The Aspen Times Weekly Skiers line up around the block to load the Silver Queen Gondola to ski Aspen Mountain after a fresh 14 inch snowfall on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) It’s a winter like no other, with the lifts spinning and skiers skiing through a global pandemic. Playing out against a backdrop of spiking Aspen area infections, school and restaurant closures, rolling quarantines, global economic crises, the insurrection in Washington, a real estate boom here and an upside-down year on Earth, one of the few things that’s the same as ever is clicking into our skis and breezing down a slope.