Type Free daily newspaper Publisher Jim Pavelich Founded June 20, 2008 | Format Tabloid Editor John LaConte | |
Headquarters 295 Main St., Suite C103
Edwards, Colorado 81632
United States | ||
The Vail Mountaineer is a 12,000-circulation free daily newspaper distributed in the Eagle Valley Tuesday-Saturday. It was founded by Jim Pavelich, who started the Vail Daily in 1984 and sold it in 1993. The name "mountaineer" is a tribute to the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, which fought World War II on skis. Many members of this honored unit relocated to the Vail area.
Pavelich started the Mountaineer because he became frustrated over the editorial direction of the Vail Daily, which he said seemed to be written and edited by people who didn't want to live in a ski resort.
He told realvail.com: “It was the biggest tourist holiday of the year, and the big headline on the front page, and I’m paraphrasing, said something like, ‘I hate living here.’ And although I don’t remember the details, I remember that the headline was so unbelievably negative about nothing."
The Vail Mountaineer folded without notice or remark on June 1, 2011.