The Swiss Vision of Jetset-Ziel

The Luft scheint clair, the Sonne gleissendre, the Stille lauter, the stahlblaue Himmel unendlich weiter als anderswo: Vor der ersten Abfahrt steht stilles Staunen. In the high mountains of the Rockies is the workshop for new clothes without clothes and without costs. Two wild panoramas – here the Castle Peak, near the Hayden Peak, up to more than 4000 meters above sea level, with the Schnee bedeckt – ohnehin die Worte.

The Silver Queen gondola passes over Aspen Mountain, before passing through the forests of Engelmann-Fichten and Felsengebirgstannen, the Neuschnee der Nacht bedeckt hat. The winter lake is auszukosten, with the man who fell lassen and the tausend Höhenmeter den Hang hinuntersausen, the Linien ziehend and the Kurven schwingend, immersed further in the blendend aufstäubende Weiss. As the “champagne powder” escapes from the fluff, the flakes fall, dying in the Rocky Mountains of the sky. Vergleichbare Bedingungen gibt es anderswo nicht: Aspen hat einen Ruf wie Donnerhall.

4 Skiberge, 42 Lifte, un denen man self am Wochenende kaum anstehen muss, 360 perfectly prepared Pisten et 5 Terrainparks lockeden Enthousiasten aus aller Welt an. Enjoy the buttermilk of Skiberg, which is found overall beyond 3,000 meters of Areal Hero’s Arena. We are here to stay, Darf in Colorado and abseits der Piste beim Tree-Skiing durchneite Espenwälder brettern. There are big public events like the X-Games and the Snow League, which are not our professional snowboarders and freeskiers, but also athletes with Salti schlagen mobile vehicles.

“Living the high life”: Ein gut gefülltes Konto hilft, um Winterferien in Aspen zu geniessen. We are now at Aspen Airport, at the start of the ski season with parking spaces – for private planes auf dem Vorfeld. There is no store in the boutique with the Kredit card: Im Beverly Hills der Berge verlangtt the Fünf-Sterne-Resort «The Little Nell» 2500 Dollar for Zimmer pro Night, the Frühstück kostet extra. Nirgendwo in America köpft man more Flaschen Veuve Clicquot as après-ski in the “Cloud Nine” bar. Statt nur Ferien zu machen, wollen die Gäste auch Eigentum erwerben. Mining works with their own historic stone constructions are one of the treasures of the advanced moors: houses cost 13 million dollars. This is a monthly investment for the Aspen Mountain Club with $350,000 almost silver.

Das Engadin diente als Vorbild

If you wish, as Aspen zum world Wintersport of the USA wurde, can im urigen Wheeler-Stallard-Museum die Ausstellung besichtigen ou in Archiv der Aspen Historical Society hinabsteigen. The Feuerfeste Panzerschränke schützen hier vergilbte Zeitungsartikel, die von Aufstieg et Niedergang der Stadt erzählen. End of the 19th. Jahrhunderts raised up to 12,000 men in Aspen. 1935 breaks out until the end of the silver arrows among men: the Opera will see the light of day, the theaters are lost, the bars in the Rotlichtviertel are open, the legendary hotel “Jérôme” is not yet an absteige . Then you will find a specialist in vision, contact and frost science here at a ski resort in the European region of Schaffen. Dazu holten sie Entwicklungshelfer aus den Alpen. A representative of Aspens Geschichte is the Swiss Skipionier André Roch.

When it comes to travel and travel in Augenschein zu nehmen, one of these last days, every day has started, and the troubles in Castle Creek Valley are absent from the street at the end of the day. Wer die nicht hat, versinkt nach ein paar Schritten bis zur Hüfte im Weiss. The Abzweigung is unbeschildert, weil gewisse Kreise die Ruhe hüten wie einen Schatz. Even under the bedding your name is not born and the man is not new in the women’s living space, he was one of the few gang members to be an exclusive group of Anwesen Aspens gestattet.

Die Highland Bavarian Lodge, un Weihnachten 1936 eröffnet et heute in Privatbesitz, war Aspens erste Unterkunft nur für Skifahrer. The black and white photos are in different light locations, which means the light with the wire is more flattering in the wind. Doch das Gebäude self hat sich kaum verändert. Weisse Sprossenfenster zieren die Blockhausfassade, durch a large Glasfläche fallt Morgenlicht in the Lounge, in der man sich einst am grossen Kaminofen wärmte. To see Dollar pro Tag gab, it is a stock and the Alps shop of Österreichers Franz Keller. For everything related to ski touring in wild terrain, there is an expert here.

André Roch, originally from Geneva, was born for the first time in the Alps and was a European Champion in the Abfahrtsski and Slalom, and was born in the South of France. Pilot Billy Fiske, gold medal winner at the 1928 St. Moritz Olympics, became a local player with investor Ted Ryan in the Castle Creek Valley, not to mention the town of Ashcroft in a ski area at the entrance to the Engadine. aufnehmen solement. “Hier kann man genauso gut stürzen wie auf einer der europäischen Pisten,” writes a columnist from the “New Yorker” in the brochure “How to Aspen”. Das Terrain, vor german aber der Schnee, machte den Unterschied: “Besser als in den Alpen oder jedem anderen Ski-Areal, das ich gesehen habe”, noted André Roch, “wegen des Pulverschnees, der bis in den Juni bleibt.”

The Japanese are in the two-year world war near Pearl Harbor, while André Roch’s ski lifts and the alpine mountain on the edge of Hayden Peak are really boring talk. Doch der Stahl wurde für Militär gebraucht, et man verlagerte den Skibetrieb zum Aspen Mountain, der sich neben der Stadt erhebt. Sleeps like André Roch has half-brecherische Piste anlegen, die aussieht wie ein Korkenzieher. Man must always realize that in 1937 the first “Roch Run” tells: Le Zickzackkurs zwischen den Bäumen war so schmal, l’homme avec Glück nur mit den Stöcken die Bäume touchierte et mit Pech in ihnen landete.

Der Geldadel traf sich mit den Sternchen

According to André Roch, and we are in the branch and the name (or here auf die Verwirklichung seines American Dream hoffte), we are in Aspen. Zuerst Otto Schniebs in Esslingen, in the 1930s Jahren Amerikas berühmtester Skilehrer. Dann Friedl Pfeifer in St. Anton, the Colorado soldier of the 10th Mountain Division for training in the Alps. Schliesslich Klaus Obermeyer aus Oberstaufen: The man is today 105 and erzählt putzmunter, like the schauspieler Gary Cooper, is one of the 105 best clients of Daunenjacke, who did not make it at the Sessellift.

The pioneers are located in Aspen, in the upper American region of Geldadel, auf Stars and Sternchen. As far back as the 1950s, skiers from Hollywood to Aspen flocked to Aspens Street to cool the hippie flair to the normal level. Roch war da längst weitergezogen. Before entering a ski club, you will find free slopes with free slopes for winter sports. In “the best ski town in the world,” as the American-unknown heisst heisst, we must be there in the first place.

“André hatte einnehmendes Wesen: Jeder mochte den Kerl sofort,” says Tim Willoughby. La Seine Eltern nahmen den Schweizer bei sich zu Hause auf, as well as in Aspen arbeitete. The images with the panorama of the mountains, they are in humid Malta, are visible. Doch er hielt jahrelang by Brief Contacts mit den Freunden in America, sogar aus höchster Höhe. I am Himalaja with Roch international from Ruhm, as well as the Sherpa Tenzing up to 200 meters from the Gipfel of Mount Everest and therefore the British Edmund Hillary den Weg ebnete. This is an in-depth study of the year from the Institut Eidgenössische für Schnee- und Lawenforschung in Davos.

Next to Gastronom Niklaus Kuhn, he is the chef of André Roch’s chef, who is in his restaurant today. “Ein sympathischer Mann, ganz bescheiden, obwohl er Aspens Erfolg massgeblich mitgestaltete.” Heute golden Niklaus Kuhn selbst as eminent ester Schweizer mit Wohnsitz in Aspen. Located in Rapperswil, he traveled for 20 hours in the United States and traveled quickly twice from the “Cliffhouse Restaurant” to the Gipfel on Buttermilk Mountain. Noch heute schwärmen die Leute von Apfelstrudel, Bratwurst, Erbsensuppe et Kartoffelsalat. In Aspens cuisine restaurants, international restaurants are such that exclusive customers: “Mawa’s Kitchen” serves Afro-Mediterranean cuisine, in “Matsuhisa” there is sushi and Wagyu-Rind, and in Bosq, you will find tasting menus with main courses or takeaway meals, unterem. Pfifferling-Quinoa-Cracker and Bisontartar. The Aspen Skiing Company itself offers Bergen gastronomy, in the “Cliffhouse”, which offers traditional dishes of Alpine cuisine with a Banh-Mi-Burger sandwich – American hipster fare.

Niklaus Kuhn has lost time. These days are here to stay and they are not the same for our Skilehrers and their Mexican families. Private travel in Aspen Highlands Ski, where you go to the Highland Bowl for the legendary Streif in Kitzbühel. While 65 is the first evil, it is more than 200 meters in height from the lift station auf den Gipfel des Highland Peak, up to 82. April War Day is further up to 3777 meters, insgesamt since 1614 Mal.

In Aspen you will find his humor for his seine Ausdauer and for his seinen: An den Ski ist ein Schild befestigt, auf dem es heisst, dass man ihn als über 80-Jährigen gerne überholen dürfe (was aber kaum jemand schafft). Doch Niklaus Kuhn did not have the Strapazen auf sich, but he did others. Sondern weil für ihn Aspen dort oben am schönsten ist: “Hier bin ich dem Himmel so nahe wie nirgendwo sonst.”

This report was produced by Aspen Snowmass management, Faszination Ski and United Airlines.