Aspen Highlands Facilities Are Located in the White River National Forest

ASPEN HIGHl4NDS TQ41LMNl and facilities guide

Aspen Highlands Facilities are located in the White River National Forest

Post Office Box T Aspen, Colorado 81611 U.S.A. 1-303-925-5300

"'Aspen Highlands Skiing Corporalion-1976 ASPEN HIGHlANDS TRAIL INFORMATION TRAIL MARKINGS: . Easiest +Most Difficult • More Difficult (t Patrol Phones

1 Broadway 15 Grand Prix 30 T-Lazy-7 2 Loges 16 Pyramid Park 31 Suzi Q 3 Hayden 17 Midway-Grand 32 Cakewalk 4 Olympic Prix Interchange 33 Upper Stein 5 Meadows 18 Moment of Truth 34 Park Avenue 6 Kandahar 19 Wine Ridge 35 Golden Barrel 7 Alps 20 Heatherbedlam 36 Lower Stein 8 The Wall 21 Floradora 37 Upper Jerome 9 Boomerang 22 Gunbarrel 38 Jerome Park 10 Boomerang 23 Deane's 39 Jerome Bowl Catwalk 24 Prospector 40 Golden Horn 11 Interstate 70 25 Norway 41 Thunderbowl 12 Le Chamonix 26 Exhibition 42 Powder Bowl 13 Easy Street 27 Nugget 43 Epicure Catwalk 28 Prospector Gulch 44 Smuggler 14 Andrew's 29 Red Onion 45 Limelight 46 Half-Inch POINTS OF INTEREST LIFTS Total lift capacity 10,000 per hour. A. Base area & Cafeteria D. Merry-Go-Round Restaurant Double Chair Length Rise B. Highlands Inn E. Patrol Hq.-Picnic Hut 1 Exhibition I 3800' 1000' C. Nastar .f. Snow making area 2 Exhibition II 5000' 1000' 3 Cloud 9 3000' 900' 4 Loges Peak 3300' 900' 5 01:tm!2 iC 4500' 1200' 6 Thunderbowl 3000' 900' 7 Smuggler 1600' 300' 8 Nugget 1650' 600' Poma 9 Golden Horn 2300' 650' 10 Little Poma 490' 90 ' 11 Half Inch 400' 45 ' 12 Grand Prix 4800' 1100' Aspen Mountain Aspen Highlands Buttermilk Snowmass

ASPEN HIGHlANDS RESORT GROUP WINTER SEASON: Thanksgiving through mid-April • Ski School: Charles W. Brinkman-Director • Bus Sct) edule: Free service every 15 minutes from 8 :00-10:00 A.M. daily. Bus runs every 30 minutes for the rest of the day until 6:00P.M. • NASTAR Races : Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 12 :00 Noon. • Freestyl e Contest: Every Friday at 12:00 Noon-Midway • Apres Ski Entertainment daily in two Base Lodge Bars • Restaurant Servi ce: Merry-Go-Round at Midway-Open Daily 10:00 through lunch Base Lodge Restaurant-Open Daily 8:00 to 10:00 and lunch SUMMER SEASON: Late May through late September • Aspen Tennis Ranch-? Nights, 6 Days Package • Aspen Sky Ride-mid-June through Labor Day • Aspen High lands Conference Center For Executive Meetings and Seminars from 10 to 80. Complete audio visual ability, four meeting rooms, Ban quets, Parties, full time Conference Coordinator. • Highlands Inn-A complete resort hotel with full restaur ant, heated pool , sauna, ski and tennis shop, gift shop and cocktail lounge. THE

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first, drugs. second, surgery ·last.'' 3-B December 2, 1976 The Aspen Times Page 19-B Dec 11 new date for ski lift opening 1 The opening date for Aspen top half of the mountain on Mon "One of the reasons a definite fact, there are very lew de Mountain until Dec 16.. Mountain and Buttermifk has day, but changed their minds date has been set for Aspen Mt 'stination resorts anywhere in the However, we did open Snowmass been moved up to Saturday, Dec when it proved impossible to pack and Buttermilk," Richrdson said, Western Hemisphere which offer on Nov' 27 of that season." 11, due to the lack of snow. Snow the dry powder to suitable base "is to allow sufficient planning the type of skiing usually hoped As planned, the $80,000 Pro mass, however, will open. within consistency. time for lodge guests. The best for this time of season. Spree professional race program two days of a storm that leaves Aspen Skiing Corp general way to assure quality ski condi will start on Dec 11. "We have been unable to open - 0 "sufficient snow for safe skiing." manager Tom Richardson said tions at Christmas time is to have Aspen Mountain only three years If the snow drought continues, The new date was announced Aspen Mountain requires a adequate time to prepare a good. out of the past 15," Richardson the races may have to be moved Wednesday by the Aspen Skiing reasonable blanket of snow be base early in the season. said. "In 1962-63 we opened on further up the mountain rather Corp responding to questions cause of the steepness of terrain. "This is one of those falls in Dec 2; in 1966-67, on Dec 4; and in than on the Little Nell slope as in from local business people and Because of its lower elevation, which snow is lacking throughout 1972-73, we didn't open Aspen the past," Richardson said. prospective vacationing skiers. Buttermilk generally does notre the west," Richardson said. "In Aspen Highlands opened its ceive the early snow depths. Its Half-inch Poma to serve a small base requires adequate prepara slope the day before Thanksgiv tion and packing. ing, but officials there have also "It was felt," Richardson said, decided to wait for more snow be "that Snowmass will be the first to fore opening the rest of the moun- open because it provides a variety tain. · of runs at higher altitudes where Highlands planned to open the early season snow usually is the deepest." R p Training has been completed for all operations personnel. Ski patrolmen, lift operators, maintenance workers, and other ne~'b1 \ on.-mountairi employees have been put on 48-hour alert to pre -a pare the slopes after sufficient ac De cumulation of sqow. At Highlands that alert time is 24 hours. ~1 lift operator Mike Williams helps an eager skier with the porno lift at Aspen Highlands, first to go into operation this season, utilizing man-made snow while the other areas await more flakes from the sky. Photo by Chris Cassatt Pacesetter trials will be held at Vail this weekend as port of the growing NASTAR program. This year 74 ski areas will be participat ing. This racer is at Highlands. Snowmass and Buttermilk also toke port. Photo by Chris Cassatt

Stiegler tries Jackson Hole's ski school and who has held the number one NAS to hold NAST AR T AR position for the past seven years, earning a zero handicap .pacesetter title each time. He'll be trying for eight in a row at Vail. Can Jackson Hole's ageless ski pro Pepi Stiegler again stave off The challengers are pros 10 to all challengers, especially mem 15 years younger, like Hank bers of the World Pro Skiing tour Kashiwa of Steamboat, Terry who will try to unseat him as Palmer, and Rudd Pyles of Aspen. Number One N AST AR pacesetter They will be joined by some 80 in the country? other ski area pros from the Rocky Mountain region. It will be . difficult to predict when the pacesetting trials are There are five regional trials held at Vail, Dec 5-7. at Alpine Meadows, Calif; Vail: Indianhead, Mich; W atervill€ The trials set the national stan Valley, NH; and Hunter Mt, NY dard against which recreational N ASTAR is a SKI magazin, skiers around the country are program sponsored by Schlitz measured each time they race Pepsi Cola, Bonne Bell and Dal NASTAR, .and to rank as the sun. This is its ninth season. 7 Number One pacesetter is a co ski areas will offer the progrru: veted honor. Stiegler, 39, is a this winter, including Snowmas, former Austrian 1964 Olympic Aspen Highlands and Butte' gold medalist who presides over milk. An Aspen Highlands instructor gives one of the first slope served by the Half-Inch Poma. The snow is lessons of the year early this week on the little mostly artificial. Photo by Chris Cassatt. The slope served by the Half-Inch Poma at Aspen enough for the beginner at right this week, being Highlands may not be steep, but it was steep held back by a friend. Photo by Chris Cassatt. - r __ L! _ December 9, 1976 The Aspen Times Page 7-A Freewheelin' Fil~s has paid it~ dues

Freewheel in' Films shot the moon skiing sequence Tam Scott coming down Uttle Annie's. Red filters for the motion picture, Futureworld. Recognize the and the absence of earth-type vegetation made it skiers? They're Aspenites Harry Teague, Jack look moon-like. Brendlinger, Scottie Cooper, Billy Patterson, and

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ti Rodney Jacobs on location-for the film, Sacred Ground. 2~ t-<> From sleeping in Dave and Sherry Farny's boiler room while he showed movies in the Jerome's back bar, to running a seedy sing les hotel on West Hampton Beach to m~e- money for fllm.making, Aspemte .Rodney Jacobs, 30, is one of those filmmakers who·paid the dues to get where he is today. Thjs winter, as owners Of Free- • wheelin' Films, he and partner . Peter Sellers. (not the actOr) are being wooed by sponsors aerii;s the country who want "movies where people talk" instead of the usual, cliche-ridden promotional fare. ·

Practically No-8ell The 20-minute fUm they made this year for the Aspen Highlands and the Aspen Ski Corp, ·called "Beginning of a Love Affair," is so soft-sell, it's practically no-sell at all, and has been accepted as a movie short. Jacobs expects it to reach an audience of at least 10 million. Why not? It's playing with first run feature films like "Marathon Man" in major markets such as New York City. "The concept," Jacobs exp lamed during an interview, "was to take a promotional film for Aspen beyond that of a normal ski film which is a documentary with narration. We said, 'Let us make you something different. We don't have to hard-sell Aspen anymore.' A lot of credit should be given to George Madsen and Bill Brehmer for going along with us on the con cept." December 9, 1976 The Aspen Times Page 9-C Races on, but most ski lifts still off The Aspen Skiing Corp earlier snowfall between now and Sun Jerome beginning Saturday, . TUESDAY, Dec 14: Qualifica-· at Highlands. Prize money is this week was sticking to a Dec 11 day when it will be held. many of them arriving from the tion for Budweiser team competi $35,000. .opening date for lifts on Aspen M t, A town race and bartender's cup first race in Spain. Others will tion. At 10:30 am, for $10,000 FRIDAY, Dec 17: Budweiser Snowmass and Buttermilk. that were scheduled to be held as continue to train at other places prize money. At Highlands. Fi Pro-Am Celebrity fmals at Aspen The heavens refused to cooper part of the Pro Ski Spree here Dec where there is. more snow until nals at 1 pm. Mountain at 10:30 am. ate by dumping the needed snow 10-f8, have been canceled, but the the last moment. SATURDAY, Dec 18: Elimina on the slopes, however. · r est of that series is still on. The pros are taking the Aspen WEDNESDAY: Dec 15: Qual tions for Budweiser Cup slalom at The Dec 11 date was set when Jumps wer-e being built in races very seriously since there is ifications for Budweiser Cup 10:30 am. Finals at 12:30 on the base on the mountains proved Tourtelotte Park on Aspen Moun $80,000 at stake. Slalom. Aspen Mountain at 10 Aspen Mountain. Prize money is insufficient for the traditional tain and snow machines were The races at Aspen Highlands am. 1:30pm. Budweiser Celebrity $35,000. opening date of Nov 25, Thank- . kept in production at Aspen High will be held in Jerome Bow I where Pro-Am at Aspen Highlands. An autograph party may be sgiving Day. lands. artificial snow machines have THURSDAY, Dec 16: Elimina scheduled at Aspen High School Aspen Highlands was able to World Pro Ski Racing organizer been working continuously. tion for Budweiser GS at 10 am Monday at 3 pm for the racers and open its Haif-Inch Poma at Bob Beattie decided to go .ahead Aspen Mountain races will be in and Budweiser Cup finals at 12:30 students. Thanksgiving to provide limited with the Pro Ski Spree here in a Tourtelotte Park, higher up the skiing on artificial snow. This long meeting with Aspen Skiing . mountain than Little Nell, where Tuesday, Dec 7, Highlands Cotp and Aspen Highlands offi scant snow coverage makes them opened the top half of the area for cials on Tuesday. impossible. Spectators will prob skiing rated "fair to poor." "Rock Some 50 professional ski racers ably have to ride up the lifts, but skis" were recommended. will be registering at the Hotel officials are holding that decision Aspen Skiing Corp officials off pending weather factors. have said that 18-24 inches of The schedule as it stood at press snow are needed to open. Wednes time follows: (It is subj-ect to day, Aspen Mountain had 12lh in change depending on snow. Call ches on top, a~ did Snowmass. World Wide Ski Corp for informa Buttermilk had only 8 inches ac tion if in doubt, 925-7864). cumulation. SUNDAY, Dec 12: 11 am, Pro If it proves impossible to open challenge at Aspen Highlands for on Saturday, crews will go on a new pro racers. 48-hour alert, meaning that the 1:30pm, But Town Challenge, areas will open within two days of Aspen Highlands-A combo of the first major snowstorm. bartenders cup and town chal The Aspen Ski Club's Silver lenge. Boom cross-country race may be MONDAY, Dec 13: 10 am, switched from the Snowmass golf ,y Qualification for Budweiser Cup course to the ghost town of Inde '{ GS-a round of 32 at Aspen High- pendence, again depending on lands. · r, I r Young skier at Aspen Highlands works _on his flexibility using a natural bridge early this week. Photo by Chris _Cassatt .._- • • SEASON TICKETS A8PEII HIOHLAIID8 UIIRE8TRICTED 8EA8011 TICKET • 8325.00 ASPEN WEEKEND 8EA8011 TICKET - 8150.00 HIGHLANDS

·over 55 miles of traif.s ·Longest vertical descent in Colorado "12 Lifts-10,000 hourly caoacity ·3 Restaurants and Bars · :~ASTAR Races every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday reestyle Contest every Friday at noon ·Free bus service to and from town dail; from 8 am to 6 ·Nk~~ area "Steeplechase" with some of the finest powde:m s ling '" North America.

Tickets on sale in the Main ~ i cket Office located in the Base Lodge Monday Daily from 9 am-12pm and 1 pm-4 pm.

The development squad for the qave in the ski club. They dri Australian National Ski Team their kids, while our philosophy i arrived in Aspen Saturaay for 10 to let the 10- to 13-year-olds 'mel weeks of racing and training here, l ~ out .' I twill be very interestin according to Aspen SkiClub coach to see which attitude works best. Robin 'l'olhurst. One of the team's managers · Tolhurst says 34 racers, ages 10 Kim Clifford, last year :r ep\ -fu 16, &nd four team managers resented Australia in World Cu11 1!1$.'de the trip to Aspen. and Olympic competition, accord ing to Tolhurst, who says Cliffor · The Australian team ·has decided to come to the US this .trained primarily in Europe in the year to race on the .Can-Am and past, Tolhurst says, but some of FIS circuit, and observe coaching \ \he young racers who have come methods he can take back to Au to this country to train have been stralia. so successful upon ~heir return Tolhurst says the•young Au home that the Australians de stralian A racers will compete in cided to send their best young rac the Elbert Series of FIS ers to Aspen to train this year. sanctioned· races around Col He says the present Australian orado, as well as the Aspen Roch national team is behind other Cup. · countrfes by World Cup stan He ..says younger racers will dards, but that some of the young, participate in the Aspen age-class age group racers are good enough program with racers from the so that he expects Australian Aspen Ski Club. They will also get skiers to challenge for World Cup Rocky Mountain Ski Association and Olympic medals within four classifications and compete in or five years. RMSA races around the state, he says. "The Australians want an During this, their summer vac Olympic medal," he says, "and the ation, according to Tolhurst, the w·ay they're going about it, it's young Australians will spend six very possible they could succeed. days a week on their skis; and, on "Their philosophy is completely their way home, they get a trip to different from the philosophy we Disneyland. December 9, 1976 The Aspen Times Page 24 UTE TOOT

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1976 - 1977 SEASON

11/25/76- 4/10/77

LIFT RATES

One Day ...... $ 12.00 Half Day (Starting 12:30) ...... 8.00 Child, One Day (12 yrs. and under) ...... 3.00 Young-at-Heart (65 yrs . and over) ...... 3.00 Three Day (Good at Highlands Only- any three out of four days) ...... 30.00 Six Day- 4 Mountains * ...... 66.00 One Day, Student (With I.D.) ...... 11.00 Season Ticket ...... 325.00 Season Ticket (Valid Saturday & Sunday Only) .. . 150.00 *VALID 4 MOUNTAINS - Aspen Highlands, Aspen, Buttermilk and Snowmass

SKI SCHOOL RATES

One Day - Group ...... $ 13.00 Three Day- Group ...... 33.00 Five Day - Group ...... 50.00 Child, One Day -Group ...... 11 .00 Snow Puppies (Age 3- 6) Includes Lift Ticket, Instruction and Lunch) per day ...... 16.00 Private Lesson - one hour ...... 20.00 Additional (up to three) each ...... 5.00 Private Lesson - All Day ...... 90.00 Five Day Special Ski School Package (Includes Ski School Lesson s & Lift Tickets) .. . . 95.00

NOTE : All Lift and Ski School Rates and Times Subject to change without notice.

© Aspen Highlands Skiing Corporation - 1976 December 16, 1976 The Aspen Times Page 5-C Swiss w1n• firs-t Pro Team .Challenge - A three-man team of Swiss pro 'Spree-Thursday's giant slalom received prize money. Town Challenge team that captured the fessional ski racers won the first and Saturday's slalom-will each Each course contained 32 gates The Pro Spree began on Sunday Bartender's Cup, so Sunday was a Pro-Team Challenge Tuesday, carry $35,000 total purses, with which dropped 350.feet in 1,200 with the Budweiser Town Chal clean sweep for Aspen Highlands, one of the opening events of the $10,000 frrst place purses. over two four-foot high built-in lenge and Bartender's Cup Race host to the races this year. week-long $80,000 Pro Spree. All of the races are being held at bumps. at Highlands. The Highlands Restaurant The Swiss team-Josef Oder Aspen Highlands' Jerome ·Bowl, Pro Craig Bartlett teamed with team defeated the Slope team of matt, Otto Tschudi and Manfred where artificial snow was piled up New Pros Aspen Highlands racers Kim Pike Roc Boynton, Steve Douglas and Jakober-will split $5,000 first and is in fine condition. Races Five new racers qualified as and Jim Hanson to defeat the pro Haller in the finals. The place money for their win over the originally scheduled for Aspen Mt professionals during trials on Aspen Highlands Ski School team Pomegranate and Buffalo Nickel French-Phillippe Taillefer, had to be switched due to lack of Monday, three Americans and of Bob Rome, D Langstrom and teams reached the quarterfinals. Claude Perrot and Henri natural snow. two Canadians. They had to come pro Tyler Palmer in the finals. Duvillard-who sha:re $2,500. The team race format was being within 5% of the time of three es In the quarterfinals, the High Remaining Schedule Americans Terry and Tyler tried for the frrst time Tuesday. tablished pros-Josef Odermatt, lands team defeated the Snow The Budweiser Cup Giant Palmer and Ken Corrock placed Except for the long time that it Bob Cochran, and Henri Duvil Hosts, a team comprised ofE San Slalom fmals, for $35,000 (round third, and another US team, took (there were eight American lard. ford, Michael Whitcomb and pro of 16), are scheduled this after Craig Gorder, Greg Barlett and teams entered) the competitors Those qualifying were Mike racer Cousineau. The Highlands noon at 12:30 at Aspen High Aspen's Whit Sterling finished seemed to.eiijoy the _new idea. Ryan of Ottawa and Bruce Rim Ski School team downed a team lands. fourth, earning $1,000. mer of Alberta; and Americans called the Carter Clan in the Friday, Dec 17, at 10:30, the Tschudi was born in Norway, The best Canadian team in the Bill Dyer of Seattle, Mark Wolf of quarterfinals-T and S Carter Celebrity Pro-Am fmals will be but carries a Swiss passport as competition suffered from the Oakhurst, Calif, and Jeff Temple, and pro champion Henri Duvil- held. On Saturday at 10:30 am, well. He recently moved to Swit withdrawal of one of its team who skied fow- years for the Uni lard. · the eliminations for the Bud zerland to avoid a stint in the members, Mike Culver, of versity of Colorado. Temple had weiser Cup slalom (a round of 32), Norwegian Army. Montreal, due to injury. Still, the best of the qualifying times, Bartender's Cup and at 12:30 pm, the slalom fmals Racers were matched against Doug Woodcock of Blue Mt, Ont, edging even· veteran Cochran. George Gordon and Hans for $35,000 and awards ceremony. each other with the No 1 team ·and Paul Carson of Don Mills, Aspen racer Tom Simons failed to Schwarz joined pro Dan Mooney All events are at Aspen High members in one elimination, the Ont, managed to defeat a three- show for the qualifying event. . to form a Highlands Restaurant lands. No 2 team members in another, man American team in the open and so on. The Swiss won all six ing round of the event by winning finals against the French. Duvil both of their matches. They ad lard, theWorld Pro Skiing champ vanced into the quarterfinals ion, fell both times in his matches where they lost to another Ameri against J akober. can team that eventually placed fourth. Largest Purses Ever Sixteen international pro Tl,le two mf\ior races in the Pro teams competed. Only the top four When professional ski racers Spanish•~ opened their quest for the of traveling-~a use of the grind 1976-1977 World Pro Skiing timechange. "';~rht hour crown in Baqueira Beret, Lerida, Spain earlier this season, the re A week of racing like the pro sults were hardly surprising: spree can wear you out if you're Henri Duvillard ·won big, with not careful, he says, and he JosefOdennatt again a frustrated wanted to be in top shape for this second-place finisher. ' richest week ever of pro racing. Had Bobby Cochran made the trip to Spain, he probably would Educational have shared the limelight. The pro tour is an education Those three, the Frenchman, both in tenns of skiing and handl the Swiss and the American, are ing yourself, he says. While the odds-on favorites to battle for amateurs rely on their coaches for this year's title as champion of organization and "a kick in the World Pro Skiing. rear," the pros are on their .own and have to be more mature. Invincible Duvillard, or Du Du, was nearly ·As for whether or not the pros invincible last season, winning 15 could beat their amateur counter times in 21 starts for an unpre parts, Cochran says, "In our own cedented domination of the pro Bob Cochran Henri Duvillard Josef Odermatt fonnat we could beat them, but on tour. His winnings of $66,900 an amateur course it would be a were more than double those of more races held in Europe where to challenge and perhaps defeat Odermatt is now sporting a different story. runner-up Odennatt. the people know nothing about the Frenchman. straggly beard which he says Du Du's twin victories in Spain the pro format. "drives me crazy." "We've refined the pro forniat, indicate that he is again the "I'm sure they would love the No Power and the amatuers have done the methodical, nearly flawless skier excitement," he says. "I feel pretty good now," he Not Shaving same with theirs." who almost always wins. Then too, according to Duvil says, "but I was in the hospital for "''m going to leave the beard on In Aspen for this week's Bud lard, more top-ranked European six weeks so I couldn't train until until I win a race," he says. "It -John Sabella weiser Pro Spree, Duvillard says racers might compete in the pro the end of November. I was very makes me mad enough to win." he had very good training over the races. tired in Spain. It was a flat course Cochran, long the leader of the summer and fall, and is ready for so to make speed you needed US team, was a third-place another title quest. More Frenchmen power. fmisher last year and the victor in "I don't know about as many He says he likes pro racing in "Technically, I skied very good last year's Budweiser Cup. d wins as last year," he says, how the states, however, and expects but I didn't have any power. After This year, he says, winning is ever. "That was incredible. This more Frenchmen, like rookie pro Christmas, when I have a chance important but not his only objec year there are so many good guys Claude Perrot, to come here. to train, I will get better." J tive. APPRI - Odermatt, Cochran, Tyler "The climate on the French He says Duvillard is skiing as SIXTI TAX J Palmer, Perry Thompson- that team is bad, not enjoyable," he well as last year. Winning Not All Cop1 winning will be very tougli." says, "and you can make a lot of "He almost never makes a mis "My goal is to integrate my the off money here for a French gUy ." take," Odennatt says. "You need body and my mind - to get them Great Format a perfect run to beat him. working together as well a8 possi He says he is excited about the Odermatt, the charismatic · "Sometimes I try too hard ble," he says. "If that's good pro fonnat "because it is so great Swiss, was Duvillard's prime against Du Du. I maybe have bet enough to win, fine·. to race against another guy," and adversary hist season, with 268 ter runs against other guys. I al "I don't want to beat myself this ] that the pros are getting better · points and $31,500 for second ways want to meet him in the fi year. 1 have a habit of getting 1 and better at head-to-head racing place overall. nals, but sometimes it's like n~rvous and making too . many Kath tactics. This year, despite a recent bout somebody holds me." mistakes, so now I want to relax." Ci~~ Duvillard says he wants to see with meningitis, he seems ready As a little added inspiration, He says he passed up the Pub/ 1rvsri.JJe,rotvs PLUS UrJ I fOR.tn 5 J ,..., / cJ ttJTE~ -ro 5/e.c' 1?~'5 ~c:vw . f, /Cf71 Pros rejoice: Dudu beaten ByGAYLORDT. GUENIN Anticipating the start, he banged the ASPEN-. The $80,000 Budweiser Pro starting gate and then lost a ski coming Spree here, December 10-18, was not out of the start as he struggled to make up likely to be just another pro event. It for his error. "It was entirely my fault," wasn't. Anything that happens in Aspen !ferry said at the finish . "Live and learn .. is unlikely to be just another event. I guess you have heard that one before." First, this was the richest event the Odermatt, who had injured his hip World Pro Skiing tour has ever enjoyed. earlier in the week, managed to defeat It was the opening event in North Jakober in the opening rul) of the finals by America for the 1976-77 season. .023, but it was too slim a margin to Team challenge racing, a new concept stand. Jakober came back to win the in the WPS format, was introduced here. second run and the $10,000 check for first Henri Duvillard, the 1976 champion place by a margin of .342. Odermatt, and the winner of the two opening races who missed most of his fall training as the in Spain December 4-5, did rrot win both result of a bout with spinal meningitis events here. that kept him in bed for six weeks, took And it also should be mentioned that the $5,000 second-place check. Terry, there was no snow in Aspen. skiing stronger perhaps than at any point The nine-day event was conducted in since joining the tour in 1972, defeated weather that chambers of commerce in Tyler for third place. Terry, who has seaside resorts dream of, clear skies and beaten his brother four out of five times sunshine, but the crew at Aspen in WPS matchups, received $3,500 and Highlands, where all events were Tyler $2,500. conducted, prepared a course with man With the plate out of his leg and a ~-- made snow that may have been as superb summer of strenuous training behind - ~-- Manfred Jakober ra<;es to a GS victory in the Aspen Budweiser Pro Spree. Bob Rozinski photo. as any the pros have ever raced on. The him, Jakober, a downhill specialist as an Aspen Skiing Corporation also had a amateur, has emerged as a possible course ready midway up Aspen contender for the WPS crown, but responded. The implication .was clear: Mountain, but it was decided not to use contender could be the best anyone can Duvillard does believe he cari be beaten 'if that course because racers and spectators hope for on the tour, with the exception he falls down or makes a mistake. He would have had to walk or ride lifts or of Duvillard. seldom does either. . snowcats off the mountain. Jakober, who called his victory "the happiest moment of my racing career . .. Harald Stuefer was asked if the racers So with an abundance of good spend much time sitting around and weather, good crowds and bad jokes of my life," was the first to admit that while Duvillard may have been beaten, talking about Dudu, discussing ways to about the lack of snow, Henri Duvillard, · beat him. The amiable Stuefer said, "Ah, he doubts the loss did anything to shake the 28-year-old Frenchman who won 15 I don't think they (the other pros) sit the Frenchman's confidence. "He is still of 21 events in 1976, made it clear that he together and talk about Henri. They read / the one to beat," Jakober said. was not going to sit on his laurels. so much and they see everywhere Asked after his slalom victory if he Duvillard eased through the five rounds throughout the whole season, Duvillard, believed anyone had a chance against of slalom racing December 16, before Duvillard, Duvillard, so you don't want him, Duvillard said, "Everyone has a defeating 32-year-old Austrian Werner to spoil dinner thinking about him . Bleiner in the finals, without being chance against me." "Do you really seriously challenged. believe that?" he was asked. "Sure, you "I mean that as nothing personal," A veteran WPS racer, Austrian saw two days ago (in the team challenge) Stuefer said with a laugh, "but I don't Harald Stuefer, defeated Canadian Paul when I fell down at the turn," Dudu think we talk about him." Carson in the semifinals. Duvillard pocketed a record $10,000 of the $35,000 in prize money; Bleiner received $5,000,-. Stuefer $3,500 and Carson $2,500. Two days later, December 18, under equally clear skies and with another large crowd on hand, Duvillard was rei11troduced to a phenomenon his fellow pros are most familiar with - losing. The amazing Frenchman was beaten in the quarterfinals of the giant slalom by Manfred Jakober, 28, a second-year pro from Switzerland. Jakober lost his first run against Duvillard by .412, but on the second run Duvillard made a mistake that caused him to lose speed coming into the final flat section of the course, and Jakober took the second run by .445, giving him a victory margin of .033. A multiple fracture of his right leg forced Jakober to leave the Swiss national team in 1975. With a metal plate in his leg, which caused him continual agony on icy and rutted courses, Jakober decided to give pro racing a go in 1976, and although he had mediocre results overall, he was the only rookie to win an event this past winter. He had the plate removed immediately after the 1976 season. Jakober went on to face Tyler Palmer, Kearsarge, New Hampshire, in the semifinals, while at the other end of the ladder, Josef Odermaft, the number-two pro on the tour in 1976, was matched against T err¥ Palmer. There was no question among the spectators whom they wanted to see in the finals - a match between brothers Terry and Tyler. But that did not happen. Jakober beat Tyler in consecutive runs and Ter beat himself. LOCATION: Golden Horn RATES FOR RACE CLINIC NASTAR: Sign up in Customer Service 0 pt. $7.00 regu lar Special group rates available · DAY TIME RACING check with Customer Service CLINIC

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~ Dear Hearts One day, O)lt of pure boredom, he collected up a buck· ling shades and performing other tasks from his easy - et of bolts and went out on the prairie and started build· chair. He has a chinning bar in the door of his mobile (Continued From Page 4) ing a chair lift. home and he rarely goes in or out without at least a tug operating the T-bar for the Tenth Mountain Division at He hired himself a welder and together they erected a - at it. He still does not wear glasses. Cooper Hill near Leadville. That was his introduction to little thing about two hundred feet long powered by an Although Page certainly should be considered one of "them crazy skiers", the mildest term he ever applied to old truck motor. It was slow and it was spastic, but it the pioneers of Colorado skiing, in one sense he probab· them. It was at Cooper Hill that he became acquainted worked. Page went in the ranch house and called Whip ly wouldn't have fit in at the Denver ski ball. Certainly with such people as Peter Siebert who years later started Jones at Aspen Highlands and told him what he had done. a lot of maudlin mooning over the good old days was a a place called Vail. When the war was over Page natural Whip came down to the ranch, got taken by the rickety part of the evening and that would have left Page cold. He' ly drifted to Aspen where he was in charge of construc· thing, and made a deal for Page to move it to Aspen_and has no mementoes of skiing, mining, or ranching around tion of the Number One Lift. From there he went to operate it for kids. They called it Page's Little Half Inch. his place except a few rock samples collected in the des· Winter Park and Santa Fe Basin and to Mont Tremblant This arrangement lasted for a couple of winters and then ert and his cable splicing needles. At 85, Page is not look· near Montreal. He learned to splice cables and traveled the challenge went out of it. Union Oil Co. started up ing back. On a sample day he will p ut on his Bermuda just about everywhere there were ski lifts or mine trams. OPf:!~tions in the oil shale at Grand Valley and Page went shorts, h is South Seas sport shirt, his sandals and his golf The years went by. . there to build a tram but he got his finger caught in the ing cap and be off on h is rounds of the commu nity check· Then one day it came to pass that Page inherited the cable and lost a couple of joints. It occurred to him that ing up on the mobility and perpendicularity of youngsters home ranch. His parents had died and his brotherihad a person could get hurt around a place like that so he a quarter of a c~ ntury his junior. died childless and there was nothing for him to ~o ':but go quit. He had sold the ranch to a subdivider so he wasn't It makes him feel useful, he says, and they need him. home. That's what he did, he and his wife Ruth. · _hurting for money and then the other brother died in a The ski pioneers probably do not. But life on a flatlands ranch was tame after mini~g and plane crash leaving "a whole bunch of money" to Charles skiing and Page got restless. He tried retiring at Truth or Marion Page, not to mention a new Cadillac sedan. Page Consequences down in New Mexico, but that didn't work sold his 13-year-old Plymouth coupe and headed for out. He said the town was full of old people and all they Phoenix. Age, 7 5. Health, excellent. ·' wanted to talk about was the past or about what was Today, at 85, he i~ the senior senior citizen in a small hurting them but Page wasn't interested ,in the past and ish mobile home park, and certainly the liveliest. Five he didn't hurt anywhere so he gave up and went back to years ago he took up square dancing to work off excess the ranch. Actually, it was "them crazy skiers" he was energy, spends his time organizing group activities for missing. At 7 0, he couldn't find any other group of the younpr .residents and devising mechanical gadgets people as young as he felt. . for tl!!ning the TV on and off, the light~ up or down, pul-

. ~~ - .~ [ STA!Zi 1-/ER[ ~ Dear Hearts ~ -PL£11SE And Gentle People By ·LOUIS NEWELL

If the Denver ·newspapers can be b~lieved, th:ey.ha{a_n : absolutely fantabulous ski ball in the merely ,niil~ :high . ,•. city the other night, an 'event which feature.d ..l!. "spot ~.;· ·· .:;·'': lighting", as they. say on_..the ·sQciety pages, the:ri.ames:.of:i · ": about forty pioneers'ih Colorado skiing." .AU th ~ . nam~l! ?,'·, yo·u have heard were listed; ranging from·· Walter Paep.ckej._ ·.1 the founder of Aspen _skiing to Joe Zoline· of Tellurid.e'....:. . • all the big names, that is, except Charles:Marion Page. · You never heard of· C. M. Page? Then you really don~~ know all there is to know about Colorado skiing arid that has to be rectified immediately . . Once u pon ll time there were three brothers growing up on a ranch near Pueblo and during that time three · brothers couldn't make· a living on one ranch so two of them had to go. Charle& Marion, the eldest, lit out for· the mines of Colorado where living was rough in the 1930s, but there was a living to be made. For 'the record it has to ·be noted that the other brother' went into the insurance business. Page started out underground on the silly end of a shovel, but he didn't take to that activity and as soon as he could wangle a tram operator's job, he did. For the next few years he-worked at Ouray, Telluride, Lake City, Leadville and anywhere else there was mining going·on. _· Whenever·he got his-hands on a little extra bread (they · ; called it 'money in those. days), he would send it back to ·the ranch to keep the other Pages going. · · " A!)JO OURAY HERALD S INCE 18S7,

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~One day, O)lt of pure boredom, he collected up a buck- ling shades and performing other tasks from his easy - Dear Hearts et of bolts and went out on the prairie and started build chair. He has a chinning bar in the door of his mobile (Continu~d From Page 4) ing a chair lift. home and he rarely goes in or out without at least a tug operating the T-bar for the Tenth Mountain Division at He hired himself a welder and together they erected a -at it. He still does not wear glasses. Cooper Hill near Leadville. That was his introduction to little thing about two hundred feet long powered by an Although Page certainly should be considered one of "them crazy skiers", the mildest term he ever applied to old truck motor. It was slow and it was spastic, but it the pioneers of Colorado skiing, in one sense he probab- them. It was at Cooper Hill that he became acquainted worked. Page went in the ranch house and called Whip ly wouldn't have fit in at the Denver ski ball. Certainly with such people as Peter Siebert who years later started Jones at Aspen Highlands and told him what he had done. a lot of maudlin mooning over the good old days was a a place called Vail. When the war was over Page natural Whip came down to the ranch, got taken by the rickety part of the evening and that would have left Page cold. He' ly drifted to Aspen where he was in charge of construc thing, and made a deal for Page to move it to Aspen_and has no mementoes of skiing, mining, or ranching around tion of the Number One Lift. From there he went to operate it for kids. They called it Page's Little Half Inch. his place except a few rock samples collected in the des Winter Park and Santa Fe Basin and to Mont Tremblant This arrangement lasted for a couple of winters and then ert and his cable splicing needles. At 85, Page is not look near Montreal. He learned to splice cables and traveled the challenge went out of it. Union Oil Co. started up ing back. On a sample day he will put on his Bermuda just about everywhere there were ski lifts or mine trams. op~~tions in the oil shale at Grand Valley and Page went shorts, his South Seas sport shirt, his sandals and his golf The years went by. ' there to build a tram but he got his finger caught in the ing cap and be off on his rounds of the community check· Then one day it came to pass that Page inherited the cable and lost a couple of joints. It occurred to him that ing up on the mobility and perpendicularity of youngsters home ranch. His parents had died and his brotherihad a person could get hurt around a place like that so he a quarter of a century his junior. died childless and there was nothing for him to do\but go quit. He had sold the ranch to a subdivider so he wasn't It makes him' feel useful, he says, and they need him. home. That's what he did, he and his wife Ruth\. · .hurting for money and then the other brother died in a The ski pioneers probably do not. But life on a flatlands ranch was tame after minhtg and plane crash leaving "a whole bunch of money" to Charles skiing and Page got restless. He tried retiring at Truth or Marion Page, not to mention a new Cadillac sedan. Page Consequences down in New Mexico, but that didn't work sold his 13-year-old Plymouth coupe and headed for out. He said the town was full of old people and all they Phoenix. Age, 7 5. Health, excellent. ·• wanted to talk about was the past or about what was Today, at 85, he i~ the senior senior citizen in a small hurting them but Page wasn't interested jn the past and ish mobile home park, and certainly the liveliest. Five he didn't hurt anywhere so he gave up and went back to years ago he took up square dancing to work off excess the ranch. Actually, it was "them crazy skiers" he was energy, spends his time organizing group activities for missing. At 70, he couldn't find any other group of the younger .residents and devising mechani~al gadgets people as young as he felt. . for tl_!!ning the TV on and off, the lights up or down, pul-

STAf!-.1 l-lfR( ~ Dear Hearts ~ -PL£ ftSE And Gentle People _ By ·LOUIS NEWELL

If the J)enver -·n~wspapers can be believed·, th:ey had:art: absolutely fantabulous ski ball in the merely ,m'ikhigh City the other night, iln "event.which feature_d .w'~spot- .; · __ , ·.·-. lighting", as they . ~;ay on ..the ·s()ciety pages, theji_am.es.:pf".'·- - about forty pioneers 'in Colorado skiing." .All the .name!! ':.,:'"_. you have heard were listed, ranging from·Walter Paep.ck~~- -: the founder or'Aspen.skiing to Joe Zoline· of Tellurid.e ' ~ . · all the big names, that is, except Charles.Marion Page . .-- You never heard of C. M .. Page? Then you really don~t know all there is to know about Colorado skiing arid -- that has to be rectified immediately. Once upon a time there were three brothers growing up on a ranch near Pueblo and during that time three.· brothers could_n 't make' a living on one ranch so two of them had to go. Charle& Marion, the eldest, lit out for· the mines of Colorado where living was rough in th~ 1930s, but there was a living to be made. For "the record it has to ·be noted that the other brother went into the insurance business. Page started out u-nderground on the silly end of a shovel, but he didn't take to that activity and as ~;oon as he could wangle a tram operator's job, he .did. For the next few years he-worked at Ouray, Telluride, Lake City, Leadville and anywhere else there was mining going·on. ·· Wbenever·he got his.hands on a little extra bread (they· called it money in those.days), he would send it back to the ranch to keep the other Pages going. · When World War II _came along, Page wangled the jo'I;J (Conti!'lued On Page _5) . . .•. ·-

.. ·.. ·.. , ···, '•' "';_ I ';· .• .. ~ ." GtM at Aspen Highlands. The long and. short of it. Bspen At Aspen Highlands we teach Highlands the rea I GLM (Graduated Length leaches Method). We begin by teaching thirteen I he. basic parallel turning ~xercises on three-foot skis. Then we apply real them on four-foot, five-foot, and finally traditional length skis. ~ ~ · -=-' li.ll. .ra.. GLM isn't just for beginners, either. It can be an excellent tool for intermediate skiers, who are ASPEN HIGHLANDS having difficulty with parallel technique. Or for experts and - SKIING CORPORATION racers who want to sharpen their © technique.

Two Great Apres Ski Bars with Live Entertainment Both located in the Highlands Base Lodge CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR BAR now appearing Pearly White CLUB ROOM BAR (upstairs) I 9

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Hot doggers hit ( !) the slopes Friday in · a test of skills on Florodora out at the Highlands: One competitor spotted a camera and decided he'd d0 a special new trick called a seat drop he'd invented just for the conte~t. · He arched his back, flexed his knees and ... sat down. Well, not only did the seat . drop please the crowd, but by showing off his hart hart hart hart skis to the press, the com petitor got a special bonus from his sponsor. And then when he skied down to .accept the congratulations of ' . the crowd, he said, "gosh, th ..th ..th ...thanks." Chris Cassatt photo.

Private instructor per 6-hour day 3 full Days-Group Lesson $33 reserved i~ advance. Approximate 1-3 people · $125 day 5 Full Days--Group Lesson $50 prices, which usually include free 4-5 people $160 day storage: NASTAR Children (12 and under) 1 Full Day-Group Lesson $11 ' Downhill Cross-Country NASTAR (National Standard vice of the Aspen Slilinq COrp, it in 1 FuU Dav (Saturday Only) Group Race) races are held nine times eacb cludes a clinic. Sign-up Is at 9:30, the Lesson $8 Skis $6 a day $3 a day . week at various Aspen areas accord c~nic at 10, and the race at noon. Highlands Boots $3 a day $2.50a day ing to the foUowing schedule: The NASTAR races are for Potes $1 a day $1 a day Tuesday, Wednesday and amateur skiers. There is a handicap RATES - PRIVATE LESSONS package $10 $6.50 Thursday-Highlands and Snow and the race is against a pacesetter's Aspen Highlands Skiing 1 Person $20 hr per day mass. time. Depending on the racer's per Corpo~tiqn-Aspen Highlands .Ski 2 people $25 hr Monday, Wednesday,· and ·centage of that time, bronze, silver or School 3, people $30 hr Most sports shops give discounts for 3 Friday-Buttermilk. gold medals can be won. All Day Private $90 or 7 day rentals and some will apply Sign-up begins at 9:30 am. Races It costs $3 for an adult to enter, $2 Director-Charles "Lefty" Brinkman All of the above prices do not include the rent paid toward the purchase start around noon. . for under 18. Re-runs are $1. T_echnique-Original Graduated price of lift ticket. price. Equipl'(lent should be reservea There is a special novice NASTAR Both the Aspen Skiing Corp and Length Method AU lessons (one-day and multi-day) during the high season prior to arri at Buttermilk on Tuesdays, primarily Aspen Highlands will set up special ean begin on any day of the week. val~ to help beginning racers. A free ser- NASTAR club or group races RATES -ClASS Adult 1 Full Day-Group Lesson · $13 -~·-- · 1 Full Day -Group Lesson (Satur SKI EQUIPMENT RENTAL day only) $8 Complete ski equipment may be ..J/trV 131.t.. 19 '7 '+ Snow Puppy's offers special for local kids

The Snow Puppy Ski School is a new feature this season of the Aspen Highlands Ski School and is specially for children ages three to six. · Instructors are Kristin Lawr ence and Bill Reynolds .and they have had over 200 children in their classes during the Christ mas holidays. Reynolds said they will have a special, which will be available J~ 10 until March 4, for local children. The usual price is $17 per day ... and the special will be JAN I '5 tt.. l'/ ~ ~ $70 for a five-day ticket for locals, Now have mus1c The ticket can be used any five days during the Jan 10 to Mar~h 4 while you ski ~riod, ~nd includes price of lift bcket, lunch and six hours of Possibly the newest thing in ski lessons ... as children are cared for accessories is Free Feeling, which from 9:30 am until 3:30 pm. is a cassette pack for the slopes, which allows you to listen to Reynolds said that the children music while skiing. are not on skis the whole day. The cassette pack is strapped to There is an igloo clubhouse where the skier's chest and there are the children play, and he takes headphones for listening. them sleigh riding each after Free Feeling is the venture of noon. Richard Strauss and Step Con To make reservations, call nolly and they say they have ·Rf:ynolds at 923-3434, or the about 60 or 70 albums on cassettes H1ghlands ticket office at including John Denver·, Jimmy 925-5300. Buffett, James Taylor, Starwood, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Wonder, The Doobie Brothers and the Allman Brothers. Free Feeling cassettes and headphones are available at the Aspen Highlands GLM rental center or Aspen Ski Swap, located next to Aspen State Teachers Col- lege. Strauss and Connolly have both been Aspen residents for several years. Strauss was a trader in patchwork quilts while Connolly worked at the Aspen Highlands Repair shop. I! 1 Town race date is changed to Friday, Jan 21 The Winterskol Town Race Highlands Skol Day originally scheduled for Saturday Friday, Jan 21 has been changed to Friday, Jan A day's lift ticket is only $7 to 21 and will be held at the Aspen those wearing Winterskol pins at Highlands. The Aspen Ski Club ASpen Highlands Friday. will be coordinating the dual The scheduled Women's Schlitz giant slalom race on Friday. . NASTAR has been canceled. Registration will be at the ski Instead, a Winterskol Town club office at the top of Mill S~ , _9 Race, a dual giant slalom race on am to 5 pm daily. The entry feelS the pro course (Jerome Bowl) atl $7 per person and any group of Highlands will be held at 10 am four people including one worn~ coordinated by the Aspen Ski may enter in the team competi Club. Entry fee is $7 per person tion for no extra cost. ~d regis_trations will be taken up All racers will be required to till race time at Aspen Highlands. have a ~alid Aspen Highlands Any group of four that includes ticket to race. On Friday a full a female can compete in the team Highlands lift ticket may be cm~p~tition for no extra charge. purchased for $7 with a Winter~ Individual and team prizes will be kol pin. In additi~n, Highlands IS awarded. All racers must have a · offering a limited ticket for $6. lift ticket. Any questions should The race will be held on the be directed to the Aspen Ski same course the pros used in De Club's Bill Ashton at 925-3125 cember. Late registration will be This race replaces Saturday'~ held at the base of Highlands Winterskol Dual GS. until the 10 am race start, but I seeding will be ~one Th'?"sday .J night. For more mformatwn o~ the town race, call the Aspen Ski Club at 925-3125.

Hot Dog Contest On The Winterskol Hot Dog .Con- ' test, scheduled at 12 noon at , Aspen Highlands, is definitely on. Skip Gilkerson and crew have .been shoveling snow over to the course this week. The Schlitz Locked-Arm Slalom is also defmitely going to happen on man-made snow at the base of the mountain using the Poma lift. Each four-person team must in . friday clude a woman, and a special JANUARY 21 award will be given this year for HIGHLANDS SKOL DAY: A the best team costume. Beer cases and wine gallons go to the win day's liff ticket is only $7 for those ners. 1:30 pm. wearing Winterskol pins at Aspen Highlands. Winterskol activities A Free-Style Demonstration by today are Winterskol Town Race the Highlands team is scheduled at 10 am, hot dog contest at 12 at 2 pm at the base. noon, Schlitz Locked-Arm Slalom The .a wards party begins at 4:30 pm in the Christian Endeavor at 1:30pm, free-style demonstra Bar. tion at 2 pm, awards party at 4:30 pm. Clayton Rumble, 13, of Australia, topped the field garoo Cup and should provide Aspen racers with in his age class in Sunday's Kangaroo Cup giant another tough test at the Feb 6 Siri & Peter's giant slalom for young racers. Aspen Ski Club coaches slalom. David Brownell photo. said the Aussies skied very well during the Kan- Strang, Jane Van Domelen, and Martha Drayton, all of Aspen, finished first, second and third, Aussie bors, Aspen respectively. In the 12-year old class, new comer Alexandra Kendall placed girls take races first, with Beth Madsen second and Jill Anderson third. All three Australian boys and Aspen tJI"St, with Aspenites Jeff Poe and are from Aspen. girls dominated the Kangaroo Michael Dumke third. In the 13-year-old class Aspen's Giant Slalom ClaBSic, an age Two Australians took top hon Laurie Strang placed first, while class Aspen Cup race held Jan 30 ors among boys age 11: Nicky Australians Annette Bolton and at Aspen Highlands. Edgar was first and Sheldon Jenny Price were second and The race was a late addition to Licordy was second. Kurt Lundin third, respectively. the Aspen. Cup schedule and was of Sunlight was third. As{len Ski Club coaches offered sponsored by the Australian The Aussies again took the top their thanks to the Australian junior ski team that has been two places in the 12-year-old team and to Aspen Highlands for training in Aspen. class, with David Studley first, putting on the race. The race consisted of tWo runs of and Andrea Glanzing second. This weekend, during the Siri & giant slalom, with the combined Svein Nostdahl of Aspen placed Peter's Nordic-Alpine event, times giving the winners. third. there is a cross-country race In the 10-year-old boys class, In the 13-year-old clBS, Clayton scheduled for Saturday at the Rowan Gallager of Australia was Rumble of Australia was first, Snowmass Country Club and a while Aspenites Mark Thorpe and giant slalom set for Sunday at Jeff Stevens fmished second and Aspen Highlands. JV boys top third. Both events have 10 am start- I I Among girls age 10, Bridget ing times. · Ziggy

February 17, 1977 The Aspen Times Domelen second and Pisa Prior third. ·Thorpe tops field in Missen Brucker won the blue ribbon in the 11-year-old class, with Anne Richardson second, Aspen Cup s.lalom and Karen Thorpe third. In the 12-year-old class, Beth Madsen was fll'St, with Jill An The KSPN Aspen Cup race Dillimgham family fore-ran the derson second and Kelsey Stevens series held its fifth alpine event course. third. Sunday at Aspen Highlands. It was not by chance that the Laurie Strang showed the fas The two-run regulation slalom Dillinghams sponsored an Aspen test girls' time while winning the was sponsored by Dillingham's Cup race. Both Dale and Sharon 13-year-old class. Sarah Carlson VW and Towing Service, and the· grew up as Aspen Ski Club racers. fmished second and Mary Bren Sharon won the nationals some nan third in the same class. years back, and also won the Roch Among boys age 10, Alexis Rac Cup combined in 1962. loz was frrst, with Jeff Poe second and Brad Zanin third. Sandy Daughter Sharon plans to be a Maple was frrst in the 11-year-old member of the Aspen Cup team class, with William Herndon sec next year. ond and Billy Madsen third. The resultS in each age group: In the 12-year-old class, John among girls age 10, Martha Day McBride was frrst, with Mads ton was frrst with Jane Van Buck second and Chris Dayton third. Mark Thorpe set the fastest combined time of the day while winning the 13-year-oldclss, with Steve Menscher second and Jeff Stevens third. Mark Thorpe, 13, had the fastest overall time in Sunday's Aspen Cup slalom race held at Aspen Highlands. David Brownell photo. Line stretches ~~~~~ 1 k EXPaJE THE PUBLIC TO ACC tho around. OC SUPERVI:lEDANJMAL;AND b I JMPCSING A PENALTY OF THE ILLEGAL HITCHING 0 In a unanimous vote Tuesday, ing at PI ayb - OU Se WHEREAS, the City Counci the Aspen Chamber of Commerce I mined that actioo m\Uit be tak animal excreta on public and PI passed real estate man Hans Rec Due to poor snow conditions and erty md to eliminate the :Practl Gramiger's motion to send a letter stel canceled reservations, Aspen ing animal• within the Clty 80 mo· fere with public paM~~Je. to both the Aspen Highlands Ski businesses haven't enjoyed many NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ing Corporation and tile Aspen ora packed crowds or long lines this BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF Skiing Corporation expressing J. ski season, but the Playhouse · OF ASPEN. C the chamber's appreciation that con Theatre was a definite exception Section 1 the · corporations have worked mal Tuesday night. That the Municipal Code o with the town in keeping the tha: A crowd of eager moviegoers Alpen, Colorado, is h ere ~y am areas open as long ~s possible this dry stretched arouna the block at 8:15 ~~:s:aec:tioo, ~h ich 88ld se winter. curl pm waiting to buy tickets to the Sec. 5-9. Animal Litter But when it gets to the point feet theater's triple x-porno special of Any peraoo having Jlllllll888i · · oootrol of any animal (includin when staying open in the poor. sru<'. . . the month called "Expose Me be r81PQD11ible for the remov snow conditions will detract from Cot· -- ·."r:· · ~~-~~ Lovely." creta depollited by_ any s':'ch Aspen's image, the chamber will acr\ "q:, '::-, ~ It was the busiesteveningofthe anyproperty,publicorpn~~ understand if the ski areas close, Randle li:uvised the chamber to No vote was ~nhv.J:fe l'ti~ havm!l according to Gramiger's motion. contact other western slope chamber on its stand regarding 1 chambers as well as Club 20 to the possible opening of Indepen- In other business during the enlist their support in a stance dence Pass this wmter. full board's noon meeting, the against Hunter Creek's inclusion City Council member Michael C chamber discussed how best to in the. Fryingpan-Arkansas Pro- Behrendt said he would change 0 oppose Hunter Creek diversion, ject. . He explained that dry his vote ifthe.chamber wanted to rtll the Wintetskol budget, whether streams would destroy western pass open all the way. He had ar or not Independence Pass should slope towns as resort areas. voted Monday night to open it be plowed open, and the estab A director of Club 20, Steve only far enough so that cross lishment of a conference bureau Harris said he would arrange for country skiers could gain access to within the chamber. Club 20 leaders John Vanderhoof trails. and Wayne Aspinall to attend an Chamber President Ernie Ash- Hunter Creek Aspen Chamber of Commerce Area rancher and member of meeting, and would try to the Aspen Valley Improvement schedule Jim Johnston, too. Association, Henry Stein, told the chamber that opposing the Winterskol Bureau of Reclamation's plans to Winterskol director for the past divert water from Hunter Creek three years, Ted Singelis, recom was "a matter of absolute, vital mended that Winterskol remain a v interest to every human being liv- mid-January event. If the February 17, 1977 The Aspen Times Page 19-B Highlands pass holders say refunds denied

· Aspen Highlands season pass holder Artie Dunne reported to the Aspen Times recently that he an:d as many as SOothers had been promised season pass refunds that were later denied. The affected i~ •; .• auals turned their passes i c1.1 f tv Highlands, Dunne said, but were told two weeks later that there would be no refund and the passes were re turned. Dunne said the group may file a civil suit to recover the full $275 pass price, or compensation for the two week period the passes were held. Aspen Highlands spokesman Skip Gilkerson replied by saying that the ski area regrets the con fusion but that Highlands' policy is to never refund money for sea son passes unless there is an in jury or other extenuating circum stances. "The fact that the skiing has been less than ideal this season is not considered an extenuating circumstance," he said. He admitted that there may have been li communications error and that ticket window per sonnel may have mistakenly led Dunne to believe that he could get a refund. It says on the back of the passes, however, according to Gilkerson, that no refunds will be issued. He said anyone who thinks he o has legitimate grounds for a re- d fund must turn his pass in for con- · sideration by a pass committee that makes the final decision .. In the case ofDunne and others, he said, the refund was refused. ASPEN HIGHLANDS SPRING FLING

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. Page 19-b 4 1977 The Aspen Times February 2 , Stein Er iksen to leave Park City ski school iob Former Aspen resident ~nd Highlands lowers four-time world skiin~ champiO? Stein Er iksen h as resigned as DI lift ticket rate rector of the Ski School at the Park City, Utah resort. Aspen H ighlands has an The resignation becomes effec nounced a reduction in lift ticket ~ i ve March 1, a joint announce- rates from $12 to $11 dail~ , ac ' t ted "I have no hard feel- cording to corporation president men ~ sa · kl ings;' Er'C. •.,; en told the wee y Whip Jones. Park City Record after announc ln making the announcem~n t, ing his resignation. Jones said he felt the reductl?n The world-famous skier told t~e gives skiers a better opp&-tunJty paper that there were three basic to take advantage of the many reasons for his termim.,tion ~f e.m events sponsored weekly by the ployment: salary, job descnptlon ski area, and the new snowfall. and a depressed economy. . Eriksen first crone to Aspen m the late 1950's as director of.the Ski Schoo! at the As~n High lands He left that position to as: sume. the directorship of a ski school in Vermont, but retm:ned to the Aspen area to become drrec tor of skiing at the Snowmass Re- sort. Highlands dispute settled out of court

Twelve disgruntled Aspen had skied, he said. Highlands season pass holders The group was promised that have reached an out of court set the money would be made availa tlement with the ski area that ble within 12 days, according to provides them with $2,041 in Seigle, who said, however, that damages and the return of their when that period had expired passes. Highlands officials told the pass Aspen attorney Jon Seigle, who holders that the decision to refund represented the pass holders, said had been reversed. j Monday that he and attorneys for Several pass holders came to the Highlands reached the ag Seigle to inquire about legal ac reement before a scheduled tion but decided. that legal fees March 9 hearing in county court. would be prohibitive for such a Seigle said 11 of his clients who small group. had purchased season passes were The group then advertised in awarded $175 each plus the ·re the newspaper and a total of 12 turn of their passes. A twelfth pass holders who felt the High client who had purchased a lands had treated them unfairly weekend pass, according to came forward . to participate in Seigle, settled for a $116 cash legal action. payment and did not want his Seigle said he flied a suit that pass returned. demanded the money the pass The settlement amounted to an holders would have been entitled admission by the Highlands that to under the original Highll;lnds the pass holders had a legitimate agreement, plus $12 per person grievance, Seigle !)aid. per day for the period (up to three He said the 12 had been prom weeks) that the ski area had held ised by the Highlands that they their passes. could get season pass refunds if Before the suit went to court, their passes were turned in by Jan however, Highlands agreed to the 15. out of court settlement. · They were-to receive the price of The group is largely satisfied their passes minus a $10 handling with the settlement, according to charge and $12 for each day they .Seigle. ------~--- 15

Highlands ,is the place for those who like hot· dogs

A competitor shows off a "daffy" during the hot dog con test held Friday at Aspen High lands. Hot doggers show their stuff every Friday at noon on Highland's Floradora run. There is a $750 purse each week, and Highlands's spokesman Skip Gilkerson calls the event the most prestigious weekly contest in the country. . Anyone can enter, although' • there are restrictions on what kindofaeriolscan be 'performed. So, if splits, tip rolls, kick-out, .and bock-scratchers ore your bag, Florodora is the place to be on Fridays. Andy Hanson photo. March 17, 1977 The Aspen Times Page 17-B Highlands charged with 'intimidation'

The State Division of Employ workers who are laid off. The rate said, amounted to firing emp operators was warned by Robin him what he thought of the others ment and Training this week that determines how much the· loyees if they filed for unemploy son that if he filed for unemploy and them fired him, apparently by began an investigation into alleg employer has to pay goes up each ment or workmen's compensation ment it was poss~bl'e he would.not association. ations that Aspen Highlands has time someone successfully files. and warning them not to do it. be rehired. Jim Bare, an 11-year employee, intimidated employees. According to the allegations, This was an "unwritten law," she Hutton was the only one to file fired for "union organizing." The allegations were made in a Highlands warned employees not said. and was not rehired. The reason Coyle said Highlands also in memo filed with the Colorado At to file for unemployment compen Coyle said that Highlands con given by Highlands was "disag stigated another "tyrannical pol torney General's office. sation, apparently to keep their trollerJPWentzel said, at a Dec 7, reement with management." icy" this season, requiring all em Six employees who were fired · rate down. 1976, management council meet John Losik, lift operator for ployees to buy a season pass if and a seventh who resigned Judy Coyle, former director of ing: three years, was hurt in March of . they wanted to ski off-duty. charge that Highlands has a pol public relations for Highlands, "We have been so successful in 1976.Hefiledforworkmen'scomp Highlands apparently wanted icy of dismissing those who file for filed a statement with the memo cracking down on unemployment to cover the cost of an operation to protect itself against liability unemployment compensation. in which she tells of overhearing a claims that we are carrying our and was fired while in the hospital for workmen's comp in the event conversation between Highlands stance over into workmen's com in May. The . reason: he gl;lve ·· an off-duty employee was injured Bert Carlson, director of the Di President Whipple Jones, ski pat pensation claims. Of course, we supervisors "too m1,1ch trouble." while skiing, she said. vision of Employment and Train rol director David Wright, and must be careful that this is not put Gordon Ford, ski patrolman for The price of the "optional" ing, plans to discuss the allega Don Robinson, mountain opera into writing." one year who filed for workman's pass-$125--was covered by a tions with Highlands officials and tions manager. Coyle resigned Nov 23, but was comp to cover an operation to re bonus amounting to exactly the report his findings to John Kezer, She said the conversation con kept on until mid-January until a move bone spurs on both heels. same amount. Instructors and assistant attorney general. cerned how to fire various emp replacement was found. ·Fired in October of 1976 for being patrolmen were required to buy Employers pay a portion of loyees without revealing the real The employees who were fired: a "poor patrolman." them, she said, to keep their jobs. gross income into a fund to benefit reason. Highlands policies, she Earl Hutton, a lift operator (Coyle's statement tells of a The legal memo filed with the since the 1974-75 season, signed conversation between Jones, attorney general was prepared as on to work in the summer too. He Robinson and Wright in which a class action by a local lawyer filed for unemployment between they "plotted" how best to fire because the former Highlands the winter and summer seasons. Ford because he had filed.) employees lacked funds. Hutton said in his affadavit George Newman, who said in Carlson is expected to report his that he and seven other lift an affidavit that Wright asked findings within about two weeks. The scenery was a blur as young Aspen Cup com- races Sunday at Aspen Highlands. Dave Brownell petitors vied in the dual slalom and giant slalom photo. A Joint Venture of Aspen Highlands Skiing Corporation and Aspen Skiing Corporation . .. Aspen Colorado 81611 (303) 925-4000 P.O. Box 4546 Welcome to Aspen SCHEDULE OF Free Bus Service NASTAR NASTAR IN ASPEN Aspen Highlands provides conti'nuous free bus service starts at noon from Rubey Park, stopping at Arthur's and the Aspen Last winter the Aspen/ Snowmass complex served three Villas on Main Street, to the ski area every 15 minutes times as many NAST AR rac ers as any other area in the from 8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. country. The NASTAR championships were held last Aspen Highlands provides free bus service between April at Snowmass and Aspen Highl ands. those points an d the area every 30 minutes from 10:30-3:00. Ten NASTAR races are held weekly-Aspen Highlands and Snowmass on Tuesday, W ednesday and Thurs Aspen Highlands provides continuous free bus service day; and Buttermilk on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday f rom the ski area, stopping at the Aspen Vi ll as and lnns and Friday. At mid-week, NASTAR events are staged bru ck Motel on Main Street, to Rubey Park every 15 on two or three mountains simultaneously. NASTAR minutes from 3:00 p.m.-6:00p.m. PLUS at Aspen Highlands with a cash purse of $1200 Snowmass Skier Bus Schedule From Rubey Park for men on Saturdays, $5 entry fee. Aspen Every 20 Minutes 8:00a.m. to 10:30 a.m. A special novice NASTAR is held on Tuesdays at But Mid -day Buses 11:00a.m. termilk on Ego Hill to help the beginning racer. This is a 12:00 Noon free service of the Aspen Skiing Corp. The clinic starts Eve ry 20 Minutes 3:15p.m. to 4:30p.m .. at 10 a.m. From Sk ier Bus Terminal - Snowmass Pre-NASTAR clinics are conducted by racers on the Every 20 Minutes 8:45a.m. to 10:30 a.m. staff of Aspen Highlands, Snowmass and Buttermil k Mid-day Bus 11:30 a.m . 0 prior to each race. To enroll , sign up at NASTAR regis Every 20 Minutes 2:30p.m. to 4:45p.m. tration from 9:30 to 11 :30 a.m. on the day of the regu larly scheduled competition. Snowmass Village Bus Night Schedule - From Rubey Park: See posted schedule. Many ski clubs and groups use NAST AR events as club competitions. This can be handled, but clubs must con Buttermilk Bus Schedule From Rubey Park - Aspen Every 15 Minutes 8:00a.m. to 4:15p.m. t act the marketing offices at the skiing corporations, -· well in advance. From Buttermilk Mtn. NAST AR Registration Every 15 Minutes 8:15a.m. to 4:30p.m. Aspen Highlands: 3:00 to 5:00 day prior to race, 9:00- Buttermilk Tiehack Bus Schedule 11 :00 day of race at customer service. Main Area Departure Time Tiehack Area Buttermilk: 9:30-11 :30 day of rac e at Cliffhouse restau 12:00 3:05 12:15 3:15 ra nt. 2:20 3:25 2:35 3:45 2:45 2:55 4:00 Snowmass: 9:30-11:30 day of race at Alpine Springs Or As Posted. resta urant.

Aspen Ski School Aspen Highlands Ski School · Ad~ Its & Children - Dail y group,. Sun-·1ue s 13.00 Full day group 13.00 Adults & Children - Daily group, W ed-Sat 10.00 Three day group 33.00 I No discount on multiple day lessons) Five day group 50.00 Children, 12 & under group 11.00 Private lessons, 1 or 2 persons per hour 25.00 Private le sso n, one person, per hour 20. 00 lEac h additional person per hour, up to 5 persons 5.00 25.00 I may cut lines) Private lesso n, 2 persons, per hour Private lesso n, 3 persons, per hour 30.00 Priva te instructor by the day : All day, private 90.00 1-3 persons for 6 hours 125.00 I Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily) 4-5 persons for 6 hours 160.00 Closed class, no limit on number of people, no line cuts, fo r- 4 hours 100.00

\. '\ Fear not, citizens, the Gov'nah talks better than he skis. Of interest to Republicans, this picture also conclusively demonstrates that the gov ernor has just taken a swing to the right, perhaps a concession to the conservative majorities in the state legislature. Chris Cassatt photo. Page 22 The Aspen Journal March 18, 1977 The Aspen Gup _Finale

The Aspen Cup Finale was held at Aspen Highlands last Sunday, March 13, sponsored ·l>y Jill's Tot and Teen and Buster Brown. Dual slalom format dominated the morning, and the afternoon competitions consisted.of giant slalom. Boys and girls 'rere divided into four age groups for the races. In the girls' division, Jane Van Domelen triumphed in both the dual slalom and GS in the ten-year-old group, and Karen Thorpe took both races in the 11-year-old group. Beth Madsen similarly swept both races for age 12. Thirteen-year-old Mary Brennan took the slalom, and Laurie Strang won the GS. In the boys' classes, Alexis Racloz took both races in the ten-year-old group, and John McBride won both as a 12-year·old. · Billy Madsen, an ll·year·old, won the slalom, and Sandy Maple took the GS. Mark Thorpe was first in the slalom for 13-year·olds, and Gates Garritty won the GS for that age. The final event for the winter, sponsored for the Aspen Ski Club by Aspen Conoco, will be a hot dog clinic and contest at Aspen Highlands on March 26-27.

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Seventy-eight racers put on helmets for the Town Donwhill race on Racer's Edge at Tieback last Friday morning. Two classes, men's and women's, ran the course. The first three women placers were Stephanie Williams, Debbie Densmore, and Caroline Cerise. In the men's division, Kirk Reinecke, Wayne Hagen and Phil Volckhausen ran first, second and third. Page 3 · The A'Spen Journal ·March 18', 1977

ALLEGATIONS TERMED ''SERIOUS'' Highlands -Labor Acts May Be Probed by Dave Danforth "file" he'd created for the case, The charges amount to allega passes. The employee had been total ignorance of why two of his and then referred it back to the tions that the state is running a subpoenaed to testify in the patrolmen don't work at High The chances that Aspen state's lawyers rather than "giveaway program" by allow case, which was settled five lands any more. Asked why one Highlands Skiing Corporation's dropping it, is normally viewed ing benefits to be paid to those days before it was to have gone was fired, he said, "I don't have labor. policies will become the as an indication that more who really shouldn't be allowed to trial. any idea.'' Asked why the other · subject of a criminal investiga ·serious actions could follow. to get them. Dave Wright, the head of the quit, he said, "I don't know a tion were increased this week But Carlson refused to confirm On the Highlands front, it's Highlands Ski Patrol, claimed thing about him. " when documents said to detail or deny that he's thinking about reported that two other ski those policies were turned back a further probe. patrolmen have filed for unem to the Colorado Attorney Carlson termed it his "res ployment benefits. One was General's office in Denver for ponsibility under the law'' to firet;i for ''poor performance'' - closer inspection. A formal investigate the allegations. But the reason, it's alleged, that announcement on the future of the two charges - one involving Highlands used as a cover story the probe - and whether or not it unemployment benefits, and to fire others - while the other will include a full investigation - the other workmen's comp, are quit out of disgust at the alleged was expected today, or early now being split. What is now policies. next week. under close scrutiny is whether A third employee, who had Last week, the Aspen Journal Highlands violated the law by worked at Highlands for five reported that seven former warning certain employees not .years, was fired two Fridays ago employees of Aspen Highlands to file for unemployment - the same day Highlands had charged the firm with benefits during the ''off agreed to pay a total of $2,041 in threatening to fire, and refusing season." Seasonal employees - an out-of-court settlement to to rehire, employees who filed those who work only in the season passholders who for employment benefits, and winter - cannot file for ben~fits charged that the company broke firing others who had applied anyway. But employees who a January promise that it would for workmen's compensation to work year-rouiid, and particu refund part of the cost of the cover job-related injuries. Their larly those who work in the statements, six in sworn affida winter and summer .(w.hen \ vits and the seventh in the form Highlands runs its li,fts for of a complaint, aimed at sight-seeking visitors), can file collecting unemployment, were in the faLl and spring, or if sent by an Aspen attorney to the they're laid off, according to state's Department of Labor, ·as Carlson. well as the Attorney General's A lift operator ant·· -~-----_:_------~---.::._ _ __:::~------~ office. patrolmen who used to w r One statement, put in writing Highlands charged that by a former employee who was were terminated because in a "management position" at filed for workmen's comp ATTORNEY GENERAL Highlands, told of overhearing tion to cover job-related MAy INVESTIGATE the firm's president, Whipple ies. Their complaints are t Jones, arranging with two other informal investigation by HIGHLANDS FURTHER Highlands officials to invent Adams, who directs the ~ excuses to cover the firing of men's compensation fu1 They could conceivably rec Story on P· 3 some employees who were, in ------~ reality, being canned because some back-pay for the PEL-----=:-:--:---:-::=-:--: they had violated the "unwrit after they were fired if 1t · s ten law'' at Highlands - that found that Highlands violated employees shall not file for the law by canning them. unemployment or workmen's Aspen Highlands president compensation benefits. Whip Jones wouldn't comment The memorandum drafted by on the allegations. He declined the local attorney charged that to discuss the company's the practices were illegal, "internal matters" with the coercive, and should be halted. press. The entire probe right now is ''SERIOUS ENOUGH'' touchy because of a political merry-go-round in Denver, ''The charges are serious which has some state legislators enough that I've asked the legal charging that those who admin staff to look into it, so I think ister unemployment insurance, you can guess from that, that including Carlson, are being too they do appear serious,'' loose with standards which according to Burt Carlson, who govern who can collect and who directs the state's Division of can't. Some legislators have Employment and Training. The threatened to audit the fund to I' • ,, • ,..., 1 1 ,, March 24, 1977 The Aspen Times Page 3-A Highlands under ,full-scale probe

The State Attorney General's that investigation. statement with the brief describ brief against Highlands include was injured while skiing off-duty. office began a full-scale investiga Kelley said Tuesday tqat he is ing a conversation she overheard Earl Hutton, a lift operator who The price of the "optional tion Tuesday into charges against "developing strategy," and. ex among Highlands president Whip filed for une;mployment; John pass"-$125-was covered by a Aspen Highlands. pects that the investigation will Jones; David Wright, ski patrol Losik, a lift operator, and Gordon bonus of the same amount. The charges are that the High take from two weeks to a month. director; and Don Robinson, Ford, ski patrolman, both of lands threatened to fire, then Employers pay a portion of mountain operations manager. whom filed for workman's comp; fired employees who filed for un gross income into a fund to benefit Coyle said the administrators George Newman, who claims he employment or Workmen's Com workers wpo are Jaid off. Every d.iBcussed means of firing various was fired for association with the pensation benefits. time someone successfully files employees without revealing the others; and Jim Bare, 11-year They were made in a brief filed for unemployment, the rate that real reasons. · employee, who says he was_ dis originally with Bert Carlson, di the employer pays is increased. It was "unwritten law," she missed for "union organizing." rector of the Division of Employ According to the allegations, . said, that employees would be Highlands this year required ment and Training, last week. Highlands warned employees not tired if they filed for unemploy all employees to buy a season pass Carlson, after a brief inquiry, to file for unemployment compen ment or Workmen's Compensa- if they wanted to ski off-duty, ac decided that a full-scale criminal sation, apparently. to _keep the . tion benefits. cording to Coyle. She said this_pol investigation was warranted. rate down. · Coyle resigned last Nov 23. icy was to protect Highlands Lou Kelley, assistant attorney Judy Coyle, former public rela Other employees who were against liability for workmen's general, was placed in charge of tions director at Highlands, filed a fired and joined in supporting the comp in the event an employee

·claims, they would have rented for about one-third of the 214 ski days since they were not returned, Attorney i_s sued .another $249. 11 11 for keeping skis .

Attorney Jon Mulford was The GLM Rental Center rented named defendent in a Small a pair of skis to Janice Rowan on Claims Court suit filed this week De.c 21, 1975. She broke her leg. by Charles "Lefty" Brinkman, On Dec 22, her father paid the · owne:r with Whip .Jones of the center two days rental on the skis, Highlands Inn GLM Rental but did not return them. Center. In February, 1977, Rowan sued the GLM Rental Center for dam ages. According to Brinkman, Mul ford has the skis and won't return them. Brinkman says the skis are worth $84. Furthermore, he Aspeal There's a compl facility at the ba ince its beginning in 19 Aspen Highlands, with spirited atmosphere, Sbeen a favorite ski res for locals and visitors both. The late Fred Iselin, Director of the Ski School in the 1960s, created a teaching philosophy of fun and flexibility that remains today un der the directorship of ex-Olym pian Charles "Lefty" Brinkman. Over 100 instructors teach a modified French-American tech nique with the Graudated Length Method of instruction, offering special racing, powder, and free style classes. Aspen Highlands boasts the highest vertical rise in Colorado, and this year opens "Steeplechase," an area of new expert and advanced intermediate runs to add to the existing fifty miles of trails. NASTAR races, hot dog contests, and great apres ski entertainment at the Base Lodge are just a few of the attractions of winter at Aspen Highlands. But there's more to Aspen Highlands than skiing. In the summer and fall the resort is transformed into a complete rec reational and conference facility. In the spring the retreating snow exposes six championship Lay kold tennis courts, and the green slopes of the Highlands provide a beautiful backdrop for the tradi tional elegance of the Highlands Inn. Administered by the Aspen Highlands Resort Group, an· out growth of the Aspen Highlands Skiing Corporation, this mini resort provides a magnificent set ting for business and pleasure. The Aspen HiJ!hlands Con ference Center offers space for ten to g5o conferees, with com plete meeting support, including a full-time conference coordinator, videotape, projectors, charts, and other visual aids. Meals and re ceptions can be easily arranged for groups of any size. To assist con ference planners in understanding facility at the base of one of Aspen's great sk~PeSS Wlfh ince its beginning in 1958, Aspen Highlands, with its spirited atmosphere, has Sbeen a favorite ski resort for locals and visitors both. The late Fred Iselin, Director of the Ski School in the 1960s, created a teaching philosophy of fun and flexibility that remains today un der the directorship of ex-Olym- · pian Charles "Lefty" Brinkman. Over 100 instructors teach a modified French-American tech nique with the Graudated Length Method of instruction, offering special racing, powder, and free style classes. Aspen Highlands boasts the highest vertical rise in Colorado, and this year opens "Steeplechase," an area of new expert and advanced intermediate runs to add to the existing fifty miles of trails. NASTAR races, hot dog contests, and great apres ski entertainment at the Base Lodge are just a few of the attractions of winter at Aspen Highlands. But there's more to Aspen Highlands than skiing. In the summer and fall the resort is transformed into a complete rec reational and conference facility. In the spring the retreating snow exposes six championship Lay kold tennis courts, and the green slopes of the Highlands provide a beautiful backdrop for the tradi tional elegance of the Highlands Inn. Administered by the Aspen Highlands Resort Group, an · out growth of the Aspen Highlands Skiing Corporation, this mini resort provides a magnificent set ting for business and pleasure. The Aspen Highlands Con ference Center offers space for ten to 1350 conferees, with com plete meeting support, including a full-time conference coordinator, videotape, projectors, charts, and other visual aids. Meals and re ceptions can be easily arranged for groups of any size. To assist con ference planners in understanding the facilities, there is a twelve visitors spectacular views of the tary dinners and a ticket to a Mu minute 16mm color film that may mountains. Picnic among the sic Festival Concert. be borrowed by writing · to Bill wildflowers or explore a U.S. For The public can play at the As Brehmer, Senior Vice President, est Service nature trail. The ride is pen Tennis Ranch on a space Marketing, Aspen Highlands Re open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, mid available basis at 86 per hour for sort Group, Box T, Aspen, Colo June through Labor Day. The cost singles and 810 per hour for rado 81611, or by telephoning is 85 for adults and 82.50 for per doubles. Instruction is also avail 303/925-5300. A conference sons 18 and under. able for non-guests. For court planning kit may be obtained from Besides offering six high-al!i times, call the Tennis Shop at the same source. tude courts, the Aspen T enrus 925-8360. Both guests of the The Highlands Inn has forty Ranch offers a full staff of resi Highlands Inn and members of the rooms, ranging from dorm accom dent pros, guaranteed court and public can purchase equipment or modations to spacious suites with lesson time, videotape and ball re have racquets restrung, repaired, fireplaces. Personal attention turn machines, and a unique and reconditioned at the High from the staff is important at The teaching system employing gradu lands Inn Ski and Tennis Shop. Inn, and fun and relaxation the ated length racquets for better Aspen Highlands Resort not primary goals. Amenities include a control of play. Private and group only provides its own full services, gourmet dining room (the Buffalo lessons are available for guests of but is located just two miles from Nickel Restaurant), a cocktail all levels of proficiency. . downtown Aspen on Maroon lounge, heated swimming pool, The Aspen Tennis Ranch offers Creek Road. A sense of mountain sauna and massage, gift shop, and daily and weekly rates, and pack isolation is combined with easy limousine service to and from As ages for two to 200 people. A proximity to nightlife, shopping, pen. Catering is available through popular arrangement is a package golf, fishing, jeeping, guided hiking, the Aspen Highlands Food Ser which includes six days and seven and many other activities. For a vice, both at the Base Lodge and nights, two to a room, at the luxurious vacation which will at the Merry-Go-Round restau Highlands Inn, with twenty-four profit anyone's tennis game, or for rant at Midway on the mountain, hours of guaranteed court time a superbly mounted conference, as well as at The Inn. and two hours of semi-private in Aspen Highlands Resort is the The restaurant at Midway and struction per day. Tournaments perfect combination of High the summit beyond are accessible are held at the end of each week. Country tradition and contem by the Aspen Sky Ride, a chairlift Other extras included in the porary management profession ascent to 11,800 feet which gives 84 75* price are two complimen- alism.D

Schedule your spring, 'summer or fall business conference at Highlands Inn. Outdoor tennis. Year round heated swimming pool. Saunas. Gourmet res taurant and cocktail lounge. Ski, tennis and gift shops. Massage. Limousine service to downtown Aspen. "'c Call (303) 925-5050. Or write Highlands Inn, Box 1168, "~ " Aspen, Colorado 81611. "'I ""'a. • .:1 0 ASPEN HIGHLANDS ;;; t CONFERENCECENTER & 0 u" '<· 1976. Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp. 59 Young racers ages l 0-13 showed their stuff Saturday and Sunday during the Aspen Conoco Hot Dog Contest, the season finale for this season's Aspen Cup series. Jim Kahnweiler photo. Hot dog event ends Aspen Cup series

The 1976-77 Aspen Cup race 10-year-old boy!> class, with Der series closed with the Aspen Con rick DeCarlo second. oco H'?t Dog Contest March 26-27 Among boys age 11, Sandy at Aspen Highlands. Maple edged out second place The young skiers competed in finisher Jon Eric Greene, while ballet, moguls, and jumping, with Peter Secrist was third, Billy Highlands free style instructors ,Madsen fourth, and William helping them adapt to the hot dog Herndon fifth. format. Mads Buck won the 12-year-old class, with Alex Parker second, The instructors also foreran the Chris Dayton third, Bill Locken courses and helpedjudge the Sun fourth, and Brent Windermuller day contest. fifth. In the 10-year-old girl's class, . Mark Thorpe and Gates Garrity Martha Dayton placed first, with bed for the overall boys title and Jane Van Dome len second and first place among boys age 13. Lisa Shuldener third. Jill Kass Todd Bosgrafffnished third, Ran won the 11-year-old class, with jeet Grewal fourth, and Max Ken Missen Brucker second. dall fifth. Alexandra Kendall won the Aspen Cup coach Ken Sauer overall girl's award and the blue expressed appreciation to ribbon in the 12-year-old class. everyone who helped make the Stacy Bosgraffplaced second, Meg program a success during the sea Hewey third, Cecily Garrity son. fourth, and Betsy Farny fifth. The Aspen Cup awards banquet Among girls age 13, Mary will be held in mid-April. The Brennan was first, with Beth Hoff exact date will be announced in second._Alexis__Racloz won the the newspaper. • . .,...... !¥«(.'"~¢" ""'~ The final event of this winter's KSPN Aspen Cup was a hot dog contest held at Aspen Highlands las weekend. Jim Kahnweiler P~?~_D . / TH.ANK YOU

Left to right seated: Pam Walsh, Gayle Bedoll, Pam Ratti , Susan Parsons, Julie Bloomer. Standing, first row, left to right: Mariette Dion, Susan Coolidge, Janet Corney, Susan Reed, Cathy Kerr, Mary Issac, Maureen Callahan, Mary Cronin, Jackie Robinson. Standing, top row, left to right: Norma McNeil, Lindo Amundson, Russ Fraser, Sue Dunnigan, Gail Huser, Lindo Boer, Jim Magill.

The staff a t Aspen Reserva tions, Inc. would like to tha nk the.Aspe n Skiing Corpora tion, the Aspen Highlands Skii ng Corporation, the Aspen a nd Snowmass lodging com mun ities and the A. R. I. Board of Directors, George Madsen, Pete Sullivan, Whi p Jones and Jim Wentzel, for their support over the last four years. We look forward to continuing our tradition of excellence, maintaining our reputation with the indsutry and working with all of you in the future. March 31, 1977 The Aspen Times Page 3-A ARI sale pr1ce• described as ''.£1a1r • II- The sale of Aspen Reservations, Texas and operated a number of Reason of Lawsuit Inc (ARI), thejoin:t venture ofthe travel agencies in the Austin, A pending lawsuit was also Aspen Skiing Corp and the Aspen · Bryan, College Station and Hous another factor in the sale of ARI. Highlands Skiing Corp, to Wil ton areas with his family. The At the press conference Madsen liam S Braley, president of Aspen agencies specialized in group admitted,"The sale obviously had in Advance, was announced Mon tours, especially for professional something to do with the anti day at a press conference called by associations, in Europe, the trust suit which the State of Col representatives of the two skiing Orient, and South America. • orado Attorney General's Office corps, ARI and Braley. has filed against the two skiing Skiing Corp officials would not What is ARI? companies." disclose the price of the sale but ARI was begun in 1973 by But the skiing company offi said, "It was .fair for all." Aspen's two skiing corporations cials would not discuss the law Brally said he had· been as a community reservation ser suit, "Because it is an anti-trust negotiating for several months to vice. It has handled direct lodging suit,. our attorneys have advised purchase ARI from the skiing reservations, package plans, us not to talk about it." corporations. familiarization tours for travel The suit was originally filed in Representmg ARI in · the sale industry personnel, distribution December 1975 and a memo filed were the members of the joint of publications, and customer ser in March of this year. The com venture's board of directors, vice coordination for groups. plaint says that the skiing com Whipple V.N. Jones, president of George Madsen, marketing di panies "have combined and con As"pen Highlands; James Went rector of the Aspen Skiing Corp, spired to fix and raise the prices of zel, Highlands' controll~r; Peter said that in the future, the skiing multi-area tickets. Sullivan, vice president companies will distribute their Focus is on the agreed method finance of the Aspen Skiing Cor own publications and will work of pricing the four area ticket of poration; and George Madsen, with ARI and· other tour organiza fered jointly by defendents and on vice president tions ·to accommodate Aspen area their understanding concerning marketing of the Aspen Skiiilg . guests in the sarpe manner as the offering oftickets by them in Corporation. Aspen in Advance lodging facilities have worked dividually in competition with the was represented by Braley. with ARI in the past. four-area ticket. According to Madsen, the ski The suit contends that defen Take Over April 15 corpqrations have considwred sel dents have priced the 4-area tic Braley said he will take over ling ARI for over a year and a half. ket in a manner which does not operation of ARIon April15 and permit the reflection of differ the reservations f!icili\y will con Reason of Structure ences in basic lift rates applicable William Braley has purchoserd ARI from Aspen's two skiing com tinue to be located in the Vic Since this past Oct, ARI had to defendent's respective ponies. Photo by Chris Cassatt. torian house at 122 W Main ·been working on a restructuring facilities. Street. He said he plans no major of its services. It had considered The -memo further states that monopolize central lodging reser lodge owner and with Jay Lusan, challge in persoruiel. opening a separate tour operation the Attorney General's office may vations in Aspen. former .director of ARI. Boyd de At present, ARI si headed by service to be called Aspen Resort also claim a "constellation of · It claims the ski companies clined to name the lodgeowrler, reservations manager James Travel which would have sold and .charges against the skiing com have agreed not to compete in op saying he had not contributed Magill and controller Russell promot-ed package panies which center around their eration of winter season inclusive much information to the case. Fraser and there is a staff of about plans.·. . promoted Aspen as a joint operation of inclusive air air tours to Aspen.· Boyd said that Aspen High 18. year-round resort. tours and their joint operation of John Boyd, one of the state's lands has filed a motion to stay According to Braley, he will Madsen said the restructuring ARL.a central lodging reserva lawyers, told the Aspen Times the proceedings, claiming that the continue using the name of ARI, was a factor in selling ARI. "We tion system." that he had taken depositions this Forest Service should be- the though Aspen in Advance will be did not see promoting summer re The suit claims that the skiing past December and January proper agency to hear the case the parent company. He began serv:ations and lining up of con corporations have attempted to about the case with an Aspen first. Aspen i1.1 Advance last fall as a . ventions as a function of the ski ground brokerage service and ing companies," he said. Peter general tour operation. Sullivan, vice-president-fmance Before moving to Aspen in July of the Aspen Skiing Corp added, 1976, Braley lived in Houston, "As ski companies, we haven't promoted summer ... yet Aspen is a ------~y:;;e':'::ar'="rolin---aresort."--

Reason of Cost Cost of operations was another reason cited for the sale. Since the ski companies started ARI, they have each contributed half to its funding. This past year it cost $400,000, out of which the lodging community put in $60,000 in fees. Each of the skiing companies provided about $170,000 for the operation of ARI. Madsen said, "The 85% cost of operations of ARI, which has been traditionally borne by the two ski ing companies, was inordinate in view of benefits derived. A re sponsible private firm might be better able to effect greater coop-_ eration with the lodging commun ity and provide greater service to guests." Page 3 The Aspen Journal April1, 1977

1Competitor Buys Out ARI Service The Aspen. Skiing Corpora work with ARI and other tour ty's reservation service was to court in April. Representa tion and the Aspen Highlands organizations to accommodate outside the realm of ski area tives of the Attorney General's Skiing Corporation concluded Aspen area guests in the same operations; that the 85 % cost of office claimed to have no agreements on Mar 24 to sell manner as lodging facilities operations of ARI, which has information about the impend- their joint venture, Aspen have worked with ARI in the bee~ traditionally borne by the . ing sale as of last week. Reservations, Inc., which is past. two skiing companies, was The ARI board has consider Aspen's community reserva Representing ARI in the inordinate in view of benefits ed a transfer of ownership for tions service, to the Aspen transfer negotiations were the derived; and that a responsible over a year-and-a-half. At least guest-service firm called Aspen members of the joint venture's private firm might be better ten groups have indicated in Advance, Inc. board of directors, Whipple able to effect greater coopera- interest in performing the Transfer of title will take V.N. Jones, President of Aspen tion with the lodging communi- general reservations function. place on Apr 15. Terms of the Highlands; James Wentzel, tyandprovidegreaterserviceto Negotiations have been con tr;:msfer arrangement, were not Highlands' Controller; Peter guests. ducted with most of the groups disclosed. • Sullivan, Vice President - A story in last week's Aspen which indicated interest. The reservations facj.lity will Finance of the Aspen Skiing Journal indicated, however, A survey of travel agents continue to be located at 122 Corporation; and George Mad- that at least part of the reason released last spring indicated West Main Street, and the sen, Vice President- Marketing for the sale of ARI is the desire that ARI was by far the most name ''Aspen ReservationS", of the Aspen Skiing Corpora- to undercut a lawsuit filed by popular and highly-used reser Inc.'' will be maintained. No tion. Aspen in Advance was the Colorado Attorney Gener- vations company in the ski major change in the personnel . represented by its president a!' s office alleging that ARI' s travel indus try . ARI has or services offered is expected. WilliamS. Braley. ARI purchaser William Braley six-day ski pass constitutes • annually booked at least twice· ARI has handled direct Braley, who said that he Advance last October, compe- price-fixing by the two Aspen as many ski packages as any lodging reservations, package initiated the negotiations for the ting with ARI', but denied that lift companies. At a press other resort reservation service plans, familiarization tours for ARI sale, declined to comment his purchase would now create a conference Monday, Aspen Ski in the U.S. travel industry personnel, dis on the price·, callihg it "fair for · t.1.0nopoly. "I don't think we Corp. officials refused to At present, ARI is headed by tribution of publications, and all -parties_'' He said that no have a monopoly, nor do I comment on any matters reservations manager James customer service coordination drastic changes would be made, expect to have one." Braley pertaining to the lawsuit, Magill and controller Russell for groups, since it was founded and said there would be no told reporters. stating that the matter is now in Fraser. The staff this year by the two skiing comp~ies in conflicts with similar operations According to the ARI board, litigation and comment would numbers 18 people and has mid-1973. In the future, the conducted by the Chamber of considerations which resulted in be improper and possibly ranged as high as three dozen skiing companies will distribute Commerce. the transfer included the belief prejudicial. The Attorney full and part-time employees in their own publications and' will Braley began Aspen in that coordinating the communi- General's suit is expected to go past winters. ~------~---===~-====---~--~--~~ ------aspen highlands an ever growing group of local people who shake their he~ds and ask, how could you have stood it as Aspen Times ... long as you did? I kept thinking it would get better.. (There wasn't Dear Editor; too much room to expand in the Regarding the Highlands arti other direction.) cle of March 17 , 1977. I would like Because it's an employer's to set.the record straight on a few market in this area, I suppose things. No way, would I tackle the they will always have some good whole can of worms. employees at Highlands. There First, I am not now, nor have I are some good employees out ever been, a "union organizer". If there right now. There is also a Highlands did fire me for this · good mountain out there. It's just reason (which is entirely possible) a crying shame that they don't de I understand it is against the law. velop and maintain both of them One suit at a time. in the style they deserve. The reason given me for· my dismissal by Patrol Director Dave Yours (in or out of the chair) Wright, was that I had a personal ity conflict with the owner, Whip J .K. Bare Aspen, Colo ple Van Ness Jones. (Dave doesn't have one of Harry Truman's signs ,..., __ on his desk either). When I con -. fronted Whip with this gem here plied, negative. Whip also said that I had not been fired, that I was merely terminated. The dif ference being, I was not being asked to leave, I was being asked not to come back. Whew! What a relief. Whip said it was a "manage ment decision." "Why?" said I, curiously. "I don't know," said he, eva sively. "What," said I, incredulously. Well, he said he couldn't disclose everything that went on in the Management meetings. He went on .. .l went on ... eventually, I was not given a reason. Instead I was given a recommendation from my illustrious leader (after 11 years, not even a gold ski po.Je). I should have known better. They have been dumping on emp loyees out there since the days of Freddie Fisher in. the upstairs bar. Some people have the guts andintegrityto tell 'em to shove it before they get axed as a scapegoat, or their salary gets too high or "management" feels they are becoming too influential in their respective department. It's no longer a stigma (if it ever was) to be fired from Highlands. They understand at the employ ment offices, they sympathize on the other mountains and there is The $1,200 Celestial Seasonings Herbal Tea Cup ended the racing season at Aspen Highlands for B-circuit professional ski racers in Jerome Bowl Saturday. Chris Cassatt photo. . . Herbal Tea. Cup ends Highlands. pro series Rick Reid, ofVail, took top hon Aspen's Sam Bascom, 57.353 and ors in the Celestial Seasonings $60. Herbal Tea Cup at Aspen High Total purse for the race was ·lands Saturday. It was the ninth $1,200. and final event held at Highlands In overall season standings, CU this year forB circuit professional ra:cer Jamie Temple led the point ski racers. standings with 81 points. He Reid's combined time for two earned $890. David Oswald of runs of dual slalom was 55.196 Purgatory had 63 points for sec seconds and he earned $350 for ond place but topped the money the day's work. winners with $1,290. Marlin RO{ls of Ogden, ·Utah Second was University of Col finished third with 60 points and \ orado racer Paul Benjamin, $970. Ray Hensley 9f Brecken 55.419 and $230. Leif Grevle of ridge finished in fourth place with Vail took third with 55.936 and 59 points but only $390, while $140. Victor Roy of Copper Mountain Aspen racer Norm Kosciusko garnered 50 points and $1,090. captured fourth place with a time Hensley and Roy have both an of57.192 and $100, while Aspen's nounced that they will compete on Jason Densmore finished fifth the World Pro Skiing tour next with 57.193 and $70. Sixth was season. Apri l 7, 1977 The Aspen Times Page 5-C Highlands investigation report ·ready ment and gets it, the employer's Highlands was accused of warranted and turned the case Lou Kelley, assistant Colorado was being typed for presentation over to the attorney general's of rate increases.) to the attorney general and Divi threatening to fire, then firing Six formet employees were in attorney general, said yesterday employees who filed for unemp fice. that an investigation of charges sion of Employment. Kelley volved in filing the original brief would not speculate on what ac loyment or Workmen's Compen including lift operators and ski against Aspen Highlands has sation benefits. · Kelley, placed in charge of that been completed. tion will be taken, but said it investigation, said that his staff patrolmen. might be next week. The accusation was filed origi It was reported unofficially that A report on that investigation nally as a class action brief with spent two days in the Aspen area interviewing people. several others told investigators Burt Carlson, director of the Divi that they, too, had been told not to sion of Employment, the wweek of According to the allegations, file for unemployment. March 14. It was also alleged that High Carlson decided that a full Highlands warned employees not to file for unemployment compen lands required employees to buy a scale criminal investigation was season pass if they wanted to ski sations, apparently to keep the off-

Aiax, Highlands to clo.se Sunday

The Aspen Mountain and Aspen Highlands ski areas are Skier parking EK;heduled to close Sunday, Apri~ 10, however, the Snowmass Ski Day skier parking capacties in Area will remain open until April clude 800 spaces at Aspen High 17. lands, 300 at Buttermilk Tieback, 670 at Snowmass Resort, Snowm~ss · Resort officials have and 30 at Aspen Mountain's lift a~mounced that there will be spe one. cial summer rates in effect at Snov.:nass during the extra week of skung. CONS OLI DATED ASPEN 9 25 •5525

B-circuit ski professionals battled for $1,200 in prizes Saturday in the Celestial Seasonings Herl:.al. Tea Cup, the last of a series held at Aspen .Highlands this season. Rick Heid of Vail took top honors on the dual slalom courses as a driving·snow fell and few spectators attended.

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) 16 under ) 14 under June 30, 1977 The Aspen Times Page 19-B Attorney : Gene~ I will sue Highlands The Colorado Attorney and did fire them for filing for un r ate i:ounts. If convicted of the be filed in District court here. employees without letting them General's office plans to charge employment benefits. pr actices, Highlands officials One former employee charged know the real reasons. Aspen Highlands with unfair Highlands, according to .the al could be punished by as much as that Highlands president Whip · Controller JP Wentzel repor labor practices and false state legations, had the unwritten pol six months in jail or fines of up to Jones plotted with two other tedly said that the unwritten rule ments as a result of an investiga icy in order to keep down the $1,000 each. Highlands officials, Diivid on unemployment compensation tion that began in March. amount it had to pay into the un The alleged Highland policy Wright, director·ofthe ski patrol, was working so well it was being Several former employees of the employment fund. violates a law that states, "No and Don Robinson, mountain extended to cover Workmen's HighlandS filed affidavits with That amount is increased every employer shall require any deduc manager, on how to fire certain Compensation benefits too. the State Division of Employment time someone successfully files tion from wages to fmance the last March complaining that the for unemployment. employer's contributions required company threatened to fire them Burt Carlson, director of the from him, or require any waiver of Divison of Employment, turned any rights under articles allowing over the original charges to the individuals to collect unemploy Attorney General's office for in ment benefits ... " vestigation. Attorneys John Kezer and Lou It is charged that the Highlands Kelley were assigned to the case. .. unwritten rule in effect required a Kelley and assistant Sam Col waiver of rights to collect unemp lins interviewed employees to de loyment. termine whether any wrongdoing The alleged false statements was involved. made it impossible for employees ~fter reading their report, who were fired to collect benefits. Carlson decided that criminal Highlands, according to the prosecution is warranted. charge, invented reasons for the Kezer and Kelley met with Pit firings when the real reason was kin County Dist Atty Frank that they had filed fot unemploy Tucker last week in Denver to dis ment or Workman's Compensa cuss the prosecution. tion benefits. The suit will charge two sepa- It is expected that the case will tennis lessons and doing nearly anything to occupy the courts and create tennis activity. He organized the first tournl:} ment in 1958 which will, on Labor Day, celebrate its 20th anniver sary. The past 20 years in Aspen have seen an incredible increase in tennis popularity. There are now over 75 courts to meet the growing demand and it is often hard to fmd an .available court. Lefty attributes Aspen's growth in tennis popularity in part to the tremendous increased interest in tennis nationally. He points out that it is little wonder that in an athletic community such as this, tennis has found an integral spot.

Tennis complements winter sports, it can be enjoyed by players of all levels of proficiency, it is a social sport, is played out doors, and appeals to an intrinsic sense of competition and achievement in many serious ath letes. The natural outlet for social and competitive spirits has been tennis tournaments, and tourna ments in Aspen abol.md. There are at least two tournaments a month during the summer· which are geared to all levels of competition, from novice to champion. In the coming month, Snow mass will sponsor its annual July Fourth tournament beginning this weekend. Later in the month ------~---- -~rrrY...--.;. Q"'TTrn -. c:-~ the Aspen Racquet Club will host some of the nation's top pros in Aspen's largest pro tournament.

Tennis in Aspe·n: On July 30 and 31, The Aspen Club is sponsoring The Tennis and Trumpet Mixed Doubles a growing affair Tournament to benefit the Music Associates of Aspen. . By Steve Levenson take a year ago. It has been rumoured that Ber "Aspen was able to hold the nice Prindle and Harold Walter "It was the privilege of Aspen to girl's singles and doubles. Bernice intend to enter this tournament, invite the .Glenwood Racquet Prindle and Helen.Smith for the but that still remains uncertain. Sharks. to our courts for a tourna girls and Leonard Herthetly and Editor's note: Levenson is an ment. They were not so kind as on Harold Walter for the boys were Aspen Club pro .. their previous visit for they car Aspen's representatives." ried home three of the five gaines The year was 1918 when Aspen played. locals were limited to their one "However, we could not feel ill clay tennis court located behind toward them, for they were the original high school on Hal merely giving us a taste of the lam Street. medicine that we forced them to George Vagneur, who went to the high school in the early 1920's recalls riding his horse into town from McLean Flats, staying after school and marking out the court boundaries with chalk before playing. By 1957 the number of tennis courts in Aspen had grown to only --- two. Lefty Brinkman, manager of the Aspen Highlands Tennis Ranch remembers when the. Aspen Meadows tennis courts were rarely used. In the wintertime they served as an ice skating rink and the pipes laid underground to freeze the ice caused cracks and ripples in the court, making summer play unpredictable, if not simply dif ficult. Lefty, Aspen's first tennis pro fessional, promoted the game by arranging matches, offering free fLH.- ~ a. I ~1,_ -kp 1 t.cj~ ~f. ~ 1/spe--.. 1 Co~J4.Jo wifl ..fk .(a~6Vs kla.M>

1 We rode the chair- After we got off .. lift up here. To the last lift (there 11,800 feet on the are four to the top), Sky Ride at Aspen we climbed a trail up Highlands. through the tundra to The lift really get our shot of wasn't too scary. Maroon Bells. After all, 4oo tourists The wildflowers a day pay $5. each to ·got thicker as we ride the thing. climbed. There were There were kids blue lupine, wild hiking down the moun strawberries, and tain unde~ the lift, something that looked looking for treasures like the tiniest that skiers might have baby's breath in a dropped during the bridal bouquet. winter. Lots of people had Lunch was great in their wildflower books. the sunshine on the And binoculars and patio of the Midway cameras around their Restaurant~ We all necks. ordered a Gorgeous At the top we George, a hamburger claimed the peak for with cheese, a slice the US and looked all of pineapple, two around. slices of bacon, all Mountains going on served on a whole and on. wheat bun. Everybody Gosh, it was just ate too much. like Switzerland. tennis lessons and doing nearly anything to uccupy the courts and create tennis activity. He organized the first tourn~ rnent in 1958 which will, on Labor Day, celebrate its 20th anniver sary. The past 20 years in Aspen have seen an incredible increase in tennis popularity. There are now over 75 courts to meet the growing demand and it is often hard to fmd an .available court. Lefty attributes Aspen's growth in tennis popularity in part to the tremendous increased interest in tennis nationally. He points out that it is little wonder that in an athletic community such as this, tennis has found an integral spot.

Tennis complements winter sports, it can be enjoyed by players of all levels of proficiency, it is a social sport, is played out doors, and appeals to an intrinsic sense of competition and achievement in many serious ath letes. The natural outlet for social and competitive spirits has been tennis tournaments, and tourna ments in Aspen abound. There are at least two tournaments a month during the summer· which are geared to all levels of competition, from novice to champion. In the corning month, Snow mass will sponsor its annual July Fourth tournament beginning this weekend. Later in the month ------~------~~~~·~, ~,c~, -. ~~----- the Aspen Racquet Club will host some of the nation's top pros in Aspen's largest pro tournament.

Tennis in Aspen: On July 30 and 31, The Aspen Club is sponsoring The Tennis and Trumpet Mixed Doubles a growing affair Tournament to benefit the Music Associates of Aspen. , By Steve Levenson take a year ago. It has been rumoured that Ber "Aspen was able to hold the nice Prindle and Harold Walter "It was the privilege of Aspen to girl's singles and doubles. Bernice intend to enter this tournament, ~ invite the .Glenwood Racquet Prindle and Helen·Smith for the but that still remains uncertain. - Sharks. to our courts for a tourna girls and Leonard Herthetly and Editor's note: Levenson is an ment. They were not so kind as on Harold Walter for the boys were Aspen Club pro.. their previous visit for they car Aspen's representatives." ried horne three of the five gaines The year was 1918 when Aspen played. locals were limited to their one "However, we could not feel ill clay tennis court located behind toward them, for they were the original high school on Hal merely giving us a taste of the lam Street. medicine that we forced them to George Vagneur, who went to the high school in the early 1920's recalls riding his horse into town from McLean Flats, staying after school and marking out the court boundaries with chalk before playing. By 1957 the number of tennis courts in Aspen had grown to only --~- two. Lefty Brinkman, manager of the Aspen Highlands Tennis Ranch remembers when the Aspen ~adows tennis courts were rarely used. In the wintertime they served as an ice skating rink and the pipes laid underground to freeze the ice caused cracks and ripples in the court, making summer play unpredictable, if not simply dif ficult. Lefty, Aspen's first tennis pro fessional, promoted the game by arranging matches, offering free ''

Take a ride to top of world on the Sky Ride

The Sky Ride, the summer ride . on the chairlift at Aspen High lands, takes you to Loges Peak, to an altitude of 11,800 feet. Truly the top of the world. (Or the closest to the top as you want to go). When you get off the last lift, you can hike up even farther on a Forest Service tra il through the tundra. And there before you will be the most, absolutely the most fabulous view of the famous Maroon Bells. Plenty of area to ·take your picture with the Bells in the background too. At Midway there is a restaur ant where you can have lunch or a snack on your way back down. Sit outside on the patio in the sunshine and feed the camp rob bers. Tourists love the Sky Ride (loc als should try it sometime) and about 400 of them a day pay $5 to go up and then back down. It takes passe ngers Thursdays through Mondays, from 9 :30am until 3 pm. Chris Cassatt photo.

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ave you ever wondered what It would be like walking on efreshments and lunch are served dally on the open air top of the world? Here's your chance. Just 1V2 miles H deck at our beautiful mid-mountain site, the southwest of Aspen on Maroon Creek Road, you'll find Aspen R Merry-Go-Round Restaurant. Highlands and the highest mountain In Colorado serviced by While you're here, ask aboutThe Summer Tennis Ranch. chairllfts. We've got a great season planned. The first two chairlifts take you halfway up the mountain to After a few hours at the Aspen Highlands, we think you'll an altitude of 10,000 feet. On the way you'll soar over giant pine, want to come back for a full week. And you'll be more than spruce, and·aspen groves. You'll see nature like never before. welcome when you do. You'll see something different in every direction. Our little animals respectfully request. "Please take only Then, when you're ready, take the final two lifts to the top of pictures, leave only footprints, thank-you." the world, a total of 11.800 feet and certainly one of the most spectacular views anywhere in the country. What a fantastic place to have a picnic, or just stand and bask in a beautiful Rocky Mountain day. Page 5-A Th-e Aspen Times July 14, 1977 blend books and skis orado Mountain College Aspen skiing is a primary interest. faculty and it enables us to adjust Director Janet Landry, school However, he says, unlike the constantly to the needs of skiing." Superintendent Dick Lee and offi three Eastern academies, the The frrst major unit will be a cials from the county library, Aspen school will accept skiers of biology-ecology class, while the Grass-Roots TV, the Aspen Athle different ability levels rather first minor unit will be writing tic Club and the Aspen Ski Club than just top junior racers. improvement, according to Brid have all voiced support and of Gilbert says there is still a gham. fered their assistance. · question about whether the He says that after rising at 6:30 For example, he says, during academy will turn out scholar am, students will do a half-hour the academy's second teaching athletes or athletic scholars. workout followed by breakfast. unit, students will have the op Whichever, it won't be cheap. From 7:45 to 9:15 is the minor portunity to take a minor in video Day tuition is $2,400, while full period, while the major period and journalism with the use of time boarding students will pay runs from 9:30 to 12:30. Grass-Roots' facilities. $5,500; a rate Bridgham calls the After lunch and a session of standard prep school rate. chores, the students have an Not a Threat The curriculum will be based hour-long class on training Gilbert stresses that the upon seven-week teaching units methods, anatomy, physiology, academy is conceived as a com during which each student takes a etc, followed by an afternoon of plement, not a threat, to existing single major and a single minor skiing in the winter and dry land educational facilities. subject. training in the off-season. "The ski academy experience is And if that sounds like an in-· unique and is unlike either public Intensity, Flexibility teresting way to go to high school, or the private school experience," "We like the intensity of the the acade01y can be reached at he says. "It's an addition to the seven-week unit," Gilbert says. 925-5050, or at Aspen Post Office educational scene that applies to "Plus, it gives us flexibility in our Box 4056. the t8.lented athlete. · "We're not trying to encroach upon the territory of the other educational facilities." He says Aspen is the richest possible place for this kind of school because of the town's sports orientation, and because the cul ture in Aspen is "so thick you can cut it with a lrnife."

Planned Three Years Bridgham says the academy has been in the planning stage for three years and that he and Gil bert have thoroughly studied the three ski academies. that exist on the East Coast: Burke Mountain Academy, Mad River Valley ill Gilbert, left, and Clive Bridgham, centeraretheco-founders of the School and Stratton Mountain ew Aspen Ski Academy. The pair stands with lefty Brinkm_an of the School. spen Highlands where the new facility will be located. Chns Cassatt Both men were formerly hoto. teachers at the Stratton Moun tain School. "The Aspen Ski Academy seeks 21 Students They have also spent three ~ondary school students who The sehool will accept a max years designing an academic cur ave demonstrated a commit imum of 21 students and have riculum and an athletic program tent to skiing and who desire a three full-time instructors during centered around competitive ski rrriculum with emphasis placed its first year of operation, accord ing, according to Bridgham. lually upon intellectual and ath ing to Bridgham. The skiing program is based ~ tic achievement." He says, however that the in upon the training techniques of Such advertisements could soon structional staff will be sup the US Ski Team, he says. 9 a reality because the Aspen Ski plemented by a variety of part cademy is about to become a re time, local teachers on a course Perfect Skiing lity. by-course basis. The academy is not going to to The co-founders of the new The school will make use of teach anyone- to ski, he says. tcility, Headmaster Clive Brid Highlands Inn facilities for its Rather, it exists to perfect the skic llam and assistant Headmaster logistical needs: boarding, dining, ing of students who have already ill Gilbert, have announced that classrooms and indoor training; entered competition and for whom 1e college preparatory school and students will do their skiing 'ill hold its frrstclasses Sept 19 at at Aspen Highlands. 1e Highlands Inn at Aspen High Gilbert says the academy has mds. the active support of Aspen High lands officials Whipple Jones and Secondary School Lefty Brinkman, and that he and Bridgham says that it will be a Bridgham are striving to develop oarding or day school for boys the closest possible working rela o.d girls in grades 8-12 who want tionship with the ski area. o. educational experience where thletics are not merely "frosting Community Support The pair 1 the cake," but are granted also seeks the support of the com lual status with academics munity, and Gilbert says the re ithin the curriculum. sponse to the academy concept has The pupil's development as an been 99% favorable. He says high thlete and as a scholar will be school Principal Walt Way, Col- I _ »mplimentary, he says. Gilbert adds that as conceived, te academy is designed to pro ide as rich a learning experience ' possible for both the college mnd graduate ·or the serious tier for whom the academy will rovide the last formal education. August 18, 1977 The Aspen Times Page 9-B Highlands chiefs face criminal charges Four officials of Aspen High charge against Robinson. lands and Russ Frazier of Aspen There are three counts in the Reservations, Inc, heard criminal charge against Robinson. He is charges against them read by Dist accused, along with the High Judge George L>hr on Monday. lands Ski Corp, of unlawfully re The officials and companies are quiring Earl Hutton, Jack Troyer accused in five separate cases of and Jack Simenc to waive their unlawfully requiring employees unemplo,yment rights. The al to waive their rights under the leged offenses happened April 1, Colorado Employment Security 1976. Act. The charges are misdemeanors, Aspen Reservations, Inc, has Lohr said, punishable by from been sold since the time of the al $100 to $1,000 fine and up to six leged offenses and is now under months in jail. The sentences new management. could be consecutive, he said, The Highlands officials named making the maximum punish are Whipple Jones, president; JP ment $3,000 and up to 18 months Wentzel, controller-; George in the Pitkin County Jail. Robinson, manager of mountain Wentzel and Frazier and Aspen operations; and David Wright, ski Reservations are accused of re patrol driector. quiring on Oct 1, 1977, that Linda Frazier is represented by Aspen J Crouch waive her unemploy attorney James T Moran. All the mentrights. Again, the alleged of other defendants are represented fense is a misdemeanor, punisha by Monte Pascoe of Denver, ble by a fine of$100 to $1,000 and former chairman of the Colorado imprisonmentofuptosixmonths. Democratic party. Pascoe filed several motions, The third case names Wright asking for a bill of particulars, the and the Highlands Ski Corp in setting of a preliminary hearing, two counts. Wright is charged and dismissal of the complaints as with asking Tony Fusaro and / unconstitutional. Moran re George A Newman to waive their The bottom of the Cloud Nine lift at Aspen High some employees, including a lift operator, to quested time to file motions in be ·rights on April 1, 1976. Each lands. Kim Doyle is the lift operator. Law suit filed waive their rights to unemployment benefits. Chris half of Frazier as well. count is a misdemeanor. He could by the state attorney general's office against Cassatt photo. Judge L>hr will hear argu be given $2,000 and up to a year in Aspen Highlands charges that the company asked . ments on those motions on Sept 9. jail. There are three counts in the Each of the defendants was re- Aspen Highlands Ski Corp and leased .in personal recognizance Aspen Reservations, through offi- 1::: ..... -J ___ • ~- --- _._ bond and informed ofhis right to a cials of the two companies did, jury trial. The defendants will be with the intent to violate a prohib- asked to enter a plea to the ition against asking employees to charges later. waive their unemployment The next case was based on a rights, conspire with one another different statute. It names Went in an attempt to commit such at zel and the Highlands Ski Corp crimes. :l and charges, in two counts, that The fine for that misdemeanor Ie Wentzel made false statements to offense is from $100 to $1,000 and ;o Gordon M Ford and to EarlE Hut up to six months in jail. If ton on Dec 1, 1976, in an attempt Pascoe and Moran pointed out to reduce unemployment pay to Judge Lohr that service had .- ments they would receive. been incomplete . Wentzel could get $2,000 and a The prosecutor, L>u Kelly, as year in jail on those charges. sistant attorney general, asked Finally, Highlands, Jones, for time to straighten that matter Wentzel, Robinson, Frazier, and out with the assistant district at Aspen Reservations are named in torneys in Aspen and was granted the fifth case .. a short recess. Service will be The charge is that from March completed before the next hear 1 1976, until Jan 28, 1977, the ing.

D SPECIAL FEATURE

BY MARTIE STERLING

hen Ken (Iglook) Sterling and our grocery bill at Tom' s Market Waistlines were out,. W I arrived. in Aspen 19 ·years reached a staggering $700 by Christ ago we had six small children, four mas, and if Iglook didn't shoot an hundekjoring was in, acres of land, a construction loan elk we went meatless for months. ) Cher was on the snoop, and undying faith in Aspen's winter I never dared ask what other hotel precipitation. The last thing on our keepers did about deposits, but while cloud-rustling got the minds was drought. we were living on them I felt guilty I' II admit the thought, if not of of some federal crime-like extortion nod. How one western drought, at least of a biblical lean or grand theft. And if the .snows came resort town pulled year, sometimes crept insidiously in · late . . . during the years we owned a ski "Ken, it's December 12th and the through the snow lodge, and I did my fair share of aspens are bursting into bud ,·· l"d drought. nail-biting. You would, too, if you quaver. used your Christmas guest deposits to ''It'll snow, Martie. It a!lmys pay the mo11gage, the dentist bill, snows." and the family's lift tickets. (At that, "Listen, I can't sleep at ni ght."

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·I 'I i, i:l :I "I know. I've been getting break~ ied like the Royal linen. The base used packing crews, Neanderthal fast for a week." is the foundation on which ski sea brutes who, by dint of sheer muscle, Iglook made breakfast the year the sons are built. And Aspen's founda dragged hand-rollers called "Brad big storms arrived December 18th, tion has always· been· firm as the leys'' around the slopes. If a groomer again the year of the 20th, and once Church. · . slipped, he was served up as a cave more the year of the 22nd. The thing Until, that is, the infamous centen man crepe. You had to 'be hungry to was, dribble or deluge, by December nial season of '76. run a Bradley. And it didn't do a ''l we always had a nice deep base. If you want to get technical, the whole lot toward grooming the The Color'!do base starts drifting year before was qur first drought year. slopes, either. · down early, sometimes as far back The usual precipitation in an Aspen With the advent of the snowcat a as August-high country snowfall winter is 150 inches. In 1975-76 we little snow sta11ed going a long way, that's welcome but hardly greeted had a scant 83 inches, a dreary sta and so our first drought year passed with ticker tape. By early November tistic we were able to ignore on ac virtually unnoticed. the Aspen Skiing Corp. has called out count of moder11 technology-to wit, I should have known to sit up and the cat crews and the first snows are the snowcat. take notice when, the next summer, smoothed, packed, rolled, and read Back in the early Sixties Aspen we went on our late August camp ILLUSTRATION BY FRANK DANIEL continued on page 120 SKI/ September 1977/79 YEAR IT DCDN'T SN O fl Hosey, long-time favorite seamstress kill. As reporters zeroed in, locals of Aspen locals, had her busiest Janu only grew more tight-lipped, and the continued from page 79 ary in years letting out Aspen waist press in turn grew increasingly ticked outs and never got snowed on. When lines . Usually we eat it up, then ski off at the noncommittal local attitude. we played tennis into November. And it off. (Noting the large crowd gathered at when Dan and Whit, our ski-racing By January the Longet trial was the courthouse for the first day of sons, complained, "Mom, you won't Claudine's appearance, newsmen believe this ... there's no snow up SNOWMAKING HEADS were miffed to discover the entire in Montezuma bas'in!" (Montezuma WEST lineup was there, not to see the show, is a glacier and not due to melt until Taking no chances on a repeat per but for the issuing of new license the next millenium.) By mid-Novem formance of last season, and reluc plates.) The boys in the back rooms, ber the boys were running all over tant to throw in their cards with as well as the ones out front-bar the state looking for a few patches to meteorological optimists (see page tenders, businessmen, patrol , wait train on and Whit was muttering bit 81), many western area operators ers, busboys, barflies-were various terly, "Great year to skip France." were scurrying around late last sea ly outraged and muttered darkly of When December gamboled, Iamb son to find out what all those new tar, feathers and lynchings before it like, onto the scene, there was still fangled (to them) snow-spewers was over. no base. The pros arrived for their were all about. Crime rose in January and then, opening race week, and Aspen High Many western resorts already inexplicably, declined. "The trouble lands, the only outfit in town with with snowmaking were planning makers either headed for greener pas snowmaking equipment, gleefully enlargements of their snowmaking tures or deeper snow," said Sgt. took over the races. (By January the plants. Those without-well, they Rick Kralicek of the Sheriff's De Skiing Corp. was dickering frantical learned all about snowmaking partment. ly over water rentals and by Febru mighty fast. Some managed to get In January an otherwise declining ary there were concrete plans for installations in last season, others birthrate rose sharply. "They snowmaking at Buttermilk.) will be adding snowmaking plants couldn't have planned rhar far On December I Oth, a record 1,234 this fall. ahead!" said an astonished Iglook people picked up Forest Service per There were some holdouts, when he heard about it. mits and cut down I ,234 trees. It Aspen's Snowmass and Steamboat, By the first week of January all was the first time any of us had Colo., to name two. Reason: you the lifts were open. Assessments of gone into the woods without flounder can't make snow without water, a skiing ran the gamut. Onetime Italian ing through waist-deep snow and commodity that was not in over racer Sandy Sabbatini, up from his cursing under our breaths that we abundance in the Rockies last sea ranch in Silt, said, "I think it's fan could "buy a perfectly good tree son. Some resorts also felt that tastic!" (But then Sandy spent his downtown for I 0 dollars." snowmaking was still ah imperfect formative years on the Sahara Des Skies were clear; brows black. I science, and were willing to wait ert.) Jack Frishman, M.D., said, "I alternated between congratulating until the technology improved. just skied Snowmass with only 200 myself that we were out of the lodge · For the moment, here's a partial people and it was the event of a life business and worrying sick over roundup of major western areas time!" (Jack also tangled with a rock friends who were not. · that added snowmaking last sea and cracked three ribs.) John Parker "Martie, this is ridiculous," said son, reportedly will be installing Quimby, Snowmass ski patrolman, Iglook. "I'm getting breakfast snowmaking for the first time this told lglook emphatically, "The patrol again. •: season, or will be expanding their has stopped skiing. Would you be "But honey, if I'm not worrying existing systems to cover more lieve seven femurs?" With the sparse about us, the least I can do is worry downhill terrain. snow cover the percentage of injuries about everyone else.'' First, those who will be adding reached a record high. "Oh God," said Iglook. snowmaking this year: Alpine By the end of January, Aspen had By the third week in December it Meadows, Calif.; Buttermilk (As had exactly 20 inches of snow. The was, we told ourselves, still too soon pen), Colo:; Copper_ M~ ., Colo.; astonishing thing was that there was to tell. Well, we could tell alright, Tahoe Donner, Calif. any skiing at all. Yet every lift, with but were we ready to face it? Record Those already with snowmaking, brief exceptions, kept right on run cold struck and pipes burst in a mad with new installations last year, or ning. cacophony all over Snowmass. No with plans for expansion this sea Bilt Teague started going to bed snow insulation to prevent freeze-ups. son: Aspen Highlands, Colo.; early. Bill shoes horses , which is Christmas , under the circum Boreal Ridge, Calif.; China Peak, enough to make anyone tired . But stances, was downright fe stive. The Calif.; Crested Butte, Colo.; Heav he also works on th e Skiing Corp. cat slopes may have been empty but e nly Vall ey, Calif.; Keystone, crew in th e winter. He knew th at sidewalks and stores were full. Along Colo.; Lake Eldora, Colo.; Love-~ an inch of snowfall would mean a with the rest of Aspen, we partied land Basin, Colo.; Northstar, 3 a.m. phone call. Like the U .S. like Rome before The Fall. We went Calif.; Park City, Utah; Ski Incline, Postal Service, the cat crews go out to brunch, lunch , milk punch, pauper Calif.; Snow Summit, Calif.; Sun in sleet , snow and the dark of ni ght. and pea soup parties-sometimes Valley, Idaho; Vail, Colo.; Winter They take the snow and they cosset, three in a day. A woman l spotted Park, Colo. coddle and re-deliver it. They move is t: in the post office once a year invited snow out of gullies and onto ski runs. us to a party. Housewives, ski in underway and even the mountai ns They've been known to pluck it lov structors, ticket-sell ers and snow seemed to sag. We all mourned for in gly from trees . A good cat crew hostesses whipped up homemade egg Spider, and felt a mixture of sadness can make a little snow go farther than nog by the cask, spattering kitchen and distress over the intensifying cir two layers of icing on a ten-layer walls without a qualm ("Got all day cus atmosphere. The press behaved cake. tomon·ow to clean it up"). But all like an assemblage of Roman senators By mid-February seven Colorado that eggnog took its toll. Mrs. Earl yelling for lions , gladiators and the ski resorts had closed. When Steam continued For 120/September 1977 /SKI YIEAR IT DIDN'T SNOW witch new wells . Dale Potvin, But A NEW IDEA IN termilk ski supervisor, wondered if continued SKI GLASSES there'd be enough water to re-launch ·.~-.~·';'~~\..: ,. ' - ·1' "''~ .. ~ his summer White Water Raft Ad ... .·. boat shut down, Aspen' s collective ventures. All of us fidgeted over the heart sank. We tried feebly to con price of produce; Aspen's cost of liv sole ourselves with the upside-down ing was already 137 percent of the state of the weather everywhere. national norm. Mother, indignant, was snowed on in Everyone talked about the weather. Florida. James E. Smith, the man in "It's sunspots," said Chuckles Dun charge of Buffalo's National Weather bar, ex-Navy fighter pilot. "It's the Service, resigned. "I don' t have to aerosol ozone,'' insisted Roddey Bur put up with this," said James E. dine, a friend who worries about spray PRESCRIPTION Smith. By February 20th Buffalo had can·s in his spare time. Jimmy Smith EYEGLASSES DY MAIL! had 181 inches ofsno~fall , Aspen 26. of Aspen's North Star Ranch called Skiers .. . let Orbit Optics improve Iglook from La Jolla, Calif. He'd your looks AND your skiing with been over to the Scripps Institute of a high fashion, rimless, aviator S KIING THE R·OCKIES: Oceanography. "They say that jet Bausch & Lomb frame with in· SCHOOL FOR SKIEPTICS stream veered north because the wa terchangeable lenses. This unique While news reporters, radio and TV ter's too cold," he said. "Did you new feature allows skiers to broadcasters, eastern area oper ask him if barometric pressure affects switch from clear ... to sunglass ... ators and even traditionally snow water temperature?" I asked Iglook. to lemon mist yellow for flat light We were aH talking like Denver mete spoiled Rockies skiers were nay or cloudy days-·ALL IN A SNAP! orologist Charles Merlin Umpenbur. saying ski conditions in the West Extra lenses available in your The merits, and demerits, of cloud last season, there were others choice of colors and store conven· seeding were hotly debated. Would it who found the skiing quite fine, iently in WALLET SIZE POUCH. be rustling if we snitched snow from thank you. Two pairs for less than the price Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska? Sarah Reported SKI stringer and long of one. Full Money Back Guaran time eastern skier John Hitchcock Sterling's 11-year-old eyes were big tee. Send today for FREE color in Ski Area Manageme"nt: "While as frisbies when she said, "We can catalogue or call Toll Free huge numbers of holiday skiers never eat snow again, Mother. We'll 800-453·2400 were jamming eastern areas, mak get silver-iodine poisoning!" ORBIT OPTICS INC. Dept S9 ing liftlines impossible . .. and By this time Aspen's back was 170 Old Country Road, Mineola, those who did insist on skiing the against the wall. Retail sales were New York 11501 western areas were regarded as in down 50 percent, so was lodge oc sane, I spent seven days of skiing cupancy. Jim and Janet Hurtig, who ~~:::::======::::::::::__ in early january at Copper, Vail and now own· our ski lodge, said the whole A-Basin, Colo. It confirmed what place was empty for an unheard-of this skier had suspected. week at a tirne. Shop and lodge own "The hard-to-swallow facts are ers were doing most of their work simply that a little snow at some of themselves, banks had money to lend the i.vestern resorts often provides (that was a switch), the Job Ser as good, or even better, conditions vices Office had opened, food stamps than the almost standard "excel were readied, we were set for the lent" conditions that were being worst. reported in the East. In fact, the Ralph Jackson is a one-man busi Colorado areas provided great ski ness, and he bends easily with this ing on more than half of their ter kind of buffeting. Long-time king rain every day, with deep powder of the ski bums, Ralph found himself found in spots. on call for far fewer ski parties and "Add the higher percentage of wine picnics, where he appears in top sunny days, majestic scenery, wid hat, bearskin coat, Hawaiian Jams, er trails and slopes, and a perhaps and does his hotdog routine. more expansive apres-ski life, Ralph insists the quality of ski fun ITALY'S NEWEST even in a snow drought some of was higher than ever. ''The snow may RESORT PIANCAVALLO the Rockies provided great skiing have been low but spirits were high,'' Super Value! No Extras! $ l)J'"""~, 'If'"l'l every day-until the storms of late Ralph says. "The Jollies who come Fly Alitalia to Italy February made it great in the tra to Aspen to 'cover up' came right 7 day 6 nights first class hotel ditional western sense." ahead, the cover may have been thin, All meals-- Free wine p/p from Free ski equipment, & lessons but fun was thick." Ralph himself New York Unlimited lift pass gave up drinking and last year' took Sunday Departures Jan-Apr '78 Governor Brown flew in from Cali his skiing, instead of martinis, on the fornia , met in Denver with other west rocks. A fair- weather skier, Ralph sits Call collect in N.Y.: 212-762·5900 ern governors and demonstrated his in Carl's Drugstore on bad days, Out of State toll free: 800-221-6006 pers~nal '.'flush~miser" toilet regu drinks hot water and honey, reads ...... lator. In Aspen we gazed wanly at the magazine rack to keep abreast, ' fJBA.MACO TOURS the Roaring Fork River and were and signs an occasional autograph. 58-33 College Point Blvd .• N.Y. 11355 chastened to think we could be the Last season was almost entirely bright N am e ______cause of thousands of parched throats with sunny·days, so Ralph was right in L.A. next summer. up the re "gaining altitude on Address ______Art Pfister, local businessman and ~~?.~die,'s" an~, ~ s ~; ~ays, _ "cutting r !'

YEAR rr D~DN'T SNOW fool. Rents for a small space are Aspen. " f $1 ,000 to $ 1,400 a month, a lot of The sunny weather was id eal for ·continued bread when you're looking at a long, Cher Bono Allman. Cher is Aspen's on one leg at a time." unpeopl ed off-season-or worse , a head house-hunter. She never buys People skimped but didn't starve. long, dry in-season. but she loves to look. A lot of peopie The new Job Services Office found The ill and snowless winds even have had Cher tramping through their several hundred jobs for as many blew some good. Jim Pomeroy, one homes, too stunned to ask how she people. Big dinner and club opera of the busiest ski technicians in town, got there. During the un expected dry tions like the Crystal Palace kept all normally works a grueling pace seven season Cher simply stepped up her their help, though often on alternate nights a week until 3 or 4 a.m. Jim house-hunting. week shifts. Tips were thin. Instead stayed cheerful. "It'll take two years Others found comfort in congregat of holding one full-time job, the hun to make up Pomeroy Sports' losses," ing. In lieu of lunch o n the hill dreds of ski-bums who help man ho he said, "but right now I'm getting they met in town, and some restau tels, restaurants and shops moved to some sleep, even skiing. Maybe I rants survived the season on mid-day two part-time ones. Most employers needed the change.'' Construction casseroles and deluxe hamburgers. tried to ease the crunch by encour boomed. So did real estate sales. But The bar business was up while it was aging workers to apply for partial then real estate is no criterion of a down. Rick Lindnerofthe Red Onion unemployment. Aspen Skiing Corp. crunch, not in Aspen. It is, in a word, bar explains it this way: " Lodges instructors taught for a week, col-. unreal . Geri Vagneur, one of the best and stores were down 50 percent, but lected "partial" for a week, then in the business, says, "Between drinking only 25 percent, which went back to work again; patrolmen down-zoning and no more land, means that fewer people drank worked five days instead of six. prices of existent property keep soar more." Instead of the five or six In January Aspen's retail stores be ing and people, unbelievably, keep kegs of draught beer poured in the gan holding clutch meetings, resolv buying." They buy, that is , if there's Onion's Beer Gulch on a normal win ing not to "break" by holding early anything for sale. A year ago there ter day, this year the pour was four. sales. By February you could guess were three Aspen condominiums on Nightclub talent like Cheech & which businesses were under-capi the market, 185 licensed real estate Chong, Dave Brubeck, Arlo Guthrie talized and what rents were overdue. people to sell them, and buyers played to S.R.O. The Paragon and They were the ones advertising: queued up fighting to buy. Last Jerry' s Place never lost a beat. With "Everything reduced 70 %!" Store spring, post-disaster, there were no no need to be up early for the slopes, space in Aspen is scarcer than Miami more condos for sale than any other people stayed out late and boogied. Beach ocean frontage, and rents have year. "It's high-price Monopoly," Singles trolled. And the Gong Show, soared. Lessees in downtown busi says Geri, "with everyone wanting on Aspen TV at II a.m., was a hit. ness blocks pay $14 to $! 6 a square to buy Park Place, Boardwalk and According to everything we read nationally, Aspen was awash-if not in snow, certainly in sex and sin . Me, I kept peering around corners, trying vainly to get a handle on either one. (But then I have also, at other SK~ times in my life, missed all the action PO~NTE in such sin centers as Marrakesh, Malaga, New York, Dallas, and Har I WORK YOUR HANDS LIKE risburg, Pa.) As for the rest of the A BOXER ~- . town, they found alternatives. By alternatives I mean any substi By Stu Campbell, co-chairman, PSIA 4 tute, however sickly, for skiing. Your · Technical Committee; technical director, Sepp Ruschp Ski School, author, "Ski average Aspenite is as hipped on with the Big Boys" health as all those joggers out in Eugene, Oregon. I myself know two Most good skiers recognize the impor jocks who would rather ha\'e a low tance of keeping the hands in a position pulse rate than a tryst with Farrah somewhere in front of them. But lots of Fawcett. So locals of every stripe got people are so hung up on keeping their busy and went cross-country skiing, hands out in front of their bodies that jogging, climbing, hiking, dog sled · they ski like "stickmen" and give the ding, duck hunting, backpacking, ice appearance that their upper bodies are I fishing , gliding and bowling. They 1 made of concrete. This is hardly a relaxed : way to ski. roped, played handball , doubled You'll have plenty of opportunity for workouts and exercise classes. went self-expression and individual style if out for ice hockey , squash and bas you keep your hands somewhere within ketball. your peripheral vision. And keep them Winter tennis boomed. So did moving! Think of yourself as a boxer who racquetball, now the big craze in As always has to keep his hands ahead and pen . Alpine touring also took a giant in motion in order to be aggressive. As step. Ted Ryan's Ashcroft Ski Tours you finish one turn, move your outside and Magne Nostdahl's Snowmass Ski hand into a "ready" position for the next. This way there will be no chance of miss Touring both doubled th eir business. ing that exact spot on the slope where lglook and I, geared to reserving a you want to plant your pole and change mountain hut a few days in ad\'ance, direction. found all five of the huts booked weeks in ad'vance. These overnight hostels in th e beautiful hi gh country were built and are maintained by . continued 124/September 1977 /SKI ~ ·-- "'\.. I t;:;~ . \.. \I J '-5!ll'.. ~ -,_ n ~ -~ '-.\1\'\.:,\v ~ \

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YEAR IT D ~ DN ' "'l" S~OW Pulmonary Resuscitation were snow, don't come." Then, too , we jammed. So were painting, sewing, found ourselves dispelling rumors continued geology and welding. Aspen State that Aspen was closed do\vn. There Fred Braun, director of Aspen's Teachers' College, the biggest hype are always rumors Aspen is cl osed famed Mountain Rescue. "Best ski in the hills, continued - to thrive. down, even when we're buried to the touring year we ever had," said Fred. A.S.T.C. is a wholly fictitious school eyeballs in snow. We think th ey origi Siri and Peter Buck, recent Viking dreamed up by a couple of jaded nate in Vail. immigrants, introduced the old Nor Aspen barflies. It regularly schedules Then conditions fl·uctuated . They'll wegian sport of "hundekjoring. '.' athletic events, slalom queen con do that. On Washington's Birthday I . You could buy a hundekjoring har tests and Spring Proms, holds ad said to a friend who called from ness at Siri & Peter's Sportswear, ministrative meetings in handy pubs, Cambridge, Mass. , " It's been in the hitch up your dog and have him pull and just incidentally prints quantities sixties and Iglook just shoveled the you at breakneck speed on cross of sweat shirts, pennants and other last snow off the Smuggler tennis country skis. Dogs loved it. So did school gimmicks for sale. courts." The next morning I sent her people. I don't mean to imply that skiers a wire: Snowed Two Feet~ Stop. Still The Glenwood Springs pool down became an endangered species. In the Snowing. valley, largest outdoor natural hot midst of all this the purists kept to The rest of the season, as though . water pool in the world, overflowed their appointed rounds. These were mocking us, was Colorado ski coun with Aspenites. Hotels in town the died-in-the-woolers, tourists and try at its most magnificent-warm opened pools and saunas to locals. locals alike, the skiers who never stop sun, velvety air, spun-sugar snow. Everyone got in the swim. If not the skiing, the ones who, rocks or pow Everyone shut up shop and flocked swim, they took to the ice. The Ice der, if it's winter and the lifts are to the slopes. Steamboat re-opened. Garden revved up its schedule of running, will ski the mountain be So did Telluride. And though it was . clinics, figure-skating classes and cause _it's there . too late to save the season, we'd ladies' Mother Pucker hockey games. Which brings us to the dilemma learned how a little snow could stretch Church attendance was up 10 to 30 every ski town faces at some time: a long, long way. percent. Frank Harvey, ebullient pas What on earth do you tell people? Jglook and I have lived in other lor of the Community Church and While the Aspen Times carried doz ski towns. And I can tell you there part-time cantor for Aspen's Jewish ens of letters crowing "We just spent is a certain smugness that infects us community, fasted for snow. (He'd 10 marvelous days in Aspen and who all-a kind of " I li ve here all year been told to lose weight anyhow.) says the skiing isn't great!" we while you poor devi ls sweat in an Rocky Mountain College in Aspen · were increasingly torn between the office to come for two weeks" philos served up 35 courses to a record gray area of "no crowds, no lift ophy. Don 't judge us too harshly . I, 120 students. Classes in Cardia- lines," and black statements like "no Sometimes that attitude, $3 an hour, and all the snow we can eat are our only rewards for an otherwise mar THE ONE-TIME-ALL-OUT ginal existence. Last year it was GET -IT -ALL-TOGETHER someone else's turn . And Aspen ate GET TOGETHER! crow instead of snow. ~

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126/Septemb er 1977/SKI August 25, 1977 The Aspen Times Page 19-A Ski anti-trust suit finally ended Aspen Highlands and the eing upon the price of other lift eliminated several problems ad- corporation settled the case "to prices and also agreed to enforce Aspen Skiing Corp on Friday en tickets. dressed by the suit. avoid further substantial legal each other's policies. It also tered into a consent decree with The decree, approved by US Immediately after ARI changed expenses and time-consuming claimed that the corporations "re Attorney Gen J D MacFarlane's Dist Judge Richard P Matsch, for- hands, competition in the Aspen litigation." fused use of ski facilities to mem office to end an anti-trust suit bids officials ofAspen Skiing Corp lodging reservations and ski pac The suit alleged that the two bers of the public suspected ofvio against them. andAspenHighlandsSkiingCorp kage tour markets increased, re corporations conspired to raise lating one another's policies, rules The decree, which established from communicating about or ag- suiting in a wider choice for the and flx lift rates and ski lesson and regulations." procedures to be followed by the reeing on the. ~t 9r selection of skiing public. lift operators 'in establishing the lift ticketstliat eitper Qorporation · That convinced him the re- price of combined lift tickets good will offer t.Q ' the' public. maining issues could wsettled by 'on all four of Aspen's ski moun The deer~ settles a Sherman . ,.consent dee.ree, MacFarlane said. tains, also bars them from agre- Antitrust · Act , suit filed against:.:: ;- Gecftge· ~ad!ien, vice president the lift.opera4>rs Dec 2.3, 1975, by ofthe_Aspen SkimgOorp, said the the ·. Antitrust section 1 of ' ~ .., ...:._...., _:...... :.· ;;;,·· · ...... ;:.~ ..----· MacF&I"lane's office. .- .._,, Both firms denied any wrongqo- r ·~ ?.· · ing.lt was agreed their signing:of · ,. ' · ' , . ..~e -~n8~~t.d~~ee, wo~l.~notalt.er.. · · \: · · : · ··· :~ th~1r d~als . ... -~· , .' .. _ ~ .., ~ : .. '1,'~e decree will;'rfi!miuJil in.effeet:.j 1- - for ~period of five~eani.• ~.: .. .' ., . . , , , : ~ \ · To .'· aBI;Iur~ .· compliance:- Judge : · Ma~h gtan~~c-E~l.ane's_of-:'.. · -. · . fjc~ _br~utd,-~W~~- ~ exatn~e rl!= t ~· cotp

September 1 , 1 977

Dear Aspen Bus iness Owner :

Aspen Highlands, in preparat ion of the coming 1977-78 s ki season, is offering an ·opportunity to you, the employer, to make a special purchase of. employee season lift tickets. This unique offe~ing provides you with the ability to transfer these tickets three times during the coming ski season. This is most benefic~al in s~tuations where an employee leaves before the season ends. Then the tickets, which are issued in the name of your busines s, can easily be . reassigned to another employee of your choice.

There is a minimum requirement of four tic ket s purchased, and there i s a $10.00 transfer charge to cover c o s ts of new photography, etc. Please contact the Marketing_ Department at 92 5-5 300 for more information .

We look forward to seeing you and your employees on the slopes at Highlands this season.

S.iru:: e r e lY. • ~.UJJ\-~ - W.V . N. Jon e s\J~resident As pen Highlands Sk i i ng Corporation

Pri·c e s :

Now through September 15, 1977 $225.00 SeRtember 16 t hrough September 30 , 1977 $275.00 Oc tober 1 through Oc t ober 31, 1977 $3 00.00 November 1 and on $ 325 . 00

Purch ase y o u r season tickets b efore September 15 and save $1 00 on the price of a r egular season t icket . Tickets* on sal e at Exhibition Lift ticket office from 9:30 AM to 3: 00PM.

•~Non-re f u n dable

A5PEN HIGHLANDS SKIING CORPORATION I A5PEN HIGHLANDS CONFERENCE CENTER I A5PEN TENNIS RANCH I HIGHLANDS INN I HIGHLANDS INN SKI AND TENN IS SHOP I A5PEN SKY RIDE I A5PEN HIGHLANDS SKI SCHOOL I ASPEN HIGHLANDS FOOD SERVICE.

Post Office Dox T.lupen. Colorodo a1611 U.S.A. 1 ~03·925·5300 ASPEN HIGHLAN DS RESORT GROUP

September 8, 1977 ,..The Aspen Times Page 9-A September 8,

Dear Aspen Business Owner:

Aspen Highlands, in preparation of the coming 1977-78 ski season, is offering an opportunity to you, the employer, to make a special purchase of employee season lift tickets. This unique offering provides you with the ability to transfer these tickets three times during the coming ski season. This is most beneficial in situations where an employee leaves before the season ends. Then the tickets, which ar~ issued in 'the name of your business, can easily be . reas~ig~ed to another employee of your choice . .

There is a minimum requirement of four tickets purchased, and there is a $10.00 transfer charge to cover costs of new photography, etc. Please contact the Marketing Department at 925-5300 for more information.

We look forward to seeing you and your employees on the slopes at Highlands this season.

Sincere ly. '!': N~ J-~.:Q~ont Aspen Highlands Skiing Corporation

Prices:

Now through September 15, 1977 $225.00 September 16 through September 30, 1977 $275.00 October 1 through October 31, 1977 $300.00 November 1 and on $325.00

Purchase your s ea s on tickets before September 15 and save $100 on the price of a regular season ticket. Tickets* on sale in the Accounting Office, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

>':Non -refundable

A5PEN HIGHLANDS SKII NG CORPORATION, I ASPEN HIGHLANDS CONFERENCE CENTER I ASPEN TENNIS RANCH I HIGHLANDS INN I HIGHLANDS INN SKI AND TENN IS SHOP I A5PEN SKY RIDE I ASPEN HIGHLANDS SKI SCHOOL I ASPEN HIGHLANDS FOOD SERVICE .

Post Office Dox T, Aspen, Colorodo 81611 U.S.A. 1-303·925-5300 SEASON TICKETS Early Bird Special ON SALE BEGINNING 8-13-77 Weekends Full Prices: Only Season

9-1-77 - 9-30-77 $125.00 $275.00 1 0-1-7 7- 1 0-31-7 7 $150.00 $300.00 11-1-7 7 and on $325.00

. Longest vertical descent in Colorado . Over 55 miles of trails · . 12 Lifts- 10,000 hourly capacity . J Restaurants and Oars . . NASTAR Races every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday . Freestyle Contest every Friday at noon . Free bus seNice to and from town doily from 8,00 o.m·. until 6 :00p.m.

For more information call 925-5300

Ticl~ets * on sole at Exhibition Lift Ticl~et Office doily- 9:30-3:00 pm

*Non-refundable

9-1-77-9-30-77 $125 .. 00 $275.00 10-1-77-10-31-77 $150.00 $300.00 11-1-7 7 and on $325.00 ( . Longest vertical descent 1n Colorado . Over 55 miles of troils . 12 Lifts- 10,000 hourly capacity . J Restaurants and [3ars . . NAST AI'\ Rates every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday . Freestyle Contest every Fri day at noon . Free bus seNice to and from town daily fron·, 8,00 a .m. until 6 :00p.m.

For more information call JOJ-925-5300. Or write P.O. 13ox T, Aspen, Colo. 81611 Ticl-;ets * on sole in Accounting Office Monday-Friday, 8:30 om - 4:30pm

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925-5050 September 8, 1977 The Aspen Times Page 13-A Record set at Aspen Tennis tourney Steve Levenson Cooper and Chan Cox slipped by doubles competition by beating Aspen's oldest tennis tourna Mimi Teschner and Nancy Andy Hecht and Cooper 6-0. 3-6. ment, The 12th Ann)Jal Aspen Brinkman 6-2, 7-6, for the second 6-2. Highlands Labor Day Tourna year in a row. The match featured Although Marv and Sally were ment, was marked by fme tennis long exciting points, powerful surprised by a· strong secorid set in five events, several upsets and serves, and effective net play by showing by Hecht and Cooper, a new Aspen distance record. all participants. they regained their composure to In the mens doubles, Glenwood win the match and remained un Springs professional Scott The final shot of the second sets defeated throughout the year in Schreve and Aspen's Jim Garcia sudden death point hit off the mixed doubles competition in upset the tournament's top seeds, wood of Cooper's racket and drib Aspen. Joel Herzog and Scott Ford, in the bled over the net for the point and The racquet throwing record semi-finals 6-4, 7-6. match. formerly held by Bill Sterling was Jim and Scott went on to defeat Smiling after the match, she easily beaten this weekend by the the Aspen Club's Marv Russ and said, "It was really quite calcu usually mild mannered Hank · Steven Levenson in three close lated. I wanted to save on the wear Tomlinson. hard fought sets, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, be- and tear of my strings for the Aided by a strong wind, he · fore a large enthusiastic audi mixed doubles." watched his racket slice through ence. Marv and Sally Russ continued the air over two fences and land In the women's doubles, Scotty their winning ways in the mixed softly in frisbee fashion on the roof of the Aspen Highlands Ski Shop. After a five minute delay, Tom • linson returned from the roof to calmly win his . mixed doubles match with Mimi Teschner. Winners in the other events were: Earl Schennum and Pete Lund over Chuck Vidal and Tom Starodoj, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, in the Senior men's doubles. Nancy Gregg and Anderl Mol terer defeated Nancy Brinkman and Peter Vought, 6-3, 6-0, in the Diamond Mixed Doubles, an event in which the combined ages of team members must total at least 75 years.

In the consolation tournament Hank Tomlinson and Lefty Brinkman defeated Dan DeWolfe and Craig Soddy, 6-2, 6-3, in the men's division. Sandy White and Jean Perkins A finalist in both the women's and diamond mixed doubles events at beat Ruth Whyte and Betty the Aspen Highlands invitational tennis tournament last weekend, Schuss in the women's consola Nancy Brinkman, above, not only showed good form, but was among tion, 6-1, 6-2. the many helpful organizers who kept the events moving in a surpris The mixed doubles consolation ingly precise manner. A teaching pro.at the Aspen Highlands, she is was won by Andy Glatstein and married to lefty Brinkman, Aspen Highlands Tennis Ranch director. Doris Denker, 6-0, 6-1. . Photo by Mike Chaney. Bil Dunaway and Steen Gant zel won the senior men's consola tion, 6-1, 6-2, over Roy Reid and Roy Vroom. The Diamond Mixed Consola tion winners were Ann Thullier and Roy Vroom over Carol Schen numandRoyReid, 7-5,6-1. Thousands cheer for Snourshour II Between 3,000 and 4,000 per _ Hikers coming back from sons surrounded a stage set up Crested Butte said they could dig near the Merry-Go-Round Re the music from a mile or so away. staurant, midway at Aspen High The bands taking part included lands on Labor Day for Snowshow the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with II, a concert to benefit the Aspen Vic and Jan Garrett, Starwood, Community School. the Bluegrass Hot Licks, Chris Cox, JJ Henderson, and North Promoter Ralph Brendes may Country. have taken in as much as $15,000 A few listeners walked up half before expenses. The accountants way then got on the lift to beat the were still figuring it out when this system, according to one observer. was written. One estimate was But promoters confiscated beer at that the school made from $5,000 the bottom so they could sell it to $7,000. half-way, evening things out. Police said there were no dis The concert, all agreed, was a turbances despite the size of the fine celebration of the end of the crowd. summer season.

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Jan Garrett, formerly of Liberty; and Bobby Mason of Sta_rwood. theaspenti~es~-p ~~-s_ec_. t_io_n_b SEPTEMBER 8. l977 SNOW SHOW II IS SET FOR HIGHLAN·DS

The lifts at Aspen Highlands will start running at 9 a.m. to carry Labor Day revellers to the midway restaurant for Snow Show II this Monday. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Starwood, North Country and Jan Garrett will be performing in a concert benefit for the Aspen Community School, and the concert will be held rain or shine. Tickets are $10 to ride up and down and attend the concert, $8 to ride up and walk down, and , $6 for children to walk up and ride down. A free city bus will be taking trips to Highlands from Rubey Park. Page 6-C The Aspen Times September 1, 1977

Columbia Recording Artists STARWOOD NORTH COUNTRY SPECIAL GUEST JAN GARRETT plus BLUE GRASS HOT UCKS LABOR_DAY MONDAY AT ASPEN HIGHLANDS BEER LIFTS START AT 9:00A.M. FOOD AVAILABLE OULDREN'S "WALK DOWN" llCKEIS: $6.00 AVAILABLE

Aspen Highlands Ticket office, Aspen Stereo on Cooper st. across from City Market, Aspen Book and Record Store in the Mill St. Station, Unicorn Books in the North of Nell Building, Timberline Books on the Hyman Mall, Printer's Alley Books and Records, Basalt, Sounds and Silence, Glenwood Springs, Main St. Music, Carbondale, Snowmass Infor mation Booth, Snowmass.

Free City bus from Rubey Park. Limited Parking at Aspen Highlands. Concert will be held RAIN or SHINE - bring a poncho or umbrella and blanket. Due to Colorado liquor laws, No Alcoholic Beverages will be allowed! Beer, sangria, pop, hamburger, cheeseburgers etc. will be available. REMEMBER ... There's Snowshow snow at this Snowshow! Page 8-A The Aspen Times September 1, 1977

Bobby and Peggy Mason were married by the waterfall at T-lazy-7 Ranch. Steve Smilak photo. Big bands play for wedding at T Lazy 7

Liberty, Starwood, · Tumb den and Karen Rohrbacher of leweed, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Aspen, and Sarah Sue Kataoka of Band, and Lost in the Shuffie all Woody Creek. played at the wedding when Flower girl was Torl.e Kataoka Peggy Aden and Bobby Mason (of while neices and nephews of the Starwood) were married under a bride, Laura Simmons and Blaine white trellis beside the waterfall Stock, and Aden Simmons and at T Lazy 7 Ranch on Aug 20. Percy Stock carried-the rings and John Denver sang Annie's Song flowers. as the bride walked up the aisle Best man was Buck Deane. and Chris Cox sang Untitled Love The bride has 'been an Aspen Song at the end of the ceremony resident for 14 years, she works which was performed by Rev for the Highlands Skimg Corp. Frank Harvey. Mason is lead singer and lead The bride is the daughter of guitar player with Starwood. The MargaretAdenofM~ph is , Tenn couple has a home in Aspen and the late Percy Aden. She was Gmve. given in marriage by Richard Hathaway. The groom is the son of Jean and Robert Mason of Bellflower, Calif. Maid of honor was Kaleta Doolin of Aspen while brides maids were Adrienne Stock of Jackson, Miss and Cynthia Sim mons of Memphis, Tenn who are sisters of the bride, and Blise Fad- 3

lt1s go, go for Snowshow II

Mischel! Huerta, Carl Trapani and Candy Kalnins were getting ready this week for Snows how II, a benefit concert for the Aspen Community School to be held at noon on Monday, Labor Day, at Aspen Highlands. The lift will begin taking spectators up at 9 am. Producer Ralph Brendes suggests taking a lunch, a pon cho and blanket. Trapani is stage manager for the event which fea tures the Dirt Band, Starwood, North Country, JJ Henderson, Jan Garrett and other entertain ers. Photo by Chris Cassatt. Aspen's most complete listings- a ga·de to ve ything!

Mountain MUSIC Sitting on the ski slopes at Aspen Highlands, a crowd of between AThe free Fl 3,000 and 4,000 people went to the Labor Day Concert to benefit the Aspen Community School. .H.Spen . Bands that played included the Nitty G ritty Dirt Band with Vic and Jan Garrett, Starwood, the Bluegrass Hot Licks, Chris Cox, JJ Hender son, and North Country. No.14 For the week of Sept. 9-16, 1977 There w ere lots of sunburns. Chris Cassatt photo. Snowshow brings 1n• $7,000 for school Ralph Brendes, promoter of the Snowshow II benefit concert on greater share of the profits than it should. (The event was held mid Labor Day, said the Aspen Com way at Aspen Highlands.) munity School should net about $7,000 from the performance. "Highlands got a handsome sum," Brendes said. "But we had Brerides denied rumors that Aspen Highlands had taken a made a deal with Whip Jones (president of the Highlands Ski ing Corp) and he lived up to it." Brendes said that the deal with a concessionaire for beer and food was separate from the one for lift tickets and that was also kept. It took about 1,500 people to break even, Brendes said, adding "It's not unusual to spend $7,000 to $8,000 to put on a concert like this." "There is a risk involved, and a certain amount of learning the first time," he said. "We'll be bet ter able to negotiate next time." Brendes said that Jones may make a voluntary contribution to the community school. September 15, 1977 The Aspen T imes Page 19-A Employee backs Highlands; ARI out Misdemeanor charges against states that he never-orally.or in director required Tony Fusaro county jail for each offense. They "They had to be aware that what Aspen Reservations, Inc, (ARI) writing- was required by Aspen and George A Newman to waive are Class 3 misdemeanors. they were doing was a crime." · were dropped in District Court Highlands to waive his rights to their rights to unemployment be Pascoe argued Friday that the The language of the statute is here Friday. Judge George Lohr unemployment benefits. nefits. The total fine would be complaints are deficient. He said vague, Pascoe said. He requested granted a motion by attorney Kelley argued that it should be $2,000 for conviction on those two they must stand on the sufficiency a preliminary hearing and bill of , Monte Pascoe, who is represent up to the court to decide what con counts. of their allegations, and they they particulars. · ing several defendants in five ac stitutes a waiver. 4. that on Dec 1, 1976, Wentzel are incomplete. Kelley responded that the law tions filed by the attorney Judge Lohr accepted briefs from and the corporation made false Pascoe said there is no indica provides for a preliminary hear general's office. Kelley and also heard arguments statements to deprive Gordon M tion of the status of the defen ing only in the case of first class The suits charge that the Aspen by Pascoe, reserving decision. Ford and Earl E Hutton of be dants, or of their "culpable mental misdemeanors. Highlands Skiing Corp, Aspen nefits. Again the total fine would state." Lohr did not rule on any of the Reservations and officers of the There are five separate cases. be $2,000 on conviction. "Something must be wilfully, questions, but set Sept 19 at 9 am two companies asked various em The charges in those cases in 5. and finally, that from March intentionally done," he said. for setting of further proceedings. ployees to waive their rights to clude: 1,1976, toJan28, 1977, the corpo unemployment benefits. · 1. (Three counts) that on April ration through its officers unlaw Asst Atty Gen Lou Kelley did 1, 1976, George D Robinson, fully conspired to commit the not oppose Pascoe's motion to mountain manager at Aspen crimes alleged. The fine on con dismiss the charges against Highlands, and the Aspen High viction would be $100 to $1,000. Aspen Reservations, a company lands Skiing Corp asked Earl E Conviction for the individuals that has been sold since the al Hutton, Jack Troyer and Jack would carry a penalty of from $50 leged violations. Siemanc to waive their rights to to $750 or up to six months in the Kelley said that as far as he unemployment benefits. The could determine Aspen Reserva crime is a misdemeanor and the tions had, in fact, never been in corporation could be fined a max corporated, that it was a joint ven imum of $3,000 on conviction. ture. He said he could not deter 2. that in Oct 1, 1977, JP Went mine who should be served a zel, Highlands controller; Ru,ss summons. Frazier of Aspen Reservations; The suits were filed by the at and the Aspen Highlands Skiing torney general's office after sev Corp asked Linda Crouch to waive eral former employees of the her rights. The Highlands could Highlands complained. be fined up to $1,000 on that Pascoe filed an affadavit by one charge. of the employees, Tony Fusaro 3. that on April 1, the corpora yesterday. In that paper, Fusaro tion and David Wrigl].t, ski patrol I "· . ~.._ I

, ...... not the conspiracy charge should be dismissed. Highlands officials The attorneys also told Lohr that the charges cannot be con solidated and tried together, but enter innocent plea.s that each of the five charges should be tried separately. Attorneys for the Aspen High is before a jury or merely before the court, for Oct 25 at 9 am. The company and the five offi lands Skiing Corporation and five cials are charged with unlawfully officials charged with requiring Attorneys Jim Moran and Monte Pasco also sought dismis-. requiring employee.s to waive employees to give up unemploy their rights under the Colorado ment benefits entered innocent ·sal of a conspiracy charge against Employment Security Act. pleas on all charges Thursday in Aspen Highlands,- Highlands District Court. president Whipple Jones, control The attorneys also told Judge ler JP Wentzel, mountain opera George Lohr that their clients tions manager Don Robinson, ski want to waive the right to a jury patrol director Dave Wright and trila, but Lohr reserved ruling on Russ Frazier of Aspen Reserva that question. tions. Because Louis Kelley, the as sistant attorney general who is The attorneys argued that a bill prosecuting the case, was absent, of particulars issued by Kelley on Lohr resolved to determine the conspiracy charge was insuffi whether Kelley objects to a cient. waiver of jury trial before ruling. Lohr set Oct 18 at 9 am as the He set the trial date, whether it date for a hearing on whether or October 13, 1977 The Aspen Times Page 3-A

America's largest and most popular skiing complex is scheduled to open Nov 24. It Snowmass and Snowmass Resort. _consists~f (left to right) Aspen and Aspen Mt, Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk and Lift rates set, snow chances good Lift and ski school rates have and over) is offered for $8 at Aspen school ticket. The techniques nesday and Thursday at noon on the Coors Cup Pro BRace, Jan 6 been anounced for the 1977-78 Mt, $4 at Snowmass and Butter- taught include Graduated Length Golden Horn. milk. · and 7; and the annual Winterskol season, Nov 24 through April 9, Method (GLM), Accelerated Turn NASTAR races are held Mon and, if you believe the odds, Aspen Highlands offers a 3-day Carnival, Jan 18-22. Method (ATM) and basic turn ap day, Wednesday and Friday at Highlands will be the site oftwo there's at least a 97% chance of ticket (good any three offive con proach. noon at Buttermilk and Tuesday, plenty of snow by Christmas for secutive days) for $30. The Aspen USSA FIS-sanctioned Class A Prices for lessons do not include Wednesday and Thursday noons amateur races, the Elbert series the four-mountain Aspen ski Skiing Corp's 3-day ticket (good the lift ticket. at Snowmass. complex. Highlands Cup and the Can Am on three mountains, Aspen, But At the Highlands, a one-day Special events this year include The odds would have been 100% series men's western champion termilk and Snowmass) for $36. group lesson costs $13, a 3-day the Aspen Pro Spree, Dec 12-18; ship finals. except for the unprecendented A 6-day, four-mountain lift tic group lesson $33, and a 5-day drought of 1976, a freak De ket costs $77. A 6-day, three group lesson, $50. cember in 1936 (and possibly a mountain pass is $72. A one-day group lesson for a similar month near the turn of the The three-mountain "host pass" child 12 and under is $11. century). will again be offered by the Aspen For "snow puppies," 3-6, a one Skiing Corp for $250. The host day lift ticket, instruction and This year's daily lift ticket will pass entitles the buyer to ski at lunch costs $17. cost an adult $13 at Aspen Moun three mountains on payment of a . A one-hour pr ivate lesson is tain, Buttermilk and Snowmass daily validation charge as follows: $20. Additional persons are $5 and $12 at Highlands. Aspen Mt, $9; Buttermilk, $4; and each. An ali-day private lesson is Half day tickets are $8, starting Snowmass, $5. $90. A special package rate offers at 11:30 am at Buttermilk and 1 An Aspen Highlands season five days lessons and lifts for $95. pm at Snowmass and Highlands. pass is now on sale for· $300. After Aspen Highlands, the number Children (12 and under) can ski Nov 1, the price of the season pass one NASTAR area in the nation, for $4 at Buttermilk and Snow goes up to $325. holds races every Tuesday, Wed- mass, and for $3 at the Highlands. Rates for ski instruction on A "young at heart" ticket (65 Aspen Mt, Buttermilk and Snowmass are $15 for a full-day class Sunday, Monday and Tues day, . and $10 for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A one-hour private lesson ·(1-2 persons) is $25 and it costs $5 an em hour for each additional person up its to 5. A private instructor for a in six-hom~ day (1-3 persons) is $125. I1e With 4-5 persons, the cost is $160. New this year is a 5-day $60 ski

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