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2.12.-12.12 Aspen
after a really long journey from Fiji-Auckland-Los Angeles-Denver to Aspen (35h) I was happy to get a pick up from our hotel. Albert and I meet on the plane from Denver to Aspen which was good. I almost thought he had missed a flight since he turned up as last person on the plane. All other passengers had already boarded.
We were very surprised when we got to the hotel. Very luxary and very good service. Pick-up from the airport, bellboy, roomservice,... What else do you need. OK we need SNOW for skiing which was not so great. But it snowed around 8 cm the first night so at least we had some new snow. In total you can saw that the snow conditions where ok for beginning of December. But could have been more.
We normally got up by 7 am, breackfast at 7:30, and ready for skiing by 8:30! Hard programm but we wanted to be the first on the pist. Which normally was the case. The first days were freezing. Up to -25 degrees and our toes were almost ice. We skiied on four different mountains (Aspen, Snowmass, Highlands and Buttermilk). For sure the best one for us was Highlands! I think here we found some really nice black, double-black pists and a lot of off-pist. Had a great time skiing and espacially with Albert who is a very good skier it could not have been better.
In the evening we went to the hot tubs and stayed in it untill we emptied our beers :-). We managed to go for dinner in 7 different restaurants and played a lot of billiard. Not much to party since the high seasion first starts in a week but on friday night we went to the Belly Up. A famous pub in Aspen which have live music. We had bought tickets for the B52's. Most famous song I knew was "Love Shack". A nice evening the only bad thing was that at 5:15am the fire alarm went of in the hotel. All guests got out of bed and went outside. Fire brigade came and after 20 minutes we could go back to our rooms. False alarm but who could sleep after such a thing. So we only got 4 hours sleep...
Resume of Aspen: great hotel (Silvertree Hotel, Snowmass Village), good ski area (lots of diffecult runs), very friendly people. Snow beginning of December not that good; ahve to come back in February!
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