Aspen Extreme!

The Shust and I made what began

as a road/ski trip and ended as a

terrifying death drive strait out of

"When Highways Attack!"

Thanks to the Shust's Uncle Don

we got the hook-up to ski 4 free

Wednesday at Aspen Mountain, and

Thursday at Aspen Highlands while

stayin' 45 mi. up the road in affordable

Glenwood Springs at the very

very asylum-like Hotel Colorado.

At over 100 years old it once

accomodated President Teddy

Roosevelt, and now... the Afternoon

Ski Club was in the hizzy. Our ride home

turned into quite a harrowing ordeal.

An accident closed the interstate,

sticking us in deadlock traffic for

over 2 hours until we could detour

onto a cold, windy, stormy abyss

of a highway. Freight-train like jet stream

winds created whiteout"ground blizzards."

that made the road and everything on

and around it dissappear into nothing,

and did I mention that it was nightime?

The final 2 1/2 hours of the drive

scared the shit out of me. We finally

squeaked through over 6 1/2 hours later

to drop the Shust off at his car.

I was'nt even home yet but I chose to

stick around and give the Shust a

ride up to Breck as his car was half

buried in a snow drift when we got

back to it that night. All major local

highways eventually closed stranding

myself and countless others

until Friday afternoon when the

interstate reopened, returning me

home at last.

Aspen's new gondola's

Instant classic footage I like to call

"The Shust vs. The Tree."

The brutal aftermath.


It was blustery and flat mostly...mostly.
Some crazy steep trees,bumps and cliffs.That's right, cliffs.
I just skied down that.

Through town back to the ride,

check out all of that snow. This is

becoming an epic season at most

ski areas thanks to above average

snow amounts.

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