SNOWMASS VILLAGE

WILL YOU EVER FORGET your first glimpse of the ski trails when you turned up Brush Creek Road? Or the sight of Mt. Daly, with its diagonal rock band, dominating the skyline as you passed under the wood ski bridge? All that skiable terrain- why, it could take a lifetime to really get to know it. Exactly. Snowmass is about families. You keep running into three generations skiing together. You notice the kids shredding the half-pipe the boarders waiting for the ski patrol to drop the rope into Hanging Valley Headwall, the grownups acting a third their age, thrashing the powder in Garrett's. At the end of the day, even the folks at the ski-in, ski-out condos head down to the Mall for drinks and tall tales. Funny-it's the biggest crowd they've seen all day.