When Christy Mahon moved to Aspen in her early 20s, the concept of using skins, summiting a 14,000-foot-peak or skiing in the backcountry were all foreign to her. But by 2015 at the age of 39, Mahon was the first woman and part of the first crew to climb and ski the 100 highest peaks in Colo…
"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…
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 …
“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
