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Walk with Me Through Vail Colorado's Hidden Gems! - 4k City Walks for Treadmill Scenery
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Mar 18, 2025
It's summer and we are visiting Vail. @Travelingmel got invited to spend several days exploring the Vail Resort community in summer as part of their promotion campaign and the rest of us got to come a long. They provided a ton of things for us to do in Vail that you can read about in the article linked below. What I enjoyed was the enclosed natural setting. Instead of pools and tiki bars and water slides, they have nature. But, it's a controlled nature. I really loved seeing families with kids tubing down the tree lined creek through town, and kids just roaming around free in the evenings, just exploring. And yet, there are restaurants, shops, and bars within a few minutes walk. Such a beautiful place to walk. I hope you enjoy this virtual walking tour through Vail Resort. Keep on Steppin -H The Post about Things to do in Vail: https://travelingmel.com/things-to-do-in-vail-colorado-in-summer/ #walkingtour #CityWalks #virtualwalk #walkathome #treadmillworkout #treadmillscenery #virtualtreadmill Please feel free to share or embed these videos with others or direct them to the searchable website https://citywalksvirtualtours.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CityWalks Buy me a Coffee at https://ko-fi.com/citywalksvirtualwalkingtours Paypal Donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/CityWalks Instagram: @citywalks_virtualtravel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyCityWalks Twitter: @walks_city You might be interested in our other Channels: CityWalks360 - 360 VR walking videos: tinyurl.com/yg5dkewu
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hello Walkers and welcome back to City walks the channel where I walk you
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around and uh around cities and nature and that sort of thing different places
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and point out or try to point out very interesting unique things uh this will
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be a walk and talk which is my usual motus oper rendi uh and uh so yeah
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forewarned we we are today in veale
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Colorado and I'm going to poke around here to the corner and then duck back um
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I often do uh take some wrong turns and have to double back on this one it's intentional
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uh I'm going to start out with a little bit of housekeeping here it is 24° C 75°
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Fahrenheit in July towards the end of July and it's about 5:00 p.m. you can
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see the gondola that is inactive now but has been running all day look at this
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beautiful Gore Creek down here and there's somebody fly fishing as well and I'm going to talk a little bit
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as we go beautiful that is there's a little
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bit of a haze in the sky that's from smoke supposedly from Canada which is
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quite on fire right now they've got this wonderful bike path hiking path that
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goes for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and actually believe it goes might go from
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Breen Ridge all the way over to Aspen but certainly along the veil Valley the
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Eagle Valley um but we're going to duck back up here
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we're starting off in the western end of the resort Center so further west you
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get into some uh uh more commercial type stuff strip malls and
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that sort of thing but here in lion's head uh it's a lot of condos and hotels
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and fancy fancy stuff we are at about 8,000 ft of
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altitude which is about 3500 more than I'm used to and
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uh so I might be huffing puffing a little bit
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[Music] love this little puppy
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here hi
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there what we're going to do I think this is the
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Arabella quite nice and it's going to lead into hopefully
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into a pedestrian area if I've gotten my my bearings
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correctly uh and there's a bunch of shops and restaurants and that sort of thing music
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venues
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Etc yeah no regrets [Music]
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okay this is the back way no worries we will get to see some fun stuff a lot of people out on bikes there
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are rental bikes everywhere people bring their own bikes and then people will
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take their bikes up the mountain in the gondola during the day and then I and
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then ride downhill so we're going to get into
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some excuse me some copyrighted music here and that'll be something that may
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or may not trigger some issues with YouTube but we will
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see but I'm just going stop talking for a little bit so we
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can have a chance to hear [Music]
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me all right so we'll go into the sort of main Square of lion's head area and see some of the
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fun stuff there's a big party private party here in this tent uh the other day when we arrived we ate dinner at The
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Chop House which is quite good now looks like they've got uh looks like a little band setting up
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restaurants and cafes and that sort of thing uh and then there's like foosball
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and table tennis Etc Under the Tent
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but we'll see some of these fancy uh
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shops got eyasses and that sort of thing and then Sports and clothing over
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here on the [Music] right all
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right they've got a lot of live music here so I'm going to go ahead and say
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this oh look at these kids in their jammies getting ice
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cream awesome right so see the patio area
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there's a uh hog and do shop right there um look at all the people out here
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having fun um
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rentals it's crowded but it's not nearly as crowded as it is in the winter lot of people
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with uh speaking different languages here it's an international destination
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okay um so we are here at the beest of
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discover Veil my wife who many of you know may as uh may know as traveling
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mail at traveling mail.com um they brought her here so that she could write
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a blog post about all the fun things to do in Veil Valley and they have
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been um we've gotten to do just a ton of fun stuff we went up to the top of
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mountain and uh rode over the Alpine
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Coaster and went on these Mountain tubes which were super fun and we uh took
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an a llama hike so we hiked with llamas and They Carried our
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lunches and um then we
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also oh we went to the um the symphony last night and had this amazing shuder
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board uh and today we went whitewater rafting and tonight we're having another
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dinner we ate at the Chop House the first night it's been great there is oh we went to the uh ducked back down here
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towards the creek so we could follow that uh we went to the skiing and Snowboard
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Museum which was free and they also have a free shut shuttle bus all through town
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uh it's been just a lot of fun um hanging out and dining and
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enjoying all the fun things to do here and discover at Veil so traveling mail
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will be writing a blog post so keep an eye out for that um and it will have a
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ton of the details of the fun stuff that we've done I think there's a neat bridge over
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the creek over there and I said this is Gore Creek uh one of the things we saw and maybe
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we'll see again tonight was people tubing down this
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Creek you can rent tubes and it's really shallow and uh Meandering it looks Rocky
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but the water's not very fast so it's it's pretty tame but really fun looking
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thing to do um I mentioned the mountain biking and I there's just a ton of stuff
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to do here but one of the things I like is it's just so quiet and um we've seen all sorts of kids running
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around and they're getting a lot of free rain and to be out here in the trees and
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the river and the forest and there's lots of open space for them to run around and it's just really
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Pleasant we're back on that bike path um I have
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filmed a couple other walks here in Vale over the years so if you want more of
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the lme head area check those out um check out here come some bikers
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check out Citys virtualers.com to find those very easily where the walks are
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organized by walk time and length there's also an art walk or an
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art Trail here lots of public art the sign reminded me of that but also the flowers there are just so many wonderful
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flowers Melinda has been ecstatic with all the flowers we'll see a lot more as
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we go here's somebody with some of the rental tubes it's like a
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dad action is a hi there Beast of Burden
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we uh the the whitewater rafting was down the valley um Downstream on the Colorado
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River I think it's the Gunnison Canyon but it's we ended up just past Glenwood
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Springs and we had a great time I think that was there was a bunch of companies but but um I think we went with
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Timberline super fun super great people shared an raft with a family from
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Texas they were super
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nice over to the left is the veil Public Library I love all the rock and wood
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that's been incorporated into the design of things
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looks like something new is being built here wonder if that's going to be a
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private residence or condos kind of commercial building
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this big building here I believe is the Denver or the veil Health Center
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um basically the hospital Bale Health hospital and The Insider tip oh here's
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some of these flowers uh is that it has a Starbucks in the lobby and
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apparently it has one of the best views of any Star Starbucks ever highly recommended we haven't been
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up there yet but look at all these awesome
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flowers wow this looks like a private resident
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Here Comes one of the free buses I guess there's three lines there's one that says in town and that
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will take us take you all the way out to um well to the east side of
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town where the Gerald R Ford Amphitheater is and where the Betty Ford
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botanical gardens is
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nice and
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quiet I wonder I'm always curious about real estate prices the prices for these
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homes off to our right must be
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substantial there's the access to the lobby the other side is up much higher
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the main entrance um
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it's kind of a retro house it looks like it's been here for a while kind of nice or Multiplex
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maybe lot of people using regular bikes but also ebikes just to get around I
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love these daisies I think these are daisies this place good Lord
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um which I think probably makes a good good it's probably a really good way to
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get around since it's such a compact place
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um parking is at a premium uh they do have some either some
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public parking garages uh and I don't I don't know what the cost is on that I have parked there
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before maybe I might mention that in my other walks
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um this
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place I want to thank our patreon supporters for your contributions um
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really do appreciate it it makes uh these walks that much more
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sustainable um and it really is a huge vote of encouragement to me
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and I appreciate it so thank you very much if you want to learn more there's links down in the description for
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Facebook coffee and patreon I think patreon is four bucks five bucks a
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month so nice little garden
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[Music]
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going to go over here cuz there's an art installation off to the left the remedy
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Bar spaceside Cafe I think it's the Four Seasons um nice little garden but then
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there's these three bears made out of wire which is pretty cool somebody's put flowers in their eyes and ears those
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weren't there yesterday [Music]
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we are going to get into the main Bale Center the sort of center of the resort
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here in just a
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bit it's kind of got a the whole area at times has a
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Germanic theme or uh Alpine theme which you'll
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see part of that is with the window flower boxes and balcony flower boxes
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you see that over there a lot and then sort of just the design elements as well this hotel up here on the corners
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is the sonen Alp sonen Alp Hotel s o NN n a l
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p really nice place um my wife went took
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we went into the lobby they supposedly have a bar but it's closed for the summer season
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and I can see how awesome it would be in the winter it's just got this big thick
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walls and leather seats and um kind of low ceilings fireplaces everywhere it's
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amazing looks like they might be open today
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some folks eating fondu out
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there I know it's uh a pre-planned community in Resort but I do like these
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pedestrian areas Studies have shown that when you pedest Trea and I as a section
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of City it actually increases uh foot traffic even though that seems to go
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against uh not common sense but seem the the Assumption I think I think a lot of
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business owners are worried with all legitimate uh concern about losing
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traffic when the cars can't come in close but apparently it is the
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opposite well this is the alpen Rose we're going to eat dinner there later tonight apparently That's a classic old
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Veil
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location look how look how these stretch up and up and
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up very densely built in here which is great right better than sprawling
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Galleries and jewelry stores and we'll be coming up on sort of a public area another wider public area
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that I think is a they turn into a skating rink in the winter but now it's
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sort of an activity area
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[Music] free bus again people waiting to get
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on here we go guess this is East
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Meadow they've got a bunch of cornhole tables out there places
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to uh places to sit down and have a
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cocktail or something the chasing rabbits to restaurant over there is apparently quite nice you're going to
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want to make a reservation uh Veil Brewing Company DEC
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Etc but this is a a Hopping area for
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sure these fancy places looks like they got a bit of a market going
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here and I think if we went just up here we
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would get up to the h Ski and Snowboard
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Museum but I think we're going to walk around this way see the
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market some of these other buildings and I think we go to the
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covered bridge over here so you can access the slopes via
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the over by lion's head smells good over here
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too or you can come over to this side and access the
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slopes oh there's something that smells cinnamony smells
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wonderful cinnamon roasted nuts that's what it [Music]
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is smoked salmon and
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Loy okay so what we're going to do is we're going to cross the creek again oh my goodness that smells good
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can see some more tubes over there and kids that have been playing in the creek
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and I believe they can raise those there's some metal stuff right at that rapid that they can raise up to make it
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more of a rapid and in June way in the distance well in the distance you can see a couple more people tubing maybe um
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but they do some sort of Whitewater event through town in June some sort of
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competition see you can you there's a nature path on the left side and then more of a developed path on the right
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we're going to continue up here and sort of do a loop we'll go up here make a left and
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then cross back over to the other side on the covered bridge that's my plan anyway we'll see how how it turns out
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[Music] got view of some of the mountains the
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mountains around here are just stunning man they are big the flowers on this
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place you know my love seeing all the docks the dogs
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around too it's fun and you might hear a really high pitched Trill I don't know
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if the mic will pick it up but that's hummingbirds whizzing around a million miles an
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[Music]
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hour kind of neat woodworking on this place to the left
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the residences at Bell
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[Music]
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Tower lots of nooks and crannies around here to explore little splash pool
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Fountain over here kind
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of losing my bearings a little
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bit all right I think I'm going to duck up here real quick to the right
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[Music]
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excuse
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me what an awesome place to be able to send your kid down the river it's like
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it's kind of seems wild uh and exciting but it's also so
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controlled and safe uh that there you don't have to worry too much and you can walk along
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the sides to follow along lots of
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access little playgrounds as well
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H this is is not taking me where I thought it was taking me but sort of
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the the deal with me in my walking uh we'll go this way is kind of I just went
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a different way so Burton is a famous
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snowboard uh company and learned a little bit about them and their Origins
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at the Museum I mentioned earlier this Gondola seems to be still
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running last year wasn't and it did a 76 mile is
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it not was it on a
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[Music]
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guess they're just finishing up for the day maybe uh so off to the left you get some
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more nature trails I think I'm going to duck back in more art and sculpture I'm
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going to duck back and go back into this sort of center part of town or this
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more uh active area and and then we will make our way further east we're making
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our way west to east along this walk mainly that's the general Trend you can see some other sides of the valley there
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big houses up on there must be spectacular
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views first chair we went in there the other night got some nachos and the nicest guy was there um there an ice
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cream store here cafes more Trails more
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paths more
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[Music] fun your girl has a dog in her purse
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um it is a wide variety of people that we're seeing here it's not all the
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1centers multi-millionaires I mean it's it's you're going to spend some money here but it's a lot of different just
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everyday people and having a good relaxed time which I
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appreciate another Alpine themed
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location there's the clock tower we saw just a little bit ago oh and look at this
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uh flower flowered bu flowed Gorsuch limited not
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sure what they do lots of flowers down here
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oh here we go CT bridge I think that's what we're looking for we made into a lot of Lo and music and sort of uh it's
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right around dinner time so people are out having a good time a lot of live music I think that person was singing
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live um huh whiskey and spirit
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company okay tenth Mountain whiskey and spirit company one of the things we picked up at the Museum museum is the
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10th Mountain division history which was a uh division that trained locally and
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they were focused on Mountain Warfare during World War II and
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uh uh really really fascinating stuff and and how their
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uh their history and here's some tubers there's a somebody with a little
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kid having a great time a little
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cooler and then if you look over here so you can see there's lots of places to get in and out of the creek you can see
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it's shallow they're waiting down there little
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beaches sometimes you might need to push oh here's the museum
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and here's a monument to them ski Trooper but they also did mountain
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climbing alpineer and stuff as well but then they came back and started kind of
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started the ski industry here really built it up and it's in that uh just below the
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village Veil Village Welcome Center um free to go into and look around so definitely check
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that out but now we are going going
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to we're going to make our way further
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east like somebody might be packing up to head
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home oops
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I just love seeing all these families and kids able to ride their bikes around
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and I don't know it's just nice to see people able to do that
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we're going to try and find our way back to this um nature path along the way I think our earlier my earlier
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walks uh ended back in the veil Village and I did more uh walking around
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exploring the shops and stuff this one I want to get a little bit more mileage under our belt
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see a ton of bikes locked up and not locked
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[Music]
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up I think this place is the gravity house h
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s okay so if we follow this road Road um it's going to Loop over to the
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left and go along a bunch more condos and houses and that sort of thing
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beautiful beautiful area and one of the things we were noticing that I really enjoy is how well
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these buildings are integrated into the trees and the forest and they not just
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clear everything and make a lawn they've either left the trees in a lot of cases
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or been around long enough with the trees to allow the trees to grow up again here's some more tubers
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how idyllic is
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this you know granted my own personal philosophy is it would be
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even more idyllic without all the buildings and stuff but we have to have some buildings in some
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places and if you're going to have them it's I think it's nicer to have it like this
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sh
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some older buildings older
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style there's a little hummingbird on this branch of the spruce if you can see
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it in
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there away went just want to take you down to the creek real quick
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quickly my first thought about having the houses down this close to the creek is there must be some sort of flood risk
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but have to believe there's some sort of mitigation strategy
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along the way
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here for
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for
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one of the um cons I guess about the is that
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because the valley is so narrow they've pushed you know the the interstate has to come through here I70
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and it's just on the other side excuse me
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about a couple hundred yards to the left here and you can barely hear it
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though uh every once in a while I hear the rumble of a truck go by but for the most part it's pretty quiet
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different different levels at different places starting to hear a little bit more
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now I think we're on the edge of a sports area you can hear it
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yep you can see it right there actually maybe 100 meters 100 yards
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away but the bird calls are louder
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so I think the veil also owns Beaver Creek which is further west another ski resort
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area and I don't know how the ski passes work in the winter we're making it work
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we have a little bit of an uh education center and then a park kind of neat this one has to do
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with birds and dinosaurs and then playgrounds and open
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space and sporting equipment even a grill and some bathrooms
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some tubers seeing even more tubers today than I did
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yesterday another covered foot Bridge more picnic tables and
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[Music] grills and I believe further over is the
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Betty Ford botanical gardens uh
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I don't have any details on that they were closed yesterday for a private party or part of it was
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closed maybe we'll be able to find our way through there after we go to the amphitheater which is where we are
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headed at the moment
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there's a nature trail off to the
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right of a neat painted sphere over here let's take a look at that I just think it's
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neat these limestone rocks all the plants growing on
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them this is really cool I
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think it's called The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens veil by Cheryl St John really
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neat
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it's the Children's Garden and over to our left is the
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amphitheater and oh looks like it's kind of open we'll just go poke our head in it's a really beautiful stage and
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covered bits as well as maybe won't go um you
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can see the grassy area there's some seating under the roof amazing
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um AV setup and then you can kind of see in the back there various levels of lawn to
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sit on and then behind the um stage are all these wonderful flowers and Gardens
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and stuff all right
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and this is and that's the Gerald R Ford Amphitheater this is the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens the highest Alpine
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Gardens or botanical gardens in I think in the world maybe that's what someone said so let's just Mosey along here for
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a few minutes just soak it all in here
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lots of little paid paths gravel paths
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benches
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everywhere and most of the stuff is tagged with signs with uh common and scientific
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names
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Crow
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now we're getting some Highway noise up by the soccer
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fields so on this far Hillside just tons and tons and tons of Aspen trees I would
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love to come back in October and just see all the
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foliage it must be just
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amazing there looks like a beaver dam analog they've
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created Alpine garden tool shed and cabin I mean other than
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the sound of the Highway which you can get away from fairly quickly there an um
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softball or baseball field here uh what an idic Place let's go back in
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there and descend probably 10 ft to get away
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from this
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sound see where this path off the left goes for
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and just like that we're away from the highway sounds and back to the sounds of running water and families having a good
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time okay I think that's going to be our walk we're right around 50 minutes here thank you for joining me in Veil
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Colorado once again this time a summer season I believe my other have been in the
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winter uh I believe one was in February one was in November
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maybe um what a beautiful place um you know it's it is it's not let me
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see you can get into wild areas from here very very easily uh this is very
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self-contained and uh calming and Serene in a lot of ways um especially uh
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uh further out here in the gardens area and along the creek you can certainly get into a party scene if you want to
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find it in town or fine dining or desserts or family entertainment that
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sort of thing live music I mentioned all that uh but just a beautiful beautiful
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part of the world and uh because the highway is so here right here and we're only what is it maybe an hour and a half
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2 hours from Denver uh they have a major International Airport and a train station and his own
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wonderful uh culture down there it's really easy access easily accessible here so um if you haven't been to Vil I
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hope you will let me know if you come if you have been to Veil I hope you'll share your memories and your thoughts
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your Corrections Etc with me as well and mainly thank you for joining me I appreciate you sharing your time with me
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uh I hope you've enjoyed it and I will see you again next time not sure from where
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uh but it will be uh be fun keep on stepping
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