Are you hanging in Hollywood and longing for an Aspen getaway? Maybe you’re stuck in traffic on the 5 and dreaming of arching turns on Aspen Mountain? Does the apres-ski scene in Los Angeles not really do it for you—is there an apres scene in LA? Then pick up the current issue of Los Angeles Magazine for a how-to-guide on Aspen! Erin Rottman, contributor at LA Mag, wrote an awesome piece on “how to do Aspen on the cheap!”

“Viewing Aspen through the lens of Frette and Fendi,” writes Rottman, “celebrities and second homes is to see only part of the image. Carpeted with white-trunked aspen, the three-and-a-half-square-mile town lies in a box canyon between three mountains—Red, Smuggler, and Aspen—and is framed in the near distance by peaks that rise like spirits more than 14,000 feet above sea level. Once among the country’s most productive silver mining camps, the area has become one of the glitziest ski resorts. But there are still ways to enjoy the town—and the ESPN Winter X Games at the end of the month—without the $800 hotel room and $22 burger.”

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