David O. Williams — Real Aspen Writer

David O. Williams was hired by the owner of the Vail Daily and Summit Daily News while standing around a keg of beer in the parking lot of Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in the spring of 1991. Sports editor morphed into ski editor, then city editor, before Williams launched the competing Daily Trail in 1998.

When the Vail Daily bought the Trail in 2004, Williams struck out on his own as a freelancer. A one-time regular columnist and freelance contributor for the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Williams' work also has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Aspen Daily News, L.A. Weekly, Powder Magazine, Ski Magazine, Skiing Magazine, 5280 and United Hemispheres.

Williams has covered two Winter Olympics (Torino in 2006 and Vancouver in 2010) for the Olympic News Service and currently serves as a senior fellow covering environmental and energy news for the nonprofit Colorado Independent political news site. He formed Real Vail with Vail natives Tom Boyd and Kent Van Vleet in 2007, and helped launch Real Aspen with veteran journalist Troy Hooper in 2010.

Williams is a founding member of the Vail-based Millennium Society, which funds a number of local charities. He and his wife Kristin, a Battle Mountain High School graduate and true Vail local, live in West Vail with their three boys, Nick, Max and Rennick.

Kristin Kenney Williams, a former journalist, is Vail Resorts' director of public affairs for Eagle County. Real Vail and Real Aspen are independent of Vail Resorts.

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