As a snowboarder, I’m often frustrated by facilities that cater to skiers, but have been pleasantly surprised with how accommodating Aspen is of snowboarders. All the buses and gondolas have outside snowboard racks, and since it’s Aspen, someone even loads your board for you half the time. It’s a far cry from the past, when snowboarders weren’t even allowed on Ajax.
One thing I always love about being out west in remote areas far from big cities and their light pollution is how many more stars you can see on a clear night. I’ve stopped a couple of times walking home from dinner just to stare up and marvel at their number.
You can window shop for all kinds of things in Aspen: frou-frou food, equally over the top fashions, and multi-million dollar condos. Much of it reflects the money concentrated in this town, and one condo model hilariously so. The two cars parked in the driveway were a Porsche and a Mercedes, and the couple standing out front appeared to be an older man with a much younger trophy wive.
