BEAVER CREEK — Gabrie Higbie has been skiing at Beaver Creek for years, but Saturday’s run-in with Vice President Joe Biden was one of her most exciting days on the mountain.
Higbie arrived at Beaver Creek early Saturday morning to drop off her 4-year-old son, Sam, at ski school. When her car was searched by the Secret Service and bomb-sniffing dogs, she said to her son, “Gosh, you would think the president is in town.”
She found out later that it was the vice president causing all the commotion.
She was in Spruce Saddle on Beaver Creek Mountain when a friend told her that Biden was upstairs. She grabbed her friend Beth McKenzie to see if they could get a closer look.
“We were kind of scoping out the scene,” Higbie said. “I pretended I was looking for someone because the Secret Service was everywhere.”
She wasn’t sure how close they could get, but they were determined to get their picture taken with Biden.
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