Ross's email appeared my inbox with the aforementioned title in the subject line. Attached to it was this photo of Snowmass ski area and surrounding peaks as seen through an airplane window. As a skier, Ross was of course being facetious with his comment, but even non-skiers agree that it's just an ugly scene. And if you are into spring ski tours, then watching the line of dirty snow, or...
Bummer. Just when we thought we finished a season without a dust layer, it arrived. Actually, we never really acknowledged the lack of dust. And how soon we forget. With somewhere north of six dust events around Aspen last season(it was pretty bad, read here), we shouldn't have been surprised at all when the suspicious glow in the sky preceded our most recent storm last week. (more…)
The Writing's on the Snow I think we might be done. Five weeks ago I laid out two possible scenarios concerning the brown snow this spring, the dust would either be a non-issue or it would cut the season short. Opinions around town favored the latter as the likely outcome, and that's understandable because it looked pretty bad around here. For many, one look up at the dirty snow dried up...
Amos Whiting, Dirk and I headed to Mount Sopris on Friday. Our initial plan was to ski the Crystal Chute, the 6000 foot couloir that descends towards Carbondale, a line that has been on all of our 'ticklists' for some time. After shuttling a car to the couloirs exit, or at least where we believed it to be, we drove towards the Dinkle Lake trailhead and made our way up...
Much to some locals' dismay, the regular season in Aspen wrapped up last Sunday. If you ask me, it's a blessing in disguise because like most sports, it's the post season where things get exciting. For many, work stops until the tourists return for summer, the area snowpack is usually at it's annual peak and the beautiful spring weather morphs the snow into its safer, predictable, spring variety. If the...
We met in Aspen in 2000 and have been happily stuck in the rockies ever since, getting out in the mountains every day we can, in every season and by all means possible. Read More
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