Backcountry
Obey road closures or face fines
ASPEN — The U.S. Forest Service is urging people to resist temptation to venture onto backcountry roads that could be damaged by travel in muddy conditions.
Apr 30, 5:58 AM | Aspen Times Staff Report
Aspen, CO Colorado
Aspen Expeditions takes flight to Highlands
ASPEN — After 15 years of operating in the downtown Butcher’s Block building, Aspen Expeditions is moving its headquarters out of town.
Apr 7, 9:33 AM | Carolyn Sackariason
The Aspen Times
Aspen, CO Colorado
Kloser, Henry win Grand Traverse
ASPEN — Mike Kloser thought his chance at consecutive titles had faded into the bitter early morning air.
Mar 30, 3:14 PM | Jon Maletz
The Aspen Times
Aspen, CO Colorado
Elk Mountains Grand Traverse: the agony and the ecstacy
ASPEN — Ted Mahon inched slowly toward the edge, then dropped into the abyss.
Mar 27, 9:36 AM | Jon Maletz
The Aspen Times
Aspen, CO Colorado
Cornice crashing
The headline writers would have contrived the perfect cliché: “Experienced Backcountry Skiers Crushed by Cornice.” That could have been the epitaph for a moment of ignorance.
Mar 17, 1:35 PM | Paul Andersen
Aspen, CO Colorado
Who pays for Aspen backcounty rescues?
ASPEN — Those saved in the backcountry this year won't pay a dime for their rescues as the expenses are borne by local agencies, which absorb thousands of dollars in costs annually.
Mar 19, 7:16 AM | Carolyn Sackariason
The Aspen Times
Aspen, CO Colorado
Coalition hopes to add 700,000 acres of wilderness in Colorado
CARBONDALE — It’s been 28 years since a significant chunk of national forest surrounding Aspen received Wilderness designation. Environmentalists hope to end that dry spell soon with protection for hundreds of thousands of additional acres.
Mar 10, 5:51 AM | Scott Condon
The Aspen Times
Aspen, CO Colorado
Fryingpan-area roads will be plowed
THOMASVILLE — One of the potentially best spring skiing years is about to be messed up by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The federal agency will begin plowing U.S. Forest Service Roads in the Upper Fryingpan Valley on March 10.
Feb 29, 6:15 AM | Aspen Times Staff Report
Aspen, CO Colorado
A Sunday on Sopris
CARBONDALE — Last Sunday, I skied some of the hardest, wind-scoured snow I’ve ever experienced, but it was a sweet and memorable day.
Feb 17, 8:32 AM | Bob Ward
The Aspen Times
Aspen, CO Colorado
February most deadly avalanche month
Avalanche forecasters around Colorado are warily eying the backcountry snowpack, concerned that warming temperatures and clearing skies could lead to a spike in serious accidents in the coming weeks.
Feb 13, 9:49 AM | Bob Berwyn
Summit County correspondent
Aspen, CO Colorado
Everything about backcountry skiing, and more
Those among us who are content with a two-hour tour into Aspen’s Hunter Creek Valley or waxing up for a ski outing on Basalt Mountain can probably pass up “Backcountry Skiing: Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering,” the latest comprehensive...
Feb 13, 7:20 AM | Janet Urquhart
The Aspen Times
Aspen, CO Colorado
Backcountry bliss can be deadly
Jim McCarthy was about a dozen turns into his backcountry powder run when he heard a low rumbling sound and saw the slope above him begin to move.
Feb 11, 1:57 PM | Jeff Barnard
The Associated Press
Aspen, CO Colorado
Local officials staying ahead of spring avalanches
PITKIN COUNTY — Record snow on area mountains could spell dangerous avalanches and runoff in the spring, and local emergency responders and Pitkin County officials want to stay ahead of potential disasters.
Feb 11, 6:58 AM | Charles Agar
The Aspen Times
Aspen, CO Colorado
East Elk Creek perfection — almost
NEW CASTLE, Colo. — Saturday almost was too perfect — the outing, the weather, the snow. I guess that’s the explanation for our minor lapse in gear judgment — to prevent absolute perfection and keep us mortal.
Jan 13, 5:56 PM | Janet Urquhart
Aspen, CO Colorado
Latest digital gear and snowmobiles no match for Colorado winter
DENVER — Colorado's mountains have a history of overpowering winter visitors, dating all the way back more than 150 years ago to Zebulon Pike and John Fremont, even though the latter had Kit Carson as a guide.
Jan 13, 6:16 PM | Robert Weller
The Associated Press
Aspen, CO Colorado
High lines and straight shots
ASPEN — It’s a dual life that seems straight out of a Hollywood script: Bespectacled twin brothers who work ordinary day jobs as accountants — and also happen to climb and ski some of the world’s highest peaks without oxygen.
Jan 11, 1:00 PM | Nate Peterson
Aspen, CO Colorado
Avalanche center benefit set
CARBONDALE — Restaurant Six89 in Carbondale will host the third annual social and dinner to benefit the Roaring Fork Avalanche Center on Monday, Jan. 14.
Jan 7, 5:28 PM | Aspen Times Staff Report
Aspen, CO Colorado
Washington leads in avalanche deaths
SEATTLE — Of the 13 avalanche deaths nationally so far this winter, eight have been in Washington state, something experts blame on heavy snowfall due to the climate pattern La Nina, and on people not respecting the dangers of the backcountry.
Jan 4, 11:38 AM | Donna Gordon Blankinship
The Associated Press
Aspen, CO Colorado
Vail to Winter Park — on skis?
FRASER, Colorado — While some people have been scratching their heads, trying to figure out how to install a monorail or some other train up Colorado’s Interstate 70 corridor, Jean Vives of Fraser has been confronting another challenge: How to ski...
Jan 2, 1:33 PM | Allen Best
Aspen, CO Colorado
‘Steep’: the evolution of big-mountain skiing
ASPEN — Skiers in Aspen may want to turn down the volume as they relate the day’s exploits on the local hills while sipping après-ski cocktails at Mezzaluna and The Little Nell.
Dec 26, 9:01 AM | Stewart Oksenhorn
Aspen, CO Colorado
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