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SUGAR MOUNTAIN — Climb to Sugar Mountain’s 5,300-foot peak by way of the Easy Street, Gunther’s Way, and Northridge slopes on Sunday, July 4, when Sugar Mountain Resort hosts its fifth annual Summit Crawl. Registration is now open and is available in-person from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, or online anytime until 4 p.m., Friday, July 2. No event day registration is available, and participation is limited to the first 400. Entry fee includes a T-shirt and downhill tran...

Key Glock feeding a goat at T-Lazy-7 Ranch in the “Aspen” music video. Cover art for Young Dolph and Key Glock’s forthcoming album “Dum and Dummer 2.” When a friend in the service industry shared some lurid details about getting summoned to a Ute Avenue mansion rented out by the rapper Young Dolph in mid-February, I shrugged it off another tale of private celebrity excess in Aspen. He described what might’ve been pounds of weed, seven-figure jewelry purchases downtown, a fleet of La...

Staff report A snowboarder rides under the Ajax Express lift on Aspen Mountain on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. All mountains began extended lift operating hours, with select lifts running until 4 or 4:15pm, starting February 13. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) A skier drops off of a catwalk into a mogul run with view of Lift 1A and the town of Aspen on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) A skier maneuvers through the Buckhorn trees on Aspen Mountain on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021...

How much: Free When X Games event producers at ESPN decided to move forward with the 2021 event at Buttermilk Ski Area in Aspen without fans on-site, they didn’t want to completely abandon the X Fest that normally runs concurrently at the mountain’s base area. Amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, they decided to take it virtual. “We had an opportunity to do something different and it really took a leap of faith,” Matt Gizzi, senior director of sports brand solutions at ESPN pare...

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...

Yes, summiting fourteeners and rafting the Grand Canyon are unforgettable ­experiences you should totally have. But in a moment when we’re rethinking how to make the most of our time outside, why limit yourself to the expected? We came up with 23 surprising ways to get you inspired for 2021 and beyond. 1. Ski and Surf on the Same Day ( Photo: Chris Burkard) Hawaii-based alpine ski racer Julia Mancuso, who surfed the Black Sea after competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, has a piece...