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It was December 22nd, and no planes had landed in Aspen for 3 days due to the epic dumping of sweet pow. It was 4:15pm as we hovered above Aspen Airport hoping for a break in the visibility. The pilot kept reminding us that we may have to land in Grand Junction or Denver if visibility didnt clear still no planes had landed all day.
The price for a Big Head Todd or David Byrne concert at the Belly-Up in Aspen is generally about $30 per person. But, tickets for ZZ Top playing on Christmas/New Years weekend gone Belly-Up were $230 each. Our 75-seat passenger plane had the ZZ Top guitarist sitting in the last row on the aisle - the lowest mortality rate in case of a Rocky-Mountain plane mishap (Whats his name again? Krista: Mr. Top?). It is easy to tell guitarist Billy Gibbons apart from his brother-of-the-long-beard on bass, Dusty Hill these days as Billy has gone lean like a Billy-goat and Dusty has gone more the way of the built-like-a-house/Didier Cuche. Because of his aisle seat in the last row, one could not help but tower over skinny-Billy when you were waiting to take a leak. The 30-something blonde assistant to the rock-icon kept running from her first-class seat back to her coach seat by Mr. Gibbons to wipe the chocolate off his beard around his mouth, as Billy sat with his hands by his side, appearing quite blazed-over behind his cheap sunglasses.
Then suddenly we could see the Rocky Mountains; the visibility cleared like the parting of the seas. And our Lord JAH of Ras-Vibrations dropped us down onto the icy tarmac with a bounce and a cheer from the 75-person plane that probably would put the 450-person capacity ZZ Top crowd at the Belly-Up on the week-end to shame as we all were grateful to be alive and in powder-town.
One of the great things about the (rather steep) Ajax Mountain in Aspen has always been the relatively small population of powder-rats that grow on any good ski hill on a powder day like fungus. Add to that the inability of shredders to land in the Aspen Airport for several days and a recessionary economy, and we virtually had the hard-to-find slack country powder runs to ourselves. A less than 5-minute hike out of the Kind Bowl and Walshs gave us thigh-deep powder all day till Walshs closes at 2pm. Im not playin' - you could make every turn in pow up to your thighs all freakin' day on the 23rd, 26th and 27th! Most of those days were clear after a night of dumping. Nothing like the sun pouring through the clear, blue sky at 11,000+ feet, sparkling on the untracked line you are floating down. On less DEEP days, part of the sweetness lay beneath the edge of the low pine-branches where most of the skier-herd dont have the SACK to risk proximity to the tree and extra pow often falls to the perimeter of the cone-shaped trees. Getting slapped in the face never felt so good as those frosty pines whipsawed the beard-stuble. We also got to taste the sweet adrenaline of the cold, steep groom of the Roch Downhill course for ripping those giant SG/DH turns in the dark, uncrowded late-afternoon.
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