27 April – Aspen

Up bright and early to greet the morning…..to find that it was snowing outside.  Excellent… snowing at this level, it’ll be definitely snowing up at Aspen!  And it was.  The hour drive to Aspen was quite pretty, when we could see through the falling snow.

Aspen is quite a lovely town.  Very much your typical ski town.  Lots of ski rental places, cafes, restaurants, great mountain vistas etc. 

 It was snowing at the basin level (in the town area),  so we got some gondola passes and took the ride up to the top, which took about 15-20 minutes and covered a fairly long distance.  

We saw people skiing or snowboarding down fairly steep slopes.  At this point there were only experienced to “insane” slopes available at Aspen.  As we only had the day here we decided not to ski but check out if a horse drawn carriage ride or snowmobile tours were available.  Sadly none were, so we had some lunch, walked about Aspen a bit more, had a coffee and rode the gondola again.  

We had a look in a few shops, hoping to catch a glimpse of a celeb, sadly (again) they must have heard we were on the celeb prowl….oh well… their loss J.

We got back to our spot (no sneaky RV’rs in it) And we have now holed up to cook dinner…… while the snow falls around us (outside of course J).