Aspen has been an enclave of elevated thought and lofty ideals going back to the days of Jerome B. Wheeler and, later, Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke, the founders of The Aspen Institute and the establishment of Silver City’s ideals of body, mind and spirit.
That reputation for grand thinking and the power of discourse lives on today in the institute’s yearly Aspen Ideas Festival, which turns town into brain-central station for a week each summer.
Read the full story in the Aspen Daily News here.
Skiing in the Alps is great, of course – but a winter trip to the Rockies is a completely different experience, as Victoria Marston found out during a visit to Colorado.
A CNN piece on Lindsey Vonn, click image to see the video. Ahead of the World Cup in Vail, Colorado, skier Lindsey Vonn talks to Alpine Edge host Christina Macfarlane about love after Tiger Woods, her future and pizza.
If you want evidence of Colorado’s status as a destination for foodies, look at Aspen. The lap-of-luxury mountain town known for skiing, shopping and snow has cultivated one of the most prestigious food festivals in the country.
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