Post blogger Jim Vail has spent over 100,000 miles on the road hereabouts and he's got a few choice thoughts for RFTA.
Steve Allredge reports the powers that be at Related Westpac are taking it on the chin for Snowmass Mall.
Anderson Ranch Arts Center is ready to ring in the winter with a bit of winter art of the outdoor variety. "Rally your friends," suggests the Ranch, "to create an 8′ x 8′ x 8′ snow sculpture in 48 hours and win up to $2000 in prize money! Six teams of up to six people each will be chosen to compete from design drawings based on artist ingenuity, clarity of concept, and three-dimensional observation. Each team that successfully completes their sculpture receives a cash prize ranging from $500 to $2000 for their time and creative effort." Applications are due January 3, 2008.
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SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News)–The Snowmass Club has achieved designation as a “Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary” through the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses, an Audubon International program. The Snowmass Club is the 30th course in Colorado and the 665th in the world to receive the honor.
“Our golf course was redesigned in 2003 to enhance its connection to the natural surroundings,” says course superintendent Alan Ogren. “The changes include development of a nature trail along Brush Creek, rehabilitation and building of wetlands and the significant increase in the use of natural roughs. Combine these improvements with the LEED-Silver certified golf clubhouse and we’ve created a course that strives to operate sustainably.” Ogren has led the effort to obtain sanctuary status on this course and is also being recognized for Environmental Stewardship by Audubon International.
Continue Reading May 12th, 2008
First Chair, of course, means you are the first person on the lift, the first civilian up the mountain on a given day. That seemed like a great idea but it had never happened to me in my lifetime for all the usual lessons. But all that changed for me last weekend in Snowmass. The fates had conspired to get me to the mountain early, with time for coffee at Paradise before I put on my boots.
Continue Reading January 11th, 2008
Rally your friends to create an 8′ x 8′ x 8′ snow sculpture in 48 hours and win up to $2000 in prize money! Six teams of up to six people each will be chosen to compete from design drawings based on artist ingenuity, clarity of concept, and three-dimensional observation. Each team that successfully completes their sculpture receives a cash prize ranging from $500 to $2000 for their time and creative effort.
Continue Reading December 21st, 2007
SOURCE: Aspen Skiing Company
MORE THAN TWO FEET OF SNOW HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST 48 HOURS! We are opening new terrain on both mountains as quickly as we can. At Snowmass the Big Burn will open today and Sam’s Knob opened yesterday.
Continue Reading December 2nd, 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
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
SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News)–Former President Bill Clinton just can’t get enough of Aspen and Snowmass.
The last living Democratic President–and one of only two still extant–is making a return trip here for the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Rocky Mountain Institute in August 2007. Clinton was last in Aspen last month for the Aspen Institute Aspen Ideas Festival–and, not coincidentally, for big-ticket fundraisers at Matsuhisa restaurant and Belly Up Aspen.
Continue Reading July 20th, 2007
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