As Aspen evolved from a bucolic high-mountain meadow to an industrial city, pollution began to flow directly into the Roaring Fork River and its tributaries.
Category: History
Dewatering the Smuggler Mountain mines
The object of multiple dives between October 1910 and January 1911 into the debris-clogged mine was to rebuild the pump at the bottom of the Free Silver shaft on the 12th level.
Ski area plans through the years in Aspen’s Little Annie basin
Big plans on paper have yet to turn into ski lifts.
Hope delivers Pandora’s Box on Aspen Mountain
The terrain to be added to Aspen Mountain comes with a history fitting of its name.
Taming the snow beast
34 years ago on March 31, a monumental avalanche wrote a tragic chapter in Aspen history
Big mountain ski dream: Ski-Hayden was a pre-war vision of what could have been
Andre Roch exclaimed, “Immense schusses, where your face freezes and clouds of powder rise behind you, make the skier feel like a rocket.��
Pitkin’s boastful gulch
The first prospectors up Lincoln Creek in the early 1880s faced avalanches, unstable explosives, cave-ins, and odyssey-like distances to marginal medical care.
The rich life of Aspen Mountain miner Billy Zaugg
The last miner to live on Aspen Mountain, his life bridged the eras of mining and skiing
Aspen’s first international ski race in 1950: true grit versus miners’ mess
Tough terrain scarred by mining era tests ski racing elite at the 1950 FIS Alpine World Championships on Aspen Mountain
Aspen’s skiing history: an evolving timeline
In February 1880, B. Clark Wheeler ‘skis’ into town from Leadville on Norwegian snowshoes to complete the first survey of Ute City. He renames the town Aspen.