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Originally Posted by t6dpilot
Awesome pictures Denis. I'll bet we were in Aspen about the same time. I learned on the Aspen Highlands in 1980 back when it was four slow lifts to get to the top and a lift ticket was $18. We bailed on Aspen when the first celebrities showed up 30 plus years ago and went to Telluride. And it sure as heck isn't like the old Telluride today...
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I hear you. It was ok when we'd see Jack Nicholson or Hunter Thompson on the lifts or at the airport in the '70s but it went downhill in later years. Any time you have a town selling $2k sweaters, you're going to attract the worst people in the world. Worse than any slum on earth, they will be the people who own the slums.
That said, it's still an incredibly beautiful mountain and I'll probably ski it this spring. My nephew just married into a family with a house in Aspen, so there are some ski days planned there. I've never skied Telluride but I'd really love to.
We were in Aspen for spring break in 1976 when Spider Sabich was killed. It was shocking, to say the least.