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Aspen Snowmass Golf Courses Homes Properties

While well known for their winter sports, Aspen and Snowmass have a variety of golf courses in the area that provide great outdoor summertime activities.  For many people, owning real estate on a golf course is a dream retirement home, second home or vacation retreat.  Combine it with access to Aspen and Snowmass skiing and it is [...]

Snowmass Village - Aspen’s Little Sister

 
Growing-up in the shadow of your good looking older sister can be tough.  Until, that is, you come into your own good looks.  It’s been happening at Snowmass over the past two-years.  The entire base area has been massively rebuilt.
 
Much of the original shopping area and restaurants remain, but the new base area is impressive.  [...]

So Many Colorado Ski Resorts So Little Time

If you are visiting this blog, chances are that you have visited at least one of the eleven major Colorado ski resorts.  Very few people get around to visit all of them.  I have as part of my business.  Not only have I visited them all in the winter, but in the summer and fall as [...]

Snowmass Wind Tower

A wind tower was erected at the top of the Snowmass Ski Area recently to evaluate whether electricity generating wind turbines are feasible.  Data will be collected over the next year and evalutated.  If feasible, it is estimated that wind turbines could provide two-thirds to 100-percent of the electric power requirements of the Aspen Ski [...]

Ski Magazine 2008 Readers’ Poll

Nine-thousand Ski Magazine subscribers responded to the 2008 annual survey ranking ski resorts.  The following Colorado ski resorts were among the Top Ten ski resorts in Western North America:

#2 - Vail
#4 - Aspen
#5 - Snowmass
#7 - Breckenridge
#9 - Steamboat Springs

This is a great showing for our Colorado ski resorts.  Nice work!
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Bode Miller In Snowmass

Bode Miller arrived at John McBride’ ranch in Old Snowmass to visit and get a little training in for the upcoming World Cup ski season.  McBridge is Miller’s former coach and friend — a relationship that has spanned a decade.  John retired last year to spend more time with his wife and children.  So how [...]

Jazz Aspen Snowmass

At age 17, Jazz Aspen Snowmass is a teenager.  Bob Dylan, the Yonder Mountain String Band, Dwight Yoakam and John Fogerty are among those entertaining audiences.  jas is a non-profit which is supported through ticket sales, corporate sponsors and individual contributions.  Jim Horowitz, jas president, said:  “Despite the swirl of festivals, we still commit to a [...]