
Post blogger Mitch Mulhall is no stranger to fly fishing. Don't believe us? Just ask him.

This is your chance to get to the Snowmass Cross-Country Center for an X-C ski or snowshoe by the light of a beautiful Colorado moon.

Post blogger Amanda Boxtel, co-founder of Challenge Aspen, returns to the valley after her second trip to Delhi, India, for experimental embryonic stem-cell therapy. "Human Embryonic Stem Cells are alive and growing in my body," she blogs from afar, "infusing me with life and awakening my legs. As I near the end of my second treatment at Nutech Mediworld, I continue to regain strength. I have three days before I board my flight bound for the US. This time around, I am discovering that my body is so much more sensitive to the treatment, and I am more in tune with my bodily sensations."
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Aspen, CO … Compassion and creativity collide on December 5 as an innovative, cross-cultural program of the Aspen Writers’ Foundation (AWF) and Anderson Ranch Arts Center (ARAC) makes its debut. The program, known as Story Swap, uses storytelling, creative writing and the visual arts to generate understanding between native and non-native English speakers at the high school level. The work of approximately 40 Basalt High School students will be featured in a gallery exhibition and presentation at 5 pm at the Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen . The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Continue Reading November 20th, 2007
In the Roaring Fork Valley, Aspen has the title for the most socialistic municipality. If there’s a chance for the local Aspen poobahs to levy a tax or stick their nose in your business, then chances are that’s just what they’re going to do.
But not even the Aspen Politburo has the stones to do what the Town Council has done at Snowmass: to ban smoking outdoors in the Town of Snowmass Village.
Outdoors. That’s right. Light up in the great outdoors of Snowmass Village and you are toast–or at least subject to a fine as high as $1,000. Town Councilor Jack Wilkinson proposed the ban, according to a local paper, in part because of the impact of smoking on the health of his family.
Continue Reading November 11th, 2007
SNOWMASS VILLAGE, COLORADO (Post Time News)–In the midst of massive construction, the Town of Snowmass Village is trying to remind tourists and travelers that there’s still a pretty fab mountain to be skied while the constuction continues.
Continue Reading November 3rd, 2007
SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News)–The Town of Snomass Village is going to get its name-brand hotel after all.
Pat Smith–president of Related Westpac, the developer of Base Village–said on the “Con Games with Michael Conniff” radio show on KNFO radio (106.1 FM) that Snowmass would in fact see a chain hotel like Marriot or Westin in the conference hotel facility planned for the town. The conference space in the hotel in the West Village, AKA the Snowmass Mall, will complement the Viceroy Hotel approved for Base Village.
Continue Reading September 30th, 2007
“Yes Dr. Ashish. Deal! I’ll move my right hamstring, I promise!” I made this statement with complete confidence…and in front of Dale, with both of our eyes focused on my lower right leg as I lay on my side isolating my upper body and hip flexors; I moved my right hamstring on command! My leg and foot moved backwards from the knee down. The movement was slight (an inch or two is all) but it was there. I then sat up with glee and said, “Let me try my toes.”
Continue Reading August 22nd, 2007
SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News)–It’s like Bat Day at the stadium
The first 500 participant in the Snowmass Wellness Experience August 17-19, 2007, will take home a bagfull of goodies and good things.
Welcome bags include samples valued at $75 from companies like Fruitabu, Arrowhead Mills, Back To Nature, Nordic Naturals, Terra Chips, and Yogi Tea.
Continue Reading August 16th, 2007
SNOWMASS, COLORADO–If you can feel for a corporation than I feel for Related WestPac. I really do. Because no matter what they do here–even if they do everything right–they have to live with what came before and the chaos of construction here that is still to come.
People around here hate developers. It’s that simple. No matter how many good things Related WestPac president Pat Smith does, there are those who live here who will still hate him merely because he’s a developer–and because of what he inherited. Pat Smith is the custodian of the soul of a town that has spent the better part of the recent past in development hell.
Continue Reading August 14th, 2007
BASALT, COLORADO–They came in peace but they left in a Prius.
At the Peace Ranch parking lot here Saturday night, one Prius after another was stacked up and ready for lift-off, like so many carbonizers at the Indianapolis 500. The Priuses in question–is that the plural of Prius?–were shiny, new, and righteous, for they were ready to transport the thousands of people who wended their way to one of the more remote corners of Basalt for the RMI:25 celebration of the Rocky Mountain Institute, the “think and do tank” so green it leaves rivals green with envy. And what better place for a hybrid than a hoe-down where the back-patting for what RMI has wrought was nothing less than thunderous?
Like one of those old Republican conferences on family values, the RMI celebration would drive those on the other side of the debate absolutely bonkers.
Continue Reading August 13th, 2007
I continue to feel strong and the lower half of my body is firing up with life. Every exercise I execute with Chavi each morning feels stronger. I have more control with my leg movements and I am learning to isolate different muscles. I can raise my knees up in a bent position from lying straight on the bed and amazingly, my ability to crawl backwards is consistent and powered by new muscles that have been asleep for fifteen years. With the slight use of my hip flexors, since my injury I have always been able to balance on my hands and knees and crawl forwards, but never backwards. I am astounded by my strength and new abilities. Although I am not kic king yet in the literal sense, I get a kick out of examining my limbs as they reclaim life. My hamstring on the left leg works when I least expect it, and occasionally in front of an audience. Call it performance anxiety, but I figure that muscle has been hibernating for such a long time, it will take a little while…and some more ‘waiting’ to bring it back to life in the normal sense.
Continue Reading August 12th, 2007
SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News)–Former New York Governor George E. Pataki will be in Snowmass over the next several days both for the Rocky Mountain Institute’s 25th Anniversary celebration and for Related Westpac’s announcement of a green initiative in its development here of Base Village.
The former Governor is known for beeing green. BusinessWeek named him one of the top 20 “Individuals who stand out for their efforts to cut gases that cause global warming” in the world. Also, in 2006, Vanity Fair called him a governor who “gets it” in its inaugural “Green Issue” for his efforts concerning the environment.
Continue Reading August 9th, 2007
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