Tasked with capturing the mood of the Roaring Fork Valley amid a global pandemic, three words immediately come to mind: Ups and downs.
Like any widow trying to start over, after Davis Hanson Waite lost his wife in 1890 he relocated. He moved from Leadville to the Roaring Fork Valley, first opting for Ashcroft, which at the time was a bustling mining town of several thousand people, home to six hotels, 20 saloons and two new…
One might assume a knit beanie would be the headwear of choice in a mountain town, but a cruise through the cobblestone streets proves Aspen’s true topper of choice takes a cue from the area’s cowboy roots Everywhere one looks, Aspenites and visitors are sporting a hat of a different shape a…
With people looking to spread out this summer, Aspen parks are primed for a big season. Although we are surrounded by more than 2 million acres of White River National Forest, which offer endless opportunities for social distancing, sometimes the escape you need can be found in a few feet of…
When Sonya Auvray booked her family’s spring break trip to Aspen-Snowmass, she didn’t anticipate that one week would turn into a year. But as the world quickly changed in mid-March because of Covid-19, she and her husband, along with their two sons, decided to hunker down in their Snowmass r…
In the late fall of 1947, two broke 20-somethings embarked on a road trip from Sun Valley to Los Angeles in a beat-up Ford Business Coupe with a pair of wild ducks dangling from the car. The two slept in the trunk of the coupe, paid a cleaning lady at a motel along the way one dollar to let …
"Be OK with being uncomfortable."
It all began with a gamble. On an October day in 2003, Samantha and Craig Cordts-Pearce were at their newly acquired property on Hyman Avenue, set to open in two months as The Wild Fig. Craig was painting the patio trellis, and Samantha had paused from renovations to nurse the couple’s six-m…
“I’ve always been a social creature, and living somewhere like Aspen that I find to be hyper-social feels like a natural fit.”
“The modern forces that are steering the direction of our quality of life are perhaps at a polarizing level that we haven’t seen in a while.”
— Torre, Mayor of Aspen
