Let it Snow! Walk into any local coffee shop, ski shop, bar, hockey locker room around Aspen and the topic will be, “When will it snow?” The East has seen its share, Jackson Hole and The Tetons have seen some pretty good snowfall as well as Mammoth in Cali and upwards North in Montana…however in Colorado we wait! No doubt here in Colorado we have been blessed with bluebird skies and some cold nights to thankfully allow for snowmaking and build some good manmade product but we

Snowmass’ 50th Celebration (1967 – 2017) There might have been little snow – but there was BIG Celebration. The celebration of Snowmass’ 50th was not about snow it was about Nostalgia, Fun, Parties, Remembrance, the Future and Bananas – a lot of Bananas! While over 12,000 tickets had been sold for Friday the 15th at 1967’s price of $6.50, only about 6,500 people made it through the lift line ticket corrals – yet, it is possible the other 6,000 were at Venga Venga, stuck in ro

Mikaela Is Mikaela for real…? the World Cup season just got started and Mikaela Shiffrin continued to just get better and it is tough to get better when you are the best. Killington, VT put on another spectacular World Cup over Thanksgiving week with huge crowds and a very fast course. Mikaela finished 2nd in GS and won the slalom the following day. All good -- but the best is yet to come! The following weekend she upped the ante and competed in the Downhill at Lake Louise. I

A Tough Start Two years ago we were skiing knee deep powder on Thanksgiving day. It is still early but as I write on December 3 it is 56 degrees and I am about to get ready to go on a bike ride. We know the snow will come and SKI Co has done a great job making snow as temperatures allow and opening up as much terrain as they can with limited help from Mother Nature. Hoping for a big change especially with Snowmass’s 50th Celebration and thousands of tickets having been sold f