If you’re looking for a one-of-a-kind Valentine’s Dinner experience, look no further, literally. The Blind Cafe is coming to Aspen. The Blind Cafe is a non-profit out of Boulder, Colorado with a very simple purpose, “to help people feel more alive, awake, present and connected to each other!” It’s the perfect, unique way to spend [...]
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The Aspen Blind Cafe – Valentine’s Dinner in the Dark!
Posted in Adventures in Aspen, Arts & Culture, tagged The Blind Cafe, The Sky Hotel, Valentine's Day in Aspen on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“The Bachelorette Aspen” & Singles Mixer
Posted in Adventures in Aspen, Beautiful Aspen, tagged Hotel Jerome, Valentine's Day in Aspen on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Attention singles in Aspen! The Hotel Jerome is giving you a head start on finding your Valentine this year. They are playing host to two separate singles events this weekend starting Saturday, February 11th. The “Bachelorette Aspen” is looking for 12-16 bachelors to participate in a three day competition. The Bachelorette will start with speed dating and end [...]
2012 Aspen Nordic Festival: Featuring the Owl Creek Chase
Posted in Adventures in Aspen, Skiing, Uncategorized, tagged Aspen Nordic Festival, AVSC, Owl Creek Chase on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Aspen may be known for its downhill skiing, but the Nordic Skiers are just as competitive. Come check out some legs and lungs in Colorado’s largest cross-country ski race, the Owl Creek Chase, this Sunday, February 12, 2012. This race has been one of the state’s premier cross-country ski races since 1985. The 21K freestyle race course starts in Snowmass [...]
Super Bowl XLVI in Aspen
Posted in Adventures in Aspen, Tips, tagged Aspen Restaurants, Super Bowl XLVI on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For all of you football fans out there, fear not, although Aspen is a ski town its football friendly too. If you don’t have a flat screen in your hotel room, or just enjoy a little atmosphere, there are several places to enjoy good food and the big game. The 9-7 New York Giants meet [...]
Winter X Games 16 Wrap Up
Posted in Adventures in Aspen, Skiing, Snowboarding, tagged Aspen, Sarah Burke, Shaun White, Winter X Games in Aspen on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The skies are dark tonight after four days of glow which was reminiscent to that of a full moon. Alas, the lights were merely those of Winter X Games 16 right here in our own backyard. The Games came to a close yesterday, but not without four full days of heart-thumping, adrenaline pumping excitement, including [...]
Aspen Historical Society Offers Ski Tours on 3 Mountains
Posted in Adventures in Aspen, Arts & Culture, Skiing, Snowboarding, tagged Aspen Daily News, Aspen Highlands, Aspen Historical Society, Aspen History, Aspen Mountain, Snowmass on December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
by Curtis Wackerle, for the Aspen Daily News (12/29/11) The Aspen Historical Society is expanding opportunities to learn about area history while skiing local mountains. For three seasons, the society has offered ski history tours on Aspen Mountain, but this year, the tours are being offered at Snowmass and Aspen Highlands as well. Aspen Highlands tours [...]
Aspen is an Eco-Friendly Ski Resort (According to Outside Mag)
Posted in Adventures in Aspen, Beautiful Aspen, Skiing, Snowboarding, tagged Aspen/Snowmass, Eco Aspen, Eco-friendly, Outside Magazine, Outside Online on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A reader of Outside Magazine recently asked the mag’s editors, “what are the most eco-friendly ski resorts?” Surprise, surprise—Aspen is one of them. Here’s what they had to say: “The ski industry has a built-in incentive to mitigate global warming. But the chief reason they promote sustainability is that skiers and snowboarders like you generally [...]
The Buttermilk Superpipe is OPEN!
Posted in Adventures in Aspen, Skiing, Snowboarding, tagged Aspen/Snowmass, Buttermilk, Chris Davenport, Superpipe, Torin Yater Wallace, Winter X Games in Aspen, X Games on December 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Come Winter X Games 16, Buttermilk’s world-renowned 22-foot Superpipe will be the playground and venue for the best skiers and snowboarders in the world. Until all of the cameras and eyes in the ski and snowboard industry focus in on Buttermilk during the last few days of January (1/26-29), the ‘Milk’s Superpipe is open to all [...]
