Aspen Skiing Company

The Aspen Skiing Co. celebrated its 75th anniversary on Tuesday. The company pegged the anniversary celebration to the official opening of Aspen Mountain’s original chairlifts, Lift One and Lift Two. That event was held Jan. 11, 1947. Tim Willoughby remembers how his uncle and father helped build the lifts, which began spinning Dec. 14, 1946.

As a few lifts at the Aspen Mountain and Snowmass ski areas prepare to open for the winter season on Thanksgiving Day, Aspen Public Radio talked with Aspen Skiing Company's head of communications about a range of issues.

Aspen Public Radio reporter Halle Zander spoke to The Aspen Times’ Scott Condon about the plan for the Pandora’s area and about the reluctance by some Pitkin County commissioners to approve it.

J-1 visas, which normally bring more than 800 seasonal workers to the Roaring Fork Valley each year, are still on hold following an executive order from…

For the first time since Coronavirus ended the season early in March, lifts will be taking skiers and snowboarders up Aspen Mountain and Snowmass this…

This winter in Aspen will look a lot less international. Every year, more than 800 seasonal workers come to the Roaring Fork Valley as part of the J-1…

Drive-in movies have seen a comeback this summer thanks to COVID-19 public health protocols, but the most recent films playing at Buttermilk’s drive-in…

The scheduled start of the Colorado ski season is only about three months away – and with snow falling on the tops of nearby peaks just this week, it’s…

When COVID-19 shut down schools, businesses and ski resorts back in March, Aspen Skiing Company employees also found themselves sitting at home. They…

For a ski rental shop at the base of Aspen Mountain, winter means big business when the resort opens. But right now, it’s pretty hard to say exactly what…