Time Machine: 60 years ago, Vail Mountain reopens after closing for the season

Time Machine: 60 years ago, Vail Mountain reopens after closing for the season

40 years ago April 18, 1986 One man was dead and another in critical condition after they were involved in separate but “startlingly similar” car accidents in Dowd Junction, the Vail Trail reported. Timothy J. Jacobs, 23, of Greeley, was driving west in Dowd Junction at about 70 mph on April 7 when he got too close to the shoulder and hit a rock that had fallen from the bordering cliffs. “That caused him to lose control of his Toyota Celica, whi…