Local resident and avid backcountry skier Murray Cunningham has been leading Powder Tours off the backside of Aspen Mountain for more than three decades. He turned 70 this spring and is retiring as director of the tours at the Aspen Skiing Company this month.
Pitkin County and the owners of the Castle Creek Valley property with the Highland Bavarian Lodge hope to barter a deal that leads to historic preservation of one of Aspen’s earliest ski facilities.
Aspen Skiing Co. is making good on a pledge to prohibit development on 54 acres it owns on Richmond Ridge on the back of Aspen Mountain. A restrictive covenant on the land was accepted by Pitkin County on Wednesday.
The Alfred A. Braun Hut System an Aspen institution transformed a gift received in 2007 into a hefty endowment that will help provide a cushion for years to come.