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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
Aspen/Snowmass Named A “Green Ski Resort” by National Geographic
Posted in Beautiful Aspen, Skiing, Snowboarding, tagged Aspen Highlands, Aspen/Snowmass, Auden Schendler, Eco Aspen, Green Resorts, National Geographic, Solar Energy on December 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
National Geographic just highlighted eight ski resorts throughout the world that “give green energy a lift.” Aspen Highlands joins the list for being the industry leader when it comes to solar, joining world-renowned resorts like Whistler and Davos, Lech and Grand Targhee. Here’s what National Geographic had to say about Aspen Highlands (and CLICK HERE [...]
An Aspen Experience Caught on Camera
Posted in Adventures in Aspen, Skiing, Snowboarding, tagged Aspen Experience, GoPro Cameras on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So often the pro-quality videos we see of Aspen are of waste-deep powder, two-storey cliff drops and double rotation tricks boosted out of Buttermilk’s Superpipe. But, those videos don’t capture what most of us experience on our own ski vacations. While scouring the internet for Aspen-centric content, I came across this video by Miguel Endara. [...]
Keep Your Eyes Peeled For Johnny Depp In Aspen
Posted in Adventures in Aspen, Arts & Culture, Aspen Dining, Beautiful Aspen, Holidays in Aspen, Skiing, Snowboarding, tagged Aspen Peak Magazine, Chris Davenport, Fashion, Johnny Depp, Mount Everest, Neal Beidleman on November 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Johnny Depp is all over downtown Aspen right now. He’s in hotel lobbies, at City Market and on newsstands. Depp’s picture is gracing the cover of the current issue of Aspen Peak magazine. Award-winning writer Douglas Brinkley writes a terrific expose about Depp and his newest film, The Rum Diary. Here’s an excerpt from Brinkley’s piece on Depp (CLICK HERE [...]
News Flash: Aspen Highlands Has Challenging Terrain
Posted in Adventures in Aspen, Beautiful Aspen, Skiing, Snowboarding, tagged SKI Magazine on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve heard Aspen’s ski and snowboard terrain described in a myriad of different ways. “Family friendly,” “great for beginners,”world-class,” “awesome” and “steep” have all been used in our sport’s lexicon to describe the terrain found throughout the four mountains in Aspen/Snowmass. SKI Magazine has added “challenging” into the mix. But, they’re just saying what we already [...]
