Skico prepares long-term plan for Aspen Mountain
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- Created on Monday, 18 July 2011 14:18
- Written by Nathan
By SCOTT CONDON, THE ASPEN TIMES
As the Aspen Skiing Co.'s vice president of mountain operations, Rich Burkley gets paid, in part, to dream about what is possible with the ski areas. He's got some big dreams for the east side of Aspen Mountain.
Burkley has a vision for long-term improvements — five to 10 years away — but he stresses that his ideas haven't even been vetted internally yet, let alone approved by the U.S. Forest Service. Burkley is in the opening stages of working on an updated master plan for Aspen Mountain.
“The Master Plan is like a wish list of potential things to do in the next two decades, and [it] falls apart when a CFO asks ‘How many skiers will this bring?' and I say ‘None,'” Burkley quipped.
Nevertheless, a guy can dream. Top on the Skico's list of options is the new Pandora's chairlift in the sidecountry terrain to the skier's right, or south, of Walsh's. That would open up intermediate and expert terrain for lift-served skiing.
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