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Ashcroft Ski Touring prepares to open for its 49th season on Thursday. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) A quiet King Cabin before the opening of Ashcroft Ski Touring for its 49th season. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) The pandemic might have brought a bit of silver lining for Ashcroft Ski Touring last season. Just as people flocked to the closed ski areas to skin up and ski down the slopes, recreation-starved hordes also headed 12 miles up Castle Creek Road to visit the cross-country ski area. The Wilcox family, operators of Ashcroft Ski Touring and owners of Pine Creek Cookhouse, kept grooming a handful of slopes throughout the spring even though they weren’t charging a fee anymore and weren’t officially open.