Recently, a friend and I were discussing interest rates and how long it would take to double your money. During our discussion he introduced me to the Rule of 72. It is a simple and fairly accurate formula to determine the number of years it takes to double your money at different interest rates. You simply divide 72 by the average annual [...]

What a great event! Did you know there is a celebration for spring? Really for Lifeat Grand County's Daffodil Days. The event in the Winter Park / Fraser Valley is being held at the FraserValley's Grand Park Recreation Center Winter park (AKA the Rec Center).Sunday, March 21^st from 12-5. Purchase a spring flower, the daffodil, a symbol [...]

What a great event! Did you know there is a celebration for spring?

Really for Lifeat Grand Countys Daffodil Days.

The event in the Winter Park / Fraser Valley is being held at the FraserValleys Grand Park Recreation Center Winter park (AKA the Rec Center).Sunday, March 21^st from 12-5.

Purchase a spring flower, the daffodil, a symbol of [...]

It's that time of year again - MUD SEASON in the Fraser Valley! Mud Season officially starts on St. Patrick's Day (or within a couple days) and lasts for about a year... yes, about a year. Confused? I was confused for the first 5 years of living in Winter Park, but now I see as clearly as my front windshield on a good day... we'll ignore the [...]

Winter Park Resort will host the 2010 Nature Valley NASTAR National Championship beginning Wednesday, March 25^th through March 28^th. A celebration of alpine racing the event has free concerts, ski race clinics, VIP events and much more. Developed by SKI magazine in the late sixties, NASTAR provides an entry into ski racing and is the [...]

I left off last time with how the wolf hadstartedinteracting with humans and how evolution started to change. Humans, in effect, replace nature's process with our "man-made" one. With almost 14,000 years of man's meddling, a new animal evolved. These animals, thanks to domestication and diet, had smaller brains, heads, and teeth compared to [...]

I left off last time with how the wolf hadstartedinteracting with humans and how evolution started to change.

Humans, in effect, replace nature's process with our "man-made" one. With almost 14,000 years of man's meddling, a new animal evolved. These animals, thanks to domestication and diet, had smaller brains, heads, and teeth compared to [...]

We have just finished The Real Estate of Winter Park Report on Grand County Real Estate Trends - this is a great informational report that outlines the real estate market trends by towns in GrandCounty from 2005-2009. Each page reports the average sales prices, number of sales, average days on market, high and low sales and more for condos, [...]

The Ski and Ride FREE at Winter Park Resort package was a successful way to begin the 70^th Anniversary Season, resulting in Winter Park Resort again collaborating with the Winter Park/Fraser Valley Chamber of Commerce for the return of free lift tickets with lodging from Thursday, April 1, 2009, through Closing Day, April 18, 2010, to bring [...]

Mountains attract climbers, skiers and tourists who scramble up and down the slopes, hoping to conquer peaks, each in their own way. Yet, to do this they must enter the timeless haunt of [...]