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A skier competes in the 2018 Aspen Freeskiing Open at Buttermilk Ski Area. Photo by Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times.
Aspen has become the center of the freeski and snowboard universe this season, as just about every remaining major competition will be held at Buttermilk Ski Area in the coming weeks. This cycle begins Monday with the Aspen Snowmass Open, which this year is a Revolution Tour stop.
“It will certainly be a spectacular show,” said Aspen Skiing Co.’s Tyler Lindsay, one of the main organizers of this week’s event. “There is a ton of really pent-up, athletic ambition out there. People are really eager to show the new tricks they’ve been developing over this long quarantine and get back to that awesome, nervous, start-gate feeling.”