it is kind of neat to scroll through it quickly and it feels like you are walking around in a really bad framerate CGI movie.