How Snowmass at Aspen was begun
Aspen Historical Society
“Back in Time” is contributed by Aspen Historical Society (AHS) and features excerpted articles and images from past Snowmass Sun/Aspen Times issues. We can’t rewrite history, but we can learn from it! Visit archiveaspen.org to view the vast Aspen Times photographic collection in the AHS Archives.
From the very first issue of the Snowmass Villager on Oct. 23, 1967 comes a story of how the Snowmass ski area came to be. “Ten years ago, a ski equipped airplane touched down near the summit of Colorado’s Baldy Mountain, 13,162 feet high, a monk’s head peak on the edge of the Snowmass-Maroon Bells Wilderness area. Piloting that plane was Bill Janss, an avid sportsman and former Olympic skier who maintained his great interest in the mushrooming ski industry. He stood in awe of the ten thousand acres spread before him, realizing that in all his years of skiing he had never seen an area with such a variety of trail conditions, and with the secluded valleys and pasture land so hospitable to the mountain village concept which he had come to envy during his skiing years in Europe. Then and there the idea for Snowmass-at-Aspen was born.” Image from the early 1960s of an air view of Snowmass area with potential ski area outlined.
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