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Aspen Historical Society expands ski tour offerings across three mountains |
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Friday, December 30, 2011 09:44 |
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By CURTIS WACKERLE, ASPEN DAILY NEWS
The Aspen Historical Society is expanding opportunities to learn about history in that area while skiing.
For three seasons, the society has offered ski history tours on Aspen Mountain, but this year, the tours are being offered at Snowmass and Aspen Highlands as well.
Aspen Highlands tours are every Monday at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., starting at the guest services hut near the Merry-Go-Round restaurant; Snowmass tours are on Tuesdays at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., meeting at the top of Sam’s Knob; Aspen Mountain tours are every Friday at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. meeting at the guest services hut at the top of the mountain.
Mike Monroney, history coach at the society, has been leading the Aspen Mountain tours since their inception. More so than any of the other mountains, “the mining history is right underneath your feet while you are skiing,” Monroney said of Ajax. The tour focuses on the early development of skiing in Aspen, as well as some of the visible evidence throughout the mountain of the mining days. For example, the tour makes a stop at the Tourtelotte Park run, where there was once a small mining town.
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