The object of multiple dives between October 1910 and January 1911 into the debris-clogged mine was to rebuild the pump at the bottom of the Free Silver shaft on the 12th level.
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Ski area plans through the years in Aspen’s Little Annie basin
Big plans on paper have yet to turn into ski lifts.
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Hope delivers Pandora’s Box on Aspen Mountain
The terrain to be added to Aspen Mountain comes with a history fitting of its name.
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Taming the snow beast
34 years ago on March 31, a monumental avalanche wrote a tragic chapter in Aspen history
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Big mountain ski dream: Ski-Hayden was a pre-war vision of what could have been
Andre Roch exclaimed, “Immense schusses, where your face freezes and clouds of powder rise behind you, make the skier feel like a rocket.”
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Pitkin’s boastful gulch
The first prospectors up Lincoln Creek in the early 1880s faced avalanches, unstable explosives, cave-ins, and odyssey-like distances to marginal medical care.
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The rich life of Aspen Mountain miner Billy Zaugg
The last miner to live on Aspen Mountain, his life bridged the eras of mining and skiing
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Aspen’s first international ski race in 1950: true grit versus miners’ mess
Tough terrain scarred by mining era tests ski racing elite at the 1950 FIS Alpine World Championships on Aspen Mountain
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Aspen’s skiing history: an evolving timeline
In February 1880, B. Clark Wheeler ‘skis’ into town from Leadville on Norwegian snowshoes to complete the first survey of Ute City. He renames the town Aspen.
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Finding the Silver Queen: the abundant manifestations of Aspen’s Victorian nickname
The original Silver Queen appellation was first coined in the 1880s by town pioneers who saw her reclining across West Aspen Mountain, now more commonly known as Shadow Mountain. Then came the silver statue, and the ski run.