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Dave Spence was managing the Top of the Village in Snowmass in the early 1980s when a group of visitors from New Orleans checked in during the week of Mardi Gras. The group brought costumes...

Snowmass Tourism announced the activity and event lineup for the 2023-2024 winter season. Activities include crowd favorites such as Music on the Mall, Snowmass S’mores, and Game of Stones to name a few. The event...

For Snowmass Village’s Dave and Barb Peckler, the title of Mardi Gras King and Queen is an honor both flattering and overwhelming.

The Aspen Times Weeklys picks for the best events in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley, Feb. 25-March 2

Snowmass Village will bring back familiar Mardi Gras festivities on March 1 with a concert, bead toss, fireworks and the culmination of the Mother of All Ascensions uphill race.

There’s nothing like watching the top athletes in the world compete against each other at the highest levels. Ted Mahon talks about finding inspiration and motivation from watching athletes compete in the Olympics and how it fills him with a desire to get out and push himself in the activities he loves.

The Mother of All Ascensions hits a 30-year anniversary of Mardi Gras uphill traditions in Snowmass in 2022. The multiday format returns this year for race from Base Village to High Alpine, starting on Monday, Feb. 21.

Ice skaters get Mardi Gras beads at the ice skating rink in Snowmass Base Village on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) Festive skiers wait in line at the Village Express on Mardi Gras in Snowmass on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) Snowmass Guest Services Bob Post, left, hands out slices of King Cake to people a the s’mores cart in the Snowmass Mall during Mardi Gras on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) Little skiers wait i...

Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times The stoke is high for year 29 of the Mother of All Ascensions, a longtime Snowmass Village Mardi Gras tradition that brings costumed uphillers in pursuit of elevation gain and glory to the base of Fanny Hill for the race up to the High Alpine restaurant (formerly known as Gwyn’s High Alpine). “I’m just so stoked, and thrilled, (and) grateful, blessed that we were able to pull this one together, because we haven’t missed a year,” said Andrew Bielecki, the...