The role Aspen’s Ski Patrol has played in holding Ski Co. accountable through ownership and management changes for fair wages and working conditions, which benefitted employees across the board.
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You fall, we haul
As the slow-boiling frog of unaffordability in Aspen approached lukewarm in the 1970s, the ski patrol again challenged Brown to increase wages and compensate seniority skills. Standing out in the recollections of a local few was the failed affiliation with the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters and the resulting strike between 1971-1972.
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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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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.
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The Aspen Public Tramway: the first “bucket” on Aspen Mountain
The Aspen Public Tramway, rising from the bottom of Aspen Mountain to Tourtelotte Park, was a precursor to today’s Silver Queen Gondola, known by many locals as “the bucket.” The tramway, little known to local history buffs, was built to haul silver ore, but it also carried a few adventurous passengers.