In-Bounds Avalanche Kills Skier

SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News)–A 25-year-old resident of Snowmass Village perhished in an in-bounds avalanche Thursday. Nicholas Blake Davidson was descibed in a story in the Aspen Daily News as a “semi-professional” skier sponsored by High Ride Society Freeride Co. He died near Rayburn’s Run in Hanging Valley.

Continue Reading Add comment December 22nd, 2006

The End Of The World As We Know It

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 Add comment December 17th, 2006

Snowmass Dissed In Mag Ratings

SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News)–Despite the new gondola now dangling from the aborning Base Village to Elk Camp, Snowmass Ski Area don’t get no respect.

Not from Sunset magazine, at least, the publication dedicated to the glories of the West. In a “Top 10 Ski Resorts For All Reasons,” neither Snowmass nor the other three Aspen Skiing Company properties–Aspen Mountain, Aspen Highlands, and Buttermilk–gets so much as a nod from the magazine’s Travel section. In the entire state of Colorado, only Vail at #7 and Winter Park Resort at #8 manage to make the Top 10.

Continue Reading Add comment December 14th, 2006

More Affordable Housing For Snowmass

SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News)–The Town of Snowmass Village knows the people who live and work in the Roaring Fork Valley need a roof over their heads–an affordable roof, that is. In a town being transformed by the mega Base Village development, that kind of housing alternative is not automatic.

Town Council approved a Phase One plan Monday night that means an additional five to 14 units will be built on the Rodeo lot in Snowmass by Roaring Fork Custom Homes and the Timber Creek builders.

Continue Reading Add comment December 6th, 2006