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We all know Athens, the Algarve and the Alps – but what about Attica, the Alentejo and Appenzell?

Roger This It is the heart of summer, a good time to talk about a great day of skiing. It is too hard in the winter with everyone half paying attention, waiting to one-up you with their own tale of pow. Then you might as well talk politics. It was later in March. I had been working a streak of days without pause. It was sunny with a little powder and I had only skied Snowmass a handful of times, trying to ski Gowdy’s on all of them without luck. I am always amazed how steep that run is at the...

There are countless shining examples year-round of Roaring Fork Valley residents taking action to benefit the environment. Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and Roaring Fork Conservancy have outstanding educational programs to nurture a connection with nature among students. Aspen Valley Land Trust works with ranchers and other landowners to conserve vistas and sensitive lands from development. Wilderness Workshop fights to protect the most important unspoiled lands for people and wildlife...

Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times RED BULL ILLUME DEBUTS AT HIGH ALPINE TENT The large green tent next to High Alpine at Snowmass has served as a warming and dining area throughout most of the season. Now, it has an added purpose as an art gallery, showing imagery from the Red Bull Illume international photo contest. Admission is free to view the collection of action and adventure sports photography. Seating for dining is still available; the large display panels that showcase the photos also func...

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...

David Krause/The Aspen Times There comes a “tipping point” in every ski season — a shift in skier behavior, or snowpack, or both — when the temptation of fresh turns in untracked powder spurs the resurgence of rope-duckers entering closed terrain at Snowmass. This year is no exception: Snowmass police have issued seven $250 tickets to violators in the past two weeks. That’s according to Dave Heivly, a Snowmass police officer who spends one day per week working on the mountain with ski...

We’ve all seen people on social media wishing 2020 away and hoping for a better year in 2021. However, I think there have been many bright spots. As a whole, we have learned that we are more resilient than we knew, more generous with our time and attention, and way luckier to be alive than we sometimes realized. I continued working even after the world shut down, photographing a different kind of daily life. I had the unique opportunity to watch firsthand what our little community looked like...

Aspen Valley Hospital was down 25 staff members mid-March, all who were “self-monitoring at home and in isolation due to symptoms that range from mild to moderate,” AVH Chief Marketing Officer Jennifer Slaughter said at the time.  Aspen Daily News file photo   Note from the editor: Today and Thursday, the Aspen Daily News runs its annual review of the year’s biggest stories — and what a year it’s been. In today’s paper, we reco...

Watch Dr. Wolfgang Porsche And His Son Ferdinand Drive 550 Spyders In The Mountains Of Austria 4 Porsches, but only 2 cars. This father and son duo is the coolest thing you will see today. Advertisement Ferdinand Porsche or “Ferry” is the man who brought Porsche into the public eye. He did much work to get the original Porsche 356 sold in mass markets and gave the brand its racing heritage. But the Porsche family runs deep. Ferry’s dad, Ferdinand, is of course the founder of Porsche Moto...