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Aspen’s slopes are overwhelmingly white. It’s not just the snow that makes them that way. So what will it take to diversify the ski industry?

By WAYNE HARE

When Silver- thorne resident Jacob Miller visited Mesa County earlier this month to ride the Lunch Loops trail system, he relied entirely on his legs and lungs to power a regular mountain bike. But when asked if he thought electric-powered bikes, or e-bikes, should be allowed on trails like those at Lunch Loops, he said he saw no reason not to allow them. “I mean, it’s all about impacts, right, and they don’t have any more impact on the trail than a regular bicycle. They’re not noisy, I mean not impactful in any way, on the environment, on the ears,” he said.