After a painfully slow start to the season, one that saw Thanksgiving Day clogging on Fanny Hill, the Snowmass Ski Area was able to embrace some 19 inches over fresh powder over the weekend. "We are opening new terrain on both mountains as quickly as we can," reports Skico. "At Snowmass the Big Burn will open today and Sam’s Knob opened yesterday. The Treehouse Kids’ Adventure Center is open for kids of all ages." Lift tickets are a relative bargain until further notice at a discounted $66.
Post blogger Keith Hemstreet does not sufer fools gladly, especially when they are pontificating in meetings. "The act of taking notes during a meeting is just that, an act," he blogs. "I have legal pads full of notes stuffed in my desk drawer that I have never once referenced. In my experience, note taking is done for two reasons: First, to pretend that you care about what is being said during the meeting. Second, to stay awake while someone babbles on about things you simply don’t care about. As I listened to the lecture on customer service, I felt immense pity for the staff for having to endure such a boring presentation. I also felt pity for the manager for having to give such a boring presentation. In the manager’s voice I could hear the phony enthusiasm one must employ when disseminating supposedly 'meaningful' and 'important' information to subordinates."
The Aspen Chamber Resort Association--including Snowmass businesses--wants to show visitors the love. ACRA is ready when you are.
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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
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, 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–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 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
SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News)—The chief executive officer of Aspen Skiing Company (Skico) said the company “has invested over $68 million in Snowmass since the approval of Base Village and we have many more improvements planned, including two new on-mountain restaurants.”
Continue Reading July 14th, 2007
Here’s the part I don’t get: after years of pain and campaigning, why in the name of Fanny Hill would Aspen Skiing Company sell out the rights to develop Snowmass Base Village to Pat Smith?
Continue Reading May 22nd, 2007
SNOWMASS VILLAGE, COLORADO (Post Time News)—The Town of Snowmass Village has scheduled an open meeting Monday from 5 to 6:30 PM to discuss the subject on everyone’s mind: what to do about all the traffic and construction generated by the aborning Base Village
The meeting is meant as part of the Town’s Construction Coordination and Impact Mitigation Plan. According to an official pronouncement: “The Town of Snowmass Village and the development community are committed to a collaborative effort to mitigate construction impacts and inform citizens of construction activity.”
Continue Reading April 6th, 2007
SNOWMASS VILLAGE, COLORADO (Post Time News)–Make no mistake. Developer Patrick Smith of WestPac Investments Colorado LLC had all the money he needed–$169 million, for the record–to buy Base Village and to become the dominant force here in the Town of Snowmass Village.
Continue Reading March 13th, 2007
It looked like the end of the world Sunday at Snowmass, and not just because the fog and the powder came like it was going nowhere soon. EVen so I’m not talking about the weather–I’m talking about the new Elk Camp gondola, the first irrefutable sign that Aspen Skiing Company’s designs on Snowmass Ski Area will indeed be fulfilled.
The new gondola is an idea beyond great by almost any measure. The airborne Jetsonian vehicle will whisk and whoosh the hordes from the nascent Base Village up the gut of Snowmass just short of Cafe Suzanne. The new Rocky Mountain transit line will no doubt relieve the unbelievable compression at Fanny Hill, and spread the masses across the mountain with mechanical alacrity.
So why am I bummed by this particular form of progress?
Continue Reading December 17th, 2006
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