Blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer tackles Aspen’s Highland Bowl
A visiting skier from Golden hoofed it up Highland Bowl in about 40 minutes on a partly cloudy April afternoon, took a breather at the 12,393-foot summit, clicked into his skis and then carefully picked...
Shining Mountains Powwow
The Shining Mountains Powwow was something not to be missed last night at the Aspen High School. The Ute Foundation held Aspen’s first-ever powwow which was a nine-hour affair, complete with intertribal dancers, dignitaries and...
Former Marine, amputee finds new life, skiing career at sports clinic in Snowmass (video)
George Kellogg had a choice. He could easily have let his injury get the best of him, part of a string of unlucky and self-inflicted issues he was dealing with. Instead, he decided to climb...
Evidence represents Ted Bundy’s time in the Roaring Fork Valley
For a guy who never lived here, Ted Bundy certainly made a mark on Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley. He kidnapped and brutally murdered a Michigan nurse from a Snowmass Village hotel in January...
Avalanche expert says Conundrum slide likely a 300-year event
A massive slide that swept down from Highlands Ridge into Conundrum Creek Valley last weekend was probably a 300-year event, a leading avalanche consultant said Tuesday while touring the site. “This is definitely a big...
Aspen local’s video captures Loge Bowl avalanche, gets engulfed in snow cloud
Video credit: Jesse Deane This avalanche was set off on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. by a helicopter working with Aspen Ski Patrol doing avalanche mitigation. The helicopter dropped charges into Loge Bowl on the back...
Rock Bottom Ranch goes whole hog on sustainable agriculture education
Jason Smith grabbed an inch-thick layer of fat along the back of half a pig in two strong hands and gave several tugs until it ripped away from the carcass. Smith, the director of Rock...
Avon fire doused in minutes Monday; woman charged in Monday’s East Vail campground fire
AVON — Fire crews stomped out a small fire Monday evening just west of the Brookside Lodge on U.S. Highway 6 in Avon. The fire was reported at 6:48 p.m., and westbound Highway 6 was...
Vail Olympian Tess Johnson donates rice won in World Cup competition
AVON — Vail skier Tess Johnson won 60 pounds of rice in a World Cup competition in Japan in March. Now back home, Johnson spent Monday afternoon at the Salvation Army, bagging up the rice...
Anderson Ranch artists responding to school shootings, the border wall, refugee crisis, racism in new work
Walking through the studios at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, where visiting artists from around the world and across the spectrum of media come to make work for 10 weeks each fall and...
Aspen Adventure Woman: Who is she? You’ll be surprised
“YAY ANNA!” was the roar I heard finally summiting Highland Bowl about 30 minutes after the women’s group I was with. Mind you, this group was filled with women of all age ranges, most of...
Aspen’s Robo Yetis Put Engineering prowess to the test
Caroline Hanson’s robotics classroom looked a bit like a war zone this past week — tape marked off areas of the floor; metal rods, bolts and other bits of machinery overflowed from plastic bins; computers...
‘The Man in the Crooked Hat’
Grief can carry a heavy burden, burrowing into the heart, obliterating other concerns, sometimes even self-preservation, as Harry Dolan shows in his clever fourth mystery, “The Man in the Crooked Hat: a Novel.” Jack Pellum...
Aspen Times Weekly: Immigrant teens make art and find a home at the Art Base
To the rhythm of El Salvadorian trap music blaring from cellphone speakers, amid a din of conversation in Spanish and some English, with the smell of paint and glue in the air along with constant...
Walk with Aspen’s Past … Area’s ghost towns have ‘certain presence’
There are stories of Aspen’s past that you can physically feel as you stroll through the ghost towns of Independence and Ashcroft They are stories of hardworking miners, Victorian ladies who set out to be...
‘Eyesore’ wires being pulled down from old poles along Independence Pass
For the past several decades, telephone lines to nowhere have been a curious part of the view for attentive travelers along a 10-mile stretch of Independence Pass. Hundreds of poles and tens of thousands of...
Challenge Aspen program helps veterans’ recovery from traumatic brain injuries
U.S. Army veteran Brian Turner survived multi-deployments over two decades before he suffered injuries that started the toughest battle of his life. Turner was one of nine military veterans in Aspen last week for a...
Trump actions increase anxiety among immigrants in Roaring Fork Valley
A recent raid in the Roaring Fork Valley by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has added to the anxiety of undocumented residents already on edge since the election of President Donald Trump, according to...
Basalt natives Wy and Judy Kittle celebrate 60 years of marriage
Judy Kittle remembers playing catch with a softball on Highway 82 when she was growing up on a ranch outside of Basalt. She said she and her cousin didn’t have to worry much about dodging...
What’s the Big Deal: $8.9 million for West End home
“What’s the Big Deal?” runs Sundays and is based on the most expensive property transaction recorded in Pitkin County through 3 p.m. each Friday. Price: $8.9 million Date recorded: July 18 Address: 805 Roaring Fork...
