Power of Four Ski Mountaineering Race Holy extreme! This event has participants covering 11,000 vertical feet of climbing and ski descents on Snowmass, Buttermilk, Aspen Highlands, and Aspen Mountain—without ever getting on a bus. Aspen has a lot of extreme events, but this is serious! It’s the first year, so it should be interesting to…
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I’m in the X Games!
OK, maybe not. BUT I am AT the X Games, last week, before they were the X Games officially, and I am trying out this new workout system called RipCoreFX, which X Gamers Gretchen Bleiler, Jen Hudak, Chris Klug, and Peter Olenik all use too. … not that I will ever, ever do anything as…
[UPDATED] Aspen: Aspen Mountain Opens Saturday
BREAKING UPDATE: I’ve heard from a reliable source that the mountain is NOT opening this weekend. Thanks to some serious dumps of snow the past couple of days, “rumor” has it Aspen Mountain is opening Saturday!! Skiing four days earlier than we thought! SkiCo hasn’t officially announced it, but everyone knows it’s true!! Of course,…
Aspen: Summit for Life Kickoff (free drinks!)
So, this is in a couple of hours. Whoops! Shoulda posted it sooner … The Chris Klug Foundation is hosting the fifth annual Aspen Summit for Life kickoff party on Thursday, Oct. 21 from 5:30-8:30p at the Hyatt Grand Aspen in the Grape Bar. Free appetizers and drinks! Party-goers can register for the Summit for Life,…
Aspen: Only 63 days ’til ski season … The Meeting
Although its name is sort of ominous, The Meeting is not. It’s the convergence of ski and snowboard (who see each other like step-siblings) and film and star athletes all in the little town of Aspen. Today through Sunday, The Meeting welcomes winter sport lovers, top athletes and renowned filmmakers with parties, a fashion show…
My First 14er / Day 7 of Burpee Challenge
I hiked my first 14er!! Mount Massive outside of Leadville, Colorado. At 14,400 feet, Mount Massive is Colorado’s second-tallest 14er. We took the steeper route, where we climbed 4,000 feet in 4 miles, but the first 1.5 miles were pretty flat, so it was more like 3,500 vertical feet in 2.5 miles. Which is tough.…
A blister on the bottom of my foot: hiking in Vibrams
3,000 vertical feet, around 3 miles, 1 hour and 45 minutes This is Aspen Mountain, and me hiking that really steep trail you can see. Also rocky. No one told me that the first 2/3 of the hike was basically like a stairmaster: straight vertical, on a road, no interesting scenery. Luckily, the hike got…
Aspen: Hiking Ajax (Aspen Mountain)
It’s one of those things that you really have to do in order to be considered a local, in order to be able to say, “yeah, I’ve hiked Aspen before.” But unless you’re purely out for the fitness, once is enough I think. After a little over 3,000 vertical feet ad right at an hour…
Aspen: Yoga Rocks the Mountains July 16-18
There’s yoga, music, camping, dancing, delicious food … what isn’t to love about Yoga Rocks the Mountains, this weekend in Snowmass? Yoga Workshop Schedule (full schedule here) … I’m just listing the classes with Aaron, my instructor at King Yoga, who I LOVE and who trains Lance Armstrong, so even if I didn’t ALREADY think…
Aspen: Thursdays in Snowmass
After Food & Wine, I’d say the next most-talked-about thing by people who have lived or visited Aspen in the summer is “those free outdoor concerts … on the mountain … in Snowmass …” they usually say, as if recalling the good times first and barely letting me break into their reverie for the details…