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We hope your summer is going well and that you are starting to think about the upcoming ski season (which will be here sooner than you think). Aspen Mountain opens for the 2010-2011 season in just a little more than 4 months.

Here in Aspen we are gearing up for Winter and have some hot Summertime ski season savings for you. Keep reading to see how you can save up to $200.

Many Great Spring Skiing Deals For Aspen/Snowmass Passholders

Aspen/Snowmass is offering special spring skiing deals to all Passholders from February 23 – March 7, 2010. For the next two weeks, Flex Passholder extension days have been lowered to $29 and Classic Passholder extension days are just $49.

Free Demo Skis

Aspen/Snowmass Premier Passholders will receive one free demo at any Four-Mountain Sports location in Aspen or Snowmass Village.

Big Powder Day In Aspen

For those of you who have been holding back on Aspen skiing due to it being perceived as a light snow year - those perceptions are now old. Snow has been dumping in Aspen for the last few days. Aspen Mountain has received 34 inches of white light fluffy powder in the last 7 days with 11 inches in the last 24 hours alone.

Here are the snowfall details - and you may want to bookmark this page if you are interested in following the daily Aspen Snow report: http://www.aspensnowmass.com/system/printable_report.cfm

Do you believe that a Boomer is skiing in the Olympics? Yes, it's true. Hohenlohe-Langenburg is a 51-year-old Mexican Alpine skier known as Andy Himalaya who grew up in Austria and currently lives in Liechtenstein.

He is descended from the reigning dynasty of a former principality in what is now Germany and is also a photographer, businessman and pop singer.

There are four primary lines, or routes, to use when skiing a mogul run. They are, in order of slowest route to fastest route:

Have you bookmarked the Aspen Colorado Webcam ?.

We just checked Google analytics and can now report that we have visitors from 74 countries around the world tracking the snow conditions via our webcam.  

Check out Aspen Mountain and Aspen weather 24/7.  Your eye on Aspen by BUMPS FOR BOOMERS.

Having fun in Aspen or Snowmass need not be expensive. Here are nine winter things to do while you are in town that won't cost you a dime:

There will be 9.5% more airline flights to Aspen Colorado for the 2009-2010 ski season including a minimum of 23 flights daily and as many as 30 flights total on Saturdays.  This is, by far, the most seats offered into ASE since the 1997/98 ski season.

Schedule of Airline Flights To Aspen Colorado For The 2009-2010 Winter Ski Season

Today is Klaus Obermeyer's 90th Birthday. Happy birthday Klaus! Born in 1919 in Germany Klaus moved to Aspen during the winter of 1947-1948 (I was one year old). Founder of the Aspen Colorado clothing company, Sport Obermeyer, Klaus is an amazing role model for all of us. Klaus still skis virtually every day in the winter and plays tennis virtually every day in the summer.

It is probably something that you never thought much about . How do moguls get formed and are they static or dynamic (e.g. do the stay put or do they move)?

Well, David Bahr, Tad Pleffer and Raymond Browning conducted a scientific study that uncovered the surprising motion of ski moguls ... and how moguls defy intuition by migrating uphill, even though skiers and snow move downhill.