Beyond Thunderbowl

A A A Comments By Colin Bane Thursday, Apr 21 2011

Aspen’s resorts have been pushing big-air progression in skiing and snowboarding this year like never before, and not just at the Winter X Games, where Torstein Horgmo’s triple back flip at Buttermilk in January raised the bar and won the gold.

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“We’ve been working with the core magazines and top film crews, and we’ve had athletes coming from all over the world this season,” says Aspen/Snowmass spokeswoman Meredith McKee, alluding to moments like snowboarder Mark McMorris’s trip to Snowmass last month to stick a backside triple cork 1440 for the TransWorld Snowboarding: Park Sessions video. “The Aspen resorts have become a home base for the progression of these sports.”

It’s only fitting, then, that they’re going big today at Aspen Highlands as part of the “Put a Little Spring in Your Steep” closing week-end. The Big Air Saturday competition takes to the skies near the base of Thunderbowl at 3 p.m., where skiers and snowboarders will battle it out for cash prizes and glory while the après-ski party on the viewing deck builds to a crescendo.

Registration is $20, and lift tickets are cheap: $49 or $39 with a season pass from any other mountain. For other closing-weekend festivities — and lodging deals as low as $25 per per person — visit www.aspensnowmass.com/aprildeals.
Sat., April 23, 2011

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