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Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times The stoke is high for year 29 of the Mother of All Ascensions, a longtime Snowmass Village Mardi Gras tradition that brings costumed uphillers in pursuit of elevation gain and glory to the base of Fanny Hill for the race up to the High Alpine restaurant (formerly known as Gwyn’s High Alpine). “I’m just so stoked, and thrilled, (and) grateful, blessed that we were able to pull this one together, because we haven’t missed a year,” said Andrew Bielecki, the event’s organizer. He’s been running the race since 1993, a year after it was founded by Patric...

David Krause/The Aspen Times There comes a “tipping point” in every ski season — a shift in skier behavior, or snowpack, or both — when the temptation of fresh turns in untracked powder spurs the resurgence of rope-duckers entering closed terrain at Snowmass. This year is no exception: Snowmass police have issued seven $250 tickets to violators in the past two weeks. That’s according to Dave Heivly, a Snowmass police officer who spends one day per week working on the mountain with ski patrol as part of a joint Mountain Security program with Aspen Skiing Co. (A total of seven Snowmas...

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 when it was a bit slower and quieter. Neighbors came together to wish a child happy birthday in a d...

Aspen Valley Hospital was down 25 staff members mid-March, all who were “self-monitoring at home and in isolation due to symptoms that range from mild to moderate,” AVH Chief Marketing Officer Jennifer Slaughter said at the time.  Aspen Daily News file photo   Note from the editor: Today and Thursday, the Aspen Daily News runs its annual review of the year’s biggest stories — and what a year it’s been. In today’s paper, we recount five of the Top 10 stories that impacted the community, from No. 6 through No. 10. This year see...

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