More fun than a human can possibly have, today, on the mountain, it was EPIC:D ma nature high au natural
insert impressed whistle sound here
You sick b@st@rd.
Very appropriate jersey. Spectacular picture aswell, as usual.
Do they just let you bring your uni on the lift with you? I know during the summer time they have hooks for bikes on the backs of the lifts, so do you just use those? Or did you do something else to get it up there?
Breathtaking.
ummm, somebody get that guy with skis out of the picture.
I can’t figure out what he’s doing there. 
Awesome as usual, Mike.
I believe that he works there, so he must have connections.
I always get excited when I see that you’ve posted a new thread Mike, I love the pictures.
Thank you steveyo, coming from you especially. Spring MUni and tele turns at it’s best, still not a rock showing on the mountain.
Leave it up to my teenage son to remember the date and appropriate jersey:) Ya know, it was truly spectacular yesterday, and my son and I bent our fun meter’s for sure.
I am so grateful that this is my backyard, and I get to play in it everyday. Glad you like it.
Yeah, what the heck, over. We were swarmed by the masses all morning, I guess it is just part of it.
It was awesome, I so wish you all could do this type of riding one day.
Yes, I ski patrol at the Highlands, which certainly helps. This time up was with my son, and our sides hurt from laughing so hard. The crashes were big, but so was the terrain. Luckily it was spring slush.
It makes me feel pretty damn good, when I get respect from you guys. This is a magical place to live, and I really do enjoy sharing the beauty with you all.
Here are a couple more pics:D
me going back uphill
OMFG you guys!
How is it that I do not live there?? A.M. you have the most spine-chill-inducing photos on here period. You are driving my hunger for scenery and travel mashed together with unicycling. Keep it up!
Sooooo jealous.
Quit your job, get in you car, and get to COLORADO, it rocks. Plenty of work here, and not allot of people. Oh sh…t, why did I say that? One weekend left at the Highlands, come and get some.
ahhhh… logan on the box
Seriously, it’s pretty easy to do what Mike says. His job, ski-patrol at a world-class resort, may not be easy to get, but a ski-job is easy to get. I know, because I did it myself in the early 1990s, but in Utah, not Colorado.
Just get the name of some of the big ski lodges where you want to live and call or write to them, asking for a job application. They hire armies of workers each fall. Once you get a job offer, then ask them for lodging info.
In most ski towns, it’s easy to get a bunch of roommates and rent a place for the season.
An even easier way to go is what I did. There are a very few lodges and resorts that have live-in employee situations. The Alta resort in Utah is one of them. There, if you get a job, you get 3 meals/day and , I can’t overstate this, a room RIGHT AT THE BASE OF THE MOUNTAIN.
Try www.goldminersdaughter.com, which is where I worked. There, they even split up your work schedules to give you ski time EVERY F___ING DAY!
I skied 150 days each winter I worked there. Roll out of bed, do the old java-fatty-poo, and head out for first chair. It was one of the best choices I ever made in my life.
You are really tempting me. I have friends who have done just this, except in British Columbia. Something about an easterner going west is attractive to me: leaving flat concrete jungle for the Rocky Mountains!
I need to think practically, though. One more year until I finish my degree and then maybe. I really would much rather go to the American southwest as opposed to the Canadian (american southwest is symbolic of many vacations from my childhood to places like Death Valley and Estes Park).
Despite this, considering the level of danger that comes with these hobbies, it seems a tad irresponsible to move to a country that doesn’t have publicly funded healthcare!
you can rent a room in my house.
Aspenmike and son…Lucky bastards
Well, if you decide to come, you won’t worry about the danger. That part of your mind switches off when overwhelmed by the awesome feeling of speeding down a powdery mogul run early in the morning 
I did a similar thing in South Lake Tahoe for the '98/99 season. I skied Monday through Friday at Kirkwood, worked graveyard at the front desk of a motel, and took a night EMT class (I slept mostly on weekends). I originally was going to do this for just a year, but I was having so much fun I was lining up a paramedic job so I could do it pernamently.
Then I had to do something stupid and break my back, w/o any health insurance. Virtually no skiing since :o 
(sometimes it amazes me I was able to learn to uni [but usually just frustrating], considering my paralysis)
Aspenmike did you get a ton of extra snow this year, like everywhere else in the mountains. A group of us from Fort Collins are thinking of a Mountain biking trip to Crested Butte in early July and was wondering if you think the snow will be gone and the trails will be dry. I maybe asking for updates as we get closer to July. Figure if it the trails are dry in Aspen they should be aboout the same in Crested Butte. I’ll throw the uni in, but I got a ways to go before I go on a real muni ride, thinking my first orginized ride on a uni will be the Denver Tour De Fat. I got to start get some more miles in. You always have great pictures, but a guess that is made easier with the views that surround you. Are you going to do the five pass ride again this year.