Ski Resorts Sans Snow
June, 1981
The first flash of recognition came last June, at the end of a hairpin turn outside Aspen, near the top of Independence Pass, 12,000 feet up. Snow still cloaked the highest mountain cols and the thin, fresh air made a Rocky Mountain high more than just a song title. The scenery was as staggering as only mountaintop vistas can be; and the flash was that somebody in the neighborhood was really nuts.The misguided were those who arbitrarily labeled summertime in Colorado off-season and those who did...
