Three winters ago, writer and journalist Heather Hansman packed up her car and spent the season couch-hopping in ski towns across the country, including Aspen. The result of Hansman’s inquiry is her latest book, “Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow.” Aspen Public Radio talked with Hansman about her book ahead of her Winter Words author series appearance Wednesday.
Aspen third- and fourth-graders have five more days to submit stories to the Fraser Creative Writing Contest offered by Jill Sheeley, a longtime local author who wrote the “Adventures of Fraser the Yellow Dog” children’s…