Before heading up to the slopes for some fun, it’s wise to know a few safety measures regarding winter sports preparedness and winter driving.
Nobody does it better than the Chris Klug Foundation, with the Aspen snowboarding Olympic medalist's focus on donors who make a difference.
The Con Man welcomes Mark Cole and Barbara Frank to the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club back to the big show, then explains why the conventional wisdom about Hillary and Obama tearing themselves apart was all wrong.
Posts filed under 'Snowboarding'
Saturday, January 27, 2007
8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Men's Practice
9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Men's & Women's Practice
9 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Snowboard Snowboarder X Men's & Women's Practice
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 p.m. Snowmobile SnoCross Practice
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Women's Final
11 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Snowboard Snowboarder X Men's & Women's Final*
12 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Men's Practice
12:45 p.m. - 2 p.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Men's Final
12:30 p.m. - 1 p.m. Snowmobile SnoCross Round 2
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Skiing Slopestyle Practice
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Sit-Skier X (Men's & Women's Combined) Final
4 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Men's Practice
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Snowboard Best Trick Showdown Practice
5 p.m. - 6 p.m. Snowmobile SnoCross Practice
6 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Men's Elimination
8:15 p.m. - 9 p.m. Snowmobile SnoCross Final
Continue Reading January 27th, 2007
Aspen, in the context of ESPN, is little more than a set for something that the latest chunk of visitors to define us for the world. Like it or not, what people see over the next set of days is what they will get when it comes to Aspen. Like retirees angling for an ogle of Jack Nicholson, the young and the nestless will have a chance to make Aspen their own.
Perhaps malleability is our most pungent trait. People who come to Aspen are slackers of the most obvious sort--a fashionista snapshot in time--and I'm not just talng about evergreen boys who keep their voices and their pants low. A man of means can do his own slacking in a Lacoste shirt: the whole lot of them are at a point in their lives where they don't have to worry so much what the world thinks--until they leave town.
But here's the rub. We provide the set but we let others provide the action.
Continue Reading January 25th, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
8 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Skiing SuperPipe Men's & Women's Practice
9 a.m. - 11 a.m. Snowmobile Freestyle Practice
9 a.m. - 12 a.m. Skiing Skier X Men's & Women's Practice
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Snowboard Slopestyle Men's & Women's Practice
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Skiing SuperPipe Men's Elimination
12 p.m. - 3 p.m. Snowboard Snowboarder X Men's & Women's Practice
12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Snowmobile SnoCross Practice
12:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. Skiing Slopestyle Practice
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Men's Practice
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Snowmobile Freestyle Practice
6 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Women's Practice
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Snowmobile Freestyle Elimination
7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. Snowboard SuperPipe Women's Final
Continue Reading January 19th, 2007
SAAS FEE, SWITZERLAND (Post Time News)—Olympic silver medalist Gretchen Bleiler of Aspen is looking better than ever.
The evidence is her win here Thanksgiving Day victory in the World Cup halfpipe over Soko Yamaoka of Japan. Manuela Laura Pesko of Switzerland took third.
Continue Reading November 24th, 2006
In the year 2000, snowboarding was the fastest-growing sport in the US, with boarders numbering just over 7.2 million. This article was published by the National Strength and Conditioning Association in 2005.
Continue Reading November 21st, 2006
DENVER, COLORADO (Post Time News)--Aspen Skiing Company (SkiCo) is not the only resort company in Colorado trying to keep it green. Of the 26 resorts in the state, "almost all of them are launching some kind of 'green' initiative," according to a story by reporter Julie Dunn.
Continue Reading November 20th, 2006
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--The brief filed by Aspen Skiing Company in a case on global warming now before the United States Supreme Court paints an ugly picture of the fate of the resort as the climate in Colorado continues to warm.
Continue Reading November 16th, 2006
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)—There are twelve states and three conservation organizations arguing in the first case about global warming before the United States Supreme Court.
And then there is Aspen Skiing Company (ASC).
Continue Reading November 14th, 2006
Hmmmm...a large project managed by WestPac under review (hence on hold) for being oversized and locationally challenged.
Again, I found all of this after only an hour of internet searching (and another hour to write this up). Aspen Times/Daily News and others actually getting paid to find and investigate the news, get on your phones, get some contacts lined up, and book some tickets to San Luis Obispo.
This is going to be interesting.
Continue Reading August 19th, 2006
You're young, beautiful, smart, sexy--and you're ours. Well, not exactly. Olympic snowboarding silver medalist Gretchen Bleiler is there for all the world to see in a photo shoot for "Jane" magazine. On newsstands now, Gretch and various other hot babes are doing a celebrity strip for children’s charities in the mag’s August issue.
Continue Reading July 28th, 2006
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